APSC 112

Queen's

Course Overview

Lessons & Practice

1. Simple Harmonic Motion

2.3hr

1.1.1. Basic Concepts of SHM Oscillation14 min

1.1.2. Practice: Angular motion2 min

1.1.3. Example: SHM position function

1.2.1. Velocity and Acceleration in SHM10 min

1.2.2. Practice: Oscillations - Acceleration Graph

1.2.3. Practice: Oscillations - Displacement Function7 min

1.2.4. Example: SHM with mass on a spring

1.3.1. Vertical springs13 min

1.3.2. Example: Vertical Springs7 min

1.3.3. Practice: Vertical Springs6 min

1.3.4. Practice: Oscillations (Tricky!)8 min

1.4.1. Simple Pendulums 7 min

1.4.2. Example: Simple Pendulum3 min

1.4.3. Practice: Simple Pendulum7 min

1.5.1. Physical Pendulum4 min

1.5.2. Example: Physical Pendulum4 min

1.5.3. Practice: Simple Pendulum7 min

1.5.4. Practice: Simple Harmonic Motion: Pendulum

1.5.5. Practice: Oscillations - Displacement Function7 min

1.6.1. Energy of an Oscillator11 min

1.6.2. Example: Spring & Mass System 10 min

1.6.3. Practice: Energy of Oscillation 4 min

1.7.1. SHM as the Projection of a Uniform Circular Motion11 min

1.7.2. Example: SHM from Circular Motion - Equation of Position (x)

1.7.3. Practice: SHM from Circular Motion - Equation of Position (y)

2. Waves

49min

2.1.1. General Definition of a Traveling Wave

2.1.2. Sinusoidal Waves

2.1.3. Example: Waves

2.1.4. Practice: Waves

2.2.1. Snapshots and History Plots

2.2.2. Example: Wave Graph

2.2.3. Practice: History Plot

2.3.1. Particle Velocity and Acceleration

2.3.2. Example: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration

2.3.3. Practice: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration

2.4.1. Speed of Waves in Strings

2.4.2. Example: Wave and Tension

2.4.3. Practice: String Mass Density

2.5.1. Sound Waves

2.5.2. Intensity Shortcut Formula

2.5.3. Example: Sound Intensity

2.5.4. Practice: Sound Wave Intensity

2.5.5. Example: Sound Under Water

2.5.6. Sound Waves Concept Clarifier8 min

2.5.7. Sounds Waves: Speed of Sound2 min

2.5.8. Sound Waves Theory - Intensity5 min

2.6.1. Reflection at Boundaries

2.6.2. Example: Wave Reflection

2.6.3. Practice: Wave Open End Reflection

2.6.4. Example: Wave Reflection and Transmission

2.7.1. Interference and Superposition

2.7.2. Example: Superposition

2.7.3. Practice: Superposition

2.8.1. Constructive and Destructive Interference

2.8.2. Interference Shortcuts

2.9.1. Standing Waves

2.9.2. Standing Wave Equation

2.9.3. Example: Wavelength of a Standing Wave

2.9.4. Practice: Standing Waves

2.9.5. Standing Waves in Strings with Both Ends Fixed

2.9.7. Practice

2.10.1. Beat Frequency

2.10.2. Example: Beat Frequency

2.10.3. Practice: Beat Frequency

2.11.1. Doppler Effect

2.11.2. Example: Doppler Frequency

2.11.3. Practice: Doppler Frequency

2.12.1. Standing Waves in Air Pipes

2.12.2. Two Ends Closed

2.12.3. Two Ends Open

2.12.4. One End Open & One End Closed

2.12.5. Example: Standing Waves in Air Pipes

2.12.6. Practice: Standing Waves in Air Pipes

3. Electrostatic Forces and Electric Fields

2.6hr

3.1.1. Properties of Charge2 min

3.1.2. Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charge2 min

3.2.1. Coulomb's Law3 min

3.2.2. Example: Coulomb's Law3 min

3.2.3. Practice: Coulomb's Law3 min

3.2.4. Practice: Square of Charges3 min

3.2.5. Practice (with vectors)2 min

3.3.1. Electric Field3 min

3.3.2. Electric Field Lines1 min

3.3.3. Example: Electric Field Lines 4 min

3.3.4. Example: Sketching Electric Field Lines 1 min

3.3.5. Practice: Drawing Electric Field Lines2 min

3.4.1. Electric Field of a Point Charge5 min

3.4.2. Principle of Superposition2 min

3.4.3. Example: Electric Field from Two Point Charges8 min

3.4.4. Practice: Electric Field8 min

3.4.5. Practice: Electric Field12 min

3.5.1. Motion of a Charged Particle in an Electric Field2 min

3.5.2. Practice: Electron Moving Between Two Plates7 min

3.5.3. Practice: Electric Field and Kinematics5 min

3.6.1. Electric Dipoles3 min

3.6.2. Example: Force and Torque on Electric Dipoles3 min

3.6.3. Practice: Electric field from dipoles11 min

3.6.4. Torque and potential energy2 min

3.7.1. Finding Electric Field with Integrals3 min

3.7.2. Example: Electric Field from a Rod9 min

3.7.3. Example: Electric Field from a Rod (off-axis)

3.7.4. Practice: Rod with Nonlinear Charge Density8 min

3.7.5. Practice: Rod with Positive and Negative Charge9 min

3.7.6. Practice: Rod Electric Field Without Symmetry14 min

3.8.1. Example: Electric Field of a Ring4 min

3.8.2. Example: Electric Field of a Disk8 min

3.8.3. Practice: Electric Field at the Center of a Half-Ring4 min

3.Q. Checkpoint Quiz5 Qns

4. Electric Potential and Potential Energy

2.2hr

4.1.1. Electric Potential Energy and Work4 min

4.1.2. Practice: Electric potential energy and three charges1 min

4.1.3. Practice: Electric Potential Energy4 min

4.2.1. Electric Potential Energy - Integral Definition5 min

4.2.2. Practice: Electric Potential Energy of a Variable Field6 min

4.2.3. Practice: Electric Potential Energy of a Dipole4 min

4.2.4. Practice: Electric Potential Energy of a Continuous Rod11 min

4.3.1. Electric Potential2 min

4.3.2. Example: Electric Potential2 min

4.3.3. Electron volts1 min

4.4.1. Electric Potential of Continuous Charge Distributions2 min

4.4.2. Example: Electric Potential of a Rod (on-axis)4 min

4.4.3. Practice: Electric Potential of a Rod (off-axis)

4.4.4. Practice: Rod with Positive and Negative Charge2 min

4.4.5. Practice: Electric Potential at the Center of a Half-Ring4 min

4.4.6. Practice: Electric Potential of a Ring3 min

4.4.7. Practice: Electric Potential of a Disk11 min

4.5.1. Conservation of Energy3 min

4.5.2. Example: Two Repulsive Charges7 min

4.5.3. Practice: Conservation of Electric Potential Energy9 min

4.6.1. Equipotential Lines and Surfaces3 min

4.6.2. Example: Drawing Equipotential Lines2 min

4.6.3. Practice: Drawing Equipotential Lines3 min

4.6.4. Practice: Equipotential lines and work done2 min

4.6.5. Practice: Electric Potential and Equipotentials5 min

4.6.6. Practice: Conductors, Charge, and Electric Potential6 min

4.7.1. Relationship Between Electric Field and Potential3 min

4.7.2. Example4 min

4.7.3. Example7 min

4.7.4. Practice8 min

4.7.5. Example: Electric Field from a Potential3 min

4.8.1. Cheatsheet

4.Q. Checkpoint Quiz2 Qns

5. Current and Resistance, Circuits

2hr

5.1.1. Electric Current2 min

5.1.2. Practice: Electric Current2 min

5.1.3. Microscopic Current Definition4 min

5.1.4. Example: Drift Speed6 min

5.1.5. Practice: Current Density and Drift Speed2 min

5.2.1. Resistivity and Conductivity2 min

5.2.2. Example: Resistivity and Conductivity3 min

5.2.3. Practice: Electric Field of a wire4 min

5.3.1. Resistance and Ohm's Law2 min

5.3.2. Example: Electrical Resistance3 min

5.3.3. Practice: Ohm's Law2 min

5.4.1. Temperature Dependent Resistors1 min

5.4.2. Example: Resistivity3 min

5.4.3. Practice: Resistivity5 min

5.5.1. Basics of DC Circuits3 min

5.5.2. Electrical Measurements2 min

5.6.1. Resistors in Series and Parallel2 min

5.6.2. Example: Equivalent Resistance2 min

5.6.3. Practice: Equivalent Resistance7 min

5.7.1. Kirchhoff’s Rules6 min

5.7.2. Example: Kirchhoff's Rules7 min

5.7.3. Practice: Kirchhoff's Rules10 min

5.8.1. Power and Brightness3 min

5.8.2. Example: Power and Brightness7 min

5.8.3. Practice: Power and Brightness7 min

5.9.1. Real Batteries and Internal Resistance2 min

5.9.2. Example: Internal Resistance4 min

5.9.3. Practice: Internal Resistance2 min

5.10.1. AC Voltage Sources4 min

5.10.2. Example: AC Circuit3 min

5.10.3. Resistive AC Circuits and AC Current4 min

5.10.4. Practice: Resistive AC Circuit4 min

6. Magnetic Fields and Magnetic Force

2.9hr

6.1.1. Magnetism and Magnetic Fields2 min

6.1.2. Magnets and Magnetic Materials2 min

6.1.3. Practice: Magnetic Field Lines2 min

6.2.1. Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge5 min

6.2.2. Example: Magnetic Force1 min

6.2.3. Example: Find the direction of magnetic field2 min

6.2.4. Practice: Magnetic Force2 min

6.3.1. Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field3 min

6.3.2. Example: Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field3 min

6.3.3. Example: Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field1 min

6.3.4. Practice: Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field4 min

6.3.5. Practice: Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field2 min

6.3.6. Practice: Helical Motion in a Magnetic Field7 min

6.4.1. Velocity Selectors2 min

6.4.2. Example: Proton Travelling in a Straight Line2 min

6.4.3. Practice: Electron Travelling in a Straight Line3 min

6.5.1. The Hall Effect4 min

6.5.2. Practice: Electron Travelling in a Straight Line4 min

6.6.1. Magnetic Force on a Wire1 min

6.6.2. Magnetic Force on a Wire Element1 min

6.6.3. Example: Magnetic Force on a Wire1 min

6.6.4. Example: Magnetic Force on a Wire (3D)4 min

6.6.5. Practice: Magnetic Force on a Square Wire4 min

6.6.6. Practice: Magnetic Force on a Semi-Circular Wire8 min

6.7.1. Torque on a Current-Carrying Wire3 min

6.7.2. Example: Torque on a Rectangular Current Loop6 min

6.7.3. Practice: Torque on a Circular Current Loop3 min

6.8.1. Biot-Savart Law for a Point Charge3 min

6.8.2. Example: Biot-Savart for a Point Charge8 min

6.8.3. Biot-Savart Law for Currents2 min

6.8.4. Practice: Magnetic Field of a Current Loop (Calculus)3 min

6.9.1. Magnetic Field of Current-Carrying Wires2 min

6.9.2. Example: Magnetic Field Produced by a Wire3 min

6.9.3. Example: Magnetic Field from a Solenoid47 sec

6.9.4. Practice: Two long straight wires4 min

6.9.5. Practice: Magnetic Field of a Loop-de-Loop2 min

6.10.1. Magnetic Force on Parallel Wires3 min

6.10.2. Example: Magnetic Field Between Wires5 min

6.10.3. Practice: Magnetic Field Between Wires4 min

6.11.1. Magnetic Flux1 min

6.11.2. Example: Magnetic Flux3 min

6.11.3. Practice: Magnetic Flux4 min

6.11.4. Magnetic Flux (with calculus)49 sec

6.11.5. Practice (with calculus)8 min

6.12.1. Faraday's Law1 min

6.12.2. Example: Faraday's Law4 min

6.12.3. Motional EMF2 min

6.12.4. Example: Conductor on Rails57 sec

6.12.5. Practice: Motional EMF2 min

6.13.1. Lenz's Law2 min

6.13.2. Example: Lenz's Law2 min

6.13.3. Practice: Lenz's Law3 min

6.13.4. Practice: Terminal Velocity and EM Induction (hard!)11 min

6.14.1. Eddy Currents3 min

6.14.2. Example: Eddy Currents3 min

6.P.1. Magnetism and free body diagrams

6.P.2. Application: Cyclotron

7. Motion in Two Dimensions

2.9hr

7.1.1. Relative Velocity11 min

7.1.2. Example: : Relative Velocity9 min

7.1.3. Practice: Relative Velocity11 min

7.2.1. Projectile Motion9 min

7.2.2. Example: projectile motion4 min

7.2.3. Practice: Projectile Motion10 min

7.3.1. Two- and Three-Dimensional Kinematics : Part 19 min

7.3.2. Two- and Three-Dimensional Kinematics: Part 27 min

7.3.3. Example: Particle Motion in 3D8 min

7.3.4. Practice: Projectile motion

7.4.1. Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration8 min

7.4.2. Non-uniform Circular motion3 min

7.4.3. Example: Centripetal Acceleration

7.4.4. Practice: Circular Motion - Acceleration3 min

7.5.1. Position Vector11 min

7.5.2. Two- and Three-Dimensional Kinematics : Part 19 min

7.5.3. Practice Question 5: Position Vectors2 min

7.5.4. Practice: Velocity and Acceleration

7.5.5. Example: Velocity and Acceleration8 min

7.5.6. Example: Position from Velocity2 min

7.6.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

7.6.2. Example: Uniform circular motion2 min

7.6.3. Practice: Unifirm Circular Motion5 min

7.6.4. Practice : Circular Motion 1

7.6.5. Practice question

7.7.1. Centripetal force12 min

7.7.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

7.7.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

7.7.4. Practice: Marble Sliding on a Rotating Hoop (Tricky!)14 min

Mock Exams

ME.1. Midterm Exam #1 - Mock Assessment12 Qns

ME.2. Midterm Exam #2 - Mock Assessment26 Qns

ME.3. Final Exam - Mock Assessment51 Qns

APSC 112 Flashcards

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SHM

Simple Harmonic Motion, periodic motion where restoring force is proportional and opposite to displacement.

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