PHYC 1320

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Course Overview

Lessons & Practice

I. Welcome

1. Geometric Optics

1.1hr

1.1.1. Reflection1 min

1.1.2. Refraction4 min

1.1.3. Example: Refraction2 min

1.1.4. Practice: Refraction3 min

1.1.5. Practice: Twins in a mirror1 min

1.2.1. Total Internal Reflection2 min

1.2.2. Practice: Total Internal Reflection57 sec

1.2.3. Practice: Rock under the water1 min

1.3.1. Plane Mirrors3 min

1.3.2. Example: Plane Mirror3 min

1.3.3. Practice: Plane Mirror

1.4.1. Concave and Convex Mirrors4 min

1.4.2. Example: Concave Mirror1 min

1.4.3. Practice: Concave Mirror1 min

1.5.1. Mirrors Equation1 min

1.5.2. Example: Convex Mirror2 min

1.5.3. Practice: Concave Mirror2 min

1.6.1. Convex and Concave Lenses3 min

1.6.2. Example: Convex Lens44 sec

1.6.3. Practice: Convex and Concave Lenses1 min

1.7.1. Lenses Equation1 min

1.7.2. Example: Converging vs Diverging Lens2 min

1.7.3. Practice: Convex Lenses3 min

1.8.1. Principal Rays3 min

1.8.2. Real and Virtual Images2 min

1.8.3. Behavior of Mirrors and Lenses4 min

1.9.1. Lensmaker's Equation2 min

1.9.2. Example: Lenses3 min

1.9.3. Practice: Lenses2 min

1.10.1. Aberrations47 sec

1.11.1. The Eye5 min

1.11.2. Example: Myopia3 min

1.11.3. Practice: Contacts vs. Glasses

1.12.1. Angular Size

1.12.2. Microscopes

1.12.3. Telescopes48 sec

1.12.4. Example: compound microscope

1.12.5. Practice: compound microscope

2. Wave Optics

2.1.1. Light Waves

2.1.2. Practice: Electromagnetic Radiation

2.1.3. Practice: Properties of Light Waves

2.2.1. Reflection

2.2.2. Phase Shift at Reflection Boundaries

2.3.1. Double-Slit Interference

2.3.2. Example: Double-slit configuration Fringes

2.3.3. Practice: Double-slit configuration Fringes

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

2.4.1. Effective Path Difference

2.4.2. Example: Double Slit Diffraction

2.4.3. Practice: Double Slit Diffraction

2.4.4. Effective Path Difference

2.5.1. Diffraction as the Spreading of Light

2.5.2. Single Slit Diffraction

2.5.3. Example: Single vs. Double Slit

2.5.4. Practice: Single Slit

2.6.1. Realistic Double Slits

2.6.2. Practice: Double Slits

2.7.1. Diffraction Grating

2.7.2. Example: Diffraction Grating

2.7.3. Practice: Diffraction Grating

2.8.1. Air Wedges

2.8.2. Example: dark fringes

2.8.3. Practice: fringes

2.9.1. Circular Apertures and Resolution

2.9.2. Practice: Optic Power

2.10.1. Thin film Interference

2.10.2. Example: Thin Films

2.10.3. Practice: Thin Films

3. Electrostatic Forces and Electric Fields

4hr

3.1.1. Properties of Charge2 min

3.1.2. Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charge2 min

3.1.3. Practice: Electrical Grounding1 min

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

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

3.9.1. Electric Flux2 min

3.9.2. Example: Electric Flux4 min

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

3.10.1. Properties of Conductors1 min

3.10.2. Example: Charges on a Hollow Conducting Sphere58 sec

3.10.3. Practice: Surface Charge Density of a Cylinder2 min

3.11.1. Electric Fields of Special Charge Distributions5 min

3.11.2. Practice: Two Line Charges3 min

3.11.3. Practice: Four Parallel Charged Plates6 min

3.12.1. Gauss’s Law3 min

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

3.12.3. Example: Charges on a Hollow Conducting Sphere57 sec

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

3.13.1. Gauss's Law with Spherical Symmetries1 min

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

3.13.3. Practice: Charges on a Hollow Conducting Sphere4 min

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

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

3.14.1. Gauss's Law with Cylindrical Symmetries2 min

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

3.14.3. Practice: Concentric Cylindrical Shells4 min

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

3.15.1. Gauss's Law with Planar Symmetries2 min

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

3.15.3. Practice: Electric Field of a Thick Slab4 min

3.Q. Checkpoint Quiz5 Qns

3.P.1. Suspended charges

3.P.2. Three point charges

3.P.3. Charges in equilibrium

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

4. Electric Potential and Potential Energy

3hr

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. Conductors and Electric Potential2 min

4.7.2. Example: Graphing Electric Potential 3 min

4.7.3. Example (important!)3 min

4.7.4. Dielectric Breakdown2 min

4.7.5. Practice: Three Conducting Spheres6 min

4.8.1. Relationship Between Electric Field and Potential3 min

4.8.2. Example: Electric Field and Potential4 min

4.8.3. Example: Graphing Electric Field and Potential7 min

4.8.4. Practice: Graphing Electric Field and Potential8 min

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

4.9.2. Example: Electric Field from a Potential3 min

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

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

4.9.5. Practice: Electron Moving Away from Cylindrical Insulator8 min

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

4.10.1. Capacitance2 min

4.10.2. Example: Capacitance2 min

4.10.3. Capacitors3 min

4.10.4. Example: Parallel-Plate Capacitors3 min

4.10.5. Dielectrics3 min

4.10.6. Practice: Dielectrics5 min

4.10.7. Practice: Capacitor Filled with Several Materials3 min

4.11.1. Capacitance of Concentric Spheres3 min

4.11.2. Capacitance of Concentric Cylinders4 min

4.12.1. Cheatsheet (no calculus)

4.12.2. Cheatsheet (with calculus)

4.Q. Checkpoint Quiz2 Qns

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

5. Circuits

4hr

5.1.1. Basics of DC Circuits3 min

5.1.2. Electrical Measurements2 min

5.2.1. Electric Current2 min

5.2.2. Practice: Electric Current2 min

5.2.3. Microscopic Current Definition4 min

5.2.4. Example: Drift Speed6 min

5.2.5. Practice: Current Density and Drift Speed2 min

5.3.1. Resistivity and Conductivity2 min

5.3.2. Example: Resistivity and Conductivity3 min

5.3.3. Practice: Electric Field of a wire4 min

5.4.1. Resistance and Ohm's Law2 min

5.4.2. Example: Electrical Resistance3 min

5.4.3. Practice: Ohm's Law2 min

5.5.1. Temperature Dependent Resistors1 min

5.5.2. Example: Resistivity3 min

5.5.3. Practice: Resistivity5 min

5.6.1. Non-Ohmic Resistors3 min

5.7.1. Resistors in Series and Parallel2 min

5.7.2. Example: Equivalent Resistance2 min

5.7.3. Practice: Equivalent Resistance7 min

5.8.1. Kirchhoff’s Rules6 min

5.8.2. Example: Kirchhoff's Rules7 min

5.8.3. Practice: Kirchhoff's Rules10 min

5.9.1. Power and Brightness3 min

5.9.2. Example: Power and Brightness7 min

5.9.3. Practice: Power and Brightness7 min

5.10.1. Real Batteries and Internal Resistance2 min

5.10.2. Example: Internal Resistance4 min

5.10.3. Practice: Internal Resistance2 min

5.11.1. Capacitors and Capacitance4 min

5.11.2. Different Types of Capacitors1 min

5.11.3. Example: Capacitor3 min

5.11.4. Practice: Charging a Capacitor4 min

5.12.1. Energy Stored in a Capacitor1 min

5.12.2. Example: Energy with Capacitor2 min

5.12.3. Practice: Energy with Capacitor6 min

5.12.4. Electric Energy Density1 min

5.12.5. Practice3 min

5.13.1. Capacitors in Series and Parallel4 min

5.13.2. Example: Capacitors in Series and Parallel5 min

5.13.3. Practice: Capacitors in Series and Parallel8 min

5.14.1. Dielectrics5 min

5.14.2. Example: Dielectrics3 min

5.14.3. Practice: Dielectrics8 min

5.15.1. Charging Capacitor14 min

5.15.2. Discharging Capacitor6 min

5.15.3. Example: Charging a Capacitor7 min

5.15.4. Practice: Charging a Capacitor13 min

5.16.1. Inductors5 min

5.16.2. Inductance2 min

5.16.3. RL Circuits: Rising Current4 min

5.16.4. RL Circuits: Decaying Current3 min

5.16.5. Example: RL Circuit5 min

5.16.6. Practice: RL Circuit6 min

5.17.1. LC Circuits8 min

5.17.2. Example: LC Circuits2 min

5.17.3. Practice: LC Circuits4 min

5.18.1. RLC Circuits7 min

5.18.2. Oscillations in Circuits vs. SHM2 min

5.18.3. Example: LRC Circuit7 min

5.19.1. Grounding in Circuits2 min

5.19.2. Example: Grounding6 min

6. Modern Physics

52min

6.1.1. The Atom and the Elements2 min

6.1.2. Nuclear Forces and Binding Energy 3 min

6.1.3. Practice: Binding Energy4 min

6.2.1. Radioactive Decays2 min

6.2.2. Alpha Decay2 min

6.2.3. Example: Alpha Decay

6.2.4. Practice: Alpha Decay

6.3.1. Beta Decay52 sec

6.3.2. Beta Negative Decay2 min

6.3.3. Beta Positive Decay2 min

6.3.4. Electron Capture1 min

6.3.5. Example: Decays 4 min

6.3.6. Practice: Decays 3 min

6.4.1. Gamma Decay2 min

6.5.1. Radioactive Decays2 min

6.5.2. Half-Life2 min

6.5.3. Example: Half-Life3 min

6.5.4. Practice: Half-Life2 min

6.6.1. Carbon Dating

6.6.2. Example: Carbon Dating

6.6.3. Practice: Half-Life

6.7.1. Photons (Light = Particle)

6.7.2. de Broglie Wavelength (Particles = Waves)

6.7.3. Example: de Broglie wavelength

6.7.4. Practice: Light Particles

6.8.1. The Compton Effect2 min

6.8.2. Example: Compton Effect1 min

6.8.3. Practice: Compton Effect5 min

6.9.1. Bohr's Model of the Atom

6.9.2. Example: Bohr's Model

6.9.3. Practice: electron shell transitions

6.10.1. The Photoelectric Effect4 min

6.10.2. Example: The Photoelectric Effect43 sec

6.10.3. Practice: The Photoelectric Effect2 min

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

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