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Resources:

Below are a collection of resources (interactive animations, and conceptual explanations) that may be helpful in understanding the course material.


The Hyperphysics website is an excellent source of conceptual information.

Fall Term

Workshop 1: Introduction

Dimensional Analysis: A guide to dimensional analysis using every day applications.

Significant Figures: Interactive resource for determining how many significant figures a number has.

Vectors: Online Vector Calculator

Vector Addition  1

Vector Addition 2

Workshop 2 and 3: Newton's Laws and Motion in Two Dimensions

Free Body Diagrams: Examples of free body diagrams for objects often used in physics.

Projectile motion

More practice with FBD.

Overview of Newton's Laws

Friction and race car tires

Workshop 4: Circular Motion

Overview of Circular Motion

Workshop 5: Angular Acceleration and Work

Overview of Work

Workshop 6: Conservation of Energy

Overview of Conservation of Energy

Interactive Diagram of Energy Convservation

Workshop 7: Momentum

Conservation of Momentum

Elastic and Inelastic Collisions

Workshop 8: Torque

Explanation of Torque

Interactive demonstration of Torque about an axis.

Workshop 9: Equilibrium, Angular Momentum and Fluids

Archimedes Principle

Simple Harmonic Motion; The wikipedia page has some great illustrations of SHM.

Winter Term

Workshop 1: Coulomb's Law and Electric Fields

Explanation of Coulomb's Law and Electric Force

Coulomb's Law Applet

Game: Electric Field Hockey.

Workshop 2: Resistance, Current, Voltage

Hyperphysics Voltage and EMF description

Resistance and Resistor Addition

Electric Power

Workshop 3: Electric Circuits and Capacitors

Capicators and Capicator Combinations

Interactive online DC circuit creator

Workshop 4: Magnetic Fields

Magnetic Forces and the Right Hand Rule

Workshop 5: Electromagnetic Induction

Explanation of Induction

Wikipedia Page for Induction

Workshop 6: Alternating Current

Interactive diagram showing the characteristics of a simple AC circuit

Workshop 7: Temperature, Thermal Expansion and Heat Transfer

Hyperphysics link to Heat Transfer

Hyperphysics link to Thermal Expansion

Workshop 8: Universal Gas Law, Phase Changes

Hyperphysics link to Phase Changes

Ideal Gas Law

Workshop 9: Laws of Thermodynamics

First Law of Thermodynamics

Second Law of Thermodynamics

Spring Term

Workshop 1: Oscillations

Animated: The relationship between acceleration, displacement and velocity in simple harmonic motion.

Animated: Experiment with what different variables do to simple pendulums.

Workshop 2: Waves on a String and Sound

Conceptual overview of standing waves

Explanation of sound intensity

Workshop 3: Doppler Effect and Electromagnetic Waves  

Explanation of Redshift

Animated Doppler Shift: Moving sound source

Animated Doppler Shift: Another moving sound source

Workshop 4: Polarization and Mirrors

How to draw ray diagrams for Mirrors

Workshop 5 & 6: Refraction, Lenses, and Lens Systems

How to draw ray diagrams for Lenses, and Lens systems

Interactive ray diagram for a convex lens

Workshop 7: Interference and Diffraction

Information on Interference

Information on Diffraction

Workshop 8: Relativity

Great relativity resource

Workshop 9: Quantum Physics

Hyperphysics Quantum Physics concepts