PHYS-1310

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Course Overview

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. Waves: Mechanical

43min

2.1.1. General Definition of a Traveling Wave

2.1.2. Sinusoidal Waves

2.1.3. Example: Waves

2.1.4. Practice: Waves

2.2.1. Snapshots and History Plots

2.2.2. Example: Wave Graph

2.2.3. Practice: History Plot

2.3.1. Particle Velocity and Acceleration

2.3.2. Example: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration

2.3.3. Practice: Displacement, Velocity, Acceleration

2.4.1. Speed of Waves in Strings

2.4.2. Example: Wave and Tension

2.4.3. Practice: String Mass Density

2.5.1. Transmitted Power and Intensity9 min

2.5.2. Example: Intensity of Sunlight

2.5.3. Practice: Power of a Traveling Wave

2.6.1. Interference and Superposition

2.6.2. Example: Superposition

2.6.3. Practice: Superposition

2.7.1. Standing Waves

2.7.2. Standing Wave Equation

2.7.3. Example: Wavelength of a Standing Wave

2.7.4. Practice: Standing Waves

2.8.1. Standing Waves in Strings with Both Ends Fixed

2.8.2. Example: Standing Wave

2.8.3. Practice: Standing Wave

2.9.1. Standing Waves in Air Pipes

2.9.2. Two Ends Closed

2.9.3. Two Ends Open

2.9.4. One End Open & One End Closed

2.9.5. Example: Standing Waves in Air Pipes

2.9.6. Practice: Standing Waves in Air Pipes

3. Sound & Hearing

15min

3.1.1. Sound Waves Patterns

3.1.2. Example: Sound Pressure and Displacement

3.2.1. Sound Waves

3.2.2. Intensity Shortcut Formula

3.2.3. Example: Sound Intensity

3.2.4. Practice: Sound Wave Intensity

3.2.5. Example: Sound Under Water

3.2.6. Sound Waves Concept Clarifier8 min

3.2.7. Sounds Waves: Speed of Sound2 min

3.2.8. Sound Waves Theory - Intensity5 min

3.3.1. Reflection at Boundaries

3.3.2. Example: Wave Reflection

3.3.3. Practice: Wave Open End Reflection

3.3.4. Example: Wave Reflection and Transmission

3.4.1. Constructive and Destructive Interference

3.4.2. Interference Shortcuts

3.4.3. Sound Wave Interference

3.4.4. Example: Sound - Out of Phase

3.4.5. Practice: Sound - Out of Phase

3.5.1. Beat Frequency

3.5.2. Example: Beat Frequency

3.5.3. Practice: Beat Frequency

3.6.1. Doppler Effect

3.6.2. Example: Doppler Frequency

3.6.3. Practice: Doppler Frequency

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. DC Circuits

4hr

6.1.1. Basics of DC Circuits3 min

6.1.2. Electrical Measurements2 min

6.2.1. Electric Current2 min

6.2.2. Practice: Electric Current2 min

6.2.3. Microscopic Current Definition4 min

6.2.4. Example: Drift Speed6 min

6.2.5. Practice: Current Density and Drift Speed2 min

6.3.1. Resistivity and Conductivity2 min

6.3.2. Example: Resistivity and Conductivity3 min

6.3.3. Practice: Electric Field of a wire4 min

6.4.1. Resistance and Ohm's Law2 min

6.4.2. Example: Electrical Resistance3 min

6.4.3. Practice: Ohm's Law2 min

6.5.1. Temperature Dependent Resistors1 min

6.5.2. Example: Resistivity3 min

6.5.3. Practice: Resistivity5 min

6.6.1. Non-Ohmic Resistors3 min

6.7.1. Resistors in Series and Parallel2 min

6.7.2. Example: Equivalent Resistance2 min

6.7.3. Practice: Equivalent Resistance7 min

6.8.1. Kirchhoff’s Rules6 min

6.8.2. Example: Kirchhoff's Rules7 min

6.8.3. Practice: Kirchhoff's Rules10 min

6.9.1. Power and Brightness3 min

6.9.2. Example: Power and Brightness7 min

6.9.3. Practice: Power and Brightness7 min

6.10.1. Real Batteries and Internal Resistance2 min

6.10.2. Example: Internal Resistance4 min

6.10.3. Practice: Internal Resistance2 min

6.11.1. Capacitors and Capacitance4 min

6.11.2. Different Types of Capacitors1 min

6.11.3. Example: Capacitor3 min

6.11.4. Practice: Charging a Capacitor4 min

6.12.1. Energy Stored in a Capacitor1 min

6.12.2. Example: Energy with Capacitor2 min

6.12.3. Practice: Energy with Capacitor6 min

6.12.4. Electric Energy Density1 min

6.12.5. Practice3 min

6.13.1. Capacitors in Series and Parallel4 min

6.13.2. Example: Capacitors in Series and Parallel5 min

6.13.3. Practice: Capacitors in Series and Parallel8 min

6.14.1. Dielectrics5 min

6.14.2. Example: Dielectrics3 min

6.14.3. Practice: Dielectrics8 min

6.15.1. Charging Capacitor14 min

6.15.2. Discharging Capacitor6 min

6.15.3. Example: Charging a Capacitor7 min

6.15.4. Practice: Charging a Capacitor13 min

6.16.1. Inductors5 min

6.16.2. Inductance2 min

6.16.3. RL Circuits: Rising Current4 min

6.16.4. RL Circuits: Decaying Current3 min

6.16.5. Example: RL Circuit5 min

6.16.6. Practice: RL Circuit6 min

6.17.1. LC Circuits8 min

6.17.2. Example: LC Circuits2 min

6.17.3. Practice: LC Circuits4 min

6.18.1. RLC Circuits7 min

6.18.2. Oscillations in Circuits vs. SHM2 min

6.18.3. Example: LRC Circuit7 min

6.19.1. Grounding in Circuits2 min

6.19.2. Example: Grounding6 min

7. AC Circuits

2.5hr

7.1.1. AC Voltage Sources4 min

7.1.2. Example: AC Circuit3 min

7.1.3. Resistive AC Circuits and AC Current4 min

7.1.4. Practice: Resistive AC Circuit4 min

7.2.1. Reactance2 min

7.2.2. AC Circuits with Capacitors5 min

7.2.3. AC Circuits with Inductors4 min

7.2.4. Example: AC Circuit with an Inductor7 min

7.2.5. Practice: AC Circuit with a Capacitor9 min

7.2.6. Phasors2 min

7.3.1. Impedance4 min

7.3.2. RC circuits (AC)3 min

7.3.3. Example: RC Circuit (AC)9 min

7.3.4. RL Circuits (AC)3 min

7.3.5. Practice: RL Circuit (AC)5 min

7.4.1. RLC Circuits (AC)5 min

7.4.2. Example: RLC Circuit in Series (AC)8 min

7.4.3. Resonance3 min

7.4.4. Practice: RLC Circuit (AC) and Resonance4 min

7.4.5. Practice: RLC Series Circuit (AC)13 min

7.5.1. Power Dissipation in RLC Circuits2 min

7.5.2. Example: Resonance and Power3 min

7.5.3. Practice: Series RLC Circuit (AC)7 min

7.5.4. Practice: Series RLC Circuit (AC)7 min

7.6.1. Parallel RLC circuits (AC)5 min

7.6.2. Example: Parallel RLC Circuit (AC)7 min

7.6.3. Practice: Parallel RLC Circuit (AC)6 min

7.7.1. High-Pass and Low-Pass Filters3 min

7.7.2. Example: High-Pass and Low-Pass RC Filters6 min

8. Magnetic Fields and Magnetic Force

2.6hr

8.1.1. Magnetism and Magnetic Fields2 min

8.1.2. Magnets and Magnetic Materials2 min

8.1.3. Practice: Magnetic Field Lines2 min

8.2.1. Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge5 min

8.2.2. Example: Magnetic Force1 min

8.2.3. Example: Find the direction of magnetic field2 min

8.2.4. Practice: Magnetic Force2 min

8.3.1. Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field3 min

8.3.2. Example: Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field3 min

8.3.3. Example: Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field1 min

8.3.4. Practice: Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field4 min

8.3.5. Practice: Circular Motion in a Magnetic Field2 min

8.3.6. Practice: Helical Motion in a Magnetic Field7 min

8.4.1. Velocity Selectors2 min

8.4.2. Example: Proton Travelling in a Straight Line2 min

8.4.3. Practice: Electron Travelling in a Straight Line3 min

8.5.1. The Hall Effect4 min

8.5.2. Practice: Electron Travelling in a Straight Line4 min

8.6.1. Magnetic Force on a Wire1 min

8.6.2. Magnetic Force on a Wire Element1 min

8.6.3. Example: Magnetic Force on a Wire1 min

8.6.4. Example: Magnetic Force on a Wire (3D)4 min

8.6.5. Practice: Magnetic Force on a Square Wire4 min

8.6.6. Practice: Magnetic Force on a Semi-Circular Wire8 min

8.7.1. Torque on a Current-Carrying Wire3 min

8.7.2. Example: Torque on a Rectangular Current Loop6 min

8.7.3. Practice: Torque on a Circular Current Loop3 min

8.8.1. Biot-Savart Law for a Point Charge3 min

8.8.2. Example: Biot-Savart for a Point Charge8 min

8.8.3. Biot-Savart Law for Currents2 min

8.8.4. Practice: Magnetic Field of a Current Loop (Calculus)3 min

8.9.1. Magnetic Field of Current-Carrying Wires2 min

8.9.2. Example: Magnetic Field Produced by a Wire3 min

8.9.3. Example: Magnetic Field from a Solenoid47 sec

8.9.4. Practice: Two long straight wires4 min

8.9.5. Practice: Magnetic Field of a Loop-de-Loop2 min

8.10.1. Magnetic Force on Parallel Wires3 min

8.10.2. Example: Magnetic Field Between Wires5 min

8.10.3. Practice: Magnetic Field Between Wires4 min

8.11.1. Ampere’s Law1 min

8.11.2. Example: Ampere’s Law3 min

8.11.3. Example: Ampere’s Law4 min

8.11.4. Practice: Ampere's Law - shell

8.11.5. Practice: Ampere's Law - coax7 min

8.11.6. Practice: Ampere's Law - toroid3 min

8.11.7. Practice: Ampere's Law - sheet8 min

8.11.8. Practice: Ampere's law - variable density5 min

8.P.1. Maxwell's Equations and displacement current

8.P.2. Magnetism and free body diagrams

8.P.3. Application: Cyclotron

9. Motion in Two Dimensions

2.9hr

9.1.1. Relative Velocity11 min

9.1.2. Example: : Relative Velocity9 min

9.1.3. Practice: Relative Velocity11 min

9.2.1. Projectile Motion9 min

9.2.2. Example: projectile motion4 min

9.2.3. Practice: Projectile Motion10 min

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

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

9.3.3. Example: Particle Motion in 3D8 min

9.3.4. Practice: Projectile motion

9.4.1. Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Acceleration8 min

9.4.2. Non-uniform Circular motion3 min

9.4.3. Example: Centripetal Acceleration

9.4.4. Practice: Circular Motion - Acceleration3 min

9.5.1. Position Vector11 min

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

9.5.3. Practice Question 5: Position Vectors2 min

9.5.4. Practice: Velocity and Acceleration

9.5.5. Example: Velocity and Acceleration8 min

9.5.6. Example: Position from Velocity2 min

9.6.1. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

9.6.2. Example: Uniform circular motion2 min

9.6.3. Practice: Unifirm Circular Motion5 min

9.6.4. Practice : Circular Motion 1

9.6.5. Practice question

9.7.1. Centripetal force12 min

9.7.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

9.7.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

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

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