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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!
= '''Georgia Tech Student Wiki for Introductory Physics.''' =
 
This resource 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 for future students!


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#Copy and paste the default [[Template]] into your new page and start editing.
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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.
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.
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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).
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).
* A physics resource written by experts for an expert audience [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Physics Physics Portal]
* A physics resource written by experts for an expert audience [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Physics Physics Portal]
* A wiki written for students by a physics expert [http://p3server.pa.msu.edu/coursewiki/doku.php?id=183_notes MSU Physics Wiki]
* A wiki book on modern physics [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modern_Physics Modern Physics Wiki]
* A wiki book on modern physics [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modern_Physics Modern Physics Wiki]
* A collection of 26 volumes of lecture notes by Prof. Wheeler of Reed College [https://rdc.reed.edu/c/wheeler/home/]
* 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]
* 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]
* An online concept map of intro physics [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html HyperPhysics]
* An online concept map of intro physics [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html HyperPhysics]
* Interactive physics simulations [https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics PhET]
* Interactive physics simulations [https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics PhET]
* OpenStax algebra based intro physics textbook [https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics College Physics]
* OpenStax intro physics textbooks: [https://openstax.org/details/books/university-physics-volume-1  Vol1], [https://openstax.org/details/books/university-physics-volume-2  Vol2], [https://openstax.org/details/books/university-physics-volume-3  Vol3]
* The Open Source Physics project is a collection of online physics resources [http://www.opensourcephysics.org/ OSP]
* The Open Source Physics project is a collection of online physics resources [http://www.opensourcephysics.org/ OSP]
* A resource guide compiled by the [http://www.aapt.org/ AAPT] for educators [http://www.compadre.org/ ComPADRE]
* A resource guide compiled by the [http://www.aapt.org/ AAPT] for educators [http://www.compadre.org/ ComPADRE]
* The Feynman lectures on physics are free to read [http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ Feynman]
* Final Study Guide for Modern Physics II created by a lab TA [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_6GktDPq5tiNFFYs_ZjgjxBAWVQYaXp_2Imha4_nSyc/edit?usp=sharing Modern Physics II Final Study Guide]


== Organizing Categories ==
== Resources ==
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.
* Commonly used wiki commands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Wiki Cheatsheet]
* A guide to representing equations in math mode [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula Wiki Math Mode]
* A page to keep track of all the physics [[Constants]]
* A listing of [[Notable Scientist]] with links to their individual pages


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==Physics 1==
===Week 1===
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===Interactions===
====GlowScript 101====
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*[[Kinds of Matter]]
*[[Python Syntax]]
**[[Ball and Spring Model of Matter]]
*[[GlowScript]]
*[[Detecting Interactions]]
*[[Escape Velocity]]
*[[Fundamental Interactions]]
*[[Determinism]]
*[[System & Surroundings]]
*[[Free Body Diagram]]
*[[Newton's First Law of Motion]]
*[[Newton's Second Law of Motion]]
*[[Newton's Third Law of Motion]]
*[[Gravitational Force]]
*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Conservation of Energy]]
*[[Conservation of Charge]]
*[[Terminal Speed]]
*[[Simple Harmonic Motion]]
*[[Speed and Velocity]]
*[[Electric Polarization]]
*[[Perpetual Freefall (Orbit)]]
*[[2-Dimensional Motion]]
*[[Center of Mass]]
*[[Reaction Time]]
*[[Time Dilation]]
*[[Pauli exclusion principle]]
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===Modeling with VPython===
====VPython====
 
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*[[VPython]]
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*[[VPython Functions]]
*[[VPython Functions]]
*[[VPython Lists]]
*[[VPython Lists]]
*[[VPython Loops]]
*[[VPython Multithreading]]
*[[VPython Multithreading]]
*[[VPython Animation]]
*[[VPython Animation]]
*[[VPython Objects]]
*[[VPython 3D Objects]]
*[[VPython 3D Objects]]
*[[VPython Reference]]
*[[VPython MapReduceFilter]]
*[[VPython GUIs]]
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===Theory===
====Vectors and Units====
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*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]
*[[Vectors]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of General Relativity]]
*[[SI Units]]
*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[String Theory]]
*[[Elementary Particles and Particle Physics Theory]]
*[[Law of Gravitation]]
*[[Newton's Laws]]
*[[Higgs field]]
*[[Supersymmetry]]
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===Notable Scientists===
====Interactions====
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*[[Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov]]
*[[Types of Interactions and How to Detect Them]]
*[[Christian Doppler]]
*[[Albert Einstein]]
*[[Ernest Rutherford]]
*[[Joseph Henry]]
*[[Michael Faraday]]
*[[J.J. Thomson]]
*[[James Maxwell]]
*[[Robert Hooke]]
*[[Carl Friedrich Gauss]]
*[[Nikola Tesla]]
*[[Andre Marie Ampere]]
*[[Sir Isaac Newton]]
*[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]]
*[[Oliver Heaviside]]
*[[Rosalind Franklin]]
*[[Enrico Fermi]]
*[[Robert J. Van de Graaff]]
*[[Charles de Coulomb]]
*[[Hans Christian Ørsted]]
*[[Philo Farnsworth]]
*[[Niels Bohr]]
*[[Georg Ohm]]
*[[Galileo Galilei]]
*[[Gustav Kirchhoff]]
*[[Max Planck]]
*[[Heinrich Hertz]]
*[[Edwin Hall]]
*[[James Watt]]
*[[Count Alessandro Volta]]
*[[Josiah Willard Gibbs]]
*[[Richard Phillips Feynman]]
*[[Sir David Brewster]]
*[[Daniel Bernoulli]]
*[[William Thomson]]
*[[Leonhard Euler]]
*[[Robert Fox Bacher]]
*[[Stephen Hawking]]
*[[Amedeo Avogadro]]
*[[Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen]]
*[[Pierre Laplace]]
*[[Thomas Edison]]
*[[Hendrik Lorentz]]
*[[Jean-Baptiste Biot]]
*[[Lise Meitner]]
*[[Lisa Randall]]
*[[Felix Savart]]
*[[Heinrich Lenz]]
*[[Max Born]]
*[[Archimedes]]
*[[Jean Baptiste Biot]]
*[[Carl Sagan]]
*[[Eugene Wigner]]
*[[Marie Curie]]
*[[Pierre Curie]]
*[[Werner Heisenberg]]
*[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]
*[[Louis de Broglie]]
*[[Aristotle]]
*[[Émilie du Châtelet]]
*[[Blaise Pascal]]
*[[Siméon Denis Poisson]]
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]
*[[James Chadwick]]
*[[Henry Cavendish]]
*[[Thomas Young]]
*[[James Prescott Joule]]
*[[John Bardeen]]
*[[Leo Baekeland]]
*[[Alhazen]]
*[[Willebrord Snell]]
*[[Fritz Walther Meissner]]
*[[Johannes Kepler]]
*[[Johann Wilhelm Ritter]]
*[[Philipp Lenard]]
*[[Robert A. Millikan]]
*[[Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac]]
*[[Guglielmo Marconi]]
*[[William Lawrence Bragg]]
*[[Robert Goddard]]
*[[Léon Foucault]]
*[[Henri Poincaré]]
*[[Steven Weinberg]]
*[[Arthur Compton]]
*[[Pythagoras of Samos]]
*[[Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar]]
*[[Wilhelm Eduard Weber]]
*[[Edmond Becquerel]]
*[[Joseph Rotblat]]
*[[Carl David Anderson]]
*[[Hermann von Helmholtz]]
*[[Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot]]
*[[Wallace Carothers]]
*[[David J. Wineland]]
*[[Rudolf Clausius]]
*[[Edward L. Norton]]
*[[Shuji Nakamura]]
*[[Pierre Laplace Pt. 2]]
*[[William B. Shockley]]
*[[Osborne Reynolds]]
*[[Alexander Graham Bell]]
*[[Hans Bethe]]
*[[Erwin Schrodinger]]
*[[Wolfgang Pauli]]
*[[Paul Dirac]]
 
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====Velocity and Momentum====
===Properties of Matter===
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*[[Newton's First Law of Motion]]
*[[Mass]]
*[[Mass]]
*[[Velocity]]
*[[Velocity]]
*[[Speed]]
*[[Speed vs Velocity]]
*[[Relative Velocity]]
*[[Relative Velocity]]
*[[Derivation of Average Velocity]]
*[[2-Dimensional Motion]]
*[[3-Dimensional Position and Motion]]
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===Week 2===
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====Momentum and the Momentum Principle====
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*[[Linear Momentum]]
*[[Newton's Second Law: the Momentum Principle]]
*[[Impulse and Momentum]]
*[[Net Force]]
*[[Inertia]]
*[[Acceleration]]
*[[Relativistic Momentum]]
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====Iterative Prediction with a Constant Force====
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*[[Iterative Prediction]]
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===Week 3===
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====Analytic Prediction with a Constant Force====
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*[[Kinematics]]
*[[Projectile Motion]]
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====Iterative Prediction with a Varying Force====
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*[[Fundamentals of Iterative Prediction with Varying Force]]
*[[Spring_Force]]
*[[Simple Harmonic Motion]]
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*[[Iterative Prediction of Spring-Mass System]]
*[[Terminal Speed]]
*[[Predicting Change in multiple dimensions]]
*[[Two Dimensional Harmonic Motion]]
*[[Determinism]]
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===Week 4===
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====Fundamental Interactions====
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*[[Gravitational Force]]
*[[Gravitational Force Near Earth]]
*[[Gravitational Force in Space and Other Applications]]
*[[3 or More Body Interactions]]
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*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Introduction to Magnetic Force]]
*[[Strong and Weak Force]]
*[[Reciprocity]]
*[[Conservation of Momentum]]
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===Week 5===
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====Properties of Matter====
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*[[Kinds of Matter]]
*[[Ball and Spring Model of Matter]]
*[[Density]]
*[[Density]]
*[[Charge]]
*[[Length and Stiffness of an Interatomic Bond]]
*[[Spin]]
*[[Young's Modulus]]
*[[SI Units]]
*[[Speed of Sound in Solids]]
*[[Heat Capacity]]
*[[Specific Heat]]
*[[Wavelength]]
*[[Conductivity]]
*[[Malleability]]
*[[Malleability]]
*[[Ductility]]
*[[Weight]]
*[[Weight]]
*[[Hardness]]
*[[Boiling Point]]
*[[Boiling Point]]
*[[Melting Point]]
*[[Melting Point]]
*[[Inertia]]
*[[Change of State]]
*[[Non-Newtonian Fluids]]
*[[Ferrofluids]]
*[[Color]]
*[[Temperature]]
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===Week 6===
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====Identifying Forces====
===Contact Interactions===
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* [[Young's Modulus]]
====Isabel Hollhumer F24====
* [[Friction]]
*[[Free Body Diagram]]
* [[Tension]]
*[[Inclined Plane]]
* [[Hooke's Law]]
*[[Centripetal Force and Curving Motion]]
*[[Compression or Normal Force]]
*[[Compression or Normal Force]]
* [[Length and Stiffness of an Interatomic Bond]]
*[[Tension]]
* [[Speed of Sound in Solids]]
* [[Iterative Prediction of Spring-Mass System]]
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===Momentum===
====Curving Motion====
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* [[Vectors]]
*[[Curving Motion]]
* [[Kinematics]]
*[[Centripetal Force and Curving Motion]]
* [[Conservation of Momentum]]
*[[Perpetual Freefall (Orbit)]]
* [[Predicting Change in multiple dimensions]]
* [[Derivation of the Momentum Principle]]
* [[Momentum Principle]]
* [[Impulse Momentum]]
* [[Curving Motion]]
* [[Projectile Motion]]
* [[Multi-particle Analysis of Momentum]]
* [[Iterative Prediction]]
* [[Analytical Prediction]]
* [[Newton's Laws and Linear Momentum]]
* [[Net Force]]
* [[Center of Mass]]
* [[Momentum at High Speeds]]
* [[Change in Momentum in Time for Curving Motion]]
* [[Momentum with respect to external Forces]]
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===Week 7===
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====Jeet Bhatkar====


===Angular Momentum===
====Energy Principle====
The Energy Principle is a fundamental concept in physics that describes the relationship between different forms of energy and their conservation within a system. Understanding the Energy Principle is crucial for analyzing the motion and interactions of objects in various physical scenarios.
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* [[The Moments of Inertia]]
* [[Moment of Inertia for a cylinder]]
* [[Rotation]]
* [[Torque]]
* [[Systems with Zero Torque]]
* [[Systems with Nonzero Torque]]
* [[Torque vs Work]]
* [[Angular Impulse]]
* [[Right Hand Rule]]
* [[Angular Velocity]]
* [[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]
* [[Translational Angular Momentum]]
* [[The Angular Momentum Principle]]
* [[Angular Momentum of Multiparticle Systems]]
* [[Rotational Angular Momentum]]
* [[Total Angular Momentum]]
* [[Gyroscopes]]
* [[Angular Momentum Compared to Linear Momentum]]


*[[Kinetic Energy]]
Kinetic energy is the energy an object possesses due to its motion.
*[[Work/Energy]]
Potential energy arises from the position of an object relative to its surroundings. Common forms of potential energy include gravitational potential energy and elastic potential energy.
*[[The Energy Principle]]
Work and energy are closely related concepts. Work (
𝑊) done on an object is defined as the force (
𝐹) applied to the object multiplied by the displacement (
𝑑) of the object in the direction of the force:
The Energy Principle states that the total mechanical energy of a system remains constant if only conservative forces (forces that depend only on the positions of the objects) are acting on the system.
*[[Conservation of Energy]]
The principle of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant over time. In other words, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. This principle is a fundamental concept in physics and has wide-ranging applications in mechanics, thermodynamics, and other branches of science.
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===Week 8===
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====Work by Non-Constant Forces====
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*[[Work Done By A Nonconstant Force]]
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====Potential Energy====
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*[[Potential Energy]]
*[[Potential Energy of Macroscopic Springs]]
*[[Spring Potential Energy]]
*[[Ball and Spring Model]]
*[[Gravitational Potential Energy]]
*[[Energy Graphs]]
*[[Escape Velocity]]
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===Energy===
===Week 9===
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====Multiparticle Systems====
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*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]
*[[Center of Mass]]
*[[Photons]]
*[[Multi-particle analysis of Momentum]]
*[[The Energy Principle]]
*[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]
*[[Predicting Change]]
*[[Rest Mass Energy]]
*[[Kinetic Energy]]
*[[Potential Energy]]
**[[Potential Energy for a Magnetic Dipole]]
**[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]
*[[Work]]
**[[Work Done By A Nonconstant Force]]
*[[Work and Energy for an Extended System]]
*[[Work and Energy for an Extended System]]
*[[Thermal Energy]]
*[[Conservation of Energy]]
*[[Electric Potential]]
*[[Energy Transfer due to a Temperature Difference]]
*[[Gravitational Potential Energy]]
*[[Point Particle Systems]]
*[[Real Systems]]
*[[Spring Potential Energy]]
**[[Ball and Spring Model]]
*[[Internal Energy]]
*[[Internal Energy]]
**[[Potential Energy of a Pair of Neutral Atoms]]
**[[Potential Energy of a Pair of Neutral Atoms]]
*[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]
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*[[Franck-Hertz Experiment]]
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*[[Power (Mechanical)]]
*[[Transformation of Energy]]


*[[Energy Graphs]]
===Week 10===
**[[Energy graphs and the Bohr model]]
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*[[Air Resistance]]
====Choice of System====
*[[Electronic Energy Levels]]
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*[[System & Surroundings]]
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====Thermal Energy, Dissipation, and Transfer of Energy====
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*[[Thermal Energy]]
*[[Specific Heat]]
*[[Calorific Value(Heat of combustion)]]
*[[First Law of Thermodynamics]]
*[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]
*[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]
*[[Specific Heat Capacity]]
*[[Temperature]]
*[[Transformation of Energy]]
*[[The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution]]
*[[The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution]]
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]
*[[Air Resistance]]
*[[Energy Density]]
*[[The Third Law of Thermodynamics]]
*[[Bohr Model]]
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*[[Quantized energy levels]]
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**[[Spontaneous Photon Emission]]
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*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]
 
*[[Energy in a Circuit]]
====Rotational and Vibrational Energy====
*[[The Photovoltaic Effect]]
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*[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]
*[[Rolling Motion]]
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===Week 11===
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====Different Models of a System====
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*[[Point Particle Systems]]
*[[Real Systems]]
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====Friction====
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*[[Friction]]
*[[Static Friction]]
*[[Kinetic Friction]]
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===Collisions===
===Week 12===
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====Conservation of Momentum====
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*[[Conservation of Momentum]]
 
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Collisions are events that happen very frequently in our day-to-day world. In the realm of Physics, a collision is defined as any sort of process in which before and after a short time interval there is little interaction, but during that short time interval there are large interactions. When looking at collisions, it is first important to understand two very important principles: the Momentum Principle and the Energy Principle. Both principles serve use when talking of collisions because they provide a way in which to analyze these collisions. Collisions themselves can be categorized into 3 main different types: elastic collisions, inelastic collisions, maximally inelastic collisions. All 3 collisions will get touched on in more detail further on.
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====Collisions====
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*[[Newton's Third Law of Motion]]
*[[Collisions]]
*[[Elastic Collisions]]
*[[Elastic Collisions]]
A collision is deemed "elastic" when the internal energy of the objects in the system does not change (in other words, change in internal energy equals 0). Because in an elastic collision no kinetic energy is converted over to internal energy, in any elastic collision Kfinal always equals Kinitial.
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*[[Inelastic Collisions]]
*[[Inelastic Collisions]]
A collision is said to be "inelastic" when it is not elastic; therefore, an inelastic collision is an interaction in which some change in internal energy occurs between the colliding objects (in other words, change in internal energy does not equal 0). Examples of such changes that occur between colliding objects include, but are not limited to, things like they get hot, or they vibrate/rotate, or they deform. Because some of the kinetic energy is converted to internal energy during an inelastic collision, Kfinal does not equal Kinitial.
*[[Maximally Inelastic Collision]]
There are a few characteristics that one can search for when identifying inelasticity. These indications include things such as:
*[[Head-on Collision of Equal Masses]]
*Objects stick together after the collision
*[[Head-on Collision of Unequal Masses]]
*An object is in an excited state after the collision
*[[Scattering: Collisions in 2D and 3D]]
*An object becomes deformed after the collision
*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]
*The objects become hotter after the collision
*[[Coefficient of Restitution]]
*There exists more vibration or rotation after the collision
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===Week 13===
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====Rotations====
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*[[Rotational Kinematics]]
*[[Eulerian Angles]]
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*[[Maximally Inelastic Collision]]  
====Angular Momentum====
Maximally inelastic collisions, also known as "sticking collisions", are the most extreme kinds of inelastic collisions. Just as its secondary name implies, a maximally inelastic collision is one in which the colliding objects stick together creating maximum dissipation. This does not automatically mean that the colliding objects stop dead because the law of conservation of momentum. In a maximally inelastic collision, the remaining kinetic energy is present only because total momentum can't change and must be conserved.
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*[[Total Angular Momentum]]
*[[Translational Angular Momentum]]
*[[Rotational Angular Momentum]]
*[[The Angular Momentum Principle]]
*[[Angular Impulse]]
*[[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]
*[[The Moments of Inertia]]
*[[Right Hand Rule]]
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*[[Head-on Collision of Equal Masses]]
===Week 14===
The easiest way to understand this phenomenon is to look at it through an example. In this case, we can analyze it through the common game of billiards. Taking the two, equally massed billiard balls as the system, we can neglect the small frictional force exerted on the balls by the billiard table. The Momentum Principle states that in this head-on collision of billiard balls the total final momentum in the x direction must equal the total initial momentum. However, this alone does not give us the knowledge to know how the momentum will be divided up between the two balls. Considering the law of conservation of energy, we can more accurately depict what will happen. This will also allow for one to identify what kind of collision occurs (elastic, inelastic, or maximally inelastic). It is important to know that head-on collisions of equal masses do not have a definite type of collision associated with it.
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====Analyzing Motion with and without Torque====
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*[[Torque]]
*[[Torque 2]]
*[[Systems with Zero Torque]]
*[[Systems with Nonzero Torque]]
*[[Torque vs Work]]
*[[Gyroscopes]]
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*[[Head-on Collision of Unequal Masses]]
===Week 15===
Just as with head-on collisions of equal masses, it is easy to understand head-on collisions of unequal masses by viewing it through an example. Let's take for example two balls of unequal masses like a ping-pong ball and a bowling ball. For the purpose of this example (so as to allow for no friction and no other significant external forces), let's imagine these objects collide in outer space inside an orbiting spacecraft. If there were to be a collision between the two, what would one expect to happen? One could expect to see the ping-pong ball collide with the bowling ball and bounce straight back with a very small change of speed. What one might not expect as much is that the bowling ball also moves, just very slowly. Again, this can all be explained through the conservation of momentum and the conservation of energy.
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====Introduction to Quantum Concepts====
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*[[Bohr Model]]
*[[Energy graphs and the Bohr model]]
*[[Quantized energy levels]]
*[[Electron transitions]]
*[[Entropy]]
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*[[Frame of Reference]]
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In the world of Physics, a frame of reference is the perspective from which a system is observed. It can be stationary or sometimes it can even be moving at a constant velocity. In some rare cases, the frame of reference moves at an nonconstant velocity and is deemed "noninertial" meaning the basic laws of physics do not apply. Continuing with the trend of examples, pretend you are at a train station observing trains as they pass by. From your stationary frame of reference, you observe that the passenger on the train is moving at the same velocity as the train. However, from a moving frame of reference, say from the eyes of the train conductor, he would view the train passengers as "anchored" to the train.
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*[[Scattering: Collisions in 2D and 3D]]
==Physics 2==
Experiments that involve scattering are often used to study the structure and behavior of atoms, nuclei, as well as of other small particles. In an experiment like such, a beam of particles collides with other particles. If it is an atomic or nuclear collision, we are unable to observe the curving trajectories inside the tiny region of interaction. Instead, we can only truly observe the trajectories before and after the collision. This is only possible because the particles are at a farther distance apart and have a very weak mutual interaction; this essentially means that the particles are moving almost in a straight line. A good example which demonstrates scattering is the collision between an alpha particle (the nucleus of a helium atom) and the nucleus of a gold atom. One will understand this phenomenon more in depth after first understanding the Rutherford Experiment which will get touched on later.
===Week 1===
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====3D Vectors====


*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]
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In England in 1911, a famous experiment was performed by a group of scientists led by Mr. Ernest Rutherford. This experiment, later known as "The Rutherford Experiment", was a tremendous breakthrough for its time because it led to the discovery of the nucleus inside the atom. Rutherford's experiment involved the scattering of a high-speed alpha particle (now known as a helium nuclei - 2 protons and 2 neutrons) as it was shot at a thin gold foil (consisting of a nuclei with 79 protons and 118 neutrons). In the experiment, Rutherford and his team discovered that the velocity of the alpha particles was not high enough to allow the particles to make actual contact with the gold nucleus. Although they never actually made contact, it is still deemed a collision because there exists a sizable force between the alpha particle and the gold nucleus over a very short period of time. In conclusion, we say the alpha particle is "scattered" by its interaction with the nucleus of a gold atom and experiments like such are called "scattering" experiments.
*[[Vectors]]
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*[[Right-Hand Rule]]
*[[Right Hand Rule]]
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*[[Coefficient of Restitution]]
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The coefficient of restitution is a measure of the elasticity in a collision. It is the ratio of the differences in velocities before and after the collision. The coefficient is evaluated by taking the difference in the velocities of the colliding objects after the collision and dividing by the difference in the velocities of the colliding objects before the collision.


====Electric field====
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*[[Electric Field]]
*[[Electric Field and Electric Potential]]
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All of the following information was collected from the Matter and Interactions 4th Edition physics textbook...
====Electric force====
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*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Lorentz Force]]
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Chabay, Ruth W., and Bruce A. Sherwood. "Chapter 10: Collisions." Matter & Interactions. Fourth Edition ed. Wiley, 2015. 383-409. Print.
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====Electric field of a point particle====
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*[[Point Charge]]
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====Superposition====
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*[[Superposition Principle]]
*[[Superposition principle]]
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===Fields===
====Dipoles====
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* [[Electric Field]] of a
*[[Electric Dipole]]
** [[Point Charge]]
*[[Magnetic Dipole]]
** [[Electric Dipole]]
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** [[Capacitor]]
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** [[Charged Rod]]
 
** [[Charged Ring]]
===Week 2===
** [[Charged Disk]]
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** [[Charged Spherical Shell]]
====Interactions of charged objects====
** [[Charged Cylinder]]
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**[[A Solid Sphere Charged Throughout Its Volume]]
*[[Electric Field]]
*[[Charge Density]]
*[[Electric Potential]]
*[[Superposition Principle]]
*[[Electric Potential]]
**[[Potential Difference Path Independence]]
**[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]
**[[Potential Difference of point charge in a non-Uniform Field]]
**[[Potential Difference at One Location]]
**[[Sign of Potential Difference]]
**[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]
**[[Energy Density and Electric Field]]
** [[Systems of Charged Objects]]
*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Lorentz Force]]
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====Tape experiments====
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*[[Polarization]]
*[[Polarization]]
**[[Polarization of an Atom]]
*[[Electric Polarization]]
**[[charged conductor and charged insulator]]
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*[[Charge Motion in Metals]]
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====Polarization====
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*[[Polarization]]
*[[Electric Polarization]]
*[[Polarization of an Atom]]
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</div>
 
===Week 3===
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====Conductors and Insulators====
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*[[Conductivity and Resistivity]]
*[[Insulators]]
*[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]
*[[Conductors]]
*[[Polarization of a conductor]]
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</div>
 
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====Charging and Discharging====
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*[[Charge Transfer]]
*[[Charge Transfer]]
*[[Electrostatic Discharge]]
*[[Charged Conductor and Charged Insulator]]
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===Week 4===
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====Field of a charged rod====
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*[[Field of a Charged Rod|Charged Rod]]
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====Field of a charged ring/disk/capacitor====
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*[[Charged Ring]]
*[[Charged Disk]]
*[[Charged Capacitor]]
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====Field of a charged sphere====
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*[[Charged Spherical Shell]]
*[[Field of a Charged Ball]]
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===Week 5===
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====Potential energy====
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*[[Potential Energy]]
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</div>
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====Electric potential====
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*[[Electric Potential]]
*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]
*[[Potential Difference Path Independence, claimed by Aditya Mohile]]
*[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]
*[[Potential Difference of Point Charge in a Non-Uniform Field]]
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====Sign of a potential difference====
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*[[Sign of a Potential Difference]]
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====Potential at a single location====
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*[[Electric Potential]]
*[[Potential Difference at One Location]]
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====Path independence and round trip potential====
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*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]
*[[Potential Difference Path Independence, claimed by Aditya Mohile]]
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</div>
===Week 6===
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====Electric field and potential in an insulator====
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*[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]
*[[Electric Field in an Insulator]]
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</div>
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====Moving charges in a magnetic field====
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*[[Magnetic Field]]
*[[Magnetic Field]]
**[[Right-Hand Rule]]
*[[Magnetic Force]]
**[[Direction of Magnetic Field]]
*[[Lorentz Force]]
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]
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**[[Magnetic Field of a Loop]]
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**[[Magnetic Field of a Solenoid]]
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**[[Bar Magnet]]
====Biot-Savart Law====
**[[Magnetic Dipole Moment]]
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***[[Stern-Gerlach Experiment]]
*[[Biot-Savart Law]]
**[[Magnetic Torque]]
*[[Biot-Savart Law for Currents]]
**[[Magnetic Force]]
</div>
**[[Earth's Magnetic Field]]
</div>
**[[Atomic Structure of Magnets]]
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*[[Combining Electric and Magnetic Forces]]
 
**[[Hall Effect]]
====Moving charges, electron current, and conventional current====
**[[Lorentz Force]]
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**[[Biot-Savart Law]]
*[[Moving Point Charge]]
**[[Biot-Savart Law for Currents]]
*[[Current]]
**[[Integration Techniques for Magnetic Field]]
</div>
**[[Sparks in Air]]
</div>
**[[Motional Emf]]
 
**[[Detecting a Magnetic Field]]
===Week 7===
**[[Moving Point Charge]]
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**[[Non-Coulomb Electric Field]]
====Magnetic field of a wire====
**[[Electric Motors]]
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**[[Solenoid Applications]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Curved Wire]]
</div>
</div>
 
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====Magnetic field of a current-carrying loop====
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*[[Magnetic Field of a Loop]]
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</div>
 
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====Magnetic field of a Charged Disk====
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*[[Magnetic Field of a Disk]]
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</div>
 
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====Magnetic dipoles====
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*[[Magnetic Dipole Moment]]
*[[Bar Magnet]]
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</div>
 
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====Atomic structure of magnets====
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*[[Atomic Structure of Magnets]]
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===Week 8===
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====Circuitry Basics====
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*[[Understanding Fundamentals of Current, Voltage, and Resistance]]
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===Simple Circuits===
====Steady state current====
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*[[Components]]
*[[Steady State]]
*[[Steady State]]
*[[Non Steady State]]
*[[Non Steady State]]
*[[Charging and Discharging a Capacitor]]
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*[[Work and Power In A Circuit]]
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*[[Thin and Thick Wires]]
 
*[[Node Rule]]
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*[[Loop Rule]]
====Kirchoff's Laws====
*[[Resistivity]]
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*[[Power in a circuit]]
*[[Kirchoff's Laws]]
*[[Ammeters,Voltmeters,Ohmmeters]]
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*[[Current]]
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**[[AC]]
 
*[[Ohm's Law]]
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====Electric fields and energy in circuits====
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*[[Electric Potential Difference]]
</div>
</div>
 
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====Macroscopic analysis of circuits====
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*[[Series Circuits]]
*[[Series Circuits]]
*[[Parallel Circuits]]
*[[Parallel Circuits]]
*[[RC]]
*[[Parallel Circuits vs. Series Circuits*]]
*[[AC vs DC]]
*[[Loop Rule]]
*[[Charge in a RC Circuit]]
*[[Node Rule]]
*[[Current in a RC circuit]]
*[[Fundamentals of Resistance]]
*[[Circular Loop of Wire]]
*[[Problem Solving]]
*[[Current in a RL Circuit]]
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*[[RL Circuit]]
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*[[Feedback]]
 
*[[Transformers (Circuits)]]
===Week 9===
*[[Resistors and Conductivity]]
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====Electric field and potential in circuits with capacitors====
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*[[Charging and Discharging a Capacitor]]
*[[RC Circuit]]  
*[[R Circuit]]
*[[AC and DC]]
</div>
</div>
 
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====Magnetic forces on charges and currents====
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*[[Magnetic Force]]
*[[Lorentz Force]]
*[[Motors and Generators]]
*[[Applying Magnetic Force to Currents]]
*[[Magnetic Force in a Moving Reference Frame]]
*[[Right-Hand Rule]]
*[[Analysis of Railgun vs Coil gun technologies]]
</div>
</div>
 
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====Electric and magnetic forces====
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*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Magnetic Force]]
*[[Lorentz Force]]
*[[VPython Modelling of Electric and Magnetic Forces]]
</div>
</div>
 
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====Velocity selector====
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*[[Lorentz Force]]
*[[Combining Electric and Magnetic Forces]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 10===
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====Hall Effect====
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*[[Hall Effect]]
*[[Right-Hand Rule]]
*[[Motional Emf]]
*[[Magnetic Force]]
*[[Magnetic Torque]]
</div>
 
====Magnetic force====
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*[[Magnetic Force]]
*[[Lorentz Force]]
</div>
</div>
 
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====Magnetic torque====
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*[[Magnetic Torque]]
*[[Right-Hand Rule]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 12===
 
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====Gauss's Law====
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*[[Gauss's Flux Theorem]]
*[[Gauss's Law]]
*[[Magnetic Flux]]
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</div>
 
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====Ampere's Law====
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*[[Ampere's Law]]
*[[Ampere-Maxwell Law]]
*[[Magnetic Field of Coaxial Cable Using Ampere's Law]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Long Thick Wire Using Ampere's Law]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Toroid Using Ampere's Law]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Solenoid Using Ampere's Law]]
*[[The Differential Form of Ampere's Law]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 13===
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====Semiconductors====
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*[[Semiconductor Devices]]
*[[Semiconductor Devices]]
*[[Insulators]]
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*[[Voltage]]
</div>
 
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====Faraday's Law====
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*[[Faraday's Law]]
*[[Motional Emf using Faraday's Law]]
*[[Lenz's Law]]
 
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</div>
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===Maxwell's Equations===
====Maxwell's equations====
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*[[Gauss's Flux Theorem]]
*[[Gauss's Law]]
**[[Electric Fields]]
*[[Magnetic Flux]]
***[[Examples of Flux Through Surfaces and Objects]]
**[[Magnetic Fields]]
**[[Proof of Gauss's Law]]
*[[Ampere's Law]]
*[[Ampere's Law]]
**[[Magnetic Field of Coaxial Cable Using Ampere's Law]]
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Thick Wire Using Ampere's Law]]
**[[Magnetic Field of a Toroid Using Ampere's Law]]
*[[Faraday's Law]]
*[[Faraday's Law]]
**[[Curly Electric Fields]]
*[[Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory]]
**[[Inductance]]
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***[[Transformers (Physics)]]
</div>
***[[Energy Density]]
 
**[[Lenz's Law]]
===Week 14===
***[[Lenz Effect and the Jumping Ring]]
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**[[Lenz's Rule]]
====Circuits revisited====
**[[Motional Emf using Faraday's Law]]
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*[[Ampere-Maxwell Law]]
 
*[[Superconductors]]
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**[[Meissner effect]]
</div>
 
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====Inductors====
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*[[Inductors]]
*[[Current in an LC Circuit]]
*[[Current in an RL Circuit]]
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</div>
 
===Week 15===
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==== Electromagnetic Radiation ====
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*[[Electromagnetic Radiation]]
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</div>
</div>
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====Sparks in the air====
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*[[Sparks in Air]]
*[[Spark Plugs]]
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===Radiation===
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====Superconductors====
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*[[Producing a Radiative Electric Field]]
*[[Superconducters]]
*[[Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Radiaton]]
*[[Superconductors]]
*[[Lenses]]
*[[Meissner effect]]
*[[Energy and Momentum Analysis in Radiation]]
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**[[Poynting Vector]]
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*[[Electromagnetic Propagation]]
**[[Wavelength and Frequency]]
*[[Snell's Law]]
*[[Effects of Radiation on Matter]]
*[[Light Propagation Through a Medium]]
*[[Light Scaterring: Why is the Sky Blue]]
*[[Light Refraction: Bending of light]]
*[[Cherenkov Radiation]]
*[[Rayleigh Effect]]
*[[Image Formation]]
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==Physics 3==
===Week 1===
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====Classical Physics====
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*[[Classical Physics]]
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</div>


===Sound===
[[Category:Which Category did you place this in?]]
 
===Weeks 2 and 3===
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====Special Relativity and the Lorentz Transformation====
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<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Doppler Effect]]
*[[Frame of Reference]]
*[[Nature, Behavior, and Properties of Sound]]
 
*[[Speed of Sound]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]
*[[Resonance]]
*[[Time Dilation]]
*[[Sound Barrier]]
*[[Lorentz Transformations]]
*[[Sound Rarefaction]]
*[[Relativistic Doppler Effect]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of General Relativity]]
*[[Albert A. Micheleson & Edward W. Morley]]
*[[Magnetic Force in a Moving Reference Frame]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
===Week 4===
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====Photons and the Photoelectric Effect====
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*[[Spontaneous Photon Emission]]
*[[Light Scattering]]
*[[Lasers]]
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]
*[[Quantum Properties of Light]]
*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]
</div>
</div>


===Waves===
===Weeks 5 and 6===
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====Matter Waves and Wave-Particle Duality====
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<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Bragg's Law]]
*[[Multisource Interference: Diffraction]]
*[[Standing waves]]
*[[Gravitational waves]]
*[[Plasma waves]]
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
*[[Electromagnetic Spectrum]]
*[[Particle in a 1-Dimensional box]]
*[[Color Light Wave]]
*[[Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle]]
*[[The Wave Equation]]
</div>
*[[Pendulum Motion]]
</div>
 
===Week 7===
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====Wave Mechanics====
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*[[Standing Waves]]
*[[Wavelength]]
*[[Wavelength and Frequency]]
*[[Mechanical Waves]]
*[[Transverse and Longitudinal Waves]]
*[[Transverse and Longitudinal Waves]]
*[[Planck's Relation]]
*[[Fourier Series and Transform]]
*[[interference]]
</div>
*[[Polarization of Waves]]
</div>
 
===Week 8===
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====Schrödinger Equation====
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*[[The Born Rule]]
*[[Solution for a Single Free Particle]]
*[[Solution for a Single Particle in an Infinite Quantum Well - Darin]]
*[[Solution for a Single Particle in a Semi-Infinite Quantum Well]]
*[[Quantum Harmonic Oscillator]]
*[[Solution for Simple Harmonic Oscillator]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 9===
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====Quantum Mechanics====
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*[[Quantum Tunneling through Potential Barriers]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
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====The Hydrogen Atom====
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*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
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===Week 10===
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====Rutherford-Bohr Model====
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*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]
*[[Bohr Model]]
*[[Quantized energy levels]]
*[[Energy graphs and the Bohr model]]
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===Real Life Applications of Electromagnetic Principles===
===Week 11===
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====Many-Electron Atoms====
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*[[Electromagnetic Junkyard Cranes]]
*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Maglev Trains]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[Spark Plugs]]
*[[Pauli exclusion principle]]
*[[Metal Detectors]]
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*[[Speakers]]
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*[[Radios]]
*[[Ampullae of Lorenzini]]
*[[Electrocytes]]
*[[Generator]]
*[[Measuring Water Level]]
*[[Cyclotron]]
*[[Railgun]]
*[[Magnetic Resonance Imaging]]
*[[Electric Eels]]
*[[Windshield Wipers]]
*[[Galvanic Cells]]
*[[Magnetoreception]]


===Week 12===
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====The Nucleus====
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*[[Nucleus]]
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===Week 13===
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====Molecules====
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*[[Molecules]]
*[[Covalent Bonds]]
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===Optics===
===Week 14===
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====Statistical Physics====
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*[[Mirrors]]
*[[Application of Statistics in Physics]]
*[[Refraction]]
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*[[Quantum Properties of Light]]
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*[[Lasers]]


===Week 15===
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====Statistical Physics====
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*[[Temperature & Entropy]]
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== Resources ==
===Additional Topics===
* Commonly used wiki commands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Wiki Cheatsheet]
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* A guide to representing equations in math mode [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula Wiki Math Mode]
====Condensed Matter Physics====
* A page to keep track of all the physics [[Constants]]
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* A page for review of [[Vectors]] and vector operations
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====Nuclear Physics====
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*[[Nuclear Fission]]
*[[Nuclear Energy from Fission and Fusion]]
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====Particle Physics====
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*[[Elementary Particles and Particle Physics Theory]]
*[[String Theory]]
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Resources


Physics 1

Week 1

GlowScript 101

VPython

Vectors and Units

Interactions

Velocity and Momentum

Week 2

Momentum and the Momentum Principle

Iterative Prediction with a Constant Force

Week 3

Analytic Prediction with a Constant Force

Iterative Prediction with a Varying Force

Week 4

Fundamental Interactions

Week 5

Properties of Matter

Week 6

Identifying Forces

Isabel Hollhumer F24

Curving Motion

Week 7

Jeet Bhatkar

Energy Principle

The Energy Principle is a fundamental concept in physics that describes the relationship between different forms of energy and their conservation within a system. Understanding the Energy Principle is crucial for analyzing the motion and interactions of objects in various physical scenarios.

Kinetic energy is the energy an object possesses due to its motion.

Potential energy arises from the position of an object relative to its surroundings. Common forms of potential energy include gravitational potential energy and elastic potential energy.

Work and energy are closely related concepts. Work ( 𝑊) done on an object is defined as the force ( 𝐹) applied to the object multiplied by the displacement ( 𝑑) of the object in the direction of the force: The Energy Principle states that the total mechanical energy of a system remains constant if only conservative forces (forces that depend only on the positions of the objects) are acting on the system.

The principle of conservation of energy states that the total energy of an isolated system remains constant over time. In other words, energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed from one form to another. This principle is a fundamental concept in physics and has wide-ranging applications in mechanics, thermodynamics, and other branches of science.

Week 8

Work by Non-Constant Forces

Potential Energy

Week 9

Multiparticle Systems

Week 10

Choice of System

Thermal Energy, Dissipation, and Transfer of Energy

Rotational and Vibrational Energy

Week 11

Different Models of a System

Friction

Week 12

Conservation of Momentum

Collisions

Week 13

Rotations

Angular Momentum

Week 14

Analyzing Motion with and without Torque

Week 15

Introduction to Quantum Concepts

Physics 2

Week 1

3D Vectors

Electric field

Electric force

Electric field of a point particle

Superposition

Dipoles

Week 2

Interactions of charged objects

Tape experiments

Polarization

Week 3

Conductors and Insulators

Charging and Discharging

Week 4

Field of a charged rod

Field of a charged ring/disk/capacitor

Field of a charged sphere

Week 5

Potential energy

Electric potential

Sign of a potential difference

Potential at a single location

Path independence and round trip potential

Week 6

Electric field and potential in an insulator

Moving charges in a magnetic field

Biot-Savart Law

Moving charges, electron current, and conventional current

Week 7

Magnetic field of a wire

Magnetic field of a current-carrying loop

Magnetic field of a Charged Disk

Magnetic dipoles

Atomic structure of magnets

Week 8

Circuitry Basics

Steady state current

Kirchoff's Laws

Electric fields and energy in circuits

Macroscopic analysis of circuits

Week 9

Electric field and potential in circuits with capacitors

Magnetic forces on charges and currents

Electric and magnetic forces

Velocity selector

Week 10

Hall Effect

Magnetic force

Magnetic torque

Week 12

Gauss's Law

Ampere's Law

Week 13

Semiconductors

Faraday's Law

Maxwell's equations

Week 14

Circuits revisited

Inductors

Week 15

Electromagnetic Radiation

Sparks in the air

Superconductors

Physics 3

Week 1

Classical Physics

Weeks 2 and 3

Special Relativity and the Lorentz Transformation

Week 4

Photons and the Photoelectric Effect

Weeks 5 and 6

Matter Waves and Wave-Particle Duality

Week 7

Wave Mechanics

Week 8

Schrödinger Equation

Week 9

Quantum Mechanics

The Hydrogen Atom

Week 10

Rutherford-Bohr Model

Week 11

Many-Electron Atoms

Week 12

The Nucleus

Week 13

Molecules

Week 14

Statistical Physics

Week 15

Statistical Physics

Additional Topics

Condensed Matter Physics

Nuclear Physics

Particle Physics

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