PHYS 203a-Fall 2000

Architectural Physics

Instructor: Paul Fendley

Syllabus

 

 

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Lecture Notes
  • Lecture 1: Units, Estimating/Significant Figures, Powers of 10, Dimensional Analysis
  • Lecture 2: Speed, Displacement, Velocity
  • Lecture 3: Gravity, Acceleration (in one dimension)
  • Lecture 4: Gravity, Acceleration (in one dimension)
  • Lecture 5: Vectors, Two-Dimensional Motion
  • Lecture 6: Newton's first law, inertia and mass
  • Lecture 7: Newton's second and third laws, net force
  • Lecture 8: Weight, Normal Force
  • Lecture 9: Tension, Static Friction
  • Lecture 10: Kinetic Friction, Earthquakes
  • Lecture 11: Rotational Motion, Centripetal Acceleration
  • Lecture 12: Centripetal Acceleration and Force
  • Lecture 13: Conservation of Energy, Kinetic Energy, Work
  • Lecture 14: Gravitational Potential Energy, Conservative/Non-Conservative Forces, Power
  • Lecture 15: Conservation of Momentum
  • Lecture 16: Conservation of Momentum
  • Lecture 17: Center of Mass/Gravity
  • Lecture 18: Rotational Kinematics, Rolling Motion
  • Lecture 19: Torque, Center of Gravity
  • Lecture 20: Rotational Equilibrium
  • Lecture 21: Newton's Second Law for Rotation, Moment of Inertia
  • Lecture 22: Rotational Kinetic Energy, Angular Momentum
  • Lecture 23: Stress and Strain and Springs
  • Lecture 24: Simple Harmonic Motion, Pendulum
  • Lecture 25: Resonant Frequencies and Buildings, Elastic Potential Energy
  • Lecture 26: Pressure in Fluids, Archimedes' Principle
  • Lecture 27: Continuity Equation, Bernoulli's equation
  • Lecture 28: Temperature
  • Lecture 29: Heat and Internal Energy, Thermal Expansion, Phase Changes
  • Lecture 30: Equilibrium, Heat Flow
  • Lecture 31: Ideal Gas Law
  • Lecture 32: Waves, Speed of Sound
  • Lecture 33: Sound Intensity, Superposition of Waves
  • Lecture 34: Beats, Standing Waves. Doppler Shift
  • Lecture 35: Mass and the Gravitational Force, Charge and the Electric Force
  • Lecture 36: Voltage, Current Resistance
  • Lecture 37: Circuits, Power, Series and Parallel Resistances
  • Lecture 38: Alternating Current, Resistance at Low Temperature, Electric Field, Electromagnetic Waves