Physics 3048 Review Topics

  1. General

    1. Vectors - addition, magnitude, direction, components, unit vector notation

    2. Units

  2. Kinematics

    1. Velocity (average, instantaneous and relative)

    2. Acceleration (average, instantaneous )

    3. Motion with Constant Acceleration

      1. Free Fall in one and two dimensions

      2. Motion in a circle

  3. Newton's Laws

    1. First, Second and Third Laws.

    2. Free Body Diagrams

    3. Applications

      1. Friction

      2. Equilibrium

      3. Inclined planes, pulleys, free fall

      4. Circular Motion (loop-the-loop, motion on a curved surface)

    4. Gravitational Force

      1. Satellites

      2. Orbits, Kepler's Third Law

  4. Work and Energy

    1. Potential Energy - gravity, springs, conservative forces

    2. Kinetic Energy

    3. Conservation of Energy and applications

    4. Calculating Work from forces, change in kinetic energy

    5. Escape Velocity

  5. Conservation of Momentum

    1. Definition of Momentum (MOMENTUM is a VECTOR!)

    2. Newton's Second Law

    3. Impulse

    4. Collisions (momentum before = momentum after)

      1. Elastic collisions (Kinetic energy is conserved)

      2. Inelastic collisions (Kinetic energy is not conserved)

      3. Two bodys in one and two dimensions

      4. Ballistic pendulum problem

    5. Center of Mass coordinates and velocity

  6. Rotational Motion

    1. Torques

    2. Moment of Inertia

    3. Repeat kinematics, Newton's Laws, Work, Energy and momentum applications for rotational motion

    4. Applications - ( pulleys, rolling without slipping, equilibrium)

  7. Fluid Mechanics

    1. Pressure

    2. Buoyant Forces

    3. Continuity equation

    4. Bernoulli's equation

  8. Simple Harmonic Motion

    1. Equation of Motion

    2. Springs, pendulum

    Waves

    1. Wavefunctions for traveling waves (

    2. Standing Waves - fixed strings, organ pipes, harmonics, nodes, antinodes, wavefunctions

  9. Thermodynamics

    1. Temperature, heat, heat capacities, phase changes

    2. Ideal gases and Ideal Gas Law

    3. First Law of Thermodynamics ( - )

      1. Adiabatic Processes (-)

      2. Constant Volume Processes (-)

      3. Constant Pressure (-)

      4. Constant Temperature ( - )

    4. Cyclic Processes

    5. Heat Capacity of an ideal gas

    6. Second Law of Thermodynamics

      1. Efficiency of an engine or refrigerator

      2. Otto Cycle

      3. Carnot Cycle

      4. Efficiency of a cycle

      5. Entrophy

    7. Kinetic Theory of gases

      1. Heat Capacity of an ideal gas

      2. Maxwell-Boltzman distribution

      3. rms speeds

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