Course Description
Units:
- Kinematics
- One- and two-dimensional motion
- Graphical analysis
- Forces and Newton’s Laws
- Free-body diagrams
- Friction, tension, normal force
- Work, Energy, and Power
- Work-energy theorem
- Mechanical advantage and power
- Momentum and Collisions
- Impulse, conservation of momentum
- Elastic vs. inelastic collisions
- Circular Motion and Gravitation
- Centripetal force
- Newton’s Law of Gravitation
- Waves and Sound
- Wave behavior, resonance, Doppler effect
- Electricity and Circuits
- Ohm’s Law, series and parallel circuits
- Electrical power
- Magnetism and Electromagnetism
- Magnetic fields and forces
- Electromagnetic induction
- Thermodynamics
- First and Second Laws
- Heat engines, entropy
- Modern Physics (Intro)
- Atomic models, nuclear reactions
- Photoelectric effect, wave-particle duality