Physics 2011/2012

What is physics

Scientific method

Measurement and units of measurement

Dimensional analysis

Order-of-magnitude estimates

Motion in on dimension. Position, displacement, velocity, speed, acceleration

Average and instantaneous quantities

Motion with constant acceleration

Motion in two dimensions

Projectile motion: horizontal range and max height

Uniform circular motion

Dynamics, forces, Newton's Laws

Friction forces

Centripetal force

Resistive forces

Work done by a force

Kinetic energy

Vertical jump

The Jump in two dimensions

Projectiles in sport and bio-mechanics

Geostationary satellites

Physiological effects of acceleration

Potential energy

Conservative forces

Conservation of energy

Power

Collisions in one and two dimensions

Elastic and inelastic collisions

Linear momentum and its conservation

Center of mass

Motion of a system of particles

Rotational kinematics

Extended bodies: Torque, Moment of inertia

Rotational kinetic energy

Verctor product

Angular momentum and its conservation, precessions

Running human beings

The jump, revisited: scaling laws in physiology

Linear momentum and the human body: sports

Levers in the human body, muscles

Jaws of animals

Escape velocity, black holes

Properties of fluids

Bernoulli's equation

Flight of animals

Viscosity and centrifugation

Surface tensions, Law of Laplace, capillary action

Tensioactives in lungs

Capillary action in trees. Negative pressures.

Circulatory system in mammals

Temperature, Thermal Expansion

Gases, Heat, Specific Heat, Latent Heat

First Law of Thermodynamics

Thermodynamic Transformations

Second Law of thermodynamics

Heat engines

Carnot's Theorem, Carnot Cycle

Entropy

Electric charge, Electric Force, Electric Field, Electric Potential

Relation between electric field and potential

Electric current, current density

Ohmic materials, conductivity, resistivity . Ohm's law

Electrical power

Capacitance. Capacitances in series and parallel

Resistances in series and parallel

DC circuits. Internal resistance of a generator . Kirkhoff's rules

RC circuits: charge and discharge of a capacitor. The time constant RC

Magnetic field . Lorentz force. Biot-Savart's law

Force between parallel conductors. Ampere's law. Solenoidal field