General Physics 1                                                      Updated 09/07/2009

1. Introduction

• Basic Skills

• The History of Measurement and Measuring Tools

1. Units
2. Scientific Notation
3. Significant Digits
4. Graph
5. Trigonometry

                    from: Learn PHYSICS Today!

2. Forces and Introduction to Vectors

• Vectors Addition Visualization (applet)

• Free-body Force Diagram

• Frictional force

• Pulley

3. Motion Along a Line, Uniformly Accelerated Motion

• Speed and Velocity

• Velocity and acceleration (theory review)

• one-D motion (displacement, velocity, acceleration) (applet)

• Motion Graphs,The Slopes of Motion Graphs (theory review)

4. Forces and Motion in Two Dimensions

• Projectile motion

• Relative Motion (frame of reference)

5. Circular motion

• Circulation Motion and Centripetal Force

• Velocity, Acceleration, Projectile and Circular Motion

• Kepler's  Laws

  • Kepler's First Law

  • Kepler's Second Law

  • Kepler's Third Law

6. Energy

• Pendulum
• Ballistic pendulum  (applet)

7. Linear momentum

• Director MX 2004 collisions.
• 1D collision - Conservation of Momentum
• 2D Collision

8. Torque and Angular Momentum

• Blocks and center of gravity
• http://library.thinkquest.org/3042/contents.html

9. Fluids

• Buoyancy
• Animated Demonstration of
  Bernoulli's Principle

10. Elasticity and Oscillations

• simple harmonic motion
• Simple Harmonic Motion and Uniform Circular Motion
• tutorial: SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION © Department of Physics, University of Guelph

13. Temperature and Ideal Gas

• About temperature
• Molecular Model for an Ideal Gas
• Gas Laws
• Gas Laws

14. Heat

•  Hyper physics

15.Thermodynamics (use Hyper physics)

• Hyper physics First Law of Thermodynamics
• Second Law of Thermodynamics
• Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
• Entropy