PHY 1122

uOttawa

Course Overview

Lessons & Practice

I. Welcome

1. Fluid Mechanics

52min

1.1.1. Density of a Fluid6 min

1.1.2. Mass and Density60 sec

1.1.3. Pressure8 min

1.1.4. Example: Gauge Pressure

1.1.5. Practice: Vacuum Lifter

1.2.1. Pascal's Principle4 min

1.2.2. Example: Pressure in U-Tube

1.2.3. Practice: U-Tube Filled with Multiple Fluids

1.3.1. Hydraulic Systems 4 min

1.3.2. Example: Hydraulic Lift

1.3.3. Practice: Hydraulic System

1.4.1. Buoyancy9 min

1.4.2. Example: Buoyant Force

1.4.3. Example: Buoyant Force (Tricky!)

1.4.4. Practice: Buoyant Force

1.5.1. Bernoulli's Principle8 min

1.5.2. Flow Rates and Continuity

1.5.3. Example: Venturi System

1.5.4. Practice: Pressure Leaking Tank (Tricky!)

1.6.1. Viscosity5 min

1.6.2. Practice: Viscosity

1.7.1. Surface Tension and Capillarity6 min

2. Heat and Temperature

3hr

2.1.1. Thermal Equilibrium6 min

2.1.2. Example: Temperature Scales

2.1.3. Practice: Temperature Scales

2.2.1. Linear Expansion3 min

2.2.2. Area Expansion6 min

2.2.3. Example: Thermal Expansion5 min

2.2.4. Volume Expansion4 min

2.2.5. Practice: Thermal Expansion10 min

2.3.1. Heat Transfer Through Conduction3 min

2.3.2. Example: Heat Transfer2 min

2.4.1. Conductor In Series Theory5 min

2.4.2. Example: Conductors In Series 3 min

2.4.3. Conductors In Parallel3 min

2.5.1. Heat Transfer Through Radiation12 min

2.5.2. Example: Radiation4 min

2.5.3. Absorption7 min

2.6.1. Sun & Earth model4 min

2.7.1. Radiation Spectrum Theory3 min

2.8.1. Thermal Stress and Strain33 min

2.8.2. Example: Thermal Stress11 min

2.8.3. Practice: Thermal Stress21 min

2.9.1. Specific Heat and Calorimetry15 min

2.9.2. Example: Calorimetry6 min

2.9.3. Example: Phase Change8 min

2.9.4. Practice: Calorimetry21 min

3. Thermodynamics

2.5hr

3.1.1. Ideal Gas Law1 min

3.1.2. Example: Ideal Gases 4 min

3.1.3. Practice: Thermodynamics and Ideal Gases3 min

3.1.4. First Law of Thermodynamics5 min

3.4.1. Thermodynamic Processes12 min

3.4.2. Thermodynamics4 min

3.4.3. Example: Adiabatic Processes4 min

3.4.4. Practice: pV Work1 min

3.5.1. PV Diagrams & Thermodynamic Processes5 min

3.5.2. Example: PV Diagram

3.5.3. Practice: First Law of Thermodynamics3 min

3.5.4. Practice: Thermodynamic Processes 5 min

3.6.1. Thermodynamic Cycles 2 min

3.6.2. Example: Thermodynamic Cycle (PV Diagram)

3.6.3. Practice: Thermodynamic Cycle (PV Diagram)2 min

3.7.1. Heat Engines & Refrigerators11 min

3.7.2. Example: The Carnot Cycle 11 min

3.7.3. Practice: Otto Cycle13 min

3.8.1. Heat Pumps11 min

3.8.2. Example: Calculate the coefficient of performance (COP) for an air-to-air heat pump

3.8.3. Practice: Heat Pump

3.9.1. The Second Law of Thermodynamics3 min

3.9.2. The Laws of Thermodynamics6 min

3.9.3. Example: Entropy

3.9.4. Practice: Entropy

3.10.1. Entropy13 min

3.10.2. Example: Entropy9 min

3.11.1. Thermodynamical Processes in TS – Diagram9 min

3.11.2. Practice: PV and TS Diagrams17 min

4. Electrostatic Forces and Electric Fields

4hr

4.1.1. Properties of Charge2 min

4.1.2. Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charge2 min

4.1.3. Practice: Electrical Grounding1 min

4.1.4. Practice: Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charge49 sec

4.2.1. Coulomb's Law3 min

4.2.2. Example: Coulomb's Law3 min

4.2.3. Practice: Coulomb's Law3 min

4.2.4. Practice: Square of Charges3 min

4.2.5. Practice (with vectors)2 min

4.3.1. Electric Field3 min

4.3.2. Electric Field Lines1 min

4.3.3. Example: Electric Field Lines 4 min

4.3.4. Example: Sketching Electric Field Lines 1 min

4.3.5. Practice: Drawing Electric Field Lines2 min

4.4.1. Electric Field of a Point Charge5 min

4.4.2. Principle of Superposition2 min

4.4.3. Example: Electric Field from Two Point Charges8 min

4.4.4. Practice: Electric Field8 min

4.4.5. Practice: Electric Field12 min

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

4.5.2. Practice: Electron Moving Between Two Plates7 min

4.5.3. Practice: Electric Field and Kinematics5 min

4.6.1. Electric Dipoles3 min

4.6.2. Example: Force and Torque on Electric Dipoles3 min

4.6.3. Practice: Electric field from dipoles11 min

4.6.4. Torque and potential energy2 min

4.7.1. Finding Electric Field with Integrals3 min

4.7.2. Example: Electric Field from a Rod9 min

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

4.7.4. Practice: Rod with Nonlinear Charge Density8 min

4.7.5. Practice: Rod with Positive and Negative Charge9 min

4.7.6. Practice: Rod Electric Field Without Symmetry14 min

4.8.1. Example: Electric Field of a Ring4 min

4.8.2. Example: Electric Field of a Disk8 min

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

4.9.1. Electric Flux2 min

4.9.2. Example: Electric Flux4 min

4.9.3. Practice: Non-Uniform Flux Through a Round Surface (hard!)6 min

4.10.1. Properties of Conductors1 min

4.10.2. Example: Charges on a Hollow Conducting Sphere58 sec

4.10.3. Practice: Surface Charge Density of a Cylinder2 min

4.11.1. Electric Fields of Special Charge Distributions5 min

4.11.2. Practice: Two Line Charges3 min

4.11.3. Practice: Four Parallel Charged Plates6 min

4.12.1. Gauss’s Law3 min

4.12.2. Example: Gauss's Law and Electric Flux4 min

4.12.3. Example: Charges on a Hollow Conducting Sphere57 sec

4.12.4. Practice: Gauss's Law with a Cube3 min

4.13.1. Gauss's Law with Spherical Symmetries1 min

4.13.2. Example: Gauss's Law for a Spherical Symmetry3 min

4.13.3. Practice: Charges on a Hollow Conducting Sphere4 min

4.13.4. Practice: Gauss's Law for a Spherical Insulator10 min

4.13.5. Practice: Electric Field with an Off-Center Spherical Cavity (hard!)11 min

4.14.1. Gauss's Law with Cylindrical Symmetries2 min

4.14.2. Example: Electric Field from an Infinite Line of Charge3 min

4.14.3. Practice: Concentric Cylindrical Shells4 min

4.14.4. Practice: Electric Field of an Insulating Cylindrical Shell4 min

4.15.1. Gauss's Law with Planar Symmetries2 min

4.15.2. Example: Electric Field from an Infinite Plane of Charge5 min

4.15.3. Practice: Electric Field of a Thick Slab4 min

4.Q. Checkpoint Quiz5 Qns

4.P.1. Suspended charges

4.P.2. Three point charges

4.P.3. Charges in equilibrium

4.P.4. Placing a third charge - x-axis11 min

5. Electric Potential and Potential Energy

3hr

5.1.1. Electric Potential Energy and Work4 min

5.1.2. Practice: Electric potential energy and three charges1 min

5.1.3. Practice: Electric Potential Energy4 min

5.2.1. Electric Potential Energy - Integral Definition5 min

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

5.2.3. Practice: Electric Potential Energy of a Dipole4 min

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

5.3.1. Electric Potential2 min

5.3.2. Example: Electric Potential2 min

5.3.3. Electron volts1 min

5.4.1. Electric Potential of Continuous Charge Distributions2 min

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

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

5.4.4. Practice: Rod with Positive and Negative Charge2 min

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

5.4.6. Practice: Electric Potential of a Ring3 min

5.4.7. Practice: Electric Potential of a Disk11 min

5.5.1. Conservation of Energy3 min

5.5.2. Example: Two Repulsive Charges7 min

5.5.3. Practice: Conservation of Electric Potential Energy9 min

5.6.1. Equipotential Lines and Surfaces3 min

5.6.2. Example: Drawing Equipotential Lines2 min

5.6.3. Practice: Drawing Equipotential Lines3 min

5.6.4. Practice: Equipotential lines and work done2 min

5.6.5. Practice: Electric Potential and Equipotentials5 min

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

5.7.1. Conductors and Electric Potential2 min

5.7.2. Example: Graphing Electric Potential 3 min

5.7.3. Example (important!)3 min

5.7.4. Dielectric Breakdown2 min

5.7.5. Practice: Three Conducting Spheres6 min

5.8.1. Relationship Between Electric Field and Potential3 min

5.8.2. Example: Electric Field and Potential4 min

5.8.3. Example: Graphing Electric Field and Potential7 min

5.8.4. Practice: Graphing Electric Field and Potential8 min

5.9.1. Relationship Between Electric Field and Potential (with calculus)3 min

5.9.2. Example: Electric Field from a Potential3 min

5.9.3. Practice: Electric Potential and Potential Energy of a Conducting Sphere4 min

5.9.4. Practice: Electric Potential and Potential Energy of an Insulating Sphere7 min

5.9.5. Practice: Electron Moving Away from Cylindrical Insulator8 min

5.9.6. Practice: Electric Potential of a Spherical Conducting Shell5 min

5.10.1. Capacitance2 min

5.10.2. Example: Capacitance2 min

5.10.3. Capacitors3 min

5.10.4. Example: Parallel-Plate Capacitors3 min

5.10.5. Dielectrics3 min

5.10.6. Practice: Dielectrics5 min

5.10.7. Practice: Capacitor Filled with Several Materials3 min

5.11.1. Capacitance of Concentric Spheres3 min

5.11.2. Capacitance of Concentric Cylinders4 min

5.12.1. Cheatsheet (no calculus)

5.12.2. Cheatsheet (with calculus)

5.Q. Checkpoint Quiz2 Qns

5.P.1. Practice (Part (c) integral removed from main course in 2.9; copy kept here)

6. Geometric Optics

1.1hr

6.1.1. Reflection1 min

6.1.2. Refraction4 min

6.1.3. Example: Refraction2 min

6.1.4. Practice: Refraction3 min

6.1.5. Practice: Twins in a mirror1 min

6.2.1. Total Internal Reflection2 min

6.2.2. Practice: Total Internal Reflection57 sec

6.2.3. Practice: Rock under the water1 min

6.3.1. Plane Mirrors3 min

6.3.2. Example: Plane Mirror3 min

6.3.3. Practice: Plane Mirror

6.4.1. Concave and Convex Mirrors4 min

6.4.2. Example: Concave Mirror1 min

6.4.3. Practice: Concave Mirror1 min

6.5.1. Mirrors Equation1 min

6.5.2. Example: Convex Mirror2 min

6.5.3. Practice: Concave Mirror2 min

6.6.1. Convex and Concave Lenses3 min

6.6.2. Example: Convex Lens44 sec

6.6.3. Practice: Convex and Concave Lenses1 min

6.7.1. Lenses Equation1 min

6.7.2. Example: Converging vs Diverging Lens2 min

6.7.3. Practice: Convex Lenses3 min

6.8.1. Principal Rays3 min

6.8.2. Real and Virtual Images2 min

6.8.3. Behavior of Mirrors and Lenses4 min

6.9.1. Lensmaker's Equation2 min

6.9.2. Example: Lenses3 min

6.9.3. Practice: Lenses2 min

6.10.1. Aberrations47 sec

6.11.1. The Eye5 min

6.11.2. Example: Myopia3 min

6.11.3. Practice: Contacts vs. Glasses

6.12.1. Angular Size

6.12.2. Microscopes

6.12.3. Telescopes48 sec

6.12.4. Example: compound microscope

6.12.5. Practice: compound microscope

7. Wave Optics

7.1.1. Light Waves

7.1.2. Practice: Electromagnetic Radiation

7.1.3. Practice: Properties of Light Waves

7.2.1. Reflection

7.2.2. Phase Shift at Reflection Boundaries

7.3.1. Double-Slit Interference

7.3.2. Example: Double-slit configuration Fringes

7.3.3. Practice: Double-slit configuration Fringes

7.3.4. Double-Slit Interference (MODIFIED) (Copy)

7.4.1. Effective Path Difference

7.4.2. Example: Double Slit Diffraction

7.4.3. Practice: Double Slit Diffraction

7.4.4. Effective Path Difference

7.5.1. Diffraction as the Spreading of Light

7.5.2. Single Slit Diffraction

7.5.3. Example: Single vs. Double Slit

7.5.4. Practice: Single Slit

7.6.1. Realistic Double Slits

7.6.2. Practice: Double Slits

7.7.1. Diffraction Grating

7.7.2. Example: Diffraction Grating

7.7.3. Practice: Diffraction Grating

7.8.1. Air Wedges

7.8.2. Example: dark fringes

7.8.3. Practice: fringes

7.9.1. Circular Apertures and Resolution

7.9.2. Practice: Optic Power

7.10.1. Thin film Interference

7.10.2. Example: Thin Films

7.10.3. Practice: Thin Films

8. Motion in Two Dimensions

2.9hr

8.1.1. Relative Velocity11 min

8.1.2. Example: : Relative Velocity9 min

8.1.3. Practice: Relative Velocity11 min

8.2.1. Projectile Motion9 min

8.2.2. Example: projectile motion4 min

8.2.3. Practice: Projectile Motion10 min

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

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

8.3.3. Example: Particle Motion in 3D8 min

8.3.4. Practice: Projectile motion

8.4.1. Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration8 min

8.4.2. Non-uniform Circular motion3 min

8.4.3. Example: Centripetal Acceleration

8.4.4. Practice: Circular Motion - Acceleration3 min

8.5.1. Position Vector11 min

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

8.5.3. Practice Question 5: Position Vectors2 min

8.5.4. Practice: Velocity and Acceleration

8.5.5. Example: Velocity and Acceleration8 min

8.5.6. Example: Position from Velocity2 min

8.6.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

8.6.2. Example: Uniform circular motion2 min

8.6.3. Practice: Unifirm Circular Motion5 min

8.6.4. Practice : Circular Motion 1

8.6.5. Practice question

8.7.1. Centripetal force12 min

8.7.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

8.7.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

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

Mock Exams

ME.1. Midterm 1 - Mock Assessment29 Qns

ME.2. Midterm 2 - Mock Assessment12 Qns

ME.3. Final Exam - Mock Assessment41 Qns

PHY 1122 Flashcards

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Density

Defined as mass per unit volume of a fluid, represented as rho = m/V.

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