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Video Lecture Series
Watch Wake Forest University Department of Physics professors lecture on various concepts typically covered in a two semester general physics course. The videos are complete with lecture slides. (These videos require RealPlayer.)
For the development of these resources, the support of the Wake Forest University IS Department, through their STARs program, is gratefully acknowledged.
Mathematical Methods
- Units of Measure - Dr. Fetrow
- Dimensional Analysis - Dr. Fetrow
- Significant Figures - Dr. Fetrow
- Rectangular and Polar Coordinates - Dr. Fetrow
- Examples of Conversion Between Rectangular and Polar Coordinates - Dr. Fetrow
- Scalars and Vectors - Dr. Fetrow
- Vector Properties and Vector Algebra - Dr. Fetrow
- Vector Components and Unit Vectors - Dr. Fetrow
- Products of Vectors - Dr. Bonin
Simple Motion
- One Dimensional Kinematics - Dr. Macosko
- Two Dimensional Kinematics - Dr. Macosko
- Projectile Motion - Dr. Fetrow
- Newton's First Law - Dr. Macosko
- Newton's Second Law - Dr. Guthold
- Newton's Third Law - Dr. Macosko
- Friction - Dr. Holzwarth
- Free Body Diagrams - Dr. Guthold
Conservation
- Conservation of Energy - Dr. Guthold
- Conservation of Momentum - Dr. Guthold
- Conservation of Momentum Examples - Dr. Guthold
Rotational Motion
- Uniform Circular Motion - Dr. Kerr
- Rotation of a Rigid Object About a Fixed Axis: Part A - Dr. Fetrow
- Rotation of a Rigid Object About a Fixed Axis: Part B - Dr. Fetrow
- Rotation of a Rigid Object About a Fixed Axis: Part C - Dr. Fetrow
- Torque - Dr. Fetrow
- Rolling Motion - Dr. Fetrow
- Angular Momentum - Dr. Fetrow
Planetary Motion
- Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion - Dr. Charnock
- Newton's Universal Law - Dr. Charnock
- Gravitational Potential Energy - Dr. Charnock
Oscillatory Motion
- Simple Harmonic Motion 1 - Dr. Salsbury
- Simple Harmonic Motion 2 - Dr. Salsbury
- Simple Harmonic Motion 3 - Dr. Salsbury
- Simple Harmonic Motion 4 - Dr. Salsbury
- Wave Motion: Introduction - Dr. Fetrow
- The Wave Function - Dr. Fetrow
- Sinusoidal Waves - Dr. Fetrow
Fluids
- Physics of Static Fluids - Dr. Holzwarth
- Fluids in Motion - Dr. Matthews
- Dynamics of Fluids - Dr. Matthews
Thermodynamics
- Temperature and the Ideal Gas Law - Dr. Macosko
- Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics - Dr. Macosko
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics - Dr. Macosko
- Pressure and Kinetic Energy - Dr. Macosko
- Thermodynamics Examples - Dr. Macosko
Electrostatics
- Electric Potential: Part 1 - Dr. Bonin
- Electric Potential: Part 2 - Dr. Bonin
- Electric Potential: Part 3 - Dr. Bonin
- Milikan Oil Drop Experiment - Dr. Bonin
- Capacitance: Part 1 - Dr. Ucer
- Capacitance: Part 2 - Dr. Ucer
- Dielectrics - Dr. Ucer
Current
- Current and Resistance - Dr. Ucer
- DC Circuits - Dr. Ucer
- RC Circuits - Dr. Kerr
- Faraday's Law - Dr. Matthews
- Self-Inductance and the RL Circuit - Kerr
Electromagnetic Waves
Electronics
- Operational Amplifiers - Dr. Matthews
- JFET's - Dr. Matthews
- MOSFET's - Dr. Matthews
- CMOS Logic - Dr. Matthews
- Noise - Dr. Matthews
- Lock-in Amplifiers - Dr. Matthews
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Mathematical Methods
Simple Motion
Conservation
Rotational Motion
Planetary Motion
Oscillatory Motion
Fluids
Thermodynamics
Electrostatics
Current
Electromagnetic Waves
Electronics
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