• Phys010
• Week 1: Atoms and Particles
  • Introduction and Concept Map
  • Instructor
  • The Brain and Physics
  • Plagiarism
  • Large and Small numbers
  • Newsflash 1
  • What are Atoms?
  • The Trio of Matter Particles
  • Building Atoms in the Lab
  • Space and graphs
  • Week 1 Summary
• Week 2: Energy and Power
  • Energy of Food
  • Power and Energy in your daily life
  • Units
  • Newsflash 2
  • Various Forms of Energy
  • The Four States of Matter
  • Heat (or thermal energy)
  • Phase Transitions
  • The Conservation Principle
  • Conservation of Energy
  • Week 2 Summary
• Week 3: Momentum and Waves
  • Momentum
  • Recoil
  • The Pendulum
  • Waves
  • Creating Waves
  • Sound
  • Newsflash 3
  • Week 3 Summary
• Week 4: Interference
  • Light Waves
  • Interlude
  • Wave can Cancel or Reinforce
  • The Double Slit Experiment
  • Stationary Waves
  • Week 4 Summary
• Week 5: Space-time
  • Space and Motion
  • Motion is Relative
  • Interlude: Dealing with Errors--Systematic vs. Statistical
  • Life of the Neutrino
  • Newsflash 4
  • Good Old Relativity
  • Special Relativity
  • Time Dilation
  • Energy and Mass
  • Week 5 Summary
• Week 6: Forces
  • The Basic Concept of Force
  • Newton's Laws of Motion
  • Force as a Change of Momentum
  • Action and Reaction
  • Multiple Forces
  • Week 6 Summary
• Week 7: Electric Forces
  • The Electron
  • The Electric Field
  • Electric Force
  • Batteries and the Volt
  • Newsflash 7
  • Electricity in your home
  • Week 7 Summary
• Week 8: Electromagnetism & Light
  • Alternate Current and Magnetism
  • Electromagnetic Field
  • Generator & Transformer
  • Light as a Wave
  • Color and Frequency
  • Newsflash 8
  • Light Interferes too
  • Week 8 Summary
• Week 9: Light as a particle
  • The Crookes Tube
  • Ejecting electrons
  • Newsflash 9
  • The Experimental Setup of the Photoelectric Effect
  • Turning Points and Potential Energy Graph
  • Photoelectric Effect
  • Actually doing the experiment.
  • The Quanta
  • Light is a "Particle-Wave"
  • Photo-electric explained
  • Week 9 Summary
• Week 10: Quantum Physics I - Photons
  • The Photon
  • Probability Interlude
  • Double Slits and Photons
  • Probability amplitude
  • Complementarity
  • Qbit, Newsflash 10
  • Photon Qbit system.
  • Testing Bomb
  • Week 10 Summary
• Week 11: Quantum Physics 2 - Electrons
  • Everything is a particle-wave
  • The Uncertainty Principle
  • Particle in a Box
  • Antimatter
  • Particle Colliders
  • Newsflash 11
  • Week 11 Summary
• Week 12: Atoms and High-Tech
  • The Hydrogen Atom
  • Spectroscopy
  • Spectroscopy Take 2
  • Newsflash 12
  • Semiconductors
  • Transistors
  • Week 12 Summary
• Week 13: Nuclear Physics
  • Nuclear Force
  • Binding Energy
  • Alpha and Gamma Radiation
  • Half-Life
  • Newsflash 13
  • Uranium-233, Uranium-235, and Plutonium-239
  • Chain Reaction
  • How a Nuclear Reactor Works
  • Week 13 Summary
• Week 14: Gravity and the Cosmos
  • Quick Review of Where we Stand
  • Galileo and Free Fall
  • Newton's Law of Gravity
  • Uniting the Cosmos with the Earth
  • Einstein's Theory of Gravity
  • Newsflash 14
  • Orbits!
  • The Solar System and Beyond!
  • The Expanding Universe.
  • Week 14 Summary
• Week 15: Its Dark Out There
  • Why is the sky dark?
  • The Luminous Matter and the Missing Mass.
  • Gravitational Lensing
  • Bullet Cluster
  • Accelerated Expansion
  • Newsflash 15
  • Week 15 Summary