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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]]
*[[Fundamental Interactions]]
**[[The Strong Interaction]]
*[[System & Surroundings]]
*[[Newton's First Law of Motion]]
*[[Newton's Second Law of Motion]]
*[[Newton's Third Law of Motion]]
*[[Gravitational Force]]
*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Conservation of Charge]]
*[[Terminal Speed]]
*[[Simple Harmonic Motion]]
*[[Speed and Velocity]]
*[[Electric Polarization]]
*[[Perpetual Freefall (Orbit)]]
*[[2-Dimensional Motion]]
*[[Center of Mass]]
*[[Reaction Time]]
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===Theory===
====VPython====
 
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*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]
*[[VPython]]
*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[VPython basics]]
*[[Big Bang Theory]]
*[[VPython Common Errors and Troubleshooting]]
*[[Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory]]
*[[VPython Functions]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[VPython Lists]]
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
*[[VPython Loops]]
*[[String Theory]]
*[[VPython Multithreading]]
*[[Elementary Particles and Particle Physics Theory]]
*[[VPython Animation]]
*[[VPython Objects]]
*[[VPython 3D Objects]]
*[[VPython Reference]]
*[[VPython MapReduceFilter]]
*[[VPython GUIs]]
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===Notable Scientists===
====Vectors and Units====
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*[[Christian Doppler]]
*[[Vectors]]
*[[Albert Einstein]]
*[[SI Units]]
*[[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]]
*[[Erwin Schrödinger]]
*[[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]]
*[[Benjamin Franklin]]
*[[James Chadwick]]
*[[Henry Cavendish]]
*[[Thomas Young]]
*[[James Prescott Joule]]
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===Properties of Matter===
====Interactions====
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*[[Types of Interactions and How to Detect Them]]
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====Velocity and Momentum====
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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]]
*[[Higgs Boson]]
*[[Change of State]]
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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 a Solid]]
* [[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]]
* [[Momentum Principle]]
* [[Impulse Momentum]]
* [[Curving Motion]]
* [[Multi-particle Analysis of Momentum]]
* [[Iterative Prediction]]
* [[Newton's Laws and Linear Momentum]]
* [[Net Force]]
* [[Center of Mass]]
* [[Momentum at High Speeds]]
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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 ring]]
* [[Rotation]]
* [[Torque]]
* [[Systems with Zero Torque]]
* [[Systems with Nonzero Torque]]
* [[Right Hand Rule]]
* [[Angular Velocity]]
* [[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]
* [[Translational Angular Momentum]]
* [[The Angular Momentum Principle]]
* [[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====
===Energy===
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*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]
*[[Photons]]
*[[The Energy Principle]]
*[[Predicting Change]]
*[[Rest Mass Energy]]
*[[Kinetic Energy]]
*[[Potential Energy]]
*[[Potential Energy]]
**[[Potential Energy for a Magnetic Dipole]]
*[[Potential Energy of Macroscopic Springs]]
**[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]
*[[Spring Potential Energy]]
*[[Work]]
*[[Ball and Spring Model]]
*[[Thermal Energy]]
*[[Conservation of Energy]]
*[[Electric Potential]]
*[[Energy Transfer due to a Temperature Difference]]
*[[Gravitational Potential Energy]]
*[[Gravitational Potential Energy]]
*[[Point Particle Systems]]
*[[Energy Graphs]]
*[[Real Systems]]
*[[Escape Velocity]]
*[[Spring Potential Energy]]
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**[[Ball and Spring Model]]
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===Week 9===
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====Multiparticle Systems====
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*[[Center of Mass]]
*[[Multi-particle analysis of Momentum]]
*[[Potential Energy of a Multiparticle System]]
*[[Work and Energy for an Extended System]]
*[[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)]]
 
===Week 10===
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====Choice of System====
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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]]
*[[Temperature]]
*[[Transformation of Energy]]
*[[Transformation of Energy]]
*[[The Maxwell-Boltzmann Distribution]]
*[[Air Resistance]]
*[[The Third Law of Thermodynamics]]
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*[[Energy Graphs]]
====Rotational and Vibrational Energy====
*[[Air Resistance]]
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*[[Electronic Energy Levels]]
*[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]
*[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]
*[[Rolling Motion]]
*[[Specific Heat Capacity]]
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]
*[[Energy Density]]
*[[Bohr Model]]
*[[Quantized energy levels]]
*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]
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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====
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*[[Newton's Third Law of Motion]]
*[[Collisions]]
*[[Collisions]]
*[[Maximally Inelastic Collision]]
*[[Elastic Collisions]]
*[[Elastic Collisions]]
*[[Inelastic Collisions]]
*[[Inelastic Collisions]]
*[[Maximally Inelastic Collision]]
*[[Head-on Collision of Equal Masses]]
*[[Head-on Collision of Equal Masses]]
*[[Head-on Collision of Unequal Masses]]
*[[Head-on Collision of Unequal Masses]]
*[[Frame of Reference]]
*[[Scattering: Collisions in 2D and 3D]]
*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]
*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]
*[[Coefficient of Restitution]]
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===Week 13===
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====Rotations====
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*[[Rotational Kinematics]]
*[[Eulerian Angles]]
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====Angular Momentum====
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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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===Week 14===
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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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===Week 15===
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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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==Physics 2==
===Week 1===
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====3D Vectors====
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*[[Vectors]]
*[[Right-Hand Rule]]
*[[Right Hand Rule]]
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====Electric field====
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*[[Electric Field]]
*[[Electric Field and Electric Potential]]
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====Electric force====
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*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Lorentz Force]]
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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]]
*[[Electric Potential]]
*[[Electric Potential]]
**[[Potential Difference Path Independence]]
**[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]
**[[Potential Difference of point charge in a non-Uniform Field]]
**[[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]]
*[[Electric Polarization]]
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====Polarization====
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*[[Polarization]]
*[[Polarization]]
**[[Polarization of an Atom]]
*[[Electric Polarization]]
*[[Charge Motion in Metals]]
*[[Polarization of an Atom]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 3===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Conductors and Insulators====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Conductivity and Resistivity]]
*[[Insulators]]
*[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]
*[[Conductors]]
*[[Polarization of a conductor]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 
====Charging and Discharging====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Charge Transfer]]
*[[Charge Transfer]]
*[[Electrostatic Discharge]]
*[[Charged Conductor and Charged Insulator]]
</div>
</div>
===Week 4===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Field of a charged rod====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Field of a Charged Rod|Charged Rod]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Field of a charged ring/disk/capacitor====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Charged Ring]]
*[[Charged Disk]]
*[[Charged Capacitor]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Field of a charged sphere====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Charged Spherical Shell]]
*[[Field of a Charged Ball]]
</div>
</div>
===Week 5===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Potential energy====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Potential Energy]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Electric potential====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[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]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Sign of a potential difference====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Sign of a Potential Difference]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Potential at a single location====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Electric Potential]]
*[[Potential Difference at One Location]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Path independence and round trip potential====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]
*[[Potential Difference Path Independence, claimed by Aditya Mohile]]
</div>
</div>
===Week 6===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Electric field and potential in an insulator====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]
*[[Electric Field in an Insulator]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Moving charges in a magnetic field====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Magnetic Field]]
*[[Magnetic Field]]
**[[Right-Hand Rule]]
*[[Magnetic Force]]
**[[Direction of Magnetic Field]]
*[[Lorentz Force]]
**[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]
**[[Magnetic Field of a Loop]]
**[[Magnetic Field of a Solenoid]]
**[[Bar Magnet]]
**[[Magnetic Dipole Moment]]
**[[Magnetic Force]]
**[[Magnetic Torque]]
**[[Hall Effect]]
**[[Lorentz Force]]
**[[Biot-Savart Law]]
**[[Biot-Savart Law for Currents]]
**[[Integration Techniques for Magnetic Field]]
**[[Sparks in Air]]
**[[Motional Emf]]
**[[Detecting a Magnetic Field]]
**[[Moving Point Charge]]
**[[Non-Coulomb Electric Field]]
**[[Motors and Generators]]
**[[Solenoid Applications]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Biot-Savart Law====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Biot-Savart Law]]
*[[Biot-Savart Law for Currents]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">


====Moving charges, electron current, and conventional current====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Moving Point Charge]]
*[[Current]]
</div>
</div>
===Week 7===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Magnetic field of a wire====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]
*[[Magnetic Field of a Curved Wire]]
</div>
</div>


===Simple Circuits===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 
====Magnetic field of a current-carrying loop====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Magnetic Field of a Loop]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Magnetic field of a Charged Disk====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Magnetic Field of a Disk]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Magnetic dipoles====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Magnetic Dipole Moment]]
*[[Bar Magnet]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Atomic structure of magnets====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Atomic Structure of Magnets]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 8===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 
====Circuitry Basics====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Understanding Fundamentals of Current, Voltage, and Resistance]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 
====Steady state current====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Components]]
*[[Steady State]]
*[[Steady State]]
*[[Non Steady State]]
*[[Non Steady State]]
*[[Charging and Discharging a Capacitor]]
</div>
*[[Thin and Thick Wires]]
</div>
*[[Node Rule]]
 
*[[Loop Rule]]
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*[[Resistivity]]
====Kirchoff's Laws====
*[[Power in a circuit]]
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Ammeters,Voltmeters,Ohmmeters]]
*[[Kirchoff's Laws]]
*[[Current]]
</div>
**[[AC]]
</div>
*[[Ohm's Law]]
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Electric fields and energy in circuits====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Electric Potential Difference]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 
====Macroscopic analysis of circuits====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[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]]
*[[RL Circuit]]
</div>
*[[LC Circuit]]
</div>
*[[Surface Charge Distributions]]
 
*[[Feedback]]
===Week 9===
*[[Transformers (Circuits)]]
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
*[[Resistors and Conductivity]]
====Electric field and potential in circuits with capacitors====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Charging and Discharging a Capacitor]]
*[[RC Circuit]]  
*[[R Circuit]]
*[[AC and DC]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Magnetic forces on charges and currents====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[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>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 
====Electric and magnetic forces====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Electric Force]]
*[[Magnetic Force]]
*[[Lorentz Force]]
*[[VPython Modelling of Electric and Magnetic Forces]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 
====Velocity selector====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Lorentz Force]]
*[[Combining Electric and Magnetic Forces]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 10===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 
====Hall Effect====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Hall Effect]]
*[[Right-Hand Rule]]
*[[Motional Emf]]
*[[Magnetic Force]]
*[[Magnetic Torque]]
</div>
 
====Magnetic force====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Magnetic Force]]
*[[Lorentz Force]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Magnetic torque====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Magnetic Torque]]
*[[Right-Hand Rule]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 12===
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Gauss's Law====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Gauss's Flux Theorem]]
*[[Gauss's Law]]
*[[Magnetic Flux]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Ampere's Law====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[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===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Semiconductors====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Semiconductor Devices]]
*[[Semiconductor Devices]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Faraday's Law====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Faraday's Law]]
*[[Motional Emf using Faraday's Law]]
*[[Lenz's Law]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
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===Maxwell's Equations===
====Maxwell's equations====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Gauss's Flux Theorem]]
*[[Gauss's Law]]
**[[Electric Fields]]
*[[Magnetic Flux]]
**[[Magnetic Fields]]
*[[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]]
</div>
***[[Transformers from a physics standpoint]]
</div>
***[[Energy Density]]
 
**[[Lenz's Law]]
===Week 14===
***[[Lenz Effect and the Jumping Ring]]
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
**[[Motional Emf using Faraday's Law]]
====Circuits revisited====
*[[Ampere-Maxwell Law]]
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
 
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
 
====Inductors====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Inductors]]
*[[Current in an LC Circuit]]
*[[Current in an RL Circuit]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 15===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
==== Electromagnetic Radiation ====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Electromagnetic Radiation]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Sparks in the air====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Sparks in Air]]
*[[Spark Plugs]]
</div>
</div>
 
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Superconductors====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Superconducters]]
*[[Superconductors]]
*[[Superconductors]]
**[[Meissner effect]]
*[[Meissner effect]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
 
<div style="float:left; width:30%; padding:1%;">
 
==Physics 3==
 
===Week 1===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Classical Physics====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Classical Physics]]
</div>
</div>
 
[[Category:Which Category did you place this in?]]
 
===Weeks 2 and 3===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Special Relativity and the Lorentz Transformation====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Frame of Reference]]
 
*[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]
*[[Time Dilation]]
*[[Lorentz Transformations]]
*[[Relativistic Doppler Effect]]
*[[Einstein's Theory of General Relativity]]
*[[Albert A. Micheleson & Edward W. Morley]]
*[[Magnetic Force in a Moving Reference Frame]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 4===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Photons and the Photoelectric Effect====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Spontaneous Photon Emission]]
*[[Light Scattering]]
*[[Lasers]]
*[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]
*[[Quantum Properties of Light]]
*[[The Photoelectric Effect]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>


===Weeks 5 and 6===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Matter Waves and Wave-Particle Duality====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
*[[Particle in a 1-Dimensional box]]
*[[Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle]]
</div>
</div>


===Radiation===
===Week 7===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Wave Mechanics====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Producing a Radiative Electric Field]]
*[[Standing Waves]]
*[[Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Radiaton]]
*[[Wavelength]]
*[[Lenses]]
*[[Wavelength and Frequency]]
*[[Energy and Momentum Analysis in Radiation]]
*[[Mechanical Waves]]
**[[Poynting Vector]]
*[[Transverse and Longitudinal Waves]]
*[[Electromagnetic Propagation]]
*[[Fourier Series and Transform]]
**[[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]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
===Week 8===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Schrödinger Equation====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[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===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Quantum Mechanics====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Quantum Tunneling through Potential Barriers]]
</div>
</div>


===Sound===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====The Hydrogen Atom====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Doppler Effect]]
*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Nature, Behavior, and Properties of Sound]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[Resonance]]
*[[Sound Barrier]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
===Week 10===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Rutherford-Bohr Model====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]
*[[Bohr Model]]
*[[Quantized energy levels]]
*[[Energy graphs and the Bohr model]]
</div>
</div>


===Waves===
===Week 11===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Many-Electron Atoms====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Multisource Interference: Diffraction]]
*[[Quantum Theory]]
*[[Standing waves]]
*[[Atomic Theory]]
*[[Gravitational waves]]
*[[Pauli exclusion principle]]
*[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
</div>
</div>
 
===Week 12===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====The Nucleus====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Nucleus]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
===Week 13===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Molecules====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Molecules]]
*[[Covalent Bonds]]
</div>
</div>


===Real Life Applications of Electromagnetic Principles===
===Week 14===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Statistical Physics====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Electromagnetic Junkyard Cranes]]
*[[Application of Statistics in Physics]]
*[[Maglev Trains]]
</div>
*[[Spark Plugs]]
</div>
 
===Week 15===
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Statistical Physics====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Temperature & Entropy]]
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>


== Resources ==
===Additional Topics===
* Commonly used wiki commands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Wiki Cheatsheet]
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
* A guide to representing equations in math mode [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula Wiki Math Mode]
====Thermodynamics====
* A page to keep track of all the physics [[Constants]]
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
* An overview of [[VPython]], [http://www.physicsbook.gatech.edu/VPython_basics beginner guide to VPython]
*[[Maxwell Relations]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Nuclear Physics====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Nuclear Fission]]
*[[Nuclear Energy from Fission and Fusion]]
</div>
</div>
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
====Particle Physics====
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
*[[Elementary Particles and Particle Physics Theory]]
*[[String Theory]]
</div>
</div>
</div>

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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.

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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

Thermodynamics

Nuclear Physics

Particle Physics

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