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Measurement | |
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How does the appearance of a new type of cloud signal changes in Earth's atmosphere? | |
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What Is Physics? | |
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Measuring Things | |
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The International System of Units | |
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Changing Units | |
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Length | |
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Time | |
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Mass | |
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Review & Summary | |
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Problems | |
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Motion Along a Straight Line | |
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What causes whiplash injury in rear-end collisions of cars? | |
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What Is Physics? | |
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Motion | |
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Position and Displacement | |
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Average Velocity and Average Speed | |
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Instantaneous Velocity and Speed | |
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Acceleration | |
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Constant Acceleration: A Special Case | |
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Another Look at Constant Acceleration | |
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Free-Fall Acceleration | |
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Graphical Integration in Motion Analysis | |
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Review & Summary | |
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Questions | |
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Problems | |
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Vectors | |
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How does an ant know the way home with no guiding clues on the desert plains? | |
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What Is Physics? | |
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Vectors and Scalars | |
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Adding Vectors Geometrically | |
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Components of Vectors | |
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Unit Vectors | |
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Adding Vectors by Components | |
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Vectors and the Laws of Physics | |
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Multiplying Vectors | |
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Review & Summary | |
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Questions | |
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Problems | |
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Motion in Two and Three Dimensions | |
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In a motorcycle jump for record distance, where does the jumper put the second ramp? | |
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What Is Physics? | |
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Position and Displacement | |
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Average Velocity and Instantaneous Velocity | |
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Average Acceleration and Instantaneous Acceleration | |
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Projectile Motion | |
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Projectile Motion Analyzed | |
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Uniform Circular Motion | |
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Relative Motion in One Dimension | |
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Relative Motion in Two Dimensions | |
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Review & Summary | |
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Questions | |
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Problems | |
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When a pilot takes off from an aircraft carrier, what causes the compulsion to .y the plane into the ocean? | |
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What Is Physics? | |
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Newtonian Mechanics | |
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Newton's First Law | |
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Force | |
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Mass | |
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Newton's Second Law | |
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Some Particular Forces | |
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Newton's Third Law | |
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Applying Newton's Laws | |
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Review & Summary | |
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Questions | |
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Problems | |
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Force and Motion-II | |
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Can a Grand Prix race car be driven upside down on a ceiling? | |
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What Is Physics? | |
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Friction | |
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Properties of Friction | |
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The Drag Force and Terminal Speed | |
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Uniform Circular Motion | |
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Review & Summary | |
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Questions | |
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Problems | |
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Kinetic Energy and Work | |
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In an epidural procedure, what sensations clue a surgeon that the needle has reached the spinal canal? | |
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What Is Physics? | |
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What Is Energy? | |
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Kinetic Energy | |
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Work | |
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Work and Kinetic Energy | |
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Work Done by the Gravitational Force | |
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Work Done by a Spring Force | |
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Work Done by a General Variable Force | |
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Power | |