Video Lectures

1.1: Measurements in Physics

• How to Find the Number of Significant Figures in a Number

• Calculations with Significant Figures

• Variables, Units, the SI, Fundamental and Derived Units, and Prefixes

• Reducing Derived Units to Fundamental Units

• Converting Units with the Factor Label Method

1.2: Uncertainties & Errors

• Uncertainty Notation and the Range of Possible Values

• Absolute, Fractional, and Percent Uncertainty

• Propagating Uncertainty: Addition and Subtraction

• Propagating Uncertainty: Multiplication and Division

• Propagating Uncertainty: Powers and Roots

• Propagating Uncertainty in IB Physics Problems

• Measurement Uncertainty

• Data Tables (explains statistical uncertainty)

• Logger Pro in IB Physics

• The Average Line of Best Fit Equation (Includes Uncertainty of Gradients and Intercepts)

1.3: Vectors & Scalars

• Vectors vs. Scalars

• Labeling & Adding Vectors

• Recording the Angle of a Vector

• Finding the Angle of a Vector

• X & Y Components of Vectors

• Finding X and Y Components of Vectors Using Trig

• Adding Complex Vectors

• Trigonometry: What Trig Identities Mean

• Trigonometry: Finding the Missing Side of a Triangle

• Trigonometry: Inverse Trig Identities

• 3D Vector Notation

2.1: Motion

• Motion Maps/Dot Diagrams

• Distance & Displacement

• Speed & Velocity

• Average vs. Instantaneous

• Position-Time Graphs

• Velocity-Time Graphs Part 1: Constant Velocity & Area Under the Curve

• Translating Between Position-Time and Velocity-Time Graphs

• Acceleration

• Velocity-Time Graphs Part 2: Changing Velocity & Slope

• Acceleration-Time Graphs

• Translating Graphs

• Kinematic Equations

• Proof of Kinematic Equations

• Free Fall

• 2D Projectile Motion Kinematics

• Air Resistance on Projectiles

2.2: Forces

• Forces & Free Body Diagrams

• Common Forces

• Force Webs

• Finding the Net Force

• Mass vs. Weight

• Static vs. Kinetic Friction

• Newton’s First Law

• Newton’s Second Law

• Newton’s Third Law

• Ramp Problems

2.3: Work, Energy, & Power

• Work

• Work & Energy

• Kinetic Energy

• Gravitational Potential Energy

• Elastic Potential Energy

• Thermal Energy

• Other Types of Energy

• Open & Closed Systems in Energy

• LOL Diagrams

• Force Distance Graphs

• 2 Example Energy Conservation Problems

• Power

• Efficiency

2.4: Momentum & Impulse

• What is Momentum?

• Impulse & Force time Graphs

• Conservation of Momentum

• Open & Closed Systems in Momentum

• Collisions

3.1: Thermal Concepts

• Temperature, Internal or Thermal Energy, and Heat

• Q = mcΔT and Specific Heat

• Phase Changes

• Q = mL and Latent Heat

• Using Power in Heat Equations

• How to Draw and Read Temperature vs. Heat Graphs

• Thermal Equilibrium

3.2: Modeling a Gas

• Pressure

• The Kinetic Model of an Ideal Gas

• The Ideal Gas Law pV = nRT

• The Average Kinetic Energy per Molecule Equation for an Ideal Gas

4.1: Oscillations

• Simple Harmonic Motion

• Waves: Phase Difference

4.2: Traveling Waves

• Waves: Basic Definition, Transverse vs. Longitudinal, Mechanical vs. Electromagnetic

• Waves: Amplitude, Period, Frequency, Wavelength, Crests & Troughs, Wavelength of a Longitudinal Wave

• Waves: Velocity of a Wave, Wave Graphs: Displacement-Distance and Displacement-Time

• Electromagnetic Waves

4.3: Wave Characteristics

• Waves: Superposition

• Wave Reflection

• Light Intensity

• Polarization of Light

4.4: Wave Behavior

• Reflection

• Wavefronts

• Refraction and Snell’s Law

• The Critical Angle and Total Internal Reflection

• Diffraction & Huygens’s Principle

  • My gimmicky Minecraft demo of Huygens’s Principle

• Proving the Double Slit Interference Equation

• Solving Problems with the Double Slit Interference Equation

4.5: Standing Waves

• Standing Waves (It’s necessary to know Superposition and Wave Reflection to understand this)

• Harmonics of a Standing Wave

• Sound as a Standing Wave

5.1: Electric Fields

• Electric Charge

• Coulomb’s Law

• Electric Fields

• Current & Drift Velocity

• Voltage (Potential Difference)

• Electron-Volts vs. Joules

5.2: Heating Effects of Currents

• Resistance and Resistivity

• Circuits

• Series & Parallel Circuits & Equivalent Resistance

• Ohm’s Law

• Ohmic vs. Non Ohmic Resistors

• Ideal and Non Ideal Ammeters and Voltmeters

• Power in Circuits

• Kirchhoff’s Laws

• Potential Dividers

5.3: Electric Cells

• Internal Resistance and emf

• Primary vs. Secondary Cells

5.4: Magnetic Effects of Electric Currents

• Magnetic Fields

• 3D Vectors

• The Corner Right Hand Rule

• The Curl Right Hand Rule

• Combining Right Hand Rules

6.1: Circular Motion

• Basic Circular Motion

• 5 Examples of Solving Centripetal Force Problems

6.2: Newton’s Law of Gravitation

• Universal Gravitation

7.1: Discrete Energy & Radioactivity

• Atomic Notation

• Photon Energy and the Planck Constant

• Electron Energy Levels and Photons

• Absorption and Emission Spectra

• Nuclear Radiation and Decay

• Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Radiation

• Half-Life

7.2: Nuclear Reactions

• Mass Defect and Binding Energy

• Binding Energy Per Nucleon and Stability

• Nuclear Fusion and Fission, and Energy in Nuclear Equations

7.3: The Structure of Matter

• The Four Fundamental Forces

• Fundamental vs. Composite Particles and the Standard Model

• Conservation Laws in Particle Physics (coming soon)

• Feynman Diagrams (coming soon)

8.1: Energy Sources

• Power

• Efficiency

• Sankey Diagrams

• Why Climate Change Happens

• Primary vs. Secondary Energy Sources

• Fossil Fuels

• Atomic Notation

• Nuclear Power

• Wind Power

• Hydroelectric Power

• Solar Power

8.2: Thermal Energy Transfer

• Conduction, Convection, Radiation (coming soon)

• Why Climate Change Happens

• Blackbody Radiation (coming soon)

• Albedo (coming soon)

D.1: Stellar Quantities

• Stellar Parallax

• Brightness and Luminosity of Stars

• More coming soon

D.2: Stellar Characteristics & Stellar Evolution

• Cepheid Variables

• Hertzsprung–Russell (HR) diagrams

• More coming soon

D.3: Cosmology

(Coming soon)