Physics 3048 Review Topics
- General
- Vectors - addition, magnitude, direction, components, unit vector
notation
- Units
- Kinematics
- Velocity (average, instantaneous and relative)
- Acceleration (average, instantaneous )
- Motion with Constant Acceleration
- Free Fall in one and two dimensions
- Motion in a circle
- Newton's Laws
- First, Second and Third Laws.
- Free Body Diagrams
- Applications
- Friction
- Equilibrium
- Inclined planes, pulleys, free fall
- Circular Motion (loop-the-loop, motion on a curved surface)
- Gravitational Force
- Satellites
- Orbits, Kepler's Third Law
- Work and Energy
- Potential Energy - gravity, springs, conservative forces
- Kinetic Energy
- Conservation of Energy and applications
- Calculating Work from forces, change in kinetic energy
- Escape Velocity
- Conservation of Momentum
- Definition of Momentum (MOMENTUM is a VECTOR!)
- Newton's Second Law
- Impulse
- Collisions (momentum before = momentum after)
- Elastic collisions (Kinetic energy is conserved)
- Inelastic collisions (Kinetic energy is not conserved)
- Two bodys in one and two dimensions
- Ballistic pendulum problem
- Center of Mass coordinates and velocity
- Rotational Motion
- Torques
- Moment of Inertia
- Repeat kinematics, Newton's Laws, Work, Energy and momentum
applications for rotational motion
- Applications - ( pulleys, rolling without slipping, equilibrium)
- Fluid Mechanics
- Pressure
- Buoyant Forces
- Continuity equation
- Bernoulli's equation
- Simple Harmonic Motion
- Equation of Motion
- Springs, pendulum
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Waves
- Wavefunctions for traveling waves (
- Standing Waves - fixed strings, organ pipes, harmonics, nodes,
antinodes, wavefunctions
- Thermodynamics
- Temperature, heat, heat capacities, phase changes
- Ideal gases and Ideal Gas Law
- First Law of Thermodynamics (
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- Adiabatic Processes (
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- Constant Volume Processes (
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- Constant Pressure (
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- Constant Temperature (
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- Cyclic Processes
- Heat Capacity of an ideal gas
- Second Law of Thermodynamics
- Efficiency of an engine or refrigerator
- Otto Cycle
- Carnot Cycle
- Efficiency of a cycle
- Entrophy
- Kinetic Theory of gases
- Heat Capacity of an ideal gas
- Maxwell-Boltzman distribution
- rms speeds
August 29, 1995 - Warnings: BODY background extension, missing H1 header.