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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!

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Source Material

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 Physics Portal
• A wiki book on modern physics Modern Physics Wiki
• The MIT open courseware for intro physics MITOCW Wiki
• An online concept map of intro physics HyperPhysics
• Interactive physics simulations PhET
• OpenStax algebra based intro physics textbook College Physics
• The Open Source Physics project is a collection of online physics resources OSP
• A resource guide compiled by the AAPT for educators ComPADRE

Organizing Catagories

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.

Interactions

• Fundamental Interactions

 Fundamental interactions, are the most basic interactions in physical systems.
 There are four conventionally accepted fundamental interactions: Gravitational, Electromagnetic, Strong force, and Weak force.

 The Garvitational Interaction is the Interaction that a planet or some other large body that has it's own gravitational field can exert
 on the System from the Surroundings. The Gravitational Interaction from the Earth onto an object that is within Earth's gravitational field
 is 9.81 meters per second squared (m/s^2).

 The Electromagnetic Interaction is the Interaction that charged particles can exert on the System from the Surroundings. Here we use
 Coulomb's Constant (8.98*10^9 n/m^2 (newtons*meters squared)) to describe the Interaction between electrically charged particles.

 The Strong Force is the Interaction between subatomic particles of matter. The strong force binds quarks together in clusters to
 make more-familiar subatomic particles, such as protons and neutrons. It also holds together the atomic nucleus.

 The Weak force is the Interaction that governs the decay of unstable subatomic particles such as mesons. It also initiates the 
 nuclear fusion reaction that fuels the Sun.

• System & Surroundings.

 A System is a part of the universe that we choose to study. The Surroundings are everything else that surrounds the System.

 For further refrence, see: Thinking about Physics Thinking by Professor Michael Schatz[1]

I can't submit this for grading on WebAssign yet, so I'll just leave my signature with timestamp here. --Austinrocket (talk) 23:17, 18 October 2015 (EDT)

Properties of Matter

• Mass
• Charge
• Spin

Momentum

• Vectors
• Kinematics
• Predicting Change in one dimension
• Predicting Change in multiple dimensions

Angular Momentum

• The Moments of Inertia
• Rotation
• Torque
• Predicting a Change in Rotation

Energy

• Predicting Change
• Rest Mass Energy
• Kinetic Energy
• Potential Energy

Fields

• Electric Field of a
  • Point Charge
  • Electric Dipole
  • Charged Rod
  • Charged Loop
  • Charged Spherical Shell
• Magnetic Field

Simple Circuits

• Components
• Steady State
• Non Steady State

Maxwell's Equations

• Gauss's Flux Theorem
  • Electric Fields
  • Magnetic Fields
• Faraday's Law
• Ampere-Maxwell Law

Radiation

Resources

• Commonly used wiki commands Wiki Cheatsheet
• A guide to representing equations in math mode Wiki Math Mode
• A page to keep track of all the physics Constants