PHYS-1400

uWindsor

Course Overview

Lessons & Practice

I. Welcome

1. Introduction, Measurement, Estimating

1hr

1.1.1. Significant Figures5 min

1.1.2. Significant Figures in Calculations7 min

1.1.3. Example: Significant Figures4 min

1.1.4. Percent Error2 min

1.1.5. Example2 min

1.1.6. Practice: Significant Figures

1.1.7. Practice: Significant Figures

1.2.2. Scientific Notation

1.2.3. Example: Converting between units4 min

1.2.4. Practice: Volume Conversion

1.3.1. Unit Conversion5 min

1.3.2. Scientific Notation

1.3.3. Example: Unit Conversion4 min

1.3.4. Example: Unit Conversion Practice 2 min

1.3.5. Practice: Counting heartbeats2 min

1.4.1. Orders of Magnitude4 min

1.5.1. Dimensional Analysis3 min

1.5.2. Example: Dimensional Analysis7 min

1.5.3. Example: Dimensional Analysis7 min

1.5.4. Practice: Dimensional Analysis2 min

1.6.1. Scientific Notation

1.6.2. Example: Scientific Notation

1.6.3. Practice: Scientific Notation

2. Describing Motion: Kinematics in One Dimension

6hr

2.I. Chapter Intro3 min

2.1.1. Distance and Displacement Theory5 min

2.1.2. Distance and Displacement ..8 min

2.1.3. Speed and Velocity Theory5 min

2.1.4. Speed and Velocity8 min

2.1.5. Acceleration Theory7 min

2.1.6. Acceleration6 min

2.1.7. Example: Acceleration4 min

2.1.8. Practice: Average speed vs. Average velocity10 min

2.2.1. Speed and Velocity8 min

2.2.2. Practice10 min

2.2.3. Practice: Rocket man4 min

2.3.1. Acceleration6 min

2.3.2. Example4 min

2.3.3. Practice: Falling object3 min

2.4.1. One Dimensional motion (with Constant Acceleration)

2.4.2. x–t and v-t graphs16 min

2.4.3. Acceleration Concept Clarifiers34 min

2.5.1. One-Dimensional Kinematics 8 min

2.5.2. Example: Deceleration8 min

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

2.6.1. Motion Diagrams11 min

2.6.2. Example9 min

2.6.3. Practice: Position vs. Time Graphs4 min

2.7.1. Kinematic Graphs9 min

2.7.2. Motion Diagrams11 min

2.7.3. Example3 min

2.7.4. Example9 min

2.7.5. Acceleration Concept Clarifiers34 min

2.7.6. Practice9 min

2.7.7. Practice (Tricky!)27 min

2.7.8. Practice: Position vs. Time Graphs4 min

2.8.1. One-Dimensional Kinematics 8 min

2.8.2. Example8 min

2.8.3. Practice12 min

2.8.4. Kinematics Questions9 Qns

2.9.1. Free Fall1 min

2.9.2. Example: Free Fall7 min

2.9.3. Practice: Free Fall 5 min

3. Kinematics in Two or Three Dimensions; Vectors

2.3hr

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. Example: Vector Algebra7 min

3.1.5. Practice 3 min

3.1.6. Practice: Magnitude of a Vector3 min

3.2.1. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Algebraic Method 54 sec

3.2.2. Vector Addition and Subtraction: Graphic Methods9 min

3.2.3. Example: Vector Addition and Subtraction 6 min

3.2.4. Practice: Find Missing Vector

3.2.5. Practice: Resultant of Two Vectors

3.3.1. Addition of 2D Forces (Components / SOH.CAH.TOA.)7 min

3.3.2. Example: Vectors and Rectangular Components

3.3.3. Practice: Walking to the store2 min

3.3.4. Practice: Vectors and Rectangular Components

3.4.1. unit vectors5 min

3.4.2. Wize Concept Clarifier--Unit Vector2 min

3.4.3. Unit Vectors2 min

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

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

3.5.3. Example: Particle Motion in 3D8 min

3.5.4. Practice: Projectile motion

3.6.1. Projectile Motion9 min

3.6.2. Example: Projectile Motion4 min

3.6.3. Practice: Projectile Motion10 min

3.7.1. Relative Velocity11 min

3.7.2. Example: 9 min

3.7.3. Practice: Relative Velocity11 min

5. Using Newton's Laws: Friction, Circular Motion, and Drag Forces

2.2hr

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. Uniform Circular Motion6 min

5.2.2. Period and Frequency 7 min

5.2.3. Example: Uniform circular motion6 min

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

5.2.5. Practice : Circular Motion - Ball on a String

5.3.1. Centripetal force12 min

5.3.2. Example: Circular Motion with Changing Radii3 min

5.3.3. Practice: Circular Motion - Vertical Circle8 min

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

5.4.1. Car Turning Around a Circular Section of Road6 min

5.4.2. Example: Car Around a Circular Flat Ramp4 min

5.4.3. Practice: Car Rounding a Banked Turn8 min

5.5.1. Non-uniform Circular motion6 min

5.5.2. Example: Non-Circular motion

5.5.3. Practice: Non-Circular Motion - Acceleration3 min

5.6.1. Drag Force (Version I)3 min

5.6.2. Drag Force (Version II)3 min

5.6.3. Terminal Velocity6 min

5.6.4. Example: Drag Force (Version I)

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

6. Newton's Law of 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 and Energy

1.3hr

7.1.1. Mechanical Work10 min

7.1.2. Example: Positive vs. Negative Work4 min

7.1.3. Practice: Work Involving Incline Surface (Ramp)15 min

7.2.1. Dot Product or Scalar Product4 min

7.2.2. Example: Dot product2 min

7.2.3. Practice: Dot Product46 sec

7.2.4. Practice: Concept Clarifier2 min

7.3.1. Mechanical Work13 min

7.3.2. Example: Work Done by a Varying Force (Calc-Based)

7.3.3. Practice: Work Done by Varying Force

7.4.1. Work-energy theorem7 min

7.4.2. Example: Work-Energy Theorem11 min

7.4.3. Practice: work and energy - PE

7.4.4. Practice: Spring and slope problem6 min

7.4.5. Practice: work done2 min

8. Conservation of Energy

1.2hr

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

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

8.1.3. Example: Non-Conservative Forces

8.1.4. Practice: Conservative Forces

8.2.1. Potential Energy3 min

8.3.1. Mechanical energy3 min

8.3.2. Conservation of mechanical energy Example Problem4 min

8.3.3. Conservation of Energy

8.4.1. Conservation of Energy9 min

8.4.2. Example: Work Done by Friction12 min

8.4.3. Practice13 min

8.5.1. Non-Conservative Forces

8.6.1. Gravitational Energy Theory

8.6.2. Kinetic Energy, Gravitational Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy Problem4 min

8.6.3. Escape Speed

8.7.1. Power3 min

8.7.2. Example: Power in Lifting4 min

8.7.3. Practice: Towing a Car7 min

8.8.1. Slingshot Practice Question

9. Linear Momentum

2.3hr

9.1.1. Momentum and Impulse (Basic)3 min

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

9.1.3. Example: Impulse on a Soccer Ball3 min

9.1.4. Practice: Impulse on a Ball Hitting Wall11 min

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

9.2.1. Conservation of momentum12 min

9.2.2. Example: Collision2 min

9.2.3. Practice: Conservation of Momentum - 2 Carts8 min

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

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

9.3.1. Elastic Collision3 min

9.3.2. Elastic Collision with One Object Initially at Rest12 min

9.4.1. Inelastic Collision3 min

9.4.2. Perfectly Inelastic Collision4 min

9.4.3. Example8 min

9.4.4. Practice4 min

9.4.5. Practice (Tricky!)7 min

9.5.1. Example: Shell Explosion

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

9.5.3. Momentum Conservation in 2D Collisions5 min

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

9.5.5. Momentum and Impulse3 min

9.6.1. Center of Mass7 min

9.6.2. Center of Mass of Complicated Objects5 min

9.6.4. Practice5 min

9.6.5. Momentum Conservation in the Center of Mass Frame5 min

9.6.6. Shell Explosion3 min

9.7.1. Propulsion4 min

9.7.2. Practice: Sliding on Friction

9.7.3. Example: Propulsion

10. Rotational Motion

4hr

10.1.1. Kinematics Equations for Rotation7 min

10.1.2. Example: Rotating Wheel7 min

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

10.2.1. Angular Velocity and Acceleration4 min

10.3.1. Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Body4 min

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

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

10.4.1. Rotational Analog of Newton's Second Law2 min

10.4.2. Example: Rotating Rod7 min

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

10.5.1. Static Equilibrium3 min

10.5.2. Example15 min

10.5.3. Practice13 min

10.6.1. Torque14 min

10.6.2. Example: Torrque5 min

10.6.3. Practice: Torque9 min

10.7.1. Moment of Inertia of Discrete Particles3 min

10.7.2. Moment of Inertia3 min

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

10.7.4. Practice: angular momentum - Satellite

10.7.5. Practice: Rotational dynamics - Rotating Blade6 min

10.8.1. Rotational Analog of Newton's Second Law2 min

10.8.2. Moment of Inertia of Discrete Particles3 min

10.8.3. Moment of Inertia3 min

10.8.4. Example: Rotating Rod7 min

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

10.8.6. Example (Calculus Based)7 min

10.9.1. Rotational Work and Torque6 min

10.9.2. Example: Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Wheel6 min

10.9.3. Practice: Rotational kinetic energy - falling rod6 min

10.9.4. Practice: Objects rolling down a slope10 min

10.10.1. Note for Rolling Motion8 min

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

10.10.3. Practice (Tricky!)14 min

10.11.1. Velocity of rolling object8 min

10.11.2. Static friction is necessary for rolling4 min

10.11.3. Objects rolling down a slope10 min

11. Angular Momentum; General Rotation

1.4hr

11.1.1. Angular Momentum10 min

11.1.2. Example: Angular Momentum of Pendulum5 min

11.1.3. Practice: Angular Momentum - Spinning Weight5 min

11.2.1. Cross Product10 min

11.2.2. Right Hand Rule5 min

11.2.3. Example: Cross Product4 min

11.2.4. Practice: Cross Product2 min

11.2.5. Practice: Cross Product

11.3.1. Rotational Work and Torque6 min

11.3.2. Example: Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Wheel6 min

11.3.3. Practice: Rotational kinetic energy - falling rod6 min

11.3.4. Practice: Objects rolling down a slope10 min

11.4.1. Moment of Inertia of Discrete Particles3 min

11.4.2. Angular Momentum of a Particle and of a System of Particles35 sec

11.5.1. Conservation of Angular Momentum5 min

11.5.2. Example: Angular Momentum Conservation

11.5.3. Practice: Angular Momentum - Spinning Weight5 min

12. Equilibrium & Elasticity

1.7hr

12.1.1. Static Equilibrium3 min

12.1.2. Example: Static Equilibrium of a Ladder15 min

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

12.2.1. Center of Mass7 min

12.2.2. Center of Mass of Complicated Objects5 min

12.2.3. Example: Center of Mass

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

12.3.1. Stress and Strain33 min

12.3.2. Elastic Properties of Solids3 min

12.3.3. Practice: Thermal Stress21 min

12.4.1. Stability

13. Fluid Mechanics

52min

13.1.1. Density of a Fluid6 min

13.1.2. Mass and Density60 sec

13.1.3. Pressure8 min

13.1.4. Example: Gauge Pressure

13.1.5. Practice: Vacuum Lifter

13.2.1. Pascal's Principle4 min

13.2.2. Example: Pressure in U-Tube

13.2.3. Practice: U-Tube Filled with Multiple Fluids

13.3.1. Hydraulic Systems 4 min

13.3.2. Example: Hydraulic Lift

13.3.3. Practice: Hydraulic System

13.4.1. Buoyancy9 min

13.4.2. Example: Buoyant Force

13.4.3. Example: Buoyant Force (Tricky!)

13.4.4. Practice: Buoyant Force

13.5.1. Bernoulli's Principle8 min

13.5.2. Flow Rates and Continuity

13.5.3. Example: Venturi System

13.5.4. Practice: Pressure Leaking Tank (Tricky!)

13.6.1. Viscosity5 min

13.6.2. Practice: Viscosity

13.7.1. Surface Tension and Capillarity6 min

14. Oscillations

6hr

14.1.1. Concepts of Oscillation (Basic Version)10 min

14.1.2. Concepts of Oscillation (Advanced Version)14 min

14.1.3. Practice: Angular motion2 min

14.1.4. Example: SHM position function

14.2.1. Spring Force4 min

14.2.2. Spring & Mass System Theory14 min

14.2.3. Vertical springs13 min

14.2.4. Example7 min

14.2.5. Practice6 min

14.2.6. Practice (Tricky!)8 min

14.3.1. Concepts of Oscillation (Basic Version)10 min

14.3.2. Concepts of Oscillation (Advanced Version)14 min

14.3.3. Practice: Angular motion2 min

14.3.4. Hooke's Law and Simple Harmonic Motion5 min

14.3.5. Hooke's Law Concept Clarifier 4 min

14.3.6. Example: SHM position function

14.4.1. Velocity and Acceleration in SHM (Advanced)7 min

14.4.2. Velocity and Acceleration in SHM (Basic)10 min

14.4.3. Finding Acceleration by Knowing Displacement (Advanced)6 min

14.4.4. Practice: Oscillations - Acceleration Graph

14.4.5. Practice: Oscillations - Displacement Function7 min

14.4.6. Example: SHM with mass on a spring

14.5.1. Energy of an Oscillator11 min

14.5.2. Example: Spring & Mass System 10 min

14.5.3. Practice: Energy of Oscillation 4 min

14.6.1. SHM as the Projection of a Uniform Circular Motion11 min

14.6.2. Example: SHM from Circular Motion - Equation of Position (x)

14.6.3. Practice: SHM from Circular Motion - Equation of Position (y)

14.7.1. Finding the Phase Constant27 min

14.7.2. Example: Drawing the Position Graph16 min

14.7.3. Practice: Displacement Function10 min

14.8.1. Simple Pendulums 7 min

14.8.2. Example: Simple Pendulum3 min

14.8.3. Practice: Simple Pendulum7 min

14.9.1. Physical Pendulum4 min

14.9.2. Example: Physical Pendulum4 min

14.9.3. Practice: Simple Pendulum7 min

14.9.4. Practice: Simple Harmonic Motion: Pendulum

14.9.5. Practice: Oscillations - Displacement Function7 min

14.10.1. Damped Oscillation Theory20 min

14.10.2. Energy in a Damped Oscillation6 min

14.10.3. Example: Damped Oscillation 6 min

14.10.4. Practice: Damping (Tricky!)17 min

14.11.1. Critical Damping and Over-Damping Conditions8 min

14.11.2. Practice: Damping Motion2 min

14.11.3. Example: critically damping motion2 min

14.12.1. Forced or Driven Oscillation6 min

14.12.2. Example: Forced Oscillation2 min

14.12.3. Practice: Forced Oscillation (Tricky!)

14.13.1. Simple Harmonic Motion for Small Deviations from Equilibrium14 min

14.13.2. Example: Small Oscillations

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