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The Course

  1. Study Skills & Tips
  2. Extra Credit Opportunities
  3. Live Poll Page
  4. HW Poll Page
  5. Software Tools
  6. Physics Photo Contest
  7. Reference List
  8. Video Project


 

Skills

  1. Metacognition
  2. The Fields of Physics
  3. Degrees of Knowing
  4. Estimation
  5. Scientific Notation
  6. Système International
  7. Unit Conversions
  8. Measurement & Significant Figures
  9. Solving for a Variable
  10. The Ten Commandments of Physics
  11. Test: Goals and Review
  12. Using Excel
  13. Calculus
  14. per
  15. Constants

Mechanics

  1. Speed and Velocity
  2. Graphing Motion
  3. Acceleration
  4. Vectors
  5. Vector Addition by drawing
  6. Vector Components
  7. Introduction to Trigonometry
  8. Converting Vector Notations
  9. Vector Addition by Components
  10. Acceleration
  11. Projectile Motion
  12. LAB: Reaction Time
  13. Newton's First Law
  14. Newton's Second Law
  15. Weight
  16. Friction
  17. Statics
  18. Hooke's Law
  19. Newton's Third Law
  20. Freefall & Skydiving
  21. Momentum & Impulse
  22. Conservation Laws
  23. Collisions
  24. Energy & Work
  25. Power
  26. Kinetic Energy
  27. Potential Energy
  28. Energy Conservation
  29. Simple Harmonic Motion
  30. Mechanical Resonance
  31. LAB: Bean Cannon
  32. Simple Machines
  33. Centripetal Force
  34. The Coriolis Effect
  35. Rotational Statics
  36. Rotational Inertia
  37. Center of Gravity
  38. Angular Momentum
  39. Gravitation
  40. Orbits
  41. Tides
  42. History of Spaceflight

Matter

  1. Atoms & States of Matter
  2. Temperature
  3. Density
  4. Pressure
  5. Buoyancy
  6. Bernoulli's Law
  7. Thermal Expansion
  8. Heat Transfer

Waves

  1. Waves in General
  2. Sound
  3. Human Hearing
  4. Interference   
  5. Standing Waves & Resonance
  6. Doppler Effect & Shocks
  7. The Nature of Light
  8. Wavefronts, Rays & Images
  9. Polarization
  10. Wien's Law
  11. Reflection
  12. Refraction
  13. Dispersion
  14. Ray Tracing
  15. Human Vision
  16. Cameras & Images
  17. Optical Systems
  18. Telescopes
  19. Microscopes
  20. Total Internal Reflection
  21. Diffraction & Interference
  22. Interference Colors

Electricity & Magnetism

  1. Electric Forces & Charge
  2. Coulomb's Law
  3. Charging
  4. Electric Fields
  5. Electric Potential
  6. Current
  7. Circuits & Ohm's Law
  8. Schematic Diagrams
  9. Series & Parallel Circuits
  10. Kirchoff's Loop and Junction Rules
  11. Electronic Components
  12. Using a Multimeter
  13. Capacitors
  14. Diodes & LEDs
  15. Power in Electric Circuits
  16. Electrical Safety
  17. Magnetic Poles & Fields
  18. Earth's Magnetic Field
  19. Connections between E and M part2
  20. Induction, Speakers and Microphones
  21. Motors & Generators
  22. LAB: Build a speaker
  23. Transformers
  24. AC Power Adapters
  25. Power plants, energy & sustainability
  26. Electromagnetic Waves
  27. Radio Transmission & Signal Modulation
  28. Dissection Lab
  29. Magnetism & Lab Practical TEST

Electronics

  1. Transistors
  2. Datasheets
  3. Logic Levels
  4. Binary & Hexadecimal Numbers
  5. Logic Gates
  6. Adders
  7. Computer Languages

Modern Physics

  1. Special Relativity
  2. General Relativity
  3. "Old" Quantum Mechanics
  4. "New" Quantum Mechanics
  5. Macroscopic Quantum Systems
  6. Nuclear Structure
  7. Radioactivity
  8. Radioactivity B
  9. Dating
  10. Nuclear Medicine
  11. Biological Effects of Radiation
  12. Nuclear Weapons
  13. Nuclear Reactors

Dénouement

  1. A Timeline History of Physics
  2. The Big Unanswered Questions in Physics
  3. End-of-year course feedback

 

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