by Tony Wayne


This is not a comprehensive textbook. It is to serve as resource to help explain some of the main concepts that are covered in a first year physics class. The cool stuff happens in class with demonstrations, explanations, labs, and activities. It can be used as a review or as a primer before class. This resource contains a lot of animations and movies embedded from YouTube. It is meant to be different from a printed textbook. Hopefully it is more engaging.

At the end of nearly every page is a collection of questions called "QU's." These are "Questions for Understanding." You do not sign in to take them. After each question, the correct answer and solution is provided. The goal is to see if you learned what you needed from the webpage.

Each unit also include many example problems showing how the math is modeled. In addition to answers you will also see solutions. Many include video solutions. When you are stuck on a homework problem, these are a great resource.

Each unit also links to solutions to many, many, problems from the my Physics Resource Book that are related.

Don't forget my Physics Resource Book. It contains hundreds of pages of pratice problems.

Honors/AP/MESA Physics AP Physics 2
  1. Dimensional Analysis
  2. Scientific Notation
  3. Significant Figures
  4. Labs (in general)
  5. Trigonometry for Right Triangles
  6. Vectors
  7. Kinematics -Conceptually
  8. Kinematics by Graphical Means
  9. Kinematics by Algebraic Means
  10. Newton's Laws of Motion
  11. Free body Diagrams
  12. 2nd Condition of Equilibrium (Torque)
  13. More about Torque
  14. Circular Motion (Uniform)
  15. Rotational Kinematics
  16. Simple Harmonic Motion
  17. Waves (TBA)
  18. Projectile Motion
  19. Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
  20. Beyond Gravity
  21. Universal Gravity
  22. Energy
  23. Momentum
  24. Electrostatics
  25. Coulomb's Law
  26. Electricity Basics
  27. d.c. Circuit Analysis (Resistor Reduction)
  28. d.c. Circuit Analysis w/ Kichoff's Rules
  29. Electromagnetism
  30. Light Introduction
  1. Scientific Notation
  2. Significant Figures
  3. Linearization of Data
  4. Introduction and Review (Kinematics, Projectile Motion, Mechanical Energy Notes.)
  5. Fluids
  6. Thermodynamics
  7. Electrostatics
  8. Coulomb's Law
  9. Capacitance
  10. Electricity Basics
  11. d.c. Circuit Analysis w/ Kichoff's Rules
  12. Electromagnetism
  13. Light Introduction
  14. Geometrical Optics
  15. Wave Optics
  16. Nuclear Physics
  17. Modern Physics
  18. Final Project - GlowScript/VPython (rewriting it for VPython 3)

 


by Tony Wayne ...(If you are a teacher, please feel free to use these resources in your teaching.)

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