PHYS 102A

UVIC

Course Overview

Lessons & Practice

I. Welcome

1. Introduction: The Nature of Science and Physics

1.6hr

1.1.2. Example: Converting between units4 min

1.1.3. Practice: Volume Conversion

1.2.1. Unit Conversion5 min

1.2.2. Example: Unit Conversion4 min

1.2.3. Example: Unit Conversion Practice 2 min

1.2.4. Practice: Counting heartbeats2 min

1.3.1. Significant Figures5 min

1.3.2. Significant Figures in Calculations7 min

1.3.3. Example: Significant Figures4 min

1.3.4. Practice: Significant Figures

1.3.5. Practice: Significant Figures

1.4.1. Percent Error2 min

1.4.2. Example: Percent Error2 min

1.4.3. Practice: Percent Error

1.5.1. Vectors and Their Components5 min

1.5.2. Vector's Magnitude2 min

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

1.5.4. Example: Vector Algebra7 min

1.5.5. Practice 3 min

1.5.6. Practice: Magnitude of a Vector3 min

1.6.1. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Algebraic Method 54 sec

1.6.2. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Graphic Methods9 min

1.6.3. Example: Vector Addition and Subtraction 6 min

1.6.4. Practice: Find Missing Vector

1.6.5. Practice: Resultant of Two Vectors

1.7.1. Dimensional Analysis3 min

1.7.2. Example: Dimensional Analysis7 min

1.7.3. Practice: Dimensional Analysis2 min

1.8.1. Orders of Magnitude4 min

1.9.1. Scientific Notation

1.9.2. Example: Scientific Notation

1.9.3. Practice: Scientific Notation

2. One-Dimensional Kinematics

3hr

3. Two-Dimensional Kinematics

1.1hr

3.1.1. Vectors and Their Components5 min

3.1.2. Vector's Magnitude2 min

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

3.1.4. Example7 min

3.1.5. Practice 3 min

3.2.1. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Graphic Methods9 min

3.2.2. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Algebraic Method 54 sec

3.2.3. Example6 min

3.3.1. Projectile Motion9 min

3.3.2. Example4 min

3.3.3. Practice10 min

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

1.6hr

4.1.1. Free Body Diagrams7 min

4.1.2. Example8 min

4.2.1. Newton's Laws of Motion7 min

4.2.2. Practice 11 min

4.3.1. Normal Force 6 min

4.3.2. Example6 min

4.4.1. Inclined Surfaces 7 min

4.4.2. Example8 min

4.4.3. Practice11 min

4.5.1. Tension4 min

4.5.2. Example7 min

4.5.3. Practice8 min

4.6.1. Spring Force4 min

4.6.2. Practice2 min

5. Further Applications of Newton's Laws: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity

1.6hr

5.1.1. Kinetic and Static Friction10 min

5.1.2. Example8 min

5.1.3. Practice (Tricky!)6 min

5.2.1. Drag Force (Version II)3 min

5.2.2. Terminal Velocity6 min

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

5.3.1. Stress and Strain33 min

5.3.2. Elastic Properties of Solids3 min

5.3.3. Practice: Thermal Stress21 min

6. Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation

1.5hr

6.1.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

6.1.2. Period and Frequency 7 min

6.1.3. Example: Uniform circular motion6 min

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

6.1.5. Practice : Circular Motion - Ball on a String

6.2.1. Centripetal force12 min

6.2.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

6.2.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

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

6.3.1. Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation6 min

6.3.2. Weight far away from Earth3 min

6.3.3. Practice: "g" on different planets

6.3.4. General Gravitatonal Potential Energy3 min

6.4.1. Orbits and Energy3 min

6.4.2. Practice: Orbiting problems5 min

6.4.3. Escape Speed2 min

6.4.4. Example: The event horizon3 min

6.4.5. Kepler's Laws3 min

6.4.6. Practice: Kepler's third law example2 min

7. Work, Energy, and Energy Resources

2.3hr

7.1.1. Mechanical Work10 min

7.1.2. Example4 min

7.1.3. Practice15 min

7.1.4. Work Done by a Single Force5 min

7.1.5. Example: Work Done by a Single Force3 min

7.1.6. Practice: Work Done by a Single Force8 min

7.2.1. Work-energy theorem7 min

7.2.2. Example11 min

7.2.3. Example: The Work-Energy Theorem8 min

7.2.4. Practice: The Work-Energy Theorem7 min

7.3.1. Conservation of Energy9 min

7.3.2. Example 12 min

7.3.3. Practice13 min

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

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

7.5.1. Power3 min

7.5.2. Example4 min

7.5.3. Practice7 min

8. Linear Momentum and Collisions

2.1hr

8.1.1. Momentum and Impulse (Basic)3 min

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

8.1.3. Example: Impulse on a Soccer Ball3 min

8.1.4. Practice: Impulse on a Ball Hitting Wall11 min

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

8.2.1. Conservation of momentum12 min

8.2.2. Practice: Conservation of Momentum - 2 Carts8 min

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

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

8.2.5. Example: Collision2 min

8.3.1. Elastic Collision3 min

8.3.2. Elastic Collision with One Object Initially at Rest12 min

8.3.3. Inelastic Collision3 min

8.3.4. Perfectly Inelastic Collision4 min

8.3.5. Example: Inelastic Collision8 min

8.3.6. Practice: Inelastic Collisions4 min

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

8.4.1. Momentum Conservation in 2D Collisions5 min

8.4.2. Example: Shell Explosion

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

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

8.4.5. Momentum and Impulse3 min

8.5.1. Center of Mass7 min

8.5.2. Center of Mass of Complicated Objects5 min

8.5.4. Practice5 min

9. Statics and Torque

1.3hr

9.1.1. Torque14 min

9.1.2. Example: Torrque5 min

9.1.3. Practice: Torque9 min

9.2.1. Static Equilibrium3 min

9.2.2. Example15 min

9.2.3. Practice13 min

9.3.1. Center of Mass7 min

9.3.2. Center of Mass of Complicated Objects5 min

9.3.4. Practice5 min

9.4.1. Stability

10. Fluid Statics

1.1hr

10.1.1. Density6 min

10.1.2. Pressure8 min

10.1.3. Example6 min

10.1.4. Practice

10.1.5. Mass and Density60 sec

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. Buoyancy9 min

10.3.2. Example: Buoyant Force

10.3.3. Example: Buoyant Force (Tricky!)

10.3.4. Practice: Buoyant Force

10.4.1. Surface Tension and Capillarity4 min

10.4.2. Viscosity9 min

10.4.3. Practice

10.5.1. Flow Rates and Continuity8 min

10.5.2. Bernoulli's Principle11 min

10.5.3. Example: Venturi System

10.5.4. Practice: Pressure Leaking Tank (Tricky!)

11. Temperature, Kinetic Theory, and the Gas Laws

1.6hr

11.1.1. Thermal Equilibrium6 min

11.1.2. Example: Temperature Scales

11.1.3. Practice: Temperature Scales

11.2.1. Linear Expansion3 min

11.2.2. Area Expansion6 min

11.2.3. Example: Thermal Expansion5 min

11.2.4. Volume Expansion4 min

11.2.5. Practice: Thermal Expansion10 min

11.3.1. Thermal Stress and Strain33 min

11.3.2. Example: Thermal Stress11 min

11.3.3. Practice: Thermal Stress21 min

12. Heat and Heat Transfer Methods

1.5hr

12.1.1. Heat3 min

12.1.2. Temperature Scales

12.1.3. Heat & Temperature

12.1.4. Heat Concept Clarifier6 min

12.2.1. Thermal Equilibrium6 min

12.2.2. Thermal Contact and Thermal Equilibrium2 min

12.2.3. Example: Thermal equilibrium59 sec

12.3.1. Specific Heat & Calorimetry

12.3.2. Specific Heat & Calorimetry

12.3.3. Phase Change Practice Question 8 min

12.3.4. Specific Heat and Calorimetry15 min

12.4.1. Heat Capacity, specific heat and latent heat of phase change6 min

12.4.2. Phase Change5 min

12.4.3. Example: Heat 11 min

12.4.4. Example: Heat 22 min

12.4.5. Practice: Heat 144 sec

12.4.6. Practice: Heat 24 min

12.5.1. Heat Transfer Through Conduction3 min

12.5.2. Example: Heat Transfer2 min

12.6.1. Heat Transfer Through Radiation12 min

12.6.2. Example: Radiation4 min

12.6.3. Absorption7 min

12.7.1. Sun & Earth model4 min

12.8.1. New Practice Question

12.8.2. New Practice Question

12.8.3. New Practice Question

12.8.4. New Practice Question

12.8.5. New Practice Question

12.8.6. New Practice Question

12.8.7. New Practice Question

12.8.8. New Practice Question

12.8.9. New Practice Question

12.8.10. New Practice Question

12.8.11. New Practice Question

12.8.12. New Practice Question

12.8.13. New Practice Question

12.P.1. Practice Question 1

12.P.2. Practice Question 2

12.P.3. Practice Question 3

12.P.4. Practice Question 4

12.P.5. Practice Question 5

Mock Exams

ME.1. PHYS 102A: Midterm Exam - Mock Assessment36 Qns

ME.2. PHYS 102A: Final - Exam Like Practice Problem Set29 Qns

Final Exam Overview

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