PHY 1321

uOttawa

Course Overview

Grade Boosters

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. Thermodynamics

2.5hr

2.1.1. Ideal Gas Law1 min

2.1.2. Example: Ideal Gases 4 min

2.1.3. Practice: Thermodynamics and Ideal Gases3 min

2.1.4. First Law of Thermodynamics5 min

2.3.1. Thermodynamic Processes12 min

2.3.2. Thermodynamics4 min

2.3.3. Example: Adiabatic Processes4 min

2.3.4. Practice: pV Work1 min

2.4.1. PV Diagrams & Thermodynamic Processes5 min

2.4.2. Example: PV Diagram

2.4.3. Practice: First Law of Thermodynamics3 min

2.4.4. Practice: Thermodynamic Processes 5 min

2.5.1. Thermodynamic Cycles 2 min

2.5.2. Example: Thermodynamic Cycle (PV Diagram)

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

2.6.1. Heat Engines & Refrigerators11 min

2.6.2. Example: The Carnot Cycle 11 min

2.6.3. Practice: Otto Cycle13 min

2.7.1. Heat Pumps11 min

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

2.7.3. Practice: Heat Pump

2.8.1. The Laws of Thermodynamics6 min

2.8.2. Example: Entropy

2.8.3. Practice: Entropy

2.9.1. Entropy13 min

2.9.2. Example: Entropy9 min

2.10.1. Thermodynamical Processes in TS – Diagram9 min

2.10.2. Practice: PV and TS Diagrams17 min

3. 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. Motion in Two Dimensions

2.9hr

4.1.1. Relative Velocity11 min

4.1.2. Example: : Relative Velocity9 min

4.1.3. Practice: Relative Velocity11 min

4.2.1. Projectile Motion9 min

4.2.2. Example: projectile motion4 min

4.2.3. Practice: Projectile Motion10 min

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

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

4.3.3. Example: Particle Motion in 3D8 min

4.3.4. Practice: Projectile motion

4.4.1. Position Vector11 min

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

4.4.3. Practice Question 5: Position Vectors2 min

4.4.4. Practice: Velocity and Acceleration

4.4.5. Example: Position from Velocity2 min

4.4.6. Example: Velocity and Acceleration8 min

4.5.1. Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration8 min

4.5.2. Non-uniform Circular motion3 min

4.5.3. Example: Centripetal Acceleration

4.5.4. Practice: Circular Motion - Acceleration3 min

4.6.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

4.6.2. Example: Uniform circular motion2 min

4.6.3. Practice: Unifirm Circular Motion5 min

4.6.4. Practice : Circular Motion 1

4.6.5. Practice question

4.7.1. Centripetal force12 min

4.7.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

4.7.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

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

5. Forces and Newton's Laws

4hr

5.1.1. Free Body Diagrams7 min

5.1.2. Example: Free Body Diagrams 8 min

5.1.3. Practice: Free Body Diagram I

5.1.4. Practice: Free Body Diagram II

5.2.1. Newton's Laws of Motion7 min

5.2.2. Example: Newton's

5.2.3. Practice: Interacting Blocks11 min

5.2.4. Practice: Three books on a table8 min

5.2.5. Practice: Tension

5.3.1. Tension4 min

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

5.3.3. Practice: Box Hanging from To Wires8 min

5.4.1. Normal Force 6 min

5.4.2. Example: Weightlessness6 min

5.4.3. Practice: Man in an elevator

5.5.1. Inclined Surfaces 7 min

5.5.2. Example: Inclined Surface8 min

5.5.3. Practice: Connecting Blocks on an Incline11 min

5.6.1. Kinetic and Static Friction10 min

5.6.2. Rolling Friction2 min

5.6.3. Example: Sliding on Rough Surface8 min

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

5.7.1. Drag Force (Version I)3 min

5.7.2. Drag Force (Version II)3 min

5.7.3. Terminal Velocity6 min

5.7.4. Example: Drag Force (Version I)

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

5.8.1. Propulsion4 min

5.8.2. Practice: Sliding on Friction

5.8.3. Example: Propulsion

5.9.1. Spring Force4 min

5.9.2. Example: Hooke's Law4 min

5.9.3. Practice: Hooke's Law

5.9.4. Practice: Spring Force function graph2 min

5.10.1. Gravitational Force7 min

5.10.2. The Special Case of Earth 4 min

5.10.3. Example: Weight at Higher Elevations6 min

5.10.4. Practice: Gravitational Forces8 min

5.11.1. Electrostatic Force9 min

5.11.2. Example: Coulomb's Law9 min

5.11.3. Practice: Electric Force2 min

5.12.1. Magnetic Force 8 min

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

5.12.3. Example: Magnetic Force on an Electron7 min

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

5.12.5. Practice: Magnetic Field and Current Carrying Wires6 min

5.12.6. Practice: Charge Entering a Magnetic Field 3 min

6. Energy and Work

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. Linear Momentum

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. Centre of Mass

1.8hr

8.1.1. Center of Mass7 min

8.1.2. Center of Mass of Complicated Objects5 min

8.1.4. Practice5 min

8.2.1. Centripetal force12 min

8.2.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

8.2.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

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

8.3.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

8.3.2. Period and Frequency 7 min

8.3.3. Example: Uniform circular motion6 min

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

8.3.5. Practice : Circular Motion - Ball on a String

8.4.1. Non-uniform Circular motion6 min

8.4.2. Example: Non-Circular motion

8.4.3. Practice: Non-Circular Motion - Acceleration3 min

8.5.1. Car Turning Around a Circular Section of Road6 min

8.5.2. Example: Car Around a Circular Flat Ramp4 min

8.5.3. Practice: Car Rounding a Banked Turn8 min

9. Rotational Dynamics I and II

4hr

9.1.1. Torque14 min

9.1.2. Example: Torrque5 min

9.1.3. Practice: Torque9 min

9.2.1. Kinematics Equations for Rotation7 min

9.2.2. Example: Rotating Wheel7 min

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

9.3.1. Moment of Inertia of Discrete Particles3 min

9.3.2. Moment of Inertia3 min

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

9.3.4. Practice: angular momentum - Satellite

9.3.5. Practice: Rotational dynamics - Rotating Blade6 min

9.4.1. Parallel axis theorem3 min

9.4.2. Example: Moment of Inertia16 min

9.4.3. Practice4 min

9.5.1. Rotational Analog of Newton's Second Law2 min

9.5.2. Example: Rotating Rod7 min

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

9.6.1. Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Body4 min

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

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

9.7.1. Rotational Work and Torque6 min

9.7.2. Example: Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Wheel6 min

9.7.3. Practice: Rotational kinetic energy - falling rod6 min

9.7.4. Practice: Objects rolling down a slope10 min

9.8.1. Note for Rolling Motion8 min

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

9.8.3. Practice (Tricky!)14 min

9.9.1. Angular Momentum10 min

9.9.2. Example: Angular Momentum of Pendulum5 min

9.9.3. Practice: Angular Momentum - Spinning Weight5 min

9.10.1. Conservation of Angular Momentum5 min

9.10.2. Example: Angular Momentum Conservation

9.10.3. Practice: Angular Momentum - Spinning Weight5 min

10. Fluids Dynamics

52min

10.1.1. Density of a Fluid6 min

10.1.2. Mass and Density60 sec

10.1.3. Pressure8 min

10.1.4. Example: Gauge Pressure

10.1.5. Practice: Vacuum Lifter

10.2.1. Pascal's Principle4 min

10.2.2. Example: Pressure in U-Tube

10.2.3. Practice: U-Tube Filled with Multiple Fluids

10.3.1. Hydraulic Systems 4 min

10.3.2. Example: Hydraulic Lift

10.3.3. Practice: Hydraulic System

10.4.1. Buoyancy9 min

10.4.2. Example: Buoyant Force

10.4.3. Example: Buoyant Force (Tricky!)

10.4.4. Practice: Buoyant Force

10.5.1. Bernoulli's Principle8 min

10.5.2. Flow Rates and Continuity

10.5.3. Example: Venturi System

10.5.4. Practice: Pressure Leaking Tank (Tricky!)

10.6.1. Viscosity5 min

10.6.2. Practice: Viscosity

10.7.1. Surface Tension and Capillarity6 min

Mock Exam

ME.1. Final Exam - Mock Assessment52 Qns

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