Applied Physics: A Crash Course in Physics From (A-Z)

Explore elastic vs inelastic materials, rubber bands and clay, using Hooke's law F = -k x to relate force and displacement, and cover stress, strain, and Young's, shear, bulk modulus.

Learn how scalars and vectors differ, define magnitude and direction, and master vector addition and resolution into components using graphical and component methods, with trig tools.

Explore newtonian and non-newtonian fluid behaviors, and distinguish steady versus unsteady and uniform versus nonuniform flows, including laminar and turbulent contrasts and streamline flow.

Explains Bernoulli's equations for steady, incompressible flows with constant density, contrasts with compressible flow, and distinguishes rotational from irrotational flow while conserving kinetic energy, pressure, and potential energy along streamlines.

Delve into Bernoulli principles, viscosity concepts (dynamic and kinetic), and surface tension, including Newton's law of viscosity and capillary rise methods, applied to data science and physics.

Explore how to experimentally determine the surface tension between two surfaces using drop weight, drop cone, and drop count methods, and relate it to surface energy and molecular forces.

Explore heat transfer as thermal energy between objects, covering conduction, convection, radiation, specific heat, latent heat, entropy, and the laws of thermodynamics.

Explain latent heat and its two forms, fusion and vaporization, and define specific latent heat of fusion and of vaporization.

Explore the four laws of thermodynamics, entropy and thermodynamic equilibrium, and how heat engines and the Carnot cycle illustrate energy conservation and efficiency.

Define simple harmonic motion as a particle on a straight line with acceleration proportional to the negative displacement, yielding x(t) = a cos(mu t) or x(t) = a sin(mu t).

Explore fundamental motion types—from up-down and straight-line to rotational and projectile motion—and grasp light theories, interference, diffraction, and polarization with practical examples.

Define reflection and refraction of light with a glass block, showing incident rays, angle of incidence, angle of reflection, and angle of refraction, and the scenarios of transmission or reflection.

Explore how light reflects on non-metallic surfaces, how polarization depends on the angle of incidence, and how refraction and dispersion in prisms reveal color separation.

Explore electricity and magnetism basics, including electric charge, Coulomb's law, electric fields and field lines, electric potential, capacitors with dielectrics, and ohm's law.