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This on-demand course is appropriate for senior high school and beginning university students, as well as anyone with an interest in basic physics. (According to the survey, science teachers also frequently use it.) The course presents the material through rich multimedia tutorials, including film clips of key experiments, animations, and worked example problems, all narrated by a friendly narrator. You'll work through a variety of interesting practise problems, and in an optional component, you'll use your creativity to complete at-home experiments with simple, everyday materials.
Syllabus :
1. Introduction and Basic Tools
- Introduction and Context
- Units and Significant Figures
- Vectors and Scalars
- Estimating
2. Velocity and Acceleration
- Graphing Displacement and Velocity
- Acceleration
- Relating Velocity, Acceleration and Displacement
- Relative Motion
3. Motion in Two Dimensions
- Projectiles, Falling Vertically Under Gravity
- Combining Vertical and Horizontal Motion
- Trajectories and Range
- Uniform Circular Motion
4. Newton's Laws of Motion
- Newton's Laws of Motion
- Inertial and Non-inertial Frames
- Newton's Third Law
- Calculating Total Force
- Practice Problems
- Historical Interlude
- The Syllogism
5. Weight, Friction and Spring Forces
- Weight versus Mass
- Springs and Hooke's Law
- Normal and Frictional Forces
- Friction Problems
6. Work, Energy and Power
- What is Work?
- Work and Kinetic Energy
- Work and Potential Energy
- Energy Conservation
- Energy, Work and Power
7. Momentum and Collisions
- Momentum and Collisions
- Impulse and More About Collisions
- Centre of Mass, Elastic and Inelastic Collisions
- Problems Involving Collisions
8. Gravity
- Gravity, Orbits, Planets, Stars...
- g Varies with Latitude and Altitude; Gravitational Potential Energy
- Orbits
- Gravity and Other Forces
- Another Historical Interlude
