LE/PHYS 1800 3.00

York U

Course Overview

Lessons & Practice

I. Welcome

1. Foundations / Introduction / Measurement

55min

1.1.2. Example: Converting between units4 min

1.1.3. Practice: Volume Conversion

1.2.1. Significant Figures5 min

1.2.2. Significant Figures in Calculations7 min

1.2.3. Example: Significant Figures4 min

1.2.4. Practice: Significant Figures

1.2.5. Practice: Significant Figures

1.3.1. Percent Error2 min

1.3.2. Example: Percent Error2 min

1.3.3. Practice: Percent Error

1.4.1. Dimensional Analysis3 min

1.4.2. Example: Dimensional Analysis7 min

1.4.3. Practice: Dimensional Analysis2 min

1.5.1. Unit Conversion5 min

1.5.2. Example: Unit Conversion4 min

1.5.3. Example: Unit Conversion Practice 2 min

1.5.4. Practice: Counting heartbeats2 min

1.6.1. Orders of Magnitude4 min

1.7.1. Scientific Notation

1.7.2. Example: Scientific Notation

1.7.3. Practice: Scientific Notation

2. Introduction to Vectors

1.2hr

2.1.1. Vectors and Their Components5 min

2.1.2. Vector's Magnitude2 min

2.1.3. Components of a Vector Using the Angle It Makes Respect to x or y Axis8 min

2.1.4. Example: Vector Algebra7 min

2.1.5. Practice 3 min

2.1.6. Practice: Magnitude of a Vector3 min

2.2.1. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Algebraic Method 54 sec

2.2.2. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Graphic Methods9 min

2.2.3. Example: Vector Addition and Subtraction 6 min

2.2.4. Practice: Find Missing Vector

2.2.5. Practice: Resultant of Two Vectors

2.3.1. Dot Product or Scalar Product4 min

2.3.2. Example: Dot product2 min

2.3.3. Practice: Dot Product46 sec

2.3.4. Practice: Concept Clarifier2 min

2.4.1. Cross Product10 min

2.4.2. Right Hand Rule5 min

2.4.3. Example: Cross Product4 min

2.4.4. Practice: Cross Product2 min

2.4.5. Practice: Cross Product

3. Motion in 1/2/3D: Kinematics

4hr

3.I. Chapter Intro3 min

3.1.1. Distance and Displacement ..8 min

3.1.2. Speed and Velocity8 min

3.1.3. Acceleration6 min

3.1.4. Example: Acceleration4 min

3.1.5. Practice: Average speed vs. Average velocity10 min

3.2.1. Motion Diagrams11 min

3.2.2. Example9 min

3.2.3. Practice: Position vs. Time Graphs4 min

3.3.1. One-Dimensional Kinematics 8 min

3.3.2. Example: Deceleration8 min

3.3.3. Practice: Acceleration and Constant Velocity (Copy catches Car)12 min

3.4.1. Free Fall1 min

3.4.2. Example: Free Fall7 min

3.4.3. Practice: Free Fall 5 min

3.5.1. Kinematic Graphs9 min

3.5.2. Example: Kinematic Graphs3 min

3.5.3. Practice: Flying a Drone (Tricky!)27 min

3.5.4. Practice: Velocity vs Time Graph9 min

3.6.1. Relative Velocity11 min

3.6.2. Example: 9 min

3.6.3. Practice: Relative Velocity11 min

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

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

3.7.3. Example: Particle Motion in 3D8 min

3.7.4. Practice: Projectile motion

3.8.1. Projectile Motion9 min

3.8.2. Example: Projectile Motion4 min

3.8.3. Practice: Projectile Motion10 min

4. Newton's Laws of Motion: Forces and Dynamics

4hr

4.1.1. Free Body Diagrams7 min

4.1.2. Example: Free Body Diagrams 8 min

4.1.3. Practice: Free Body Diagram I

4.1.4. Practice: Free Body Diagram II

4.2.1. Newton's Laws of Motion7 min

4.2.2. Example: Newton's

4.2.3. Practice: Interacting Blocks11 min

4.2.4. Practice: Three books on a table8 min

4.2.5. Practice: Tension

4.3.1. Tension4 min

4.3.2. Example: Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion7 min

4.3.3. Practice: Box Hanging from To Wires8 min

4.4.1. Normal Force 6 min

4.4.2. Example: Weightlessness6 min

4.4.3. Practice: Man in an elevator

4.5.1. Inclined Surfaces 7 min

4.5.2. Example: Inclined Surface8 min

4.5.3. Practice: Connecting Blocks on an Incline11 min

4.6.1. Kinetic and Static Friction10 min

4.6.2. Rolling Friction2 min

4.6.3. Example: Sliding on Rough Surface8 min

4.6.4. Practice: Static vs Kinetic (Tricky!)6 min

4.7.1. Drag Force (Version I)3 min

4.7.2. Drag Force (Version II)3 min

4.7.3. Terminal Velocity6 min

4.7.4. Example: Drag Force (Version I)

4.7.5. Practice: Drag Force (Version II)5 min

4.8.1. Propulsion4 min

4.8.2. Practice: Sliding on Friction

4.8.3. Example: Propulsion

4.9.1. Spring Force4 min

4.9.2. Example: Hooke's Law4 min

4.9.3. Practice: Hooke's Law

4.9.4. Practice: Spring Force function graph2 min

4.10.1. Gravitational Force7 min

4.10.2. The Special Case of Earth 4 min

4.10.3. Example: Weight at Higher Elevations6 min

4.10.4. Practice: Gravitational Forces8 min

4.11.1. Electrostatic Force9 min

4.11.2. Example: Coulomb's Law9 min

4.11.3. Practice: Electric Force2 min

4.12.1. Magnetic Force 8 min

4.12.2. Example: Magnetic Force on a moving charge (Lorentz force)3 min

4.12.3. Example: Magnetic Force on an Electron7 min

4.12.4. Practice: Magnetic Force on Moving Charged Particles:7 min

4.12.5. Practice: Magnetic Field and Current Carrying Wires6 min

4.12.6. Practice: Charge Entering a Magnetic Field 3 min

5. Circular Motion

1.5hr

5.1.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

5.1.2. Period and Frequency 7 min

5.1.3. Example: Uniform circular motion6 min

5.1.4. Practice: Circular Motion - Car Rounding a Curve5 min

5.1.5. Practice : Circular Motion - Ball on a String

5.2.1. Non-uniform Circular motion6 min

5.2.2. Example: Non-Circular motion

5.2.3. Practice: Non-Circular Motion - Acceleration3 min

5.3.1. Centripetal force12 min

5.3.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

5.3.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

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

5.4.1. Car Turning Around a Circular Section of Road6 min

5.4.2. Example: Car Around a Circular Flat Ramp4 min

5.4.3. Practice: Car Rounding a Banked Turn8 min

6. Work and Energy

2.8hr

6.1.1. Mechanical Work10 min

6.1.2. Example: Positive vs. Negative Work4 min

6.1.3. Practice: Work Involving Incline Surface (Ramp)15 min

6.2.1. Mechanical Work13 min

6.2.2. Example: Work Done by a Varying Force (Calc-Based)

6.2.3. Practice: Work Done by Varying Force

6.3.1. Work-energy theorem7 min

6.3.2. Example: Work-Energy Theorem11 min

6.3.3. Practice: work and energy - PE

6.3.4. Practice: work done

6.3.5. Practice: Spring and slope problem

6.4.1. Conservative vs Non-Conservative Forces - Part 17 min

6.4.2. Conservative vs Non-Conservative Forces - Part 25 min

6.4.3. Example: Non-Conservative Forces

6.4.4. Practice: Conservative Forces

6.5.1. Conservation of Energy9 min

6.5.2. Example: Work Done by Friction12 min

6.5.3. Practice13 min

6.6.1. Satellites and Objects in Orbits 6 min

6.6.2. Orbital Energies10 min

6.6.3. Kepler's Laws12 min

6.6.4. Example: Satellites Around Earth8 min

6.6.5. Practice: Satellite Orbital Periods5 min

6.7.1. Chemical (Food) Energy7 min

6.7.2. Example: Food Energy

6.7.3. Practice: Converting Food to Kinetic Energy

6.8.1. Power3 min

6.8.2. Example: Power in Lifting4 min

6.8.3. Practice: Towing a Car7 min

7. Momentum, Impulse and Collisions

1.9hr

7.1.1. Momentum and Impulse (Basic)3 min

7.1.2. Momentum and Impulse (Calculus-Based)6 min

7.1.3. Example: Impulse on a Soccer Ball3 min

7.1.4. Practice: Impulse on a Ball Hitting Wall11 min

7.1.5. Practice: Momentum of a Force Function (Calculus Based)4 min

7.2.1. Conservation of momentum12 min

7.2.2. Example: Collision2 min

7.2.3. Practice: Conservation of Momentum - 2 Carts8 min

7.2.4. Practice: Conservation of momentum - Ball Colliding with Block3 min

7.2.5. Practice: Conservation of Momentum - Two Carts Colliding4 min

7.3.1. Elastic Collision3 min

7.3.2. Elastic Collision with One Object Initially at Rest12 min

7.3.3. Inelastic Collision3 min

7.3.4. Perfectly Inelastic Collision4 min

7.3.5. Example: Inelastic Collision8 min

7.3.6. Practice: Inelastic Collisions4 min

7.3.7. Practice: Elastic Collision (Tricky!)7 min

7.4.1. Momentum Conservation in the Center of Mass Frame5 min

7.4.2. Shell Explosion (One Object Separating into Two Objects) with Center of Mass Frame3 min

7.5.1. Example: Shell Explosion

7.5.2. Momentum Conservation in 2D Collisions5 min

7.5.3. Practice: Collision of Two Objects (2D)

7.5.4. Practice: 2D Inelastic Collision - Car Crash3 min

7.5.5. Momentum and Impulse3 min

8. Angular / Rotational Motion

4hr

8.1.1. Torque14 min

8.1.2. Example: Torrque5 min

8.1.3. Practice: Torque9 min

8.2.1. Kinematics Equations for Rotation7 min

8.2.2. Example: Rotating Wheel7 min

8.2.3. Practice: Falling Mass Attached to a Rotating Pulley11 min

8.3.1. Moment of Inertia of Discrete Particles3 min

8.3.2. Moment of Inertia3 min

8.3.3. Example: Moment of Inertia (Calculus Based)7 min

8.3.4. Practice: angular momentum - Satellite

8.3.5. Practice: Rotational dynamics - Rotating Blade6 min

8.4.1. Parallel axis theorem3 min

8.4.2. Example: Moment of Inertia16 min

8.4.3. Practice4 min

8.5.1. Rotational Analog of Newton's Second Law2 min

8.5.2. Example: Rotating Rod7 min

8.5.3. Practice: Falling Mass Attached to a Rotating Pulley11 min

8.6.1. Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Body4 min

8.6.2. Example: Falling Mass Attached to a Rotating Pulley8 min

8.6.3. Practice: Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Body (Tricky!)7 min

8.7.1. Rotational Work and Torque6 min

8.7.2. Example: Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Wheel6 min

8.7.3. Practice: Rotational kinetic energy - falling rod6 min

8.7.4. Practice: Objects rolling down a slope10 min

8.8.1. Note for Rolling Motion8 min

8.8.2. Example: Static Friction for Rolling Down a Slope10 min

8.8.3. Practice (Tricky!)14 min

8.9.1. Angular Momentum10 min

8.9.2. Example: Angular Momentum of Pendulum5 min

8.9.3. Practice: Angular Momentum - Spinning Weight5 min

8.10.1. Conservation of Angular Momentum5 min

8.10.2. Example: Angular Momentum Conservation

8.10.3. Practice: Angular Momentum - Spinning Weight5 min

9. Equilibrium & Elasticity

1.7hr

9.1.1. Static Equilibrium3 min

9.1.2. Example: Static Equilibrium of a Ladder15 min

9.1.3. Practice: Static Equilibrium - Man on a Beam13 min

9.2.1. Center of Mass7 min

9.2.2. Center of Mass of Complicated Objects5 min

9.2.3. Example: Center of Mass

9.2.4. Practice: Center of Mass of System of Objects (2D)5 min

9.3.1. Stress and Strain33 min

9.3.2. Elastic Properties of Solids3 min

9.3.3. Practice: Thermal Stress21 min

9.4.1. Stability

10. Periodic Motion: Oscillations

5hr

10.1.1. Concepts of Oscillation (Basic Version)10 min

10.1.2. Concepts of Oscillation (Advanced Version)14 min

10.1.3. Example: SHM position function

10.1.4. Practice: Angular motion2 min

10.2.1. Velocity and Acceleration in SHM (Advanced)7 min

10.2.2. Velocity and Acceleration in SHM (Basic)10 min

10.2.3. Finding Acceleration by Knowing Displacement (Advanced)6 min

10.2.4. Example: SHM with mass on a spring

10.2.5. Practice: Oscillations - Displacement Function7 min

10.2.6. Practice: Oscillations - Acceleration Graph

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

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

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

10.4.1. Finding the Phase Constant27 min

10.4.2. Example: Drawing the Position Graph16 min

10.4.3. Practice: Displacement Function10 min

10.5.1. Energy of an Oscillator11 min

10.5.2. Example: Spring & Mass System 10 min

10.5.3. Practice: Energy of Oscillation 4 min

10.6.1. Vertical springs13 min

10.6.2. Example: Vertical Springs7 min

10.6.3. Practice: Vertical Springs6 min

10.6.4. Practice: Oscillations (Tricky!)8 min

10.7.1. Simple Pendulums 7 min

10.7.2. Example: Simple Pendulum3 min

10.7.3. Practice: Simple Pendulum7 min

10.8.1. Physical Pendulum4 min

10.8.2. Example: Physical Pendulum4 min

10.8.3. Practice: Simple Pendulum7 min

10.8.4. Practice: Simple Harmonic Motion: Pendulum

10.8.5. Practice: Oscillations - Displacement Function7 min

10.9.1. A Quick Review on Buoyant Forces6 min

10.9.2. Buoyancy Theory6 min

10.9.3. Oscillation of Floating Objects10 min

10.9.4. Example: Oscillation of Floating Object6 min

10.9.5. Practice: Oscillation of Floating Buoy

10.10.1. Simple Harmonic Motion for Small Deviations from Equilibrium14 min

10.10.2. Example: Small Oscillations

10.11.1. Coupled Simple Harmonic Oscillators

10.11.2. Practice: Couples Oscillators

10.12.1. Damped Oscillation Theory20 min

10.12.2. Energy in a Damped Oscillation6 min

10.12.3. Example: Damped Oscillation 6 min

10.12.4. Practice: Damping (Tricky!)17 min

10.13.1. Critical Damping and Over-Damping Conditions8 min

10.13.2. Example: critically damping motion2 min

10.13.3. Practice: Damping Motion2 min

10.14.1. Forced or Driven Oscillation6 min

10.14.2. Example: Forced Oscillation2 min

10.14.3. Practice: Forced Oscillation (Tricky!)

11. Waves: Mechanical

43min

11.1.1. General Definition of a Traveling Wave

11.1.2. Sinusoidal Waves

11.1.3. Example: Waves

11.1.4. Practice: Waves

11.2.1. Snapshots and History Plots

11.2.2. Example: Wave Graph

11.2.3. Practice: History Plot

11.3.1. Particle Velocity and Acceleration

11.3.2. Example: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration

11.3.3. Practice: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration

11.4.1. Speed of Waves in Strings

11.4.2. Example: Wave and Tension

11.4.3. Practice: String Mass Density

11.5.1. Transmitted Power and Intensity9 min

11.5.2. Example: Intensity of Sunlight

11.5.3. Practice: Power of a Traveling Wave

11.6.1. Interference and Superposition

11.6.2. Example: Superposition

11.6.3. Practice: Superposition

11.7.1. Standing Waves

11.7.2. Standing Wave Equation

11.7.3. Example: Wavelength of a Standing Wave

11.7.4. Practice: Standing Waves

11.8.1. Standing Waves in Strings with Both Ends Fixed

11.8.2. Example: Standing Wave

11.8.3. Practice: Standing Wave

11.9.1. Standing Waves in Air Pipes

11.9.2. Two Ends Closed

11.9.3. Two Ends Open

11.9.4. One End Open & One End Closed

11.9.5. Example: Standing Waves in Air Pipes

11.9.6. Practice: Standing Waves in Air Pipes

Mock Exams

ME.1. Midterm 2 - Mock Assessment 31 Qns

ME.2. Final Exam - Mock Assessment39 Qns

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