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==Physics 1==
==Physics 1==
===Week 1===
===Week 1===
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====Help with VPython====
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====Vectors and Units====
 
 
 
 
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*[[Newton's First Law of Motion]]
*[[Newton's First Law of Motion]]
*[[Mass]]
*[[Velocity]]
*[[Velocity]]
*[[Mass]]
*[[Speed]]
*[[Speed and Velocity]]
*[[Speed vs Velocity]]
*[[Relative Velocity]]
*[[Relative Velocity]]
*[[Derivation of Average Velocity]]
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====Momentum and the Momentum Principle====
====Momentum and the Momentum Principle====
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*[[Momentum Principle]]
*[[Linear Momentum]]
*[[Newton's Second Law: the Momentum Principle]]
*[[Impulse and Momentum]]
*[[Net Force]]
*[[Inertia]]
*[[Inertia]]
*[[Net Force]]
*[[Derivation of the Momentum Principle]]
*[[Impulse Momentum]]
*[[Acceleration]]
*[[Acceleration]]
*[[Momentum with respect to external Forces]]
*[[Relativistic Momentum]]
*[[Relativistic Momentum]]
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====Iterative Prediction with a Constant Force====
====Iterative Prediction with a Constant Force====
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*[[Newton’s Second Law of Motion]]
*[[Iterative Prediction]]
*[[Iterative Prediction]]
*[[Kinematics]]
*[[Newton’s Laws and Linear Momentum]]
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*[[Predicting Change in multiple dimensions]]
*[[Fundamentals of Iterative Prediction with Varying Force]]
*[[Spring Force]]
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*[[Hooke's Law]]
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*[[Iterative Prediction of Spring-Mass System]]
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*[[Two Dimensional Harmonic Motion]]
*[[Determinism]]
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====Fundamental Interactions====
====Fundamental Interactions====
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*[[Gravitational Force]]
*[[Gravitational Force]]
*[[Fluid Mechanics]]
*[[Gravitational Force Near Earth]]
*[[An Application of Gravitational Potential]]
*[[Gravitational Force in Space and Other Applications]]
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*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Introduction to Magnetic Force]]
*[[Strong and Weak Force]]
*[[Reciprocity]]
*[[Reciprocity]]
*[[Conservation of Momentum]]
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===Week 5===
===Week 5===
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====Conservation of Momentum====
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====Properties of Matter====
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====Identifying Forces====
====Identifying Forces====
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====Isabel Hollhumer F24====
*[[Free Body Diagram]]
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*[[Inclined Plane]]
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===Week 7===
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====Jeet Bhatkar====
====Energy Principle====
====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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*[[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]]
*[[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]]
*[[Conservation of Energy]]
*[[Kinetic 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.
*[[Work]]
*[[Power (Mechanical)]]
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*[[Center of Mass]]
*[[Center of Mass]]
*[[Multi-particle analysis of Momentum]]
*[[Multi-particle analysis of Momentum]]
*[[Momentum with respect to external Forces]]
*[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]
*[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]
*[[Work and Energy for an Extended System]]
*[[Work and Energy for an Extended System]]
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*[[Thermal Energy]]
*[[Thermal Energy]]
*[[Specific Heat]]
*[[Specific Heat]]
*[[Heat Capacity]]
*[[Calorific Value(Heat of combustion)]]
*[[Calorific Value(Heat of combustion)]]
*[[Specific Heat Capacity]]
*[[First Law of Thermodynamics]]
*[[First Law of Thermodynamics]]
*[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]
*[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]
*[[Temperature]]
*[[Temperature]]
*[[Predicting Change]]
*[[Energy Transfer due to a Temperature Difference]]
*[[Transformation of Energy]]
*[[Transformation of Energy]]
*[[The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution]]
*[[The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution]]
*[[Air Resistance]]
*[[Air Resistance]]
*[[The Third Law of Thermodynamics]]
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*[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]
*[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]
*[[Rolling Motion]]
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====Models of Friction====
====Friction====
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*[[Friction]]
*[[Friction]]
*[[Static Friction]]
*[[Static Friction]]
*[[Kinetic Friction]]
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===Week 12===
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====Conservation of Momentum====
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*[[Conservation of Momentum]]
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====Rotations====
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*[[Rotation]]
*[[Rotational Kinematics]]
*[[Angular Velocity]]
*[[Eulerian Angles]]
*[[Eulerian Angles]]
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====Angular Momentum====
====Angular Momentum====
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*[[Rotational Angular Momentum]]
*[[Rotational Angular Momentum]]
*[[The Angular Momentum Principle]]
*[[The Angular Momentum Principle]]
*[[Angular Momentum Compared to Linear Momentum]]
*[[Angular Impulse]]
*[[Angular Impulse]]
*[[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]
*[[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]
*[[Angular Momentum of Multiparticle Systems]]
*[[The Moments of Inertia]]
*[[The Moments of Inertia]]
*[[Moment of Inertia for a cylinder]]
*[[Right Hand Rule]]
*[[Right Hand Rule]]
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*[[Energy graphs and the Bohr model]]
*[[Energy graphs and the Bohr model]]
*[[Quantized energy levels]]
*[[Quantized energy levels]]
*[[Quantized energy levels part II]]
*[[Electron transitions]]
*[[Entropy]]
*[[Entropy]]
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====Insulators====
====Conductors and Insulators====
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*[[Insulators]]
*[[Insulators]]
*[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]
*[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]
*[[Charged Conductor and Charged Insulator]]
*[[Conductors]]
*[[Charged conductor and charged insulator]]
*[[Polarization of a conductor]]
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*[[Electrostatic Discharge]]
*[[Polarization of a conductor]]
*[[Charged Conductor and Charged Insulator]]
*[[Charged Conductor and Charged Insulator]]
*[[Charged conductor and charged insulator]]
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====Field of a charged rod====
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*[[Electrostatic Discharge]]
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=Field of a Charged Rod=
'''This entire page and all its contents were created by Lukas Yoder, PHYS 2212 Class of Fall 2018'''


=== The Main Idea ===
====Field of a charged ring/disk/capacitor====
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Previously, we've learned about the electric field of a point particle. Often, when analyzing physical systems, it is the case that we're unable to analyze each individual particle that composes an object and need to therefore generalize collections of particles into shapes (in this case, a rod) whereby the mathematics corresponding to electric field calculations can be simplified. This can essentially be done by adding up the contributions to the electric field made by parts of an object, approximating each part of an object as a point charge.
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====Field of a charged sphere====
=== The System in Question ===
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*[[Charged Spherical Shell]]
As discussed in the previous section, we're considering a system
*[[Field of a Charged Ball]]
abstracted from the particle model we're familiar with, therefore we will
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make the generalization that our rod of length L has a total charge of
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quantity Q. For this generalization, we will need to assume that the rod
is so thin that we can ignore its thickness.
 
[[Image:LukasYoder01.jpg|200px|center]]
 
Since the electric field produced by a charge at any given location is
proportional to the distance from the charge to that location, we will
need to relate the observation location to the source of the charge, which
we will consider the origin of the rod. To do that, we will need to divide
the rod into pieces of length \delta y each containing a charge \delta Q.
In the image below, you can see what this looks like and the relation that
can be found between the observation location and the source, forming the
distance vector \vect{r}.
 
[[Image:LukasYoder02.jpg|400px|center]]
 
By the pythagorean theorem, we can find the vector \vect{r} as follows:
 
[[Image:LukasYoder03.jpg|400px|center]]
 
 
And to find the unit vector in the direction of \vect{r}, \hat{r}, we do as
follows:
 
[[Image:LukasYoder04.jpg|400px|center]]
 
 
 
=== Finding the Contribution of Each Piece to the Electric Field ===
 
Now that we've set up a model for the system, with the rod broken down
into pieces, we can find the contribution of each piece to the electric
field of the system. We will start from the electric field equation you
learned for a point particle but plug in the parameters for the rod system
into the equation.
 
[[Image:LukasYoder05.jpg|400px|center]]
 
 
By mathematically simplifying, we then get the following equation:
 
[[Image:LukasYoder06.jpg|400px|center]]
 
 
=== Finding the Net Contribution of all Pieces ===
 
In the previous section, we found out the contribution to the electric
field at a given location of only one of the pieces constituting the rod.
In order to figure out the net field at any particular location, we need
to add up the electric fields produced by individual pieces along the
length of the rod.
 
We will switch from vector notation for the electric field to the scalar
notation for the x- and y-components. (From the vector in the equation
above, we can see that the z-component of the electric field at any point
is always 0.) The x-component of the electric
field is the sum of the x-components of every \delta{y} along the rod, and
the y-component of the electric field is the sum of the y-components of
every \delta{y} along the rod. We can show this mathematically:
 
[[Image:LukasYoder07.jpg|400px|center]]
 
 
To make use of this relation, because we don't know \delta{Q}, we need to
relate it to parameters that we already know about the rod system we're
analyzing. We can express \delta{Q} as the charge density of the rod
(which is Q/L) times the \delta{y} we've chosen for the system. Thus,
 
[[Image:LukasYoder08.jpg|200px|center]]
 
 
By plugging the above equation into our equations for the x- and
y-components of the electric field at a point, we can find the electric
field at any point in the system. This technique is called numerical
integration and is typically done by computers because the computational
complexity is dependant upon the size of \delta{y} with respect to L.
 
=== Simplifying ===
 
Using calculus, we can simplify a lot of the math required to compute the
electric field at any given point. Notationally, all we're doing is switching from the
discretely-sized \delta{y} to \textit{dy} and from the sigma notation to
an integral starting from -L/2 (the lower end of the rod) and ending at
L/2 (the upper end of the rod) as follows:
 
[[Image:LukasYoder09.jpg|400px|center]]
[[Image:LukasYoder10.jpg|400px|center]]
 
 
By evaluating the integral, we can determine that the x-component of the
electric field at any point is:
 
[[Image:LukasYoder11.jpg|400px|center]]
 
 
Without evaluating the integral for the y-component of the electric field,
we can use symmetry to determine that the y-component of the electric
field at any given point is 0. Let's consider the contributions to the
electric field from the top and bottom halves of the rod at any
observation point.
 
[[Image:LukasYoder12.jpg|200px|center]]
 
 
Since the y-components of E_top and E_bottom are of equal magnitude and
opposite direction, they cancel each other out, and therefore the
y-component of teh electric field at any given point due to the rod is 0.
 
[[Image:LukasYoder13.jpg|200px|center]]
 
 
Finally, because the rod is round and can be rotated, as a convenience,
we'll use d (distance from the rod) as opposed to x (distance along the
x-direction) to refer to the electric field.
 
Thus we can simplify electric field calculations for a rod into a form
that we can readily use:
 
[[Image:LukasYoder14.jpg|400px|center]]
 
 
=== Further Simplification ===
 
By noting the contributions of each variable to the equation for the
electric field, we can make approximations to simplify our math by simply
declaring one variable as insignificant.
 
For example, if we have a system in which the length of a rod is much
greater than the magnitude of the distance from the rod (denoted L>>d), we
can neglect some of the instances in which d is taken into account as
follows:
 
[[Image:LukasYoder15.jpg|400px|center]]
 
 
=== Finding the Electric Field from a Rod with Code ===
 
Here is some code that you can run which shows the electric field vector
at a given distance from the rod along its length. The rod is shown as a
series of green balls to help emphasize that when using the numerical
integrations mentioned on this page, you are measuring the field produced
by discrete parts of the rod being analyzed.
 
Notice the edge-effects of the electric field of the rod. For reasons
discussed above, if we used the long rod approximation (L>>d), these
effects would be negligible.
 
[http://www.glowscript.org/#/user/yoderlukas/folder/Public/program/ElectricFieldAlongRodLength Click Here to Run the Code]
 
=== The Main Idea ===
 
Previously, we've learned about the electric field of a point particle. Often, when analyzing physical systems, it is the case that we're unable to analyze each individual particle that composes an object and need to therefore generalize collections of particles into shapes (in this case, a rod) whereby the mathematics corresponding to electric field calculations can be simplified. This can essentially be done by adding up the contributions to the electric field made by parts of an object, approximating each part of an object as a point charge.
 
=== The System in Question ===
 
As discussed in the previous section, we're considering a system
abstracted from the particle model we're familiar with, therefore we will
make the generalization that our rod of length L has a total charge of
quantity Q. For this generalization, we will need to assume that the rod
is so thin that we can ignore its thickness.
 
[image 1]
 
Since the electric field produced by a charge at any given location is
proportional to the distance from the charge to that location, we will
need to relate the observation location to the source of the charge, which
we will consider the origin of the rod. To do that, we will need to divide
the rod into pieces of length \delta y each containing a charge \delta Q.
In the image below, you can see what this looks like and the relation that
can be found between the observation location and the source, forming the
distance vector \vect{r}.
 
[image 2]
 
By the pythagorean theorem, we can find the vector \vect{r} as follows:
 
[image 3]
 
And to find the unit vector in the direction of \vect{r}, \hat{r}, we do as
follows:
 
[image 4]
 
 
 
=== Finding the Contribution of Each Piece to the Electric Field ===
 
Now that we've set up a model for the system, with the rod broken down
into pieces, we can find the contribution of each piece to the electric
field of the system. We will start from the electric field equation you
learned for a point particle but plug in the parameters for the rod system
into the equation.
 
[image 5]
 
By mathematically simplifying, we then get the following equation:
 
[image 6]
 
=== Finding the Net Contribution of all Pieces ===
 
In the previous section, we found out the contribution to the electric
field at a given location of only one of the pieces constituting the rod.
In order to figure out the net field at any particular location, we need
to add up the electric fields produced by individual pieces along the
length of the rod.
 
We will switch from vector notation for the electric field to the scalar
notation for the x- and y-components. (From the vector in the equation
above, we can see that the z-component of the electric field at any point
is always 0.) The x-component of the electric
field is the sum of the x-components of every \delta{y} along the rod, and
the y-component of the electric field is the sum of the y-components of
every \delta{y} along the rod. We can show this mathematically:
 
[image 7]
 
To make use of this relation, because we don't know \delta{Q}, we need to
relate it to parameters that we already know about the rod system we're
analyzing. We can express \delta{Q} as the charge density of the rod
(which is Q/L) times the \delta{y} we've chosen for the system. Thus,
 
[image 8]
 
By plugging the above equation into our equations for the x- and
y-components of the electric field at a point, we can find the electric
field at any point in the system. This technique is called numerical
integration and is typically done by computers because the computational
complexity is dependant upon the size of \delta{y} with respect to L.


===Week 5===
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====Potential energy====
====Potential energy====
'''Written by Lukas Yoder, PHYS 2212 Class of Fall 2018'''
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*[[Potential Energy]]
*[[Potential Energy]]
== The Main Idea ==
Potential energy is the energy that an object has because of its characteristics relative to other objects within the universe. In Physics 1
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====Moving charges, electron current, and conventional current====
====Moving charges, electron current, and conventional current====
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*[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Curved Wire]]
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===Week 8===
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*[[Series circuit]]
*[[Node Rule]]
*[[Loop Rule]]
*[[Electric Potential Difference]]
*[[Electric Potential Difference]]
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*[[Magnetic Force]]
*[[Magnetic Torque]]
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====Motional EMF====
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====Magnetic force====
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====Classical Physics====
====Classical Physics====
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*[[Classical Physics]]
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[[Category:Which Category did you place this in?]]
 
===Weeks 2 and 3===
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====Special Relativity====
====Special Relativity and the Lorentz Transformation====
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*[[Frame of Reference]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]
*[[Time Dilation]]
*[[Time Dilation]]
*[[Lorentz Transformations]]
*[[Relativistic Doppler Effect]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of General Relativity]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of General Relativity]]
*[[Albert A. Micheleson & Edward W. Morley]]
*[[Albert A. Micheleson & Edward W. Morley]]
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===Week 4===
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====Photons====
====Photons and the Photoelectric Effect====
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*[[Spontaneous Photon Emission]]
*[[Spontaneous Photon Emission]]
*[[Light Scattering: Why is the Sky Blue]]
*[[Light Scattering]]
*[[Lasers]]
*[[Lasers]]
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]
*[[Quantum Properties of Light]]
*[[Quantum Properties of Light]]
*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]
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===Weeks 5 and 6===
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====Matter Waves====
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*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
*[[Particle in a 1-Dimensional box]]
*[[Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle]]
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===Week 7===
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====Wave Mechanics====
====Wave Mechanics====
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*[[Mechanical Waves]]
*[[Transverse and Longitudinal Waves]]
*[[Transverse and Longitudinal Waves]]
*[[Fourier Series and Transform]]
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===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]]
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===Week 9===
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====Quantum Mechanics====
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*[[Quantum Tunneling through Potential Barriers]]
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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====
====Rutherford-Bohr Model====
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===Week 11===
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====The Hydrogen Atom====
====Many-Electron Atoms====
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*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[Pauli exclusion principle]]
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===Week 12===
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====Many-Electron Atoms====
====The Nucleus====
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*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Nucleus]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[Pauli exclusion principle]]
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===Week 13===
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====Molecules====
====Molecules====
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*[[Molecules]]
*[[Covalent Bonds]]
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===Week 14===
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====Statistical Physics====
====Statistical Physics====
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*[[Application of Statistics in Physics]]
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===Week 15===
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====Condensed Matter Physics====
====Statistical Physics====
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*[[Temperature & Entropy]]
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===Additional Topics===
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====The Nucleus====
====Condensed Matter Physics====
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====Nuclear Physics====
====Nuclear Physics====
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====Particle Physics====
====Particle Physics====

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Resources


Physics 1

Week 1

GlowScript 101

Vectors and Units

Week 2

Iterative Prediction with a Constant Force

Week 3

Analytic Prediction with a Constant Force

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Identifying Forces

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

Week 9

Week 10

Choice of System

Week 11

Different Models of a System

Week 12

Conservation of Momentum

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Physics 2

Week 1

Electric force

Electric field of a point particle

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Field of a charged rod

Field of a charged ring/disk/capacitor

Week 5

Potential energy

Sign of a potential difference

Week 6

Electric field and potential in an insulator

Moving charges in a magnetic field

Moving charges, electron current, and conventional current

Week 7

Magnetic field of a current-carrying loop

Magnetic field of a Charged Disk

Atomic structure of magnets

Week 8

Steady state current

Kirchoff's Laws

Electric fields and energy in circuits

Week 9

Electric field and potential in circuits with capacitors

Week 10

Week 12

Week 13

Semiconductors

Week 14

Circuits revisited

Week 15

Electromagnetic Radiation

Sparks in the air

Physics 3

Week 1

Classical Physics

Weeks 2 and 3

Week 4

Weeks 5 and 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

The Hydrogen Atom

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

The Nucleus

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Statistical Physics

Additional Topics

Condensed Matter Physics