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Physics 2A
Syllabus
Lecture Notes
Labs
Lab 1 materials
Lab 1: Reaction Time
Lab 1 Lecture: Lab info
Lab 2 materials
Uncertainties
Error Propagation
Vernier Calipers
Lab 2: Measurements, Uncertainty, and Density
Lab 3: Vectors and Force
Lab 4: Projectile Motion
Lab 5 materials
Lab 5: Atwood's Machine
Report instructions & Lab 5
Lab 6: Centripetal Acceleration
Lab 7: Conservation of Momentum
Lab 8: Static Equilibrium
Lab 9: The Simple Pendulum
Resources
Study Advice
Unit Scaling Symbols
Links
Lecture 1: Intro to the course
Lecture 2: Units, Dimensional anaylsis
Lecture 3: Kinematic Quantities
Lecture 4: Acceleration
Lecture 5: Kinematics Equations
Lecture 6: Kinematics Equations, continued
Lecture 7: Free fall
Lecture 8: Vectors
Lecture 9: Relative motion
Lecture 10: Projectiles
Lecture 11: More projectiles
Lecture 12: Circular motion, force
Lecture 13: Newton's 1st and 2nd laws
Lecture 14: Newton's 2nd law examples, Newton's 3rd law
Lecture 15: Newton's 3rd law, types of forces
Lecture 16: More types of forces, Atwood machine
Lecture 17: Friction
Lecture 18: Springs, circular motion
Lecture 19: More circular motion
Lecture 20: Energy and work
Lecture 21: Work, kinetic energy, and power
Lecture 22: Potential energy, conservative and nonconservative forces
Lecture 23: Conservation of energy
Lecture 24: Energy example, center of mass
Lecture 25: Center of mass, linear momentum, impulse
Lecture 26: Impulse, conservation of momentum
Lecture 27: Collisions
Lecture 28: Ballistic Pendulum, rotational quantities
Lecture 29: Rotational kinematics, torque and the cross product
Lecture 30: Torque, static equilibrium
Lecture 31: Rotational inertia
Lecture 32: Rotational kinetic energy, angular momentum
Lecture 33: Angular momentum, angular momentum conservation
Lecture 34: Gravitation
Lecture 35: Oscillations
Lecture 36: Waves, kinds of waves
Lecture 37: Wave behaviors, sound