PHYS 120

SFU

Course Overview

Lessons & Practice

I. Welcome

1. Measurement and Vectors

1.6hr

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. Vectors and Their Components5 min

1.4.2. Vector's Magnitude2 min

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

1.4.4. Example: Vector Algebra7 min

1.4.5. Practice 3 min

1.4.6. Practice: Magnitude of a Vector3 min

1.5.1. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Algebraic Method 54 sec

1.5.2. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Graphic Methods9 min

1.5.3. Example: Vector Addition and Subtraction 6 min

1.5.4. Practice: Find Missing Vector

1.5.5. Practice: Resultant of Two Vectors

1.6.1. Dimensional Analysis3 min

1.6.2. Example: Dimensional Analysis7 min

1.6.3. Practice: Dimensional Analysis2 min

1.7.1. Unit Conversion5 min

1.7.2. Example: Unit Conversion4 min

1.7.3. Example: Unit Conversion Practice 2 min

1.7.4. Practice: Counting heartbeats2 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. Motion in One Dimension

3hr

2.I. Chapter Intro3 min

2.1.1. Distance and Displacement ..8 min

2.1.2. Speed and Velocity8 min

2.1.3. Acceleration6 min

2.1.4. Example: Acceleration4 min

2.1.5. Practice: Average speed vs. Average velocity10 min

2.2.1. Motion Diagrams11 min

2.2.2. Example9 min

2.2.3. Practice: Position vs. Time Graphs4 min

2.3.1. One-Dimensional Kinematics 8 min

2.3.2. Example: Deceleration8 min

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

2.4.1. Instantaneous vs. Average Velocity and Acceleration

2.5.1. Kinematic Graphs9 min

2.5.2. Example: Kinematic Graphs3 min

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

2.5.4. Practice: Velocity vs Time Graph9 min

2.6.1. Free Fall1 min

2.6.2. Example: Free Fall7 min

2.6.3. Practice: Free Fall 5 min

2.7.1. Relative Velocity11 min

2.7.2. Example: 9 min

2.7.3. Practice: Relative Velocity11 min

3. Motion in Two and Three Dimensions

1.2hr

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

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

3.1.3. Example: Particle Motion in 3D8 min

3.1.4. Practice: Projectile motion

3.2.1. Projectile Motion9 min

3.2.2. Example: Projectile Motion4 min

3.2.3. Practice: Projectile Motion10 min

3.3.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

3.3.2. Period and Frequency 7 min

3.3.3. Example: Uniform circular motion6 min

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

3.3.5. Practice : Circular Motion - Ball on a String

4. Newton's Laws

2.2hr

4.1.1. Newton's Laws of Motion7 min

4.1.2. Example: Newton's

4.1.3. Practice: Interacting Blocks11 min

4.1.4. Practice: Three books on a table8 min

4.1.5. Practice: Tension

4.2.1. Gravitational Force7 min

4.2.2. The Special Case of Earth 4 min

4.2.3. Example: Weight at Higher Elevations6 min

4.2.4. Practice: Gravitational Forces8 min

4.3.1. Normal Force 6 min

4.3.2. Example: Weightlessness6 min

4.3.3. Practice: Man in an elevator

4.4.1. Inclined Surfaces 7 min

4.4.2. Example: Inclined Surface8 min

4.4.3. Practice: Connecting Blocks on an Incline11 min

4.5.1. Spring Force4 min

4.5.2. Example: Hooke's Law4 min

4.5.3. Practice: Hooke's Law

4.5.4. Practice: Spring Force function graph2 min

4.6.1. Tension4 min

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

4.6.3. Practice: Box Hanging from To Wires8 min

4.7.1. Free Body Diagrams7 min

4.7.2. Example: Free Body Diagrams 8 min

4.7.3. Practice: Free Body Diagram I

4.7.4. Practice: Free Body Diagram II

5. Additional Applications of Newton's Laws

1.8hr

5.1.1. Kinetic and Static Friction10 min

5.1.2. Rolling Friction2 min

5.1.3. Example: Sliding on Rough Surface8 min

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

5.2.1. Drag Force (Version I)3 min

5.2.2. Drag Force (Version II)3 min

5.2.3. Terminal Velocity6 min

5.2.4. Example: Drag Force (Version I)

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

5.3.1. Non-uniform Circular motion6 min

5.3.2. Example: Non-Circular motion

5.3.3. Practice: Non-Circular Motion - Acceleration3 min

5.4.1. Centripetal force12 min

5.4.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

5.4.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

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

5.5.1. Car Turning Around a Circular Section of Road6 min

5.5.2. Example: Car Around a Circular Flat Ramp4 min

5.5.3. Practice: Car Rounding a Banked Turn8 min

6. Work and Kinetic Energy

1.3hr

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. Dot Product or Scalar Product4 min

6.3.2. Example: Dot product2 min

6.3.3. Practice: Dot Product46 sec

6.3.4. Practice: Concept Clarifier2 min

6.4.1. Work-energy theorem7 min

6.4.2. Example: Work-Energy Theorem11 min

6.4.3. Practice: work and energy - PE

6.4.4. Practice: Spring and slope problem6 min

6.4.5. Practice: work done2 min

7. Conservation of Energy

1hr

7.1.1. Conservation of Energy9 min

7.1.2. Example: Work Done by Friction12 min

7.1.3. Practice13 min

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

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

7.2.3. Example: Non-Conservative Forces

7.2.4. Practice: Conservative Forces

7.3.1. Chemical (Food) Energy7 min

7.3.2. Example: Food Energy

7.3.3. Practice: Converting Food to Kinetic Energy

7.4.1. The Atom and the Elements2 min

7.4.2. Nuclear Forces and Binding Energy 3 min

7.4.3. Practice: Binding Energy4 min

7.5.1. Photons (Light = Particle)

7.5.2. de Broglie Wavelength (Particles = Waves)

7.5.3. Example: de Broglie wavelength

7.5.4. Practice: Light Particles

8. Conservation of Linear Momentum

2hr

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. Example: Collision2 min

8.2.3. Practice: Conservation of Momentum - 2 Carts8 min

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

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

8.3.1. Example: Shell Explosion

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

8.3.3. Momentum Conservation in 2D Collisions5 min

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

8.3.5. Momentum and Impulse3 min

8.4.1. Elastic Collision3 min

8.4.2. Elastic Collision with One Object Initially at Rest12 min

8.4.3. Inelastic Collision3 min

8.4.4. Perfectly Inelastic Collision4 min

8.4.5. Example: Inelastic Collision8 min

8.4.6. Practice: Inelastic Collisions4 min

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

8.5.1. Momentum Conservation in the Center of Mass Frame5 min

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

8.6.1. Propulsion4 min

8.6.2. Practice: Sliding on Friction

8.6.3. Example: Propulsion

9. Rotation

2.8hr

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. Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Body4 min

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

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

9.4.1. Moment of Inertia of Discrete Particles3 min

9.4.2. Moment of Inertia3 min

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

9.4.4. Practice: angular momentum - Satellite

9.4.5. Practice: Rotational dynamics - Rotating Blade6 min

9.5.1. Parallel axis theorem3 min

9.5.2. Example: Moment of Inertia16 min

9.5.3. Practice4 min

9.6.1. Rotational Analog of Newton's Second Law2 min

9.6.2. Example: Rotating Rod7 min

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

9.7.1. Note for Rolling Motion8 min

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

9.7.3. Practice (Tricky!)14 min

10. Angular Momentum

1.3hr

10.1.1. Cross Product10 min

10.1.2. Right Hand Rule5 min

10.1.3. Example: Cross Product4 min

10.1.4. Practice: Cross Product

10.1.5. Practice: Cross Product2 min

10.2.1. Rotational Work and Torque6 min

10.2.2. Example: Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Wheel6 min

10.2.3. Practice: Rotational kinetic energy - falling rod6 min

10.2.4. Practice: Objects rolling down a slope10 min

10.3.1. Angular Momentum10 min

10.3.2. Example: Angular Momentum of Pendulum5 min

10.3.3. Practice: Angular Momentum - Spinning Weight5 min

10.4.1. Conservation of Angular Momentum5 min

10.4.2. Example: Angular Momentum Conservation

10.4.3. Practice: Angular Momentum - Spinning Weight5 min

11. Special Relativity

11min

11.1.1. Lorentz Transformations

11.1.2. Time Dilation and Length Contraction2 min

11.1.3. Example: Special Relativity1 min

11.1.4. Practice: Special Relativity59 sec

11.1.5. Relativistic Velocity Transformations54 sec

11.1.6. Relativistic Momentum and Energy

11.1.7. Practice: Special Relativity5 min

12. Gravity

41min

12.1.1. Satellites and Objects in Orbits 6 min

12.1.2. Orbital Energies10 min

12.1.3. Kepler's Laws12 min

12.1.4. Example: Satellites Around Earth8 min

12.1.5. Practice: Satellite Orbital Periods5 min

13. Equilibrium & Elasticity

1.7hr

13.1.1. Static Equilibrium3 min

13.1.2. Example: Static Equilibrium of a Ladder15 min

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

13.2.1. Center of Mass7 min

13.2.2. Center of Mass of Complicated Objects5 min

13.2.3. Example: Center of Mass

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

13.3.1. Stress and Strain33 min

13.3.2. Elastic Properties of Solids3 min

13.3.3. Practice: Thermal Stress21 min

13.4.1. Stability

14. Sound & Hearing

15min

14.1.1. Sound Waves Patterns

14.1.2. Example: Sound Pressure and Displacement

14.2.1. Sound Waves

14.2.2. Intensity Shortcut Formula

14.2.3. Example: Sound Intensity

14.2.4. Practice: Sound Wave Intensity

14.2.5. Example: Sound Under Water

14.2.6. Sound Waves Concept Clarifier8 min

14.2.7. Sounds Waves: Speed of Sound2 min

14.2.8. Sound Waves Theory - Intensity5 min

14.3.1. Reflection at Boundaries

14.3.2. Example: Wave Reflection

14.3.3. Practice: Wave Open End Reflection

14.3.4. Example: Wave Reflection and Transmission

14.4.1. Constructive and Destructive Interference

14.4.2. Interference Shortcuts

14.4.3. Sound Wave Interference

14.4.4. Example: Sound - Out of Phase

14.4.5. Practice: Sound - Out of Phase

14.5.1. Beat Frequency

14.5.2. Example: Beat Frequency

14.5.3. Practice: Beat Frequency

14.6.1. Doppler Effect

14.6.2. Example: Doppler Frequency

14.6.3. Practice: Doppler Frequency

15. Motion in Two Dimensions

2.9hr

15.1.1. Relative Velocity11 min

15.1.2. Example: : Relative Velocity9 min

15.1.3. Practice: Relative Velocity11 min

15.2.1. Projectile Motion9 min

15.2.2. Example: projectile motion4 min

15.2.3. Practice: Projectile Motion10 min

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

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

15.3.3. Example: Particle Motion in 3D8 min

15.3.4. Practice: Projectile motion

15.4.1. Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration8 min

15.4.2. Non-uniform Circular motion3 min

15.4.3. Example: Centripetal Acceleration

15.4.4. Practice: Circular Motion - Acceleration3 min

15.5.1. Position Vector11 min

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

15.5.3. Practice Question 5: Position Vectors2 min

15.5.4. Practice: Velocity and Acceleration

15.5.5. Example: Velocity and Acceleration8 min

15.5.6. Example: Position from Velocity2 min

15.6.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

15.6.2. Example: Uniform circular motion2 min

15.6.3. Practice: Unifirm Circular Motion5 min

15.6.4. Practice : Circular Motion 1

15.6.5. Practice question

15.7.1. Centripetal force12 min

15.7.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

15.7.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

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

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