0 - Contents

Galileo. Law of Inertia

1 - Measurement

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2 - Motion Along a Straight Line

2-1 What is Physics ?
2-2 Motion
2-3 Position and Displacement
2-4 Average Velocity and Average Speed
2-5 Instantaneous Velocity and Speed
2-6 Acceleration
2-7 Constant Acceleration : Speed Case
2-8 Another Look at Constant Acceleration
2-9 Free-Fall Acceleration
2-10 Graphical Integration in Motion Analysis

3 - Vectors

3-1 What is Physics
3-2 Vectors and Scalars
3-3 Adding Vectors Geometrically
3-4 Components of Vectors
3-5 Unit Vectors
3-6 Adding Vector by Components
3-7 Vectors and the Laws of Physics
3-8 Multiplying Vectors

4 - Motion in Two and Three Dimensions

4-1 What is Physics
4-2 Position and Displacement
4-3 Average Velocity and Instantaneous Velocity
4-4 Average Acceleration and Instantaneous Acceleration
4-5 Projectile Motion
4-6 Projectile Motion Analyzed
4-7 Uniform Circular Motion
4-8 Relative Motion in One Dimension
4-9 Relative Motion in Two Motion

5 - Force and Motion - I

5-1 What is Physics ?
5-2 Newtonian Mechanics
5-3 Newton's First Law
5-4 Force
5-5 Mass
5-6 Newton's Second Law
5-7 Some Particular Forces
5-8 Newton's Third Law
5-9 Applying Newton's Laws

6 - Force and Motion - II

6-1 What is Physics ?
6-2 Friction
6-3 Properties of Friction
6-4 The Drag Force and Terminal Speed
6-5 Uniform Circular Motion

7 - Kinetic Energy and Work

7-1 What is Physics ?
7-2 What is Energy ?
7-3 Kinetic Energy
7-4 Work
7-5 Work and Kinetic Energy
7-6 Work Done by Gravitational Force
7-7 Work Done by a Spring Force
7-8 Work Done by a General Variable Force
7-9 Power

8 - Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy

8-1 What is Physics
8-2 Work and Potential Energy
8-3 Path Independence of Conservative Forces
8-4 Determining Potential Energy Values
8-5 Conservation of Mechanical Energy
8-6 Reading a Potential Energy Curve
8-7 Work Done on a System by an External Force
8-8 Conservation of Energy

9 - Center of Mass and Linear Momentum

9-1 What is Physics ?
9-2 The Center of Mass
9-3 Newton's Second Law for a System of Particles
9-4 Linear Momentum
9-5 The Linear Momentum of a System of Particle
9-6 Collision and Impulse
9-7 Conservation of Linear Momentum
9-8 Momentum and Kinetic Energy in Collisions
9-9 Inelastic Collisions in One Dimension
9-10 Elastic Collisions in One Dimension
9-11 Collisions in Two Dimension
9-12 System with Varying Mass : A Rocket

10 - Rotation

10-1 What is Physics ?
10-2 The Rotational Variables
10-3 Are Angular Quantities Vectors ?
10-4 Rotation with Constant Angular Acceleration
10-5 Relating the Linear and Angular Variables
10-6 Kinetic Energy of Rotation
10-7 Calculating the Rotational Inertia
10-8 Torque
10-9 Newton's Second Law for Rotation
10-10 Work and Rotational Kinetic Energy

11 - Rolling, Torque, and Augular Momentum

11-1 What is Physics ?
11-2 Rolling as Translation and Rotation Combined
11-3 The Kinetic Energy of Rolling
11-4 The Forces of Rolling
11-5 The Yo-Yo
11-6 Torque Revisited
11-7 Angular Momentum
11-8 Newton's Second Law in Angular Form
11-9 The Angular Momentum of s System of Particles
11-10 The Angular Momentum of a Rigid Body Rotation about a Fixed Axis
11-11 Conservation of Angular Momentum
11-12 Precession of a Gyroscope