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The Laws of Motion, Part I | |
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Experiment: Removing a Tablecloth from a Table | |
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Skating | |
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Inertia | |
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Force | |
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Velocity | |
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Acceleration | |
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Mass | |
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Newton's first and second laws | |
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Inertial frames of reference | |
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Units | |
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Falling Balls | |
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Weight | |
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Projectile motion | |
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Vector components | |
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Ramps | |
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Net force | |
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Newton's third law | |
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Energy | |
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Work | |
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Energy conservation | |
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Potential energy | |
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Ramps | |
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Mechanical advantage | |
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The Laws of Motion, Part II | |
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Experiment: A Spinning Pie Dish | |
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Seesaws | |
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Rotational inertia | |
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Torque | |
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Angular velocity | |
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Angular acceleration | |
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Rotational mass | |
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Newton's first and second laws of rotation | |
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Center of mass | |
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Levers | |
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Wheels | |
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Friction | |
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Thermal energy | |
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Wheels | |
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Bearings | |
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Kinetic energy | |
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Bumper Cars | |
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Momentum | |
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Impulse | |
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Momentum conservation | |
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Angular momentum | |
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Angular impulse | |
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Angular momentum conservation | |
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Newton's third law of rotation | |
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Potential energy and acceleration | |
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Mechanical Objects, Part I | |
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Experiment: Swinging Water Overhead | |
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Spring Scales | |
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Equilibrium | |
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Stable equilibrium | |
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Hooke's law | |
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Oscillation | |
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Calibration | |
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Center of gravity | |
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Bouncing Balls | |
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Collisions | |
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Energy transfers | |
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Vibration | |
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Elastic and inelastic collisions | |
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Carousels and Roller Coasters | |
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Feeling of acceleration | |
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Uniform circular motion | |
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Centripetal acceleration | |
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Mechanical Objects, Part II | |
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Experiment: High Flying Balls | |
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Bicycles | |
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Unstable equilibrium | |
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Static and dynamic stability | |
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Precession | |
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Rockets and Space Travel | |
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Reaction forces | |
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Newton's law of gravitation | |
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Elliptical orbits | |
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Kepler's laws | |
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Special and general relativity | |
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Equivalence principle | |
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Fluids | |
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Experiment: A Cartesian Diver | |
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Balloons | |
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Pressure | |
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Density | |
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Temperature | |
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Archimedes' principle | |
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Buoyant force | |
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Ideal gas law | |
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Water Distribution | |
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Hydrostatics | |
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Pascal's principle | |
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Hydraulics | |
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Hydrodynamics | |
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Steady state flow | |
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Bernoulli's equation | |
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Fluids and Motion | |
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Experiment: A Vortex Cannon | |
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Garden Watering | |
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Viscous forces | |
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Laminar and turbulent flows | |
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Speed and pressure in a fluid | |
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Reynolds number | |
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Chaos | |
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Momentum in a fluid | |
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Balls and Air | |
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Aerodynamic lift and drag | |
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Viscous drag | |
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Pressure drag | |
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Boundary layers | |
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Magnus and wake deflection forces | |
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Airplanes | |
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Streamlining | |
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Lifting wing | |
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Angle of attack | |
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Induced drag | |
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Stalled wing | |
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Thrust | |
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Heat and Phase Transitions | |
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Experiment: A Ruler Thermometer | |
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Woodstoves | |
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Thermal energy | |
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Heat | |
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Temperature | |
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Chemical bonds and reactions | |
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Conduction | |
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Thermal conductivity | |
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Convection | |
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Radiation | |
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Heat capacity | |
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Water, Steam, and Ice | |
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Phases of matter | |
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Phase transitions | |
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Melting | |
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Freezing | |
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Condensation | |
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Evaporation | |
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Relative humidity | |
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Latent heats of melting and evporation | |
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Sublimation | |
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Deposition | |
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Boiling | |
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Nucleation | |
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Superheating | |
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Incandescent Lightbulbs | |
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Electromagnetic spectrum | |
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Light | |
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Blackbody spectrum | |
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Emissivity | |
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Stefan-Boltzmann law | |
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Thermal expansion | |
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Thermodynamics | |
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Experiment: Making Fog in a Bottle | |
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Air Conditioners | |
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Laws of thermodynamics | |
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Temperature | |
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Heat | |
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Entropy | |
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Heat pumps and thermodynamic efficiency | |
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Automobiles | |
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Heat engines and thermodynamic efficiency | |
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Resonance and Mechanical Waves | |
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Experiment: A Singing Wineglass | |
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Clocks | |
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Time and space | |
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Natural resonance | |
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Harmonic oscillators | |
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Simple harmonic motion | |
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Frequency | |
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Musical Instruments | |
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Sound | |
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Music | |
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Vibrations in strings | |
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Air | |
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Surfaces | |
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Higher-order modes | |
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Harmonic and non-harmonic overtones | |
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Sympathetic vibration | |
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Standing and traveling waves | |
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Transverse and longitudinal waves | |
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Velocity | |
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Frequency | |
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Wavelength in mechanical waves | |
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Superposition | |
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Doppler effect | |
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The Sea | |
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Tidal forces | |
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Surface waves | |
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Dispersion | |
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Refraction | |
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Reflection | |
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Interference in mechanical waves | |
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Electricity | |
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Experiment: Moving Water Without Touching It | |
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Static Electricity | |
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Electric charge | |
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Electrostatic forces | |
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Coulomb's law | |
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Electrostatic potential energy | |
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Voltage | |
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Charging by contact | |
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Electric polarization | |
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Electrical conductors and insulators | |
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Xerographic Copiers | |
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Electric fields and voltage gradients | |
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Relationships between shape and field | |
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Discharges | |
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Electric current | |
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Direction of current flow | |
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Charging by induction | |
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Flashlights | |
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Electric circuits | |
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Electrical resistance | |
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Voltage rises | |
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Voltage drops | |
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Relationship between current | |
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Voltage | |
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Power | |
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Ohm's law | |
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Magnetism and Electrodynamics | |
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Experiment: A Nail and Wire Electromagnet | |
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Household Magnets | |
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Magnetic pole | |
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Magnetostatic forces | |
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Coulomb's law for magnetism | |
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Magnetic fields | |
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Ferromagnetism | |
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Magnetic polarization | |
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Magnetic domains | |
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Magnetic materials | |
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Magnetic flux lines | |
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Relationship between currents and magnetic fields | |
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Electric Power Distribution | |
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Superconductivity | |
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Direct and alternating currents | |
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Induction | |
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Transformers | |
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Magnetic field energy | |
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Relationship between changing magnetic fields and electric fields | |
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Induced emf | |
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Lenz's law | |
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Electrical safety | |
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Electric Generators and Motors | |
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Electromagnetic forces | |
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Energy | |
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Work | |
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Lorenz force | |
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Electronics | |
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Experiment: Building an Electronic Kit | |
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Power Adapters | |
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Quantum physics | |
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Wave-particle duality | |
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Pauli exclusion principle | |
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Band structure | |
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Fermi level | |
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Metals | |
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Insulators | |
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Semiconductors | |
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P-n junction | |
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Diodes | |
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Capacitors | |
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Audio Players | |
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Analog vs. digital representations | |
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Resistors | |
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MOSFETs | |
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Logic elements | |
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Series and parallel circuits | |
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Amplifiers | |
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Electromagnetic Waves | |
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Experiment: Boiling Water in an Ice Cup | |
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Radio | |
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Electric field energy | |
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Relationship between changing electric fields and magnetic fields | |
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Tank circuits | |
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Speed of light | |
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Wave polarization | |
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Amplitude modulation | |
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Frequency modulation | |
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Bandwidth | |
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Microwave Ovens | |
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Speed | |
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Frequency | |
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Wavelength in electromagnetic waves | |
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Polar and nonpolar molecules | |
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Cyclotron motion | |
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Light | |
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Experiment: Splitting the Colors of Sunlight | |
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Sunlight | |
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Rayleigh scattering | |
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Impedance | |
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Refraction | |
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Reflection | |
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Dispersion | |
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Interference in electromagnetic waves | |
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Index of refraction | |
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Polarized reflection | |
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Discharge Lamps | |
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Color vision | |
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Primary colors of light and pigment | |
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Gas discharges | |
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Periodic chart | |
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Atomic structure and emission | |
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Radiative transitions | |
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Planck's constant | |
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Fluorescence | |
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Radiation trapping | |
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Lasers and LEDs | |
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Incoherent and coherent light | |
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Spontaneous and stimulated emission | |
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Population inversion | |
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Laser amplification and oscillation | |
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Diffraction | |
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Laser safety | |
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Optics | |
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Experiment: Focusing Sunlight | |
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Cameras | |
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Refracting optics | |
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Converging lenses | |
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Real images | |
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Focus | |
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Focal lengths | |
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F-numbers | |
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The lens equation | |
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Diverging lenses | |
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Virtual images | |
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Light sensors | |
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Vision and vision correction | |
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Optical Recording and Communication | |
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Diffraction limit | |
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Plane and circular polarization | |
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Total internal reflection | |
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Modern Physics | |
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Experiment: Radiation Damaged Paper | |
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Nuclear Weapons | |
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Nuclear structure | |
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Isotopes | |
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Radioactivity | |
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Uncertainty principle | |
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Tunneling | |
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Half-life | |
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Alpha decay | |
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Fission | |
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Chain reaction | |
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Fusion | |
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Transmutation of elements | |
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Fallout | |
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Medical Imaging and Radiation | |
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X rays | |
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Gamma rays | |
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X-ray fluorescence | |
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Bremsstrahlung | |
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Photoelectric effect | |
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Compton scattering | |
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Beta decay | |
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Anitimatter | |
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Accelerators | |
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Magnetic resonance | |
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Appendices | |
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Vectors | |
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Units, Conversion of Units | |