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<div>Author: Megan Kirsch<br />
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The ampullae of Lorenzini is a subcutaneous, electroreceptive sensory system consisting of a network of jelly filled pores. These are found in cartilaginous fish such as sharks, rays, chimeras, reedfish, and sturgeons. Each ampulla consists of a visible pore on the skin that opens to a canal which leads to a cilia filled cavity. Within the ampulla is a gel substance made of glycoproteins that conducts electricity, allowing for the detection of nearby electric fields. Pores tend to be located on the underside of the head, snout, and nose of the organism. The ampullae canal lengths vary for each animal, but the distribution of the pores is the same for each species. In all species, there is a left-right symmetry of the distribution of pores.<br />
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[[File:Ampullae-1-eng.jpg|thumb|Pores of the ampullae of Lorenzini, as seen on a Porbeagle shark.]]<br />
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===Discovery===<br />
The ampullae were first discovered by Italian biologist Marcello Malpighi in 1663. The first studies on it however were done by Italian physician and icthyologist Stefano Lorenzini who published his findings in 1678. At first it was thought that the ampullae detected pressure and temperature, but in 1962 Dutch scientists Dijkgraaf and Kalmijn discovered its electroreceptive abilities. Today further research is being undergone to further understand the functions and specifics of the ampullae of Lorenzini. <br />
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===Mechanism===<br />
The ampullae detects electric fields by detecting the difference between the voltage at the skin pore and the cavity. The internal electrochemical environment of an organism differs from the external environment. When a strong enough electric field is conducted through the canal, the internal environment's voltage is now affected, and the change in potential difference is detected by the cilia in the cavity and alerts the organism to the electric field.<br />
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===Function===<br />
All living creatures produce electric fields through muscle contractions. These fields are conducted through the salt water of the ocean to other organisms. If an organism with electroreceptive abilities is in close proximity to the generated electric field, it can sense the other organism even without it being visible. The more muscle contractions produce a stronger electric field, which makes it easier to be detected. Wounded animals tend to undergo much more muscles contractions, producing stronger electric fields, and becoming easy targets for predators with electroreceptive abilities. Also, if an animal is bleeding, the salt in its blood will make its surroundings an even more conductive medium, making it even easier to be detected. This is how sharks are such effective predators. Further studies are being done indicating the possibility of the ampullae being able to detect the magnetic field of the earth, giving the ampullae a navigational function as well. <br />
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===References===<br />
[http://www.supportoursharks.com/en/Education/Biology/Sensory_Systems/Electroreception.htm]<br />
[http://www.sharkproject.org/haiothek/index_e.php?site=funktion_5]<br />
[http://www.bio.gc.ca/sharks/anatomy-anatomie/ampullae-ampoules-en.php]</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=Ampullae_of_Lorenzini&diff=11092Ampullae of Lorenzini2015-12-04T01:14:10Z<p>Mkirsch7: </p>
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<div>topic claimed by Megan Kirsch<br />
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The ampullae of Lorenzini is a subcutaneous, electroreceptive sensory system consisting of a network of jelly filled pores. These are found in cartilaginous fish such as sharks, rays, chimeras, reedfish, and sturgeons. Each ampulla consists of a visible pore on the skin that opens to a canal which leads to a cilia filled cavity. Within the ampulla is a gel substance made of glycoproteins that conducts electricity, allowing for the detection of nearby electric fields. Pores tend to be located on the underside of the head, snout, and nose of the organism. The ampullae canal lengths vary for each animal, but the distribution of the pores is the same for each species. In all species, there is a left-right symmetry of the distribution of pores.<br />
<br />
[[File:Ampullae-1-eng.jpg|thumb|Pores of the ampullae of Lorenzini, as seen on a Porbeagle shark.]]<br />
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===Discovery===<br />
The ampullae were first discovered by Italian biologist Marcello Malpighi in 1663. The first studies on it however were done by Italian physician and icthyologist Stefano Lorenzini who published his findings in 1678. At first it was thought that the ampullae detected pressure and temperature, but in 1962 Dutch scientists Dijkgraaf and Kalmijn discovered its electroreceptive abilities. Today further research is being undergone to further understand the functions and specifics of the ampullae of Lorenzini. <br />
<br />
===Mechanism===<br />
The ampullae detects electric fields by detecting the difference between the voltage at the skin pore and the cavity. The internal electrochemical environment of an organism differs from the external environment. When a strong enough electric field is conducted through the canal, the internal environment's voltage is now affected, and the change in potential difference is detected by the cilia in the cavity and alerts the organism to the electric field.<br />
<br />
===Function===<br />
All living creatures produce electric fields through muscle contractions. These fields are conducted through the salt water of the ocean to other organisms. If an organism with electroreceptive abilities is in close proximity to the generated electric field, it can sense the other organism even without it being visible. The more muscle contractions produce a stronger electric field, which makes it easier to be detected. Wounded animals tend to undergo much more muscles contractions, producing stronger electric fields, and becoming easy targets for predators with electroreceptive abilities. Also, if an animal is bleeding, the salt in its blood will make its surroundings an even more conductive medium, making it even easier to be detected. This is how sharks are such effective predators. Further studies are being done indicating the possibility of the ampullae being able to detect the magnetic field of the earth, giving the ampullae a navigational function as well. <br />
<br />
===References===<br />
[http://www.supportoursharks.com/en/Education/Biology/Sensory_Systems/Electroreception.htm]<br />
[http://www.sharkproject.org/haiothek/index_e.php?site=funktion_5]<br />
[http://www.bio.gc.ca/sharks/anatomy-anatomie/ampullae-ampoules-en.php]</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=Ampullae_of_Lorenzini&diff=11086Ampullae of Lorenzini2015-12-04T01:10:19Z<p>Mkirsch7: </p>
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<div>topic claimed by Megan Kirsch<br />
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The ampullae of Lorenzini is a subcutaneous, electroreceptive sensory system consisting of a network of jelly filled pores. These are found in cartilaginous fish such as sharks, rays, chimeras, reedfish, and sturgeons. Each ampulla consists of a visible pore on the skin that opens to a canal which leads to a cilia filled cavity. Within the ampulla is a gel substance made of glycoproteins that conducts electricity, allowing for the detection of nearby electric fields. Pores tend to be located on the underside of the head, snout, and nose of the organism. The ampullae canal lengths vary for each animal, but the distribution of the pores is the same for each species. In all species, there is a left-right symmetry of the distribution of pores.<br />
<br />
[[File:Ampullae-1-eng.jpg|thumb|Pores of the ampullae of Lorenzini, as seen on a Porbeagle shark.]]<br />
<br />
===Discovery===<br />
The ampullae were first discovered by Italian biologist Marcello Malpighi in 1663. The first studies on it however were done by Italian physician and icthyologist Stefano Lorenzini who published his findings in 1678. At first it was thought that the ampullae detected pressure and temperature, but in 1962 Dutch scientists Dijkgraaf and Kalmijn discovered its electroreceptive abilities. Today further research is being undergone to further understand the functions and specifics of the ampullae of Lorenzini. <br />
<br />
===Mechanism===<br />
The ampullae detects electric fields by detecting the difference between the voltage at the skin pore and the cavity. The internal electrochemical environment of an organism differs from the external environment. When a strong enough electric field is conducted through the canal, the change in potential difference is detected by the cilia in the cavity and alerts the organism to the electric field.<br />
<br />
===Function===<br />
All living creatures produce electric fields through muscle contractions. These fields are conducted through the salt water of the ocean to other organisms. If an organism with electroreceptive abilities is in close proximity to the generated electric field, it can sense the other organism even without it being visible. The more muscle contractions produce a stronger electric field, which makes it easier to be detected. Wounded animals tend to undergo much more muscles contractions, producing stronger electric fields, and becoming easy targets for predators with electroreceptive abilities. Also, if an animal is bleeding, the salt in its blood will make its surroundings an even more conductive medium, making it even easier to be detected. This is how sharks are such effective predators. Further studies are being done indicating the possibility of the ampullae being able to detect the magnetic field of the earth, giving the ampullae a navigational function as well. <br />
<br />
===References===<br />
[http://www.supportoursharks.com/en/Education/Biology/Sensory_Systems/Electroreception.htm]<br />
[http://www.sharkproject.org/haiothek/index_e.php?site=funktion_5]<br />
[http://www.bio.gc.ca/sharks/anatomy-anatomie/ampullae-ampoules-en.php]</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=Ampullae_of_Lorenzini&diff=11018Ampullae of Lorenzini2015-12-03T23:54:18Z<p>Mkirsch7: </p>
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<div>topic claimed by Megan Kirsch<br />
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The ampullae of Lorenzini is a subcutaneous, electroreceptive sensory system consisting of a network of jelly filled pores. These are found in cartilaginous fish such as sharks, rays, chimeras, reedfish, and sturgeons. Each ampulla consists of a visible pore on the skin that opens to a canal which leads to a cilia filled cavity. Within the ampulla is a gel substance made of glycoproteins that conducts electricity, allowing for the detection of nearby electric fields. Pores tend to be located on the underside of the head, snout, and nose of the organism. The ampullae canal lengths vary for each animal, but the distribution of the pores is the same for each species. In all species, there is a left-right symmetry of the distribution of pores.<br />
<br />
[[File:Ampullae-1-eng.jpg|thumb|Pores of the ampullae of Lorenzini, as seen on a Porbeagle shark.]]<br />
<br />
===Discovery===<br />
The ampullae were first discovered by Italian biologist Marcello Malpighi in 1663. The first studies on it however were done by Italian physician and icthyologist Stefano Lorenzini who published his findings in 1678. At first it was thought that the ampullae detected pressure and temperature, but in 1962 Dutch scientists Dijkgraaf and Kalmijn discovered its electroreceptive abilities. Today further research is being undergone to further understand the functions and specifics of the ampullae of Lorenzini. <br />
<br />
===Mechanism===<br />
The ampullae detects electric fields by detecting the difference between the voltage at the skin pore and the cavity. The internal electrochemical environment of an organism differs from the external environment. When a strong enough electric field is conducted through the canal, the voltage at the pore and the cavity is now similar, and this reduction in potential difference is detected by the cilia in the cavity and alerts the organism to the electric field.<br />
<br />
===Function===<br />
All living creatures produce electric fields through muscle contractions. These fields are conducted through the salt water of the ocean to other organisms. If an organism with electroreceptive abilities is in close proximity to the generated electric field, it can sense the other organism even without it being visible. The more muscle contractions produce a stronger electric field, which makes it easier to be detected. Wounded animals tend to undergo much more muscles contractions, producing stronger electric fields, and becoming easy targets for predators with electroreceptive abilities. Also, if an animal is bleeding, the salt in its blood will make its surroundings an even more conductive medium, making it even easier to be detected. This is how sharks are such effective predators. Further studies are being done indicating the possibility of the ampullae being able to detect the magnetic field of the earth, giving the ampullae a navigational function as well. <br />
<br />
===References===<br />
[http://www.supportoursharks.com/en/Education/Biology/Sensory_Systems/Electroreception.htm]<br />
[http://www.sharkproject.org/haiothek/index_e.php?site=funktion_5]<br />
[http://www.bio.gc.ca/sharks/anatomy-anatomie/ampullae-ampoules-en.php]</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=Ampullae_of_Lorenzini&diff=11016Ampullae of Lorenzini2015-12-03T23:53:50Z<p>Mkirsch7: </p>
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<div>topic claimed by Megan Kirsch<br />
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The ampullae of Lorenzini is a subcutaneous, electroreceptive sensory system consisting of a network of jelly filled pores. These are found in cartilaginous fish such as sharks, rays, chimeras, reedfish, and sturgeons. Each ampulla consists of a visible pore on the skin that opens to a canal which leads to a cilia filled cavity. Within the ampulla is a gel substance made of glycoproteins that conducts electricity, allowing for the detection of nearby electric fields. Pores tend to be located on the underside of the head, snout, and nose of the organism. The ampullae canal lengths vary for each animal, but the distribution of the pores is the same for each species. In all species, there is a left-right symmetry of the distribution of pores.<br />
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[[File:Ampullae-1-eng.jpg|thumb|caption]]<br />
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===Discovery===<br />
The ampullae were first discovered by Italian biologist Marcello Malpighi in 1663. The first studies on it however were done by Italian physician and icthyologist Stefano Lorenzini who published his findings in 1678. At first it was thought that the ampullae detected pressure and temperature, but in 1962 Dutch scientists Dijkgraaf and Kalmijn discovered its electroreceptive abilities. Today further research is being undergone to further understand the functions and specifics of the ampullae of Lorenzini. <br />
<br />
===Mechanism===<br />
The ampullae detects electric fields by detecting the difference between the voltage at the skin pore and the cavity. The internal electrochemical environment of an organism differs from the external environment. When a strong enough electric field is conducted through the canal, the voltage at the pore and the cavity is now similar, and this reduction in potential difference is detected by the cilia in the cavity and alerts the organism to the electric field.<br />
<br />
===Function===<br />
All living creatures produce electric fields through muscle contractions. These fields are conducted through the salt water of the ocean to other organisms. If an organism with electroreceptive abilities is in close proximity to the generated electric field, it can sense the other organism even without it being visible. The more muscle contractions produce a stronger electric field, which makes it easier to be detected. Wounded animals tend to undergo much more muscles contractions, producing stronger electric fields, and becoming easy targets for predators with electroreceptive abilities. Also, if an animal is bleeding, the salt in its blood will make its surroundings an even more conductive medium, making it even easier to be detected. This is how sharks are such effective predators. Further studies are being done indicating the possibility of the ampullae being able to detect the magnetic field of the earth, giving the ampullae a navigational function as well. <br />
<br />
===References===<br />
[http://www.supportoursharks.com/en/Education/Biology/Sensory_Systems/Electroreception.htm]<br />
[http://www.sharkproject.org/haiothek/index_e.php?site=funktion_5]<br />
[http://www.bio.gc.ca/sharks/anatomy-anatomie/ampullae-ampoules-en.php]</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=File:Ampullae-1-eng.jpg&diff=11012File:Ampullae-1-eng.jpg2015-12-03T23:49:27Z<p>Mkirsch7: Pores of the ampullae of Lorenzini, as seen on a Porbeagle shark.</p>
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<div>Pores of the ampullae of Lorenzini, as seen on a Porbeagle shark.</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=Ampullae_of_Lorenzini&diff=11000Ampullae of Lorenzini2015-12-03T23:44:54Z<p>Mkirsch7: </p>
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<div>topic claimed by Megan Kirsch<br />
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The ampullae of Lorenzini is a subcutaneous, electroreceptive sensory system consisting of a network of jelly filled pores. These are found in cartilaginous fish such as sharks, rays, chimeras, reedfish, and sturgeons. Each ampulla consists of a visible pore on the skin that opens to a canal which leads to a cilia filled cavity. Within the ampulla is a gel substance made of glycoproteins that conducts electricity, allowing for the detection of nearby electric fields. Pores tend to be located on the underside of the head, snout, and nose of the organism. The ampullae canal lengths vary for each animal, but the distribution of the pores is the same for each species. In all species, there is a left-right symmetry of the distribution of pores. <br />
<br />
===Discovery===<br />
The ampullae were first discovered by Italian biologist Marcello Malpighi in 1663. The first studies on it however were done by Italian physician and icthyologist Stefano Lorenzini who published his findings in 1678. At first it was thought that the ampullae detected pressure and temperature, but in 1962 Dutch scientists Dijkgraaf and Kalmijn discovered its electroreceptive abilities. Today further research is being undergone to further understand the functions and specifics of the ampullae of Lorenzini. <br />
<br />
===Mechanism===<br />
The ampullae detects electric fields by detecting the difference between the voltage at the skin pore and the cavity. The internal electrochemical environment of an organism differs from the external environment. When a strong enough electric field is conducted through the canal, the voltage at the pore and the cavity is now similar, and this reduction in potential difference is detected by the cilia in the cavity and alerts the organism to the electric field.<br />
<br />
===Function===<br />
All living creatures produce electric fields through muscle contractions. These fields are conducted through the salt water of the ocean to other organisms. If an organism with electroreceptive abilities is in close proximity to the generated electric field, it can sense the other organism even without it being visible. The more muscle contractions produce a stronger electric field, which makes it easier to be detected. Wounded animals tend to undergo much more muscles contractions, producing stronger electric fields, and becoming easy targets for predators with electroreceptive abilities. Also, if an animal is bleeding, the salt in its blood will make its surroundings an even more conductive medium, making it even easier to be detected. This is how sharks are such effective predators. Further studies are being done indicating the possibility of the ampullae being able to detect the magnetic field of the earth, giving the ampullae a navigational function as well. <br />
<br />
===References===<br />
[http://www.supportoursharks.com/en/Education/Biology/Sensory_Systems/Electroreception.htm]<br />
[http://www.sharkproject.org/haiothek/index_e.php?site=funktion_5]<br />
[http://www.bio.gc.ca/sharks/anatomy-anatomie/ampullae-ampoules-en.php]</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=Ampullae_of_Lorenzini&diff=10997Ampullae of Lorenzini2015-12-03T23:44:31Z<p>Mkirsch7: Created page with "PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS PAGE. COPY THIS TEMPLATE AND PASTE IT INTO A NEW PAGE FOR YOUR TOPIC. ===Ampullae of Lorenzini=== The ampullae of Lorenzini is a subcutaneous, electr..."</p>
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===Ampullae of Lorenzini===<br />
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The ampullae of Lorenzini is a subcutaneous, electroreceptive sensory system consisting of a network of jelly filled pores. These are found in cartilaginous fish such as sharks, rays, chimeras, reedfish, and sturgeons. Each ampulla consists of a visible pore on the skin that opens to a canal which leads to a cilia filled cavity. Within the ampulla is a gel substance made of glycoproteins that conducts electricity, allowing for the detection of nearby electric fields. Pores tend to be located on the underside of the head, snout, and nose of the organism. The ampullae canal lengths vary for each animal, but the distribution of the pores is the same for each species. In all species, there is a left-right symmetry of the distribution of pores. <br />
<br />
===Discovery===<br />
The ampullae were first discovered by Italian biologist Marcello Malpighi in 1663. The first studies on it however were done by Italian physician and icthyologist Stefano Lorenzini who published his findings in 1678. At first it was thought that the ampullae detected pressure and temperature, but in 1962 Dutch scientists Dijkgraaf and Kalmijn discovered its electroreceptive abilities. Today further research is being undergone to further understand the functions and specifics of the ampullae of Lorenzini. <br />
<br />
===Mechanism===<br />
The ampullae detects electric fields by detecting the difference between the voltage at the skin pore and the cavity. The internal electrochemical environment of an organism differs from the external environment. When a strong enough electric field is conducted through the canal, the voltage at the pore and the cavity is now similar, and this reduction in potential difference is detected by the cilia in the cavity and alerts the organism to the electric field.<br />
<br />
===Function===<br />
All living creatures produce electric fields through muscle contractions. These fields are conducted through the salt water of the ocean to other organisms. If an organism with electroreceptive abilities is in close proximity to the generated electric field, it can sense the other organism even without it being visible. The more muscle contractions produce a stronger electric field, which makes it easier to be detected. Wounded animals tend to undergo much more muscles contractions, producing stronger electric fields, and becoming easy targets for predators with electroreceptive abilities. Also, if an animal is bleeding, the salt in its blood will make its surroundings an even more conductive medium, making it even easier to be detected. This is how sharks are such effective predators. Further studies are being done indicating the possibility of the ampullae being able to detect the magnetic field of the earth, giving the ampullae a navigational function as well. <br />
<br />
===References===<br />
[http://www.supportoursharks.com/en/Education/Biology/Sensory_Systems/Electroreception.htm]<br />
[http://www.sharkproject.org/haiothek/index_e.php?site=funktion_5]<br />
[http://www.bio.gc.ca/sharks/anatomy-anatomie/ampullae-ampoules-en.php]</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=10979Main Page2015-12-03T23:39:51Z<p>Mkirsch7: /* Real Life Applications of Electromagnetic Principles */</p>
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*[[Carl Sagan]]<br />
*[[Eugene Wigner]]<br />
*[[Marie Curie]]<br />
*[[Pierre Curie]]<br />
*[[Werner Heisenberg]]<br />
*[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]<br />
*[[Louis de Broglie]]<br />
*[[Aristotle]]<br />
*[[Émilie du Châtelet]]<br />
*[[Blaise Pascal]]<br />
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]<br />
*[[James Chadwick]]<br />
*[[Henry Cavendish]]<br />
*[[Thomas Young]]<br />
*[[James Prescott Joule]]<br />
*[[John Bardeen]]<br />
*[[Leo Baekeland]]<br />
*[[Alhazen]]<br />
*[[Willebrod Snell]]<br />
*[[Johannes Kepler]]<br />
*[[Johann Wilhelm Ritter]]<br />
*[[Philipp Lenard]]<br />
*[[Xuesen Qian]]<br />
*[[Robert A. Millikan]]<br />
*[[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]]<br />
*[[Guglielmo Marconi]]<br />
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===Properties of Matter===<br />
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*[[Mass]]<br />
*[[Velocity]]<br />
*[[Relative Velocity]]<br />
*[[Density]]<br />
*[[Charge]]<br />
*[[Spin]]<br />
*[[SI Units]]<br />
*[[Heat Capacity]]<br />
*[[Specific Heat]]<br />
*[[Wavelength]]<br />
*[[Conductivity]]<br />
*[[Malleability]]<br />
*[[Weight]]<br />
*[[Boiling Point]]<br />
*[[Melting Point]]<br />
*[[Inertia]]<br />
*[[Non-Newtonian Fluids]]<br />
*[[Color]]<br />
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===Contact Interactions===<br />
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* [[Young's Modulus]]<br />
* [[Friction]]<br />
* [[Tension]]<br />
* [[Hooke's Law]]<br />
*[[Centripetal Force and Curving Motion]]<br />
*[[Compression or Normal Force]]<br />
* [[Length and Stiffness of an Interatomic Bond]]<br />
* [[Speed of Sound in a Solid]]<br />
* [[Iterative Prediction of Spring-Mass System]]<br />
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===Momentum===<br />
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* [[Vectors]]<br />
* [[Kinematics]]<br />
* [[Conservation of Momentum]]<br />
* [[Predicting Change in multiple dimensions]]<br />
* [[Derivation of the Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Impulse Momentum]]<br />
* [[Curving Motion]]<br />
* [[Multi-particle Analysis of Momentum]]<br />
* [[Iterative Prediction]]<br />
* [[Analytical Prediction]]<br />
* [[Newton's Laws and Linear Momentum]]<br />
* [[Net Force]]<br />
* [[Center of Mass]]<br />
* [[Momentum at High Speeds]]<br />
* [[Change in Momentum in Time for Curving Motion]]<br />
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===Angular Momentum===<br />
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* [[The Moments of Inertia]]<br />
* [[Moment of Inertia for a ring]]<br />
* [[Rotation]]<br />
* [[Torque]]<br />
* [[Systems with Zero Torque]]<br />
* [[Systems with Nonzero Torque]]<br />
* [[Right Hand Rule]]<br />
* [[Angular Velocity]]<br />
* [[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]<br />
* [[Translational Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[The Angular Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Angular Momentum of Multiparticle Systems]]<br />
* [[Rotational Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[Total Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[Gyroscopes]]<br />
* [[Angular Momentum Compared to Linear Momentum]]<br />
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===Energy===<br />
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*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]<br />
*[[Photons]]<br />
*[[The Energy Principle]]<br />
*[[Predicting Change]]<br />
*[[Rest Mass Energy]]<br />
*[[Kinetic Energy]]<br />
*[[Potential Energy]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy for a Magnetic Dipole]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]<br />
*[[Work]]<br />
*[[Thermal Energy]]<br />
*[[Conservation of Energy]]<br />
*[[Electric Potential]]<br />
*[[Energy Transfer due to a Temperature Difference]]<br />
*[[Gravitational Potential Energy]]<br />
*[[Point Particle Systems]]<br />
*[[Real Systems]]<br />
*[[Spring Potential Energy]]<br />
**[[Ball and Spring Model]]<br />
*[[Internal Energy]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy of a Pair of Neutral Atoms]]<br />
*[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]<br />
*[[Franck-Hertz Experiment]]<br />
*[[Power (Mechanical)]]<br />
*[[Transformation of Energy]]<br />
<br />
*[[Energy Graphs]]<br />
**[[Energy graphs and the Bohr model]]<br />
*[[Air Resistance]]<br />
*[[Electronic Energy Levels]]<br />
*[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]<br />
*[[Specific Heat Capacity]]<br />
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]<br />
*[[Energy Density]]<br />
*[[Bohr Model]]<br />
*[[Quantized energy levels]]<br />
*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]<br />
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<br />
===Collisions===<br />
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*[[Collisions]]<br />
*[[Maximally Inelastic Collision]]<br />
*[[Elastic Collisions]]<br />
*[[Inelastic Collisions]]<br />
*[[Head-on Collision of Equal Masses]]<br />
*[[Head-on Collision of Unequal Masses]]<br />
*[[Frame of Reference]]<br />
*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]<br />
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===Fields===<br />
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* [[Electric Field]] of a<br />
** [[Point Charge]]<br />
** [[Electric Dipole]]<br />
** [[Capacitor]]<br />
** [[Charged Rod]]<br />
** [[Charged Ring]]<br />
** [[Charged Disk]]<br />
** [[Charged Spherical Shell]]<br />
** [[Charged Cylinder]]<br />
** [[Charge Density]]<br />
**[[A Solid Sphere Charged Throughout Its Volume]]<br />
*[[Electric Potential]] <br />
**[[Potential Difference Path Independence]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference of point charge in a non-Uniform Field]]<br />
**[[Sign of Potential Difference]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]<br />
**[[Energy Density and Electric Field]]<br />
** [[Systems of Charged Objects]]<br />
*[[Electric Force]]<br />
*[[Polarization]]<br />
**[[Polarization of an Atom]]<br />
*[[Charge Motion in Metals]]<br />
*[[Charge Transfer]]<br />
*[[Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Right-Hand Rule]]<br />
**[[Direction of Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Loop]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Solenoid]]<br />
**[[Bar Magnet]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Dipole Moment]]<br />
***[[Stern-Gerlach Experiment]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Force]]<br />
**[[Earth's Magnetic Field]]<br />
*[[Combining Electric and Magnetic Forces]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Torque]]<br />
**[[Hall Effect]]<br />
**[[Lorentz Force]]<br />
**[[Biot-Savart Law]]<br />
**[[Biot-Savart Law for Currents]]<br />
**[[Integration Techniques for Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Sparks in Air]]<br />
**[[Motional Emf]]<br />
**[[Detecting a Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Moving Point Charge]]<br />
**[[Non-Coulomb Electric Field]]<br />
**[[Motors and Generators]]<br />
**[[Solenoid Applications]]<br />
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===Simple Circuits===<br />
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*[[Components]]<br />
*[[Steady State]]<br />
*[[Non Steady State]]<br />
*[[Charging and Discharging a Capacitor]]<br />
*[[Thin and Thick Wires]]<br />
*[[Node Rule]]<br />
*[[Loop Rule]]<br />
*[[Resistivity]]<br />
*[[Power in a circuit]]<br />
*[[Ammeters,Voltmeters,Ohmmeters]]<br />
*[[Current]]<br />
**[[AC]]<br />
*[[Ohm's Law]]<br />
*[[Series Circuits]]<br />
*[[Parallel Circuits]]<br />
*[[RC]]<br />
*[[AC vs DC]]<br />
*[[Charge in a RC Circuit]]<br />
*[[Current in a RC circuit]]<br />
*[[Circular Loop of Wire]]<br />
*[[Current in a RL Circuit]]<br />
*[[RL Circuit]]<br />
*[[LC Circuit]]<br />
*[[Surface Charge Distributions]]<br />
*[[Feedback]]<br />
*[[Transformers (Circuits)]]<br />
*[[Resistors and Conductivity]]<br />
*[[Semiconductor Devices]]<br />
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===Maxwell's Equations===<br />
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*[[Gauss's Flux Theorem]]<br />
**[[Electric Fields]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Fields]]<br />
*[[Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of Coaxial Cable Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Thick Wire Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Toroid Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
*[[Faraday's Law]]<br />
**[[Curly Electric Fields]]<br />
**[[Inductance]]<br />
***[[Transformers from a physics standpoint]]<br />
***[[Energy Density]]<br />
**[[Lenz's Law]]<br />
***[[Lenz Effect and the Jumping Ring]]<br />
**[[Motional Emf using Faraday's Law]]<br />
*[[Ampere-Maxwell Law]]<br />
*[[Superconductors]]<br />
**[[Meissner effect]]<br />
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<br />
===Radiation===<br />
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*[[Producing a Radiative Electric Field]]<br />
*[[Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Radiaton]]<br />
*[[Lenses]]<br />
*[[Energy and Momentum Analysis in Radiation]]<br />
**[[Poynting Vector]]<br />
*[[Electromagnetic Propagation]]<br />
**[[Wavelength and Frequency]]<br />
*[[Snell's Law]]<br />
*[[Effects of Radiation on Matter]]<br />
*[[Light Propagation Through a Medium]]<br />
*[[Light Scaterring: Why is the Sky Blue]]<br />
*[[Light Refraction: Bending of light]]<br />
*[[Cherenkov Radiation]]<br />
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===Sound===<br />
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*[[Doppler Effect]]<br />
*[[Nature, Behavior, and Properties of Sound]]<br />
*[[Resonance]]<br />
*[[Sound Barrier]]<br />
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<br />
===Waves===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Multisource Interference: Diffraction]]<br />
*[[Standing waves]]<br />
*[[Gravitational waves]]<br />
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]<br />
*[[Electromagnetic Waves]]<br />
*[[Electromagnetic Spectrum]]<br />
*[[Color Light Wave]]<br />
*[[Mechanical Waves]]<br />
*[[Pendulum Motion]]<br />
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===Real Life Applications of Electromagnetic Principles===<br />
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*[[Electromagnetic Junkyard Cranes]]<br />
*[[Maglev Trains]]<br />
*[[Spark Plugs]]<br />
*[[Metal Detectors]]<br />
*[[Speakers]]<br />
*[[Radios]]<br />
*[[Ampullae of Lorenzini]]<br />
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===Optics===<br />
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*[[Mirrors]]<br />
*[[Refraction]]<br />
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===Computing===<br />
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*[[VPython]]<br />
*[[VPython basics]]<br />
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== Resources ==<br />
* Commonly used wiki commands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Wiki Cheatsheet]<br />
* A guide to representing equations in math mode [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula Wiki Math Mode]<br />
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===Interactions===<br />
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*[[Kinds of Matter]]<br />
**[[Ball and Spring Model of Matter]]<br />
*[[Detecting Interactions]]<br />
*[[Fundamental Interactions]]<br />
*[[Determinism]]<br />
*[[System & Surroundings]] <br />
*[[Newton's First Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Newton's Second Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Newton's Third Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Gravitational Force]]<br />
*[[Electric Force]]<br />
*[[Conservation of Charge]]<br />
*[[Terminal Speed]]<br />
*[[Simple Harmonic Motion]]<br />
*[[Speed and Velocity]]<br />
*[[Electric Polarization]]<br />
*[[Perpetual Freefall (Orbit)]]<br />
*[[2-Dimensional Motion]]<br />
*[[Center of Mass]]<br />
*[[Reaction Time]]<br />
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===Theory===<br />
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*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]<br />
*[[Quantum Theory]]<br />
*[[Big Bang Theory]]<br />
*[[Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory]]<br />
*[[Atomic Theory]]<br />
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]<br />
*[[String Theory]]<br />
*[[Elementary Particles and Particle Physics Theory]]<br />
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===Notable Scientists===<br />
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*[[Christian Doppler]]<br />
*[[Albert Einstein]]<br />
*[[Ernest Rutherford]]<br />
*[[Joseph Henry]]<br />
*[[Michael Faraday]]<br />
*[[J.J. Thomson]]<br />
*[[James Maxwell]]<br />
*[[Robert Hooke]]<br />
*[[Carl Friedrich Gauss]]<br />
*[[Nikola Tesla]]<br />
*[[Andre Marie Ampere]]<br />
*[[Sir Isaac Newton]]<br />
*[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]]<br />
*[[Oliver Heaviside]]<br />
*[[Rosalind Franklin]]<br />
*[[Erwin Schrödinger]]<br />
*[[Enrico Fermi]]<br />
*[[Robert J. Van de Graaff]]<br />
*[[Charles de Coulomb]]<br />
*[[Hans Christian Ørsted]]<br />
*[[Philo Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Niels Bohr]]<br />
*[[Georg Ohm]]<br />
*[[Galileo Galilei]]<br />
*[[Gustav Kirchhoff]]<br />
*[[Max Planck]]<br />
*[[Heinrich Hertz]]<br />
*[[Edwin Hall]]<br />
*[[James Watt]]<br />
*[[Count Alessandro Volta]]<br />
*[[Josiah Willard Gibbs]]<br />
*[[Richard Phillips Feynman]]<br />
*[[Sir David Brewster]]<br />
*[[Daniel Bernoulli]]<br />
*[[William Thomson]]<br />
*[[Leonhard Euler]]<br />
*[[Robert Fox Bacher]]<br />
*[[Stephen Hawking]]<br />
*[[Amedeo Avogadro]]<br />
*[[Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen]]<br />
*[[Pierre Laplace]]<br />
*[[Thomas Edison]]<br />
*[[Hendrik Lorentz]]<br />
*[[Jean-Baptiste Biot]]<br />
*[[Lise Meitner]]<br />
*[[Lisa Randall]]<br />
*[[Felix Savart]]<br />
*[[Heinrich Lenz]]<br />
*[[Max Born]]<br />
*[[Archimedes]]<br />
*[[Jean Baptiste Biot]]<br />
*[[Carl Sagan]]<br />
*[[Eugene Wigner]]<br />
*[[Marie Curie]]<br />
*[[Pierre Curie]]<br />
*[[Werner Heisenberg]]<br />
*[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]<br />
*[[Louis de Broglie]]<br />
*[[Aristotle]]<br />
*[[Émilie du Châtelet]]<br />
*[[Blaise Pascal]]<br />
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]<br />
*[[James Chadwick]]<br />
*[[Henry Cavendish]]<br />
*[[Thomas Young]]<br />
*[[James Prescott Joule]]<br />
*[[John Bardeen]]<br />
*[[Leo Baekeland]]<br />
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===Properties of Matter===<br />
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*[[Mass]]<br />
*[[Velocity]]<br />
*[[Relative Velocity]]<br />
*[[Density]]<br />
*[[Charge]]<br />
*[[Spin]]<br />
*[[SI Units]]<br />
*[[Heat Capacity]]<br />
*[[Specific Heat]]<br />
*[[Wavelength]]<br />
*[[Conductivity]]<br />
*[[Malleability]]<br />
*[[Weight]]<br />
*[[Boiling Point]]<br />
*[[Melting Point]]<br />
*[[Higgs Boson]]<br />
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===Contact Interactions===<br />
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* [[Young's Modulus]]<br />
* [[Friction]]<br />
* [[Tension]]<br />
* [[Hooke's Law]]<br />
*[[Centripetal Force and Curving Motion]]<br />
*[[Compression or Normal Force]]<br />
* [[Length and Stiffness of an Interatomic Bond]]<br />
* [[Speed of Sound in a Solid]]<br />
* [[Iterative Prediction of Spring-Mass System]]<br />
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===Momentum===<br />
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* [[Vectors]]<br />
* [[Kinematics]]<br />
* [[Conservation of Momentum]]<br />
* [[Predicting Change in multiple dimensions]]<br />
* [[Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Impulse Momentum]]<br />
* [[Curving Motion]]<br />
* [[Multi-particle Analysis of Momentum]]<br />
* [[Iterative Prediction]]<br />
* [[Newton's Laws and Linear Momentum]]<br />
* [[Net Force]]<br />
* [[Center of Mass]]<br />
* [[Momentum at High Speeds]]<br />
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===Angular Momentum===<br />
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* [[The Moments of Inertia]]<br />
* [[Moment of Inertia for a ring]]<br />
* [[Rotation]]<br />
* [[Torque]]<br />
* [[Systems with Zero Torque]]<br />
* [[Systems with Nonzero Torque]]<br />
* [[Right Hand Rule]]<br />
* [[Angular Velocity]]<br />
* [[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]<br />
* [[Translational Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[The Angular Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Rotational Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[Total Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[Gyroscopes]]<br />
* [[Angular Momentum Compared to Linear Momentum]]<br />
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===Energy===<br />
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*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]<br />
*[[Photons]]<br />
*[[The Energy Principle]]<br />
*[[Predicting Change]]<br />
*[[Rest Mass Energy]]<br />
*[[Kinetic Energy]]<br />
*[[Potential Energy]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy for a Magnetic Dipole]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]<br />
*[[Work]]<br />
*[[Thermal Energy]]<br />
*[[Conservation of Energy]]<br />
*[[Electric Potential]]<br />
*[[Energy Transfer due to a Temperature Difference]]<br />
*[[Gravitational Potential Energy]]<br />
*[[Point Particle Systems]]<br />
*[[Real Systems]]<br />
*[[Spring Potential Energy]]<br />
**[[Ball and Spring Model]]<br />
*[[Internal Energy]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy of a Pair of Neutral Atoms]]<br />
*[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]<br />
*[[Franck-Hertz Experiment]]<br />
*[[Power (Mechanical)]]<br />
*[[Transformation of Energy]]<br />
<br />
*[[Energy Graphs]]<br />
*[[Air Resistance]]<br />
*[[Electronic Energy Levels]]<br />
*[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]<br />
*[[Specific Heat Capacity]]<br />
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]<br />
*[[Energy Density]]<br />
*[[Bohr Model]]<br />
*[[Quantized energy levels]]<br />
*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]<br />
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===Collisions===<br />
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*[[Collisions]]<br />
*[[Maximally Inelastic Collision]]<br />
*[[Elastic Collisions]]<br />
*[[Inelastic Collisions]]<br />
*[[Head-on Collision of Equal Masses]]<br />
*[[Head-on Collision of Unequal Masses]]<br />
*[[Frame of Reference]]<br />
*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]<br />
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===Fields===<br />
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* [[Electric Field]] of a<br />
** [[Point Charge]]<br />
** [[Electric Dipole]]<br />
** [[Capacitor]]<br />
** [[Charged Rod]]<br />
** [[Charged Ring]]<br />
** [[Charged Disk]]<br />
** [[Charged Spherical Shell]]<br />
** [[Charged Cylinder]]<br />
**[[A Solid Sphere Charged Throughout Its Volume]]<br />
*[[Electric Potential]] <br />
**[[Potential Difference Path Independence]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference of point charge in a non-Uniform Field]]<br />
**[[Sign of Potential Difference]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]<br />
**[[Energy Density and Electric Field]]<br />
** [[Systems of Charged Objects]]<br />
*[[Electric Force]]<br />
*[[Polarization]]<br />
**[[Polarization of an Atom]]<br />
*[[Charge Motion in Metals]]<br />
*[[Charge Transfer]]<br />
*[[Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Right-Hand Rule]]<br />
**[[Direction of Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Loop]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Solenoid]]<br />
**[[Bar Magnet]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Dipole Moment]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Force]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Torque]]<br />
**[[Hall Effect]]<br />
**[[Lorentz Force]]<br />
**[[Biot-Savart Law]]<br />
**[[Biot-Savart Law for Currents]]<br />
**[[Integration Techniques for Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Sparks in Air]]<br />
**[[Motional Emf]]<br />
**[[Detecting a Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Moving Point Charge]]<br />
**[[Non-Coulomb Electric Field]]<br />
**[[Motors and Generators]]<br />
**[[Solenoid Applications]]<br />
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<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
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===Simple Circuits===<br />
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*[[Components]]<br />
*[[Steady State]]<br />
*[[Non Steady State]]<br />
*[[Charging and Discharging a Capacitor]]<br />
*[[Thin and Thick Wires]]<br />
*[[Node Rule]]<br />
*[[Loop Rule]]<br />
*[[Resistivity]]<br />
*[[Power in a circuit]]<br />
*[[Ammeters,Voltmeters,Ohmmeters]]<br />
*[[Current]]<br />
**[[AC]]<br />
*[[Ohm's Law]]<br />
*[[Series Circuits]]<br />
*[[Parallel Circuits]]<br />
*[[RC]]<br />
*[[AC vs DC]]<br />
*[[Charge in a RC Circuit]]<br />
*[[Current in a RC circuit]]<br />
*[[Circular Loop of Wire]]<br />
*[[RL Circuit]]<br />
*[[LC Circuit]]<br />
*[[Surface Charge Distributions]]<br />
*[[Feedback]]<br />
*[[Transformers (Circuits)]]<br />
*[[Resistors and Conductivity]]<br />
*[[Semiconductor Devices]]<br />
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===Maxwell's Equations===<br />
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*[[Gauss's Flux Theorem]]<br />
**[[Electric Fields]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Fields]]<br />
*[[Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of Coaxial Cable Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Thick Wire Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Toroid Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
*[[Faraday's Law]]<br />
**[[Curly Electric Fields]]<br />
**[[Inductance]]<br />
***[[Transformers from a physics standpoint]]<br />
***[[Energy Density]]<br />
**[[Lenz's Law]]<br />
***[[Lenz Effect and the Jumping Ring]]<br />
**[[Motional Emf using Faraday's Law]]<br />
*[[Ampere-Maxwell Law]]<br />
*[[Superconductors]]<br />
**[[Meissner effect]]<br />
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<br />
===Radiation===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Producing a Radiative Electric Field]]<br />
*[[Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Radiaton]]<br />
*[[Lenses]]<br />
*[[Energy and Momentum Analysis in Radiation]]<br />
**[[Poynting Vector]]<br />
*[[Electromagnetic Propagation]]<br />
**[[Wavelength and Frequency]]<br />
*[[Snell's Law]]<br />
*[[Effects of Radiation on Matter]]<br />
*[[Light Propagation Through a Medium]]<br />
*[[Light Scaterring: Why is the Sky Blue]]<br />
*[[Light Refraction: Bending of light]]<br />
*[[Cherenkov Radiation]]<br />
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<br />
===Sound===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Doppler Effect]]<br />
*[[Nature, Behavior, and Properties of Sound]]<br />
*[[Resonance]]<br />
*[[Sound Barrier]]<br />
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</div><br />
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===Waves===<br />
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*[[Multisource Interference: Diffraction]]<br />
*[[Standing waves]]<br />
*[[Gravitational waves]]<br />
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]<br />
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</div><br />
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===Real Life Applications of Electromagnetic Principles===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Electromagnetic Junkyard Cranes]]<br />
*[[Maglev Trains]]<br />
*[[Spark Plugs]]<br />
*[[Metal Detectors]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
== Resources ==<br />
* Commonly used wiki commands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Wiki Cheatsheet]<br />
* A guide to representing equations in math mode [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula Wiki Math Mode]<br />
* A page to keep track of all the physics [[Constants]]<br />
* An overview of [[VPython]], [http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/VPython_basics beginner guide to VPython]</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=8944Main Page2015-12-03T01:58:44Z<p>Mkirsch7: /* Waves */</p>
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===Interactions===<br />
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*[[Kinds of Matter]]<br />
**[[Ball and Spring Model of Matter]]<br />
*[[Detecting Interactions]]<br />
*[[Fundamental Interactions]]<br />
*[[Determinism]]<br />
*[[System & Surroundings]] <br />
*[[Newton's First Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Newton's Second Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Newton's Third Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Gravitational Force]]<br />
*[[Electric Force]]<br />
*[[Conservation of Charge]]<br />
*[[Terminal Speed]]<br />
*[[Simple Harmonic Motion]]<br />
*[[Speed and Velocity]]<br />
*[[Electric Polarization]]<br />
*[[Perpetual Freefall (Orbit)]]<br />
*[[2-Dimensional Motion]]<br />
*[[Center of Mass]]<br />
*[[Reaction Time]]<br />
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===Theory===<br />
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*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]<br />
*[[Quantum Theory]]<br />
*[[Big Bang Theory]]<br />
*[[Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory]]<br />
*[[Atomic Theory]]<br />
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]<br />
*[[String Theory]]<br />
*[[Elementary Particles and Particle Physics Theory]]<br />
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===Notable Scientists===<br />
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*[[Christian Doppler]]<br />
*[[Albert Einstein]]<br />
*[[Ernest Rutherford]]<br />
*[[Joseph Henry]]<br />
*[[Michael Faraday]]<br />
*[[J.J. Thomson]]<br />
*[[James Maxwell]]<br />
*[[Robert Hooke]]<br />
*[[Carl Friedrich Gauss]]<br />
*[[Nikola Tesla]]<br />
*[[Andre Marie Ampere]]<br />
*[[Sir Isaac Newton]]<br />
*[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]]<br />
*[[Oliver Heaviside]]<br />
*[[Rosalind Franklin]]<br />
*[[Erwin Schrödinger]]<br />
*[[Enrico Fermi]]<br />
*[[Robert J. Van de Graaff]]<br />
*[[Charles de Coulomb]]<br />
*[[Hans Christian Ørsted]]<br />
*[[Philo Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Niels Bohr]]<br />
*[[Georg Ohm]]<br />
*[[Galileo Galilei]]<br />
*[[Gustav Kirchhoff]]<br />
*[[Max Planck]]<br />
*[[Heinrich Hertz]]<br />
*[[Edwin Hall]]<br />
*[[James Watt]]<br />
*[[Count Alessandro Volta]]<br />
*[[Josiah Willard Gibbs]]<br />
*[[Richard Phillips Feynman]]<br />
*[[Sir David Brewster]]<br />
*[[Daniel Bernoulli]]<br />
*[[William Thomson]]<br />
*[[Leonhard Euler]]<br />
*[[Robert Fox Bacher]]<br />
*[[Stephen Hawking]]<br />
*[[Amedeo Avogadro]]<br />
*[[Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen]]<br />
*[[Pierre Laplace]]<br />
*[[Thomas Edison]]<br />
*[[Hendrik Lorentz]]<br />
*[[Jean-Baptiste Biot]]<br />
*[[Lise Meitner]]<br />
*[[Lisa Randall]]<br />
*[[Felix Savart]]<br />
*[[Heinrich Lenz]]<br />
*[[Max Born]]<br />
*[[Archimedes]]<br />
*[[Jean Baptiste Biot]]<br />
*[[Carl Sagan]]<br />
*[[Eugene Wigner]]<br />
*[[Marie Curie]]<br />
*[[Pierre Curie]]<br />
*[[Werner Heisenberg]]<br />
*[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]<br />
*[[Louis de Broglie]]<br />
*[[Aristotle]]<br />
*[[Émilie du Châtelet]]<br />
*[[Blaise Pascal]]<br />
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]<br />
*[[James Chadwick]]<br />
*[[Henry Cavendish]]<br />
*[[Thomas Young]]<br />
*[[James Prescott Joule]]<br />
*[[John Bardeen]]<br />
*[[Leo Baekeland]]<br />
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===Properties of Matter===<br />
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*[[Mass]]<br />
*[[Velocity]]<br />
*[[Relative Velocity]]<br />
*[[Density]]<br />
*[[Charge]]<br />
*[[Spin]]<br />
*[[SI Units]]<br />
*[[Heat Capacity]]<br />
*[[Specific Heat]]<br />
*[[Wavelength]]<br />
*[[Conductivity]]<br />
*[[Malleability]]<br />
*[[Weight]]<br />
*[[Boiling Point]]<br />
*[[Melting Point]]<br />
*[[Higgs Boson]]<br />
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===Contact Interactions===<br />
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* [[Young's Modulus]]<br />
* [[Friction]]<br />
* [[Tension]]<br />
* [[Hooke's Law]]<br />
*[[Centripetal Force and Curving Motion]]<br />
*[[Compression or Normal Force]]<br />
* [[Length and Stiffness of an Interatomic Bond]]<br />
* [[Speed of Sound in a Solid]]<br />
* [[Iterative Prediction of Spring-Mass System]]<br />
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===Momentum===<br />
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* [[Vectors]]<br />
* [[Kinematics]]<br />
* [[Conservation of Momentum]]<br />
* [[Predicting Change in multiple dimensions]]<br />
* [[Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Impulse Momentum]]<br />
* [[Curving Motion]]<br />
* [[Multi-particle Analysis of Momentum]]<br />
* [[Iterative Prediction]]<br />
* [[Newton's Laws and Linear Momentum]]<br />
* [[Net Force]]<br />
* [[Center of Mass]]<br />
* [[Momentum at High Speeds]]<br />
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===Angular Momentum===<br />
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* [[The Moments of Inertia]]<br />
* [[Moment of Inertia for a ring]]<br />
* [[Rotation]]<br />
* [[Torque]]<br />
* [[Systems with Zero Torque]]<br />
* [[Systems with Nonzero Torque]]<br />
* [[Right Hand Rule]]<br />
* [[Angular Velocity]]<br />
* [[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]<br />
* [[Translational Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[The Angular Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Rotational Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[Total Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[Gyroscopes]]<br />
* [[Angular Momentum Compared to Linear Momentum]]<br />
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===Energy===<br />
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*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]<br />
*[[Photons]]<br />
*[[The Energy Principle]]<br />
*[[Predicting Change]]<br />
*[[Rest Mass Energy]]<br />
*[[Kinetic Energy]]<br />
*[[Potential Energy]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy for a Magnetic Dipole]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]<br />
*[[Work]]<br />
*[[Thermal Energy]]<br />
*[[Conservation of Energy]]<br />
*[[Electric Potential]]<br />
*[[Energy Transfer due to a Temperature Difference]]<br />
*[[Gravitational Potential Energy]]<br />
*[[Point Particle Systems]]<br />
*[[Real Systems]]<br />
*[[Spring Potential Energy]]<br />
**[[Ball and Spring Model]]<br />
*[[Internal Energy]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy of a Pair of Neutral Atoms]]<br />
*[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]<br />
*[[Franck-Hertz Experiment]]<br />
*[[Power (Mechanical)]]<br />
*[[Transformation of Energy]]<br />
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*[[Energy Graphs]]<br />
*[[Air Resistance]]<br />
*[[Electronic Energy Levels]]<br />
*[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]<br />
*[[Specific Heat Capacity]]<br />
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]<br />
*[[Energy Density]]<br />
*[[Bohr Model]]<br />
*[[Quantized energy levels]]<br />
*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]<br />
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===Collisions===<br />
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*[[Collisions]]<br />
*[[Maximally Inelastic Collision]]<br />
*[[Elastic Collisions]]<br />
*[[Inelastic Collisions]]<br />
*[[Head-on Collision of Equal Masses]]<br />
*[[Head-on Collision of Unequal Masses]]<br />
*[[Frame of Reference]]<br />
*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]<br />
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<br />
===Fields===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
* [[Electric Field]] of a<br />
** [[Point Charge]]<br />
** [[Electric Dipole]]<br />
** [[Capacitor]]<br />
** [[Charged Rod]]<br />
** [[Charged Ring]]<br />
** [[Charged Disk]]<br />
** [[Charged Spherical Shell]]<br />
** [[Charged Cylinder]]<br />
**[[A Solid Sphere Charged Throughout Its Volume]]<br />
*[[Electric Potential]] <br />
**[[Potential Difference Path Independence]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference of point charge in a non-Uniform Field]]<br />
**[[Sign of Potential Difference]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]<br />
**[[Energy Density and Electric Field]]<br />
** [[Systems of Charged Objects]]<br />
*[[Electric Force]]<br />
*[[Polarization]]<br />
**[[Polarization of an Atom]]<br />
*[[Charge Motion in Metals]]<br />
*[[Charge Transfer]]<br />
*[[Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Right-Hand Rule]]<br />
**[[Direction of Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Loop]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Solenoid]]<br />
**[[Bar Magnet]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Dipole Moment]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Force]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Torque]]<br />
**[[Hall Effect]]<br />
**[[Lorentz Force]]<br />
**[[Biot-Savart Law]]<br />
**[[Biot-Savart Law for Currents]]<br />
**[[Integration Techniques for Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Sparks in Air]]<br />
**[[Motional Emf]]<br />
**[[Detecting a Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Moving Point Charge]]<br />
**[[Non-Coulomb Electric Field]]<br />
**[[Motors and Generators]]<br />
**[[Solenoid Applications]]<br />
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<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Simple Circuits===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Components]]<br />
*[[Steady State]]<br />
*[[Non Steady State]]<br />
*[[Charging and Discharging a Capacitor]]<br />
*[[Thin and Thick Wires]]<br />
*[[Node Rule]]<br />
*[[Loop Rule]]<br />
*[[Resistivity]]<br />
*[[Power in a circuit]]<br />
*[[Ammeters,Voltmeters,Ohmmeters]]<br />
*[[Current]]<br />
**[[AC]]<br />
*[[Ohm's Law]]<br />
*[[Series Circuits]]<br />
*[[Parallel Circuits]]<br />
*[[RC]]<br />
*[[AC vs DC]]<br />
*[[Charge in a RC Circuit]]<br />
*[[Current in a RC circuit]]<br />
*[[Circular Loop of Wire]]<br />
*[[RL Circuit]]<br />
*[[LC Circuit]]<br />
*[[Surface Charge Distributions]]<br />
*[[Feedback]]<br />
*[[Transformers (Circuits)]]<br />
*[[Resistors and Conductivity]]<br />
*[[Semiconductor Devices]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
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<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Maxwell's Equations===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Gauss's Flux Theorem]]<br />
**[[Electric Fields]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Fields]]<br />
*[[Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of Coaxial Cable Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Thick Wire Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Toroid Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
*[[Faraday's Law]]<br />
**[[Curly Electric Fields]]<br />
**[[Inductance]]<br />
***[[Transformers from a physics standpoint]]<br />
***[[Energy Density]]<br />
**[[Lenz's Law]]<br />
***[[Lenz Effect and the Jumping Ring]]<br />
**[[Motional Emf using Faraday's Law]]<br />
*[[Ampere-Maxwell Law]]<br />
*[[Superconductors]]<br />
**[[Meissner effect]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
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<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Radiation===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Producing a Radiative Electric Field]]<br />
*[[Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Radiaton]]<br />
*[[Lenses]]<br />
*[[Energy and Momentum Analysis in Radiation]]<br />
**[[Poynting Vector]]<br />
*[[Electromagnetic Propagation]]<br />
**[[Wavelength and Frequency]]<br />
*[[Snell's Law]]<br />
*[[Effects of Radiation on Matter]]<br />
*[[Light Propagation Through a Medium]]<br />
*[[Light Scaterring: Why is the Sky Blue]]<br />
*[[Light Refraction: Bending of light]]<br />
*[[Cherenkov Radiation]]<br />
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</div><br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Sound===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Doppler Effect]]<br />
*[[Nature, Behavior, and Properties of Sound]]<br />
*[[Resonance]]<br />
*[[Sound Barrier]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Waves===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Multisource Interference: Diffraction]]<br />
*[[Standing waves]]<br />
*[[Gravitational waves]]<br />
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]<br />
*[[Transverse Waves]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Real Life Applications of Electromagnetic Principles===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Electromagnetic Junkyard Cranes]]<br />
*[[Maglev Trains]]<br />
*[[Spark Plugs]]<br />
*[[Metal Detectors]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
== Resources ==<br />
* Commonly used wiki commands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Wiki Cheatsheet]<br />
* A guide to representing equations in math mode [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula Wiki Math Mode]<br />
* A page to keep track of all the physics [[Constants]]<br />
* An overview of [[VPython]], [http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/VPython_basics beginner guide to VPython]</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=8809Main Page2015-12-03T01:12:52Z<p>Mkirsch7: /* Waves */</p>
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<div>__NOTOC__<br />
Welcome to the Georgia Tech Wiki for Intro Physics. This resources was created so that students can contribute and curate content to help those with limited or no access to a textbook. When reading this website, please correct any errors you may come across. If you read something that isn't clear, please consider revising it!<br />
<br />
Looking to make a contribution?<br />
#Pick a specific topic from intro physics<br />
#Add that topic, as a link to a new page, under the appropriate category listed below by editing this page.<br />
#Copy and paste the default [[Template]] into your new page and start editing.<br />
<br />
Please remember that this is not a textbook and you are not limited to expressing your ideas with only text and equations. Whenever possible embed: pictures, videos, diagrams, simulations, computational models (e.g. Glowscript), and whatever content you think makes learning physics easier for other students.<br />
<br />
== Source Material ==<br />
All of the content added to this resource must be in the public domain or similar free resource. If you are unsure about a source, contact the original author for permission. That said, there is a surprisingly large amount of introductory physics content scattered across the web. Here is an incomplete list of intro physics resources (please update as needed).<br />
* A physics resource written by experts for an expert audience [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Physics Physics Portal]<br />
* A wiki book on modern physics [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modern_Physics Modern Physics Wiki]<br />
* The MIT open courseware for intro physics [http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-8-002-a-wikitextbook-for-introductory-mechanics-fall-2009/index.htm MITOCW Wiki]<br />
* An online concept map of intro physics [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html HyperPhysics]<br />
* Interactive physics simulations [https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics PhET]<br />
* OpenStax algebra based intro physics textbook [https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics College Physics]<br />
* The Open Source Physics project is a collection of online physics resources [http://www.opensourcephysics.org/ OSP]<br />
* A resource guide compiled by the [http://www.aapt.org/ AAPT] for educators [http://www.compadre.org/ ComPADRE]<br />
<br />
== Organizing Categories ==<br />
These are the broad, overarching categories, that we cover in two semester of introductory physics. You can add subcategories or make a new category as needed. A single topic should direct readers to a page in one of these catagories.<br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
===Interactions===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Kinds of Matter]]<br />
**[[Ball and Spring Model of Matter]]<br />
*[[Detecting Interactions]]<br />
*[[Fundamental Interactions]]<br />
*[[Determinism]]<br />
*[[System & Surroundings]] <br />
*[[Newton's First Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Newton's Second Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Newton's Third Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Gravitational Force]]<br />
*[[Electric Force]]<br />
*[[Conservation of Charge]]<br />
*[[Terminal Speed]]<br />
*[[Simple Harmonic Motion]]<br />
*[[Speed and Velocity]]<br />
*[[Electric Polarization]]<br />
*[[Perpetual Freefall (Orbit)]]<br />
*[[2-Dimensional Motion]]<br />
*[[Center of Mass]]<br />
*[[Reaction Time]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Theory===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]<br />
*[[Quantum Theory]]<br />
*[[Big Bang Theory]]<br />
*[[Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory]]<br />
*[[Atomic Theory]]<br />
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]<br />
*[[String Theory]]<br />
*[[Elementary Particles and Particle Physics Theory]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Notable Scientists===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Christian Doppler]]<br />
*[[Albert Einstein]]<br />
*[[Ernest Rutherford]]<br />
*[[Joseph Henry]]<br />
*[[Michael Faraday]]<br />
*[[J.J. Thomson]]<br />
*[[James Maxwell]]<br />
*[[Robert Hooke]]<br />
*[[Carl Friedrich Gauss]]<br />
*[[Nikola Tesla]]<br />
*[[Andre Marie Ampere]]<br />
*[[Sir Isaac Newton]]<br />
*[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]]<br />
*[[Oliver Heaviside]]<br />
*[[Rosalind Franklin]]<br />
*[[Erwin Schrödinger]]<br />
*[[Enrico Fermi]]<br />
*[[Robert J. Van de Graaff]]<br />
*[[Charles de Coulomb]]<br />
*[[Hans Christian Ørsted]]<br />
*[[Philo Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Niels Bohr]]<br />
*[[Georg Ohm]]<br />
*[[Galileo Galilei]]<br />
*[[Gustav Kirchhoff]]<br />
*[[Max Planck]]<br />
*[[Heinrich Hertz]]<br />
*[[Edwin Hall]]<br />
*[[James Watt]]<br />
*[[Count Alessandro Volta]]<br />
*[[Josiah Willard Gibbs]]<br />
*[[Richard Phillips Feynman]]<br />
*[[Sir David Brewster]]<br />
*[[Daniel Bernoulli]]<br />
*[[William Thomson]]<br />
*[[Leonhard Euler]]<br />
*[[Robert Fox Bacher]]<br />
*[[Stephen Hawking]]<br />
*[[Amedeo Avogadro]]<br />
*[[Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen]]<br />
*[[Pierre Laplace]]<br />
*[[Thomas Edison]]<br />
*[[Hendrik Lorentz]]<br />
*[[Jean-Baptiste Biot]]<br />
*[[Lise Meitner]]<br />
*[[Lisa Randall]]<br />
*[[Felix Savart]]<br />
*[[Heinrich Lenz]]<br />
*[[Max Born]]<br />
*[[Archimedes]]<br />
*[[Jean Baptiste Biot]]<br />
*[[Carl Sagan]]<br />
*[[Eugene Wigner]]<br />
*[[Marie Curie]]<br />
*[[Pierre Curie]]<br />
*[[Werner Heisenberg]]<br />
*[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]<br />
*[[Louis de Broglie]]<br />
*[[Aristotle]]<br />
*[[Émilie du Châtelet]]<br />
*[[Blaise Pascal]]<br />
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]<br />
*[[James Chadwick]]<br />
*[[Henry Cavendish]]<br />
*[[Thomas Young]]<br />
*[[James Prescott Joule]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Properties of Matter===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Mass]]<br />
*[[Velocity]]<br />
*[[Relative Velocity]]<br />
*[[Density]]<br />
*[[Charge]]<br />
*[[Spin]]<br />
*[[SI Units]]<br />
*[[Heat Capacity]]<br />
*[[Specific Heat]]<br />
*[[Wavelength]]<br />
*[[Conductivity]]<br />
*[[Malleability]]<br />
*[[Weight]]<br />
*[[Boiling Point]]<br />
*[[Melting Point]]<br />
*[[Higgs Boson]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Contact Interactions===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
* [[Young's Modulus]]<br />
* [[Friction]]<br />
* [[Tension]]<br />
* [[Hooke's Law]]<br />
*[[Centripetal Force and Curving Motion]]<br />
*[[Compression or Normal Force]]<br />
* [[Length and Stiffness of an Interatomic Bond]]<br />
* [[Speed of Sound in a Solid]]<br />
* [[Iterative Prediction of Spring-Mass System]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Momentum===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
* [[Vectors]]<br />
* [[Kinematics]]<br />
* [[Conservation of Momentum]]<br />
* [[Predicting Change in multiple dimensions]]<br />
* [[Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Impulse Momentum]]<br />
* [[Curving Motion]]<br />
* [[Multi-particle Analysis of Momentum]]<br />
* [[Iterative Prediction]]<br />
* [[Newton's Laws and Linear Momentum]]<br />
* [[Net Force]]<br />
* [[Center of Mass]]<br />
* [[Momentum at High Speeds]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Angular Momentum===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
* [[The Moments of Inertia]]<br />
* [[Moment of Inertia for a ring]]<br />
* [[Rotation]]<br />
* [[Torque]]<br />
* [[Systems with Zero Torque]]<br />
* [[Systems with Nonzero Torque]]<br />
* [[Right Hand Rule]]<br />
* [[Angular Velocity]]<br />
* [[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]<br />
* [[Translational Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[The Angular Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Rotational Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[Total Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[Gyroscopes]]<br />
* [[Angular Momentum Compared to Linear Momentum]]<br />
<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Energy===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]<br />
*[[Photons]]<br />
*[[The Energy Principle]]<br />
*[[Predicting Change]]<br />
*[[Rest Mass Energy]]<br />
*[[Kinetic Energy]]<br />
*[[Potential Energy]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy for a Magnetic Dipole]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]<br />
*[[Work]]<br />
*[[Thermal Energy]]<br />
*[[Conservation of Energy]]<br />
*[[Electric Potential]]<br />
*[[Energy Transfer due to a Temperature Difference]]<br />
*[[Gravitational Potential Energy]]<br />
*[[Point Particle Systems]]<br />
*[[Real Systems]]<br />
*[[Spring Potential Energy]]<br />
**[[Ball and Spring Model]]<br />
*[[Internal Energy]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy of a Pair of Neutral Atoms]]<br />
*[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]<br />
*[[Franck-Hertz Experiment]]<br />
*[[Power (Mechanical)]]<br />
*[[Transformation of Energy]]<br />
<br />
*[[Energy Graphs]]<br />
*[[Air Resistance]]<br />
*[[Electronic Energy Levels]]<br />
*[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]<br />
*[[Specific Heat Capacity]]<br />
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]<br />
*[[Energy Density]]<br />
*[[Bohr Model]]<br />
*[[Quantized energy levels]]<br />
*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Collisions===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Collisions]]<br />
*[[Maximally Inelastic Collision]]<br />
*[[Elastic Collisions]]<br />
*[[Inelastic Collisions]]<br />
*[[Head-on Collision of Equal Masses]]<br />
*[[Head-on Collision of Unequal Masses]]<br />
*[[Frame of Reference]]<br />
*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Fields===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
* [[Electric Field]] of a<br />
** [[Point Charge]]<br />
** [[Electric Dipole]]<br />
** [[Capacitor]]<br />
** [[Charged Rod]]<br />
** [[Charged Ring]]<br />
** [[Charged Disk]]<br />
** [[Charged Spherical Shell]]<br />
** [[Charged Cylinder]]<br />
**[[A Solid Sphere Charged Throughout Its Volume]]<br />
*[[Electric Potential]] <br />
**[[Potential Difference Path Independence]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference of point charge in a non-Uniform Field]]<br />
**[[Sign of Potential Difference]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]<br />
**[[Energy Density and Electric Field]]<br />
** [[Systems of Charged Objects]]<br />
*[[Electric Force]]<br />
*[[Polarization]]<br />
**[[Polarization of an Atom]]<br />
*[[Charge Motion in Metals]]<br />
*[[Charge Transfer]]<br />
*[[Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Right-Hand Rule]]<br />
**[[Direction of Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Loop]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Solenoid]]<br />
**[[Bar Magnet]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Dipole Moment]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Force]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Torque]]<br />
**[[Hall Effect]]<br />
**[[Lorentz Force]]<br />
**[[Biot-Savart Law]]<br />
**[[Biot-Savart Law for Currents]]<br />
**[[Integration Techniques for Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Sparks in Air]]<br />
**[[Motional Emf]]<br />
**[[Detecting a Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Moving Point Charge]]<br />
**[[Non-Coulomb Electric Field]]<br />
**[[Motors and Generators]]<br />
**[[Solenoid Applications]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Simple Circuits===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Components]]<br />
*[[Steady State]]<br />
*[[Non Steady State]]<br />
*[[Charging and Discharging a Capacitor]]<br />
*[[Thin and Thick Wires]]<br />
*[[Node Rule]]<br />
*[[Loop Rule]]<br />
*[[Resistivity]]<br />
*[[Power in a circuit]]<br />
*[[Ammeters,Voltmeters,Ohmmeters]]<br />
*[[Current]]<br />
**[[AC]]<br />
*[[Ohm's Law]]<br />
*[[Series Circuits]]<br />
*[[Parallel Circuits]]<br />
*[[RC]]<br />
*[[AC vs DC]]<br />
*[[Charge in a RC Circuit]]<br />
*[[Current in a RC circuit]]<br />
*[[Circular Loop of Wire]]<br />
*[[RL Circuit]]<br />
*[[LC Circuit]]<br />
*[[Surface Charge Distributions]]<br />
*[[Feedback]]<br />
*[[Transformers (Circuits)]]<br />
*[[Resistors and Conductivity]]<br />
*[[Semiconductor Devices]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Maxwell's Equations===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Gauss's Flux Theorem]]<br />
**[[Electric Fields]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Fields]]<br />
*[[Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of Coaxial Cable Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Thick Wire Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Toroid Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
*[[Faraday's Law]]<br />
**[[Curly Electric Fields]]<br />
**[[Inductance]]<br />
***[[Transformers from a physics standpoint]]<br />
***[[Energy Density]]<br />
**[[Lenz's Law]]<br />
***[[Lenz Effect and the Jumping Ring]]<br />
**[[Motional Emf using Faraday's Law]]<br />
*[[Ampere-Maxwell Law]]<br />
*[[Superconductors]]<br />
**[[Meissner effect]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Radiation===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Producing a Radiative Electric Field]]<br />
*[[Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Radiaton]]<br />
*[[Lenses]]<br />
*[[Energy and Momentum Analysis in Radiation]]<br />
**[[Poynting Vector]]<br />
*[[Electromagnetic Propagation]]<br />
**[[Wavelength and Frequency]]<br />
*[[Snell's Law]]<br />
*[[Effects of Radiation on Matter]]<br />
*[[Light Propagation Through a Medium]]<br />
*[[Light Scaterring: Why is the Sky Blue]]<br />
*[[Light Refraction: Bending of light]]<br />
*[[Cherenkov Radiation]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Sound===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Doppler Effect]]<br />
*[[Nature, Behavior, and Properties of Sound]]<br />
*[[Resonance]]<br />
*[[Sound Barrier]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Waves===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Multisource Interference: Diffraction]]<br />
*[[Standing waves]]<br />
*[[Gravitational waves]]<br />
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Real Life Applications of Electromagnetic Principles===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Electromagnetic Junkyard Cranes]]<br />
*[[Maglev Trains]]<br />
*[[Spark Plugs]]<br />
*[[Metal Detectors]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
== Resources ==<br />
* Commonly used wiki commands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Wiki Cheatsheet]<br />
* A guide to representing equations in math mode [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula Wiki Math Mode]<br />
* A page to keep track of all the physics [[Constants]]<br />
* An overview of [[VPython]], [http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/VPython_basics beginner guide to VPython]</div>Mkirsch7http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=8796Main Page2015-12-03T01:10:05Z<p>Mkirsch7: /* Waves */</p>
<hr />
<div>__NOTOC__<br />
Welcome to the Georgia Tech Wiki for Intro Physics. This resources was created so that students can contribute and curate content to help those with limited or no access to a textbook. When reading this website, please correct any errors you may come across. If you read something that isn't clear, please consider revising it!<br />
<br />
Looking to make a contribution?<br />
#Pick a specific topic from intro physics<br />
#Add that topic, as a link to a new page, under the appropriate category listed below by editing this page.<br />
#Copy and paste the default [[Template]] into your new page and start editing.<br />
<br />
Please remember that this is not a textbook and you are not limited to expressing your ideas with only text and equations. Whenever possible embed: pictures, videos, diagrams, simulations, computational models (e.g. Glowscript), and whatever content you think makes learning physics easier for other students.<br />
<br />
== Source Material ==<br />
All of the content added to this resource must be in the public domain or similar free resource. If you are unsure about a source, contact the original author for permission. That said, there is a surprisingly large amount of introductory physics content scattered across the web. Here is an incomplete list of intro physics resources (please update as needed).<br />
* A physics resource written by experts for an expert audience [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Physics Physics Portal]<br />
* A wiki book on modern physics [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modern_Physics Modern Physics Wiki]<br />
* The MIT open courseware for intro physics [http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-8-002-a-wikitextbook-for-introductory-mechanics-fall-2009/index.htm MITOCW Wiki]<br />
* An online concept map of intro physics [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html HyperPhysics]<br />
* Interactive physics simulations [https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics PhET]<br />
* OpenStax algebra based intro physics textbook [https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics College Physics]<br />
* The Open Source Physics project is a collection of online physics resources [http://www.opensourcephysics.org/ OSP]<br />
* A resource guide compiled by the [http://www.aapt.org/ AAPT] for educators [http://www.compadre.org/ ComPADRE]<br />
<br />
== Organizing Categories ==<br />
These are the broad, overarching categories, that we cover in two semester of introductory physics. You can add subcategories or make a new category as needed. A single topic should direct readers to a page in one of these catagories.<br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
===Interactions===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Kinds of Matter]]<br />
**[[Ball and Spring Model of Matter]]<br />
*[[Detecting Interactions]]<br />
*[[Fundamental Interactions]]<br />
*[[Determinism]]<br />
*[[System & Surroundings]] <br />
*[[Newton's First Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Newton's Second Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Newton's Third Law of Motion]]<br />
*[[Gravitational Force]]<br />
*[[Electric Force]]<br />
*[[Conservation of Charge]]<br />
*[[Terminal Speed]]<br />
*[[Simple Harmonic Motion]]<br />
*[[Speed and Velocity]]<br />
*[[Electric Polarization]]<br />
*[[Perpetual Freefall (Orbit)]]<br />
*[[2-Dimensional Motion]]<br />
*[[Center of Mass]]<br />
*[[Reaction Time]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Theory===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]<br />
*[[Quantum Theory]]<br />
*[[Big Bang Theory]]<br />
*[[Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory]]<br />
*[[Atomic Theory]]<br />
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]<br />
*[[String Theory]]<br />
*[[Elementary Particles and Particle Physics Theory]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Notable Scientists===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Christian Doppler]]<br />
*[[Albert Einstein]]<br />
*[[Ernest Rutherford]]<br />
*[[Joseph Henry]]<br />
*[[Michael Faraday]]<br />
*[[J.J. Thomson]]<br />
*[[James Maxwell]]<br />
*[[Robert Hooke]]<br />
*[[Carl Friedrich Gauss]]<br />
*[[Nikola Tesla]]<br />
*[[Andre Marie Ampere]]<br />
*[[Sir Isaac Newton]]<br />
*[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]]<br />
*[[Oliver Heaviside]]<br />
*[[Rosalind Franklin]]<br />
*[[Erwin Schrödinger]]<br />
*[[Enrico Fermi]]<br />
*[[Robert J. Van de Graaff]]<br />
*[[Charles de Coulomb]]<br />
*[[Hans Christian Ørsted]]<br />
*[[Philo Farnsworth]]<br />
*[[Niels Bohr]]<br />
*[[Georg Ohm]]<br />
*[[Galileo Galilei]]<br />
*[[Gustav Kirchhoff]]<br />
*[[Max Planck]]<br />
*[[Heinrich Hertz]]<br />
*[[Edwin Hall]]<br />
*[[James Watt]]<br />
*[[Count Alessandro Volta]]<br />
*[[Josiah Willard Gibbs]]<br />
*[[Richard Phillips Feynman]]<br />
*[[Sir David Brewster]]<br />
*[[Daniel Bernoulli]]<br />
*[[William Thomson]]<br />
*[[Leonhard Euler]]<br />
*[[Robert Fox Bacher]]<br />
*[[Stephen Hawking]]<br />
*[[Amedeo Avogadro]]<br />
*[[Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen]]<br />
*[[Pierre Laplace]]<br />
*[[Thomas Edison]]<br />
*[[Hendrik Lorentz]]<br />
*[[Jean-Baptiste Biot]]<br />
*[[Lise Meitner]]<br />
*[[Lisa Randall]]<br />
*[[Felix Savart]]<br />
*[[Heinrich Lenz]]<br />
*[[Max Born]]<br />
*[[Archimedes]]<br />
*[[Jean Baptiste Biot]]<br />
*[[Carl Sagan]]<br />
*[[Eugene Wigner]]<br />
*[[Marie Curie]]<br />
*[[Pierre Curie]]<br />
*[[Werner Heisenberg]]<br />
*[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]<br />
*[[Louis de Broglie]]<br />
*[[Aristotle]]<br />
*[[Émilie du Châtelet]]<br />
*[[Blaise Pascal]]<br />
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]<br />
*[[James Chadwick]]<br />
*[[Henry Cavendish]]<br />
*[[Thomas Young]]<br />
*[[James Prescott Joule]]<br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
<br />
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><br />
<br />
===Properties of Matter===<br />
<div class="mw-collapsible-content"><br />
*[[Mass]]<br />
*[[Velocity]]<br />
*[[Relative Velocity]]<br />
*[[Density]]<br />
*[[Charge]]<br />
*[[Spin]]<br />
*[[SI Units]]<br />
*[[Heat Capacity]]<br />
*[[Specific Heat]]<br />
*[[Wavelength]]<br />
*[[Conductivity]]<br />
*[[Malleability]]<br />
*[[Weight]]<br />
*[[Boiling Point]]<br />
*[[Melting Point]]<br />
*[[Higgs Boson]]<br />
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===Contact Interactions===<br />
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* [[Young's Modulus]]<br />
* [[Friction]]<br />
* [[Tension]]<br />
* [[Hooke's Law]]<br />
*[[Centripetal Force and Curving Motion]]<br />
*[[Compression or Normal Force]]<br />
* [[Length and Stiffness of an Interatomic Bond]]<br />
* [[Speed of Sound in a Solid]]<br />
* [[Iterative Prediction of Spring-Mass System]]<br />
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===Momentum===<br />
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* [[Vectors]]<br />
* [[Kinematics]]<br />
* [[Conservation of Momentum]]<br />
* [[Predicting Change in multiple dimensions]]<br />
* [[Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Impulse Momentum]]<br />
* [[Curving Motion]]<br />
* [[Multi-particle Analysis of Momentum]]<br />
* [[Iterative Prediction]]<br />
* [[Newton's Laws and Linear Momentum]]<br />
* [[Net Force]]<br />
* [[Center of Mass]]<br />
* [[Momentum at High Speeds]]<br />
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===Angular Momentum===<br />
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* [[The Moments of Inertia]]<br />
* [[Moment of Inertia for a ring]]<br />
* [[Rotation]]<br />
* [[Torque]]<br />
* [[Systems with Zero Torque]]<br />
* [[Systems with Nonzero Torque]]<br />
* [[Right Hand Rule]]<br />
* [[Angular Velocity]]<br />
* [[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]<br />
* [[Translational Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[The Angular Momentum Principle]]<br />
* [[Rotational Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[Total Angular Momentum]]<br />
* [[Gyroscopes]]<br />
* [[Angular Momentum Compared to Linear Momentum]]<br />
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===Energy===<br />
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*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]<br />
*[[Photons]]<br />
*[[The Energy Principle]]<br />
*[[Predicting Change]]<br />
*[[Rest Mass Energy]]<br />
*[[Kinetic Energy]]<br />
*[[Potential Energy]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy for a Magnetic Dipole]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]<br />
*[[Work]]<br />
*[[Thermal Energy]]<br />
*[[Conservation of Energy]]<br />
*[[Electric Potential]]<br />
*[[Energy Transfer due to a Temperature Difference]]<br />
*[[Gravitational Potential Energy]]<br />
*[[Point Particle Systems]]<br />
*[[Real Systems]]<br />
*[[Spring Potential Energy]]<br />
**[[Ball and Spring Model]]<br />
*[[Internal Energy]]<br />
**[[Potential Energy of a Pair of Neutral Atoms]]<br />
*[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]<br />
*[[Franck-Hertz Experiment]]<br />
*[[Power (Mechanical)]]<br />
*[[Transformation of Energy]]<br />
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*[[Energy Graphs]]<br />
*[[Air Resistance]]<br />
*[[Electronic Energy Levels]]<br />
*[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]<br />
*[[Specific Heat Capacity]]<br />
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]<br />
*[[Energy Density]]<br />
*[[Bohr Model]]<br />
*[[Quantized energy levels]]<br />
*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]<br />
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===Collisions===<br />
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*[[Collisions]]<br />
*[[Maximally Inelastic Collision]]<br />
*[[Elastic Collisions]]<br />
*[[Inelastic Collisions]]<br />
*[[Head-on Collision of Equal Masses]]<br />
*[[Head-on Collision of Unequal Masses]]<br />
*[[Frame of Reference]]<br />
*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]<br />
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===Fields===<br />
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* [[Electric Field]] of a<br />
** [[Point Charge]]<br />
** [[Electric Dipole]]<br />
** [[Capacitor]]<br />
** [[Charged Rod]]<br />
** [[Charged Ring]]<br />
** [[Charged Disk]]<br />
** [[Charged Spherical Shell]]<br />
** [[Charged Cylinder]]<br />
**[[A Solid Sphere Charged Throughout Its Volume]]<br />
*[[Electric Potential]] <br />
**[[Potential Difference Path Independence]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference of point charge in a non-Uniform Field]]<br />
**[[Sign of Potential Difference]]<br />
**[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]<br />
**[[Energy Density and Electric Field]]<br />
** [[Systems of Charged Objects]]<br />
*[[Electric Force]]<br />
*[[Polarization]]<br />
**[[Polarization of an Atom]]<br />
*[[Charge Motion in Metals]]<br />
*[[Charge Transfer]]<br />
*[[Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Right-Hand Rule]]<br />
**[[Direction of Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Loop]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Solenoid]]<br />
**[[Bar Magnet]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Dipole Moment]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Force]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Torque]]<br />
**[[Hall Effect]]<br />
**[[Lorentz Force]]<br />
**[[Biot-Savart Law]]<br />
**[[Biot-Savart Law for Currents]]<br />
**[[Integration Techniques for Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Sparks in Air]]<br />
**[[Motional Emf]]<br />
**[[Detecting a Magnetic Field]]<br />
**[[Moving Point Charge]]<br />
**[[Non-Coulomb Electric Field]]<br />
**[[Motors and Generators]]<br />
**[[Solenoid Applications]]<br />
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===Simple Circuits===<br />
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*[[Components]]<br />
*[[Steady State]]<br />
*[[Non Steady State]]<br />
*[[Charging and Discharging a Capacitor]]<br />
*[[Thin and Thick Wires]]<br />
*[[Node Rule]]<br />
*[[Loop Rule]]<br />
*[[Resistivity]]<br />
*[[Power in a circuit]]<br />
*[[Ammeters,Voltmeters,Ohmmeters]]<br />
*[[Current]]<br />
**[[AC]]<br />
*[[Ohm's Law]]<br />
*[[Series Circuits]]<br />
*[[Parallel Circuits]]<br />
*[[RC]]<br />
*[[AC vs DC]]<br />
*[[Charge in a RC Circuit]]<br />
*[[Current in a RC circuit]]<br />
*[[Circular Loop of Wire]]<br />
*[[RL Circuit]]<br />
*[[LC Circuit]]<br />
*[[Surface Charge Distributions]]<br />
*[[Feedback]]<br />
*[[Transformers (Circuits)]]<br />
*[[Resistors and Conductivity]]<br />
*[[Semiconductor Devices]]<br />
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===Maxwell's Equations===<br />
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*[[Gauss's Flux Theorem]]<br />
**[[Electric Fields]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Fields]]<br />
*[[Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of Coaxial Cable Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Thick Wire Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
**[[Magnetic Field of a Toroid Using Ampere's Law]]<br />
*[[Faraday's Law]]<br />
**[[Curly Electric Fields]]<br />
**[[Inductance]]<br />
***[[Transformers from a physics standpoint]]<br />
***[[Energy Density]]<br />
**[[Lenz's Law]]<br />
***[[Lenz Effect and the Jumping Ring]]<br />
**[[Motional Emf using Faraday's Law]]<br />
*[[Ampere-Maxwell Law]]<br />
*[[Superconductors]]<br />
**[[Meissner effect]]<br />
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===Radiation===<br />
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*[[Producing a Radiative Electric Field]]<br />
*[[Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Radiaton]]<br />
*[[Lenses]]<br />
*[[Energy and Momentum Analysis in Radiation]]<br />
**[[Poynting Vector]]<br />
*[[Electromagnetic Propagation]]<br />
**[[Wavelength and Frequency]]<br />
*[[Snell's Law]]<br />
*[[Effects of Radiation on Matter]]<br />
*[[Light Propagation Through a Medium]]<br />
*[[Light Scaterring: Why is the Sky Blue]]<br />
*[[Light Refraction: Bending of light]]<br />
*[[Cherenkov Radiation]]<br />
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===Sound===<br />
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*[[Doppler Effect]]<br />
*[[Nature, Behavior, and Properties of Sound]]<br />
*[[Resonance]]<br />
*[[Sound Barrier]]<br />
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===Waves===<br />
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*[[Multisource Interference: Diffraction]]<br />
*[[Standing waves]]<br />
*[[Longitudinal Waves]]<br />
*[[Gravitational waves]]<br />
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]<br />
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===Real Life Applications of Electromagnetic Principles===<br />
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*[[Electromagnetic Junkyard Cranes]]<br />
*[[Maglev Trains]]<br />
*[[Spark Plugs]]<br />
*[[Metal Detectors]]<br />
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== Resources ==<br />
* Commonly used wiki commands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Wiki Cheatsheet]<br />
* A guide to representing equations in math mode [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula Wiki Math Mode]<br />
* A page to keep track of all the physics [[Constants]]<br />
* An overview of [[VPython]], [http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/VPython_basics beginner guide to VPython]</div>Mkirsch7