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Lecture videos
Chapter 1: Units and Measurement
- Chapter 1: Units (12 min 25 s)
- Chapter 1: Unit Conversion (12 min 17 s)
- Chapter 1: Units and measurement (9 min 48 s)
Chapter 2: Vectors
- Chapter 2: Introduction to Vectors (7 min 33 s)
- Chapter 2.1a: Scalars and Vectors (9 min 12 s)
- Chapter 2.1b: Vector Addition (6 min 34 s)
- Chapter 2.1c: Vectors and vector addition (16 min 58 s)
---- Example Problem: Another quick example for vector addition (2 min 32 s)
- Chapter 2.2a: Vector Components (10 min 39 s)
---- Example Problem: Adding Vectors by Components (3 min 59 s)
- Chapter 2.4a: Scalar (Dot) Product (10 min 06 s)
- Chapter 2.4b: Vector (Cross) Product (22 min 16 s) -- Worked examples begin at 15 min 00 s
- Chapter 2.4c: Review and scalar/vector products (19 min 47 s)
---- Example Problem: Scalar and vector product examples (8 min 52 s)
---- Quick Review: Quick review of vector addition and finding angles (3 min 56 s)
---- Quick Review: Review of unit vectors (10 min 33 s)
Chapter 3: Motion Along a Straight Line
- Chapter 3.1/3.2a: Displacement and Velocity (23 min 47 s)
- Chapter 3.1/3.2b: Position, displacement, and velocity (14 min 15 s)
- Chapter 3.3a: Constant Acceleration (13 min 46 s)
- Chapter 3.3b: Position, velocity, and acceleration graphs (17 min 58 s)
---- Example Problem: Acceleration (5 min 11 s)
- Chapter 3.4: Problem Solving Strategy (19 min 42 s)
- Chapter 3.5: Free Fall (10 min 28 s)
---- Quick Review: How to approach problems in one-dimensional motion (6 min 15 s)
Chapter 4: Motion In Two or Three Dimensions
- Chapter 4.1a: Displacement Vector (14 min 49 s)
- Chapter 4.1b: Two dimensional motion (20 min)
- Chapter 4.1-4.2: Velocity and Acceleration Vectors (10 min 11 s)
- Chapter 4.3a: Projectile Motion (7 min 18 s)
- Chapter 4.3b: Projectile Motion (28 min 24 s): final 14 minutes are math-heavy [Time of flight, Trajectory, Range]
- Chapter 4.4a: Uniform Circular Motion (10 min 48 s)
- Chapter 4.4b: Uniform and Nonuniform Circular Motion (12 min 26 s)
- Chapter 4.4c: Rotational motion (16 min 27 s)
- Chapter 4.5: Relative Motion (15 min 58 s)
---- Example Problem: Projectile motion problem solving (15 min 56 s)
---- Help Session: Help session (1 hr 17 min 24 s)
Chapter 5: Newton's Laws of Motion
- Chapter 5.1/5.2: Forces and Newton's First Law (10 min 36 s)
- Chapter 5.3: Newton's Second Law (11 min 00 s)
- Chapter 5.5: Forces and Newton's First Law (11 min 59 s)
- Chapter 5.7: Free Body Diagrams (FBD) (10 min 26 s)
---- Chapter 5a: Newton's Laws (9 min, 27 s)
---- Chapter 5b: Forces and free body diagrams (16 min, 17 s)
---- Bonus material for Chapter 5: Common and Fundamental Forces (21 min 26 s)
Chapter 6: Applications of Newton's Laws
- Chapter 6.1: Problem Solving Strategy (18 min 58 s)
- Chapter 6.2a: Friction (16 min 21 s)
- Chapter 6.2b: Force balancing and friction (16 min, 3 s)
- Chapter 6.3: Centripetal Force (26 min 39 s)
---- Worked problem: Ponderable: Retrieve the spacecraft (16 min 32s)
- Chapter 6.4: Drag Force and Terminal Speed (15 min 40 s)
---- Chapter 6a: Applications of forces (9 min, 20 s)
---- Chapter 6b: Centripetal force and force diagrams (12 min, 41 s)
---- Chapter 6c: Spring force (7 min, 50 s)
Chapter 7: Work and Kinetic Energy
- Chapter 7.1a: Work (19 min 1 s)
- Chapter 7.1b: Work (15 min, 12 s)
- Chapter 7.2: Kinetic Energy (8 min 33 s)
- Chapter 7.3a: Work-Energy Theorem (12 min 56 s)
- Chapter 7.3b: Kinetic energy and the work-energy theorem (14 min, 56 s)
---- Extra material for Chapter 7: Work and Integrals: How to use Integrals (23 min 16 s)
Worked problem from Ch6.4: Badger and Air Resistance Problem (13 min 12 s)
Chapter 8: Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy
- Chapter 8.1a: Potential Energy (13 min 53 s)
- Chapter 8.1b: Potential energy and energy conservation (9 min, 38 s)
- Chapter 8.2: Conservative Forces (15 min 27 s)
---- Worked problem: Ponderable: Pendulum Problem (21 min 16 s)
---- Worked problem: Pendulum problem example (4 min, 59 s)
- Chapter 8.3a: Conservation of Energy (22 min 23 s)
- Chapter 8.3b: Elastic potential energy and energy conservation (8 min, 41 s)
- Chapter 8.3c: Non-conservative forces (10 min, 49 s)
---- Worked problem: WebAssign Ch8 Hw1: Problem 3 (30 min 42 s)
---- Worked problem: WebAssign Ch8 Hw1: Problem 4 (34 min 41 s)
---- Chapter 8 review: Elastic Potential Energy Review (31 min 43 s)
---- Chapter 8 review: WebAssign Activity: Ponderable: Non-Conservative Force (8 min 51 s)
Chapter 9: Linear Momentum and Collisions
- Chapter 9.1a: Linear Momentum and Impulse (12 min 40 s)
- Chapter 9.1b: Momentum (5 min, 48 s)
- Chapter 9.2a: Calculating Impulse in 1 minute (1 min 04 s)
- Chapter 9.2b: Impulse-Momentum Theorem in 1 minute (1 min 15 s)
---- Worked example: Activity: kick the puck (5 min, 44 s)
- Chapter 9.3a: Conservation of Linear Momentum in 3 minutes (2 min 57 s)
- Chapter 9.3b: Momentum and collisions (13 min, 38 s)
- Chapter 9.4a: Inelastic Collision (7 min 49 s)
- Chapter 9.4b: Elastic Collision (18 min 55 s)
- Chapter 9.4c: Summary of Collisions (6 min 36 s)
- Chapter 9.4d: Collisions (10 min, 20 s)
- Chapter 9.6a: Center of Mass (16 min 52 s)
- Chapter 9.6b: Center of mass (4 min, 20 s)
- Chapter 9.6c: Center of mass (8 min, 57 s)
---- Bonus matieral: Common mistakes on chapter 9 (2 min, 52 s)
Chapter 10: Fixed-Axis Rotation
- Chapter 10.1a: Rotational Variables (21 min 50 s)
- Chapter 10.1a: Rotational kinematics (8 min, 21 s)
- Chapter 10.3: Relating Angular and Rotational Variables (7 min 24 s)
- Chapter 10.4a: Moment of Inertia and Rotational Kinetic Energy (11 min 44 s)
- Chapter 10.4b: Moment of inertia (6 min, 5 s)
- Chapter 10.5a: Calculating Moment of Inertia: Disk (11 min 07 s)
- Chapter 10.5b: Moment of inertia of extended objects (17 min, 7 s)
- Chapter 10.6a: Torque (14 min 44 s)
- Chapter 10.6b: Calculating Torque (12 min 47 s)
- Chapter 10.6c: Rotational dynamics and torque (9 min)
- Chapter 10.7a: Newton's Second Law for Rotation (6 min 51 s)
- Chapter 10.7b: Newton's second law for rotation activity (6 min, 23 s)
- Chapter 10.8: Work and Power for Rotational Motion (14 min 37 s)
Chapter 11: Angular Momentum
--- Bonus material for Chapter 11: Conservation of momentum demos (11 min, 35 s)
- Chapter 11: Motion of a System (14 min 23 s)
- Chapter 11.1a: Rolling Motion without Slipping (16 min 16 s)
- Chapter 11.1b: Rolling without slipping (11 min, 15 s)
- Chapter 11.2a: Angular Momentum (18 min 15 s)
--- Example problem: WebAssign: Ponderable Activity: Yo-Yo problem 2-way (13 min 30 s)
- Chapter 11.2b: Angular momentum (10 min, 44 s)
- Chapter 11.3: Angular Momentum Conservation (22 min 52 s)
Chapter 12: Static Equilibrium and Elasticity
- Chapter 12a: Static Equilibrium (24 min 35 s)
- Example Problem: WebAssign: Ponderable Road Sign (23 min 58 s)
- Chapter 12b: Equilibrium (12 min, 28 s)
Chapter 13: Gravitation
- Chapter 13.1a: Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation: Gravitational Force (18 min 36 s)
- Chapter 13.1b: Gravitational force (11 min, 36 s)
- Chapter 13.2a: Gravitation Near Earth's Surface (11 min 41 s)
- Chapter 13.2b: Gravitational field (5 min, 9 s)
- Chapter 13.3: Gravitational potential energy (16 min, 27 s)
Chapter 14: Fluid Mechanics
- Chapter 14: Demonstrations about Pressure (7 min 45 s)
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- Chapter 14.1a: Fluids, Density, and Pressure (23 min 50 s)
- Chapter 14.1b: Density and pressure (6 min, 41 s)
- Chapter 14.3a: Pascal's Principle and Hydraulics (6 min 20 s)
- Chapter 14.3b: Pressure and Pascal's principle (12 min, 24 s)
- Chapter 14.4a: Archimedes' Principle and Buoyancy (13 min 25 s)
- Chapter 14.4b: Buoyant Force (12 min, 25 s)
- Chapter 14.5: Fluid Dynamics (20 min 51 s)
- Chapter 14.6a: Bernoulli's Equation (18 min 18 s)
- Chapter 14.6b: Bernoulli's equation (11 min, 17 s)
- Bonus from Chapter 13: Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion (17 min 24 s)
Chapter 15: Oscillations
- Chapter 15.1: Simple Harmonic Motion (20 min 22 s)
- Chapter 15.2: Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion (20 min 52 s)
- Chapter 15.3: Pendulums (11 min 42 s)
- Bonus: Chapter 15.5: Damped Oscillations (16 min 00 s)
Chapter 16: Waves
- Chapter 16.1a: Waves (20 min, 4 s)
- Chapter 16.1b: Traveling Waves (19 min 59 s)
- Chapter 16.3: Wave Speed on a Stretched String (8 min 20 s)
- Chapter 16.5: Interference of Waves (12 min 13 s)
- Chapter 16.6: Standing Waves and Resonance (18 min 20 s)
Chapter 17: Sound
- Chapter 17.1: Sound waves (14 min, 41 s)
- Chapter 17.7: Doppler effect (6 min, 28 s)
