Lecture slides will be posted after class in PDF format. You can get the free Adobe PDF Reader here.
Lectures
- Introduction to Physics
- Scientific Notation, Units and Estimation
- Displacement, Velocity and Acceleration
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 1
- Solution to Car Speeding Up Problem (Listed in Slides, Might Not Have Time in Class)
- Graphing
- Free Fall and Acceleration Due to Gravity
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 2 and How To Determine If a Concussion Results
- Vectors (Adding and Finding Vector Components)
- Problem Solving Video: Projectile Motion, Horizontal Start
- Problem Solving Video: Projectile Motion, Thrown at an Angle
- Projectile Motion (Treating X and Y Motion Independently)
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 3
- Newton's Laws
- What else can we do with Newton's Second Law? (A lot!)
- Problem Solving Video: Finding Tension with Constant Velocity
- Problem Solving Video: Finding Tension with an Acceleration
- Solving Problems with Free Body Diagrams and Inclines
- Friction
- Problem Solving Video: Finding Acceleration with Friction
- Some of these might be for the following quiz: Video of Practice Problems Asked on During Class of a Past Semester
- Some of these might be for the following quiz: Video of All Practice Problems Asked During Office Hours of a Past Semester
- Work and Kinetic Energy
- Problem Solving Video: Finding the Net Work with Friction
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 5
- Problem Solving Video: Energy Conservation on Frictionless Incline
- Potential Energy and Dealing with Nonconservative Forces
- Problem Solving Video: Stone Down a Well (In Class)
- Problem Solving Video: Rollercoaster
- Problem Solving Video: Work on a Crate On an Incline (In Class)
- Quiz 5, Solution to Xenia Problem
- Linear Momentum and Impulse
- Problem Solving Video: Spiderman, Free Fall and Impulse (Multi-step problem, in class)
- Problem Solving Video: Impulse and Force from Sliding into Home
- Problem Solving Video: Impulse and Force from a Collision
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 6
- Conservation of Linear Momentum
- Problem Solving Video: Collision between Golf Ball and Club (In Class)
- Problem Solving Video: An Astronaut in Trouble
- Collisions in One and Two Dimensions
- Problem Solving Video: Comparing Elastic Versus Inelastic Crashes (In Class)
- Problem Solving Video: Two Dimensional Car Crash
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 7
- Problem Solving Video: How Much Will Hitting a Zombie Slow You Down?
- Rotational Motion
- Problem Solving Video: Finding Angular Speed with No (Obvious) Numbers! (In Class)
- Centripetal Forces and Acceleration
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 8
- Torques, Equilibrium and Center of Mass
- Moment of Inertia, Rotational Kinetic Energy and Angular Momenum
- Problem Solving Video: An Object Rolling Down an Incline
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 9
- Springs
- Simple Harmonic Motion and The Pendulum
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 10
- Waves
- Problem Solving Video: Tension in a String
- States of Matter, Density and Pressure
- Problem Solving Video: Pressure on Spider Legs
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 11
- Pressure versus Depth and Floating Objects
- Problem Solving Video: Bouyancy and Tension
- Equation of Continuity and Bernoulli
- Problem Solving Day for Quiz 12
- Stress and Strain
- Friday: Thermal Equilibrium, Temperature & Thermal Expansion
- Problem Solving Video: Changing Height of the Ocean
- Specific and Latent Heat and Heat Transfer Mechanisms
- Problem Solving Video: Heating Up the Railroads
