
Explore waves, sound, geometric optics, and physical optics through video lessons for high school and AP physics. Learn with demonstrations and example problems from Corey Mousseau.
Explore mechanical waves, including longitudinal and transverse types, and how amplitude, wavelength, frequency, period, compression, rarefaction, and sound waves relate to energy transfer and speed through media.
Sound travels as a longitudinal compression wave; energy scales with amplitude, frequency depends on the source, speed varies by medium, and resonance builds energy at an object's natural frequency.
Learn how convex mirrors produce virtual, upright, reduced images behind the mirror, regardless of object position, because they are diverging mirrors with focal point on the dark side.
Explore how single-slit and double-slit diffraction produce interference patterns, with central maxima, dark and bright fringes, and how diffraction gratings reveal spectra for spectroscopy.
Explore thin film interference and polarization in light, explaining rainbow patterns from soap bubbles and oil slicks, phase shifts, and the role of film thickness and polarizing filters.
This course is one of several courses designed for Algebra Based AP Physics 1. In this course we will cover the topics waves, sound, and optics.
The videos and resources will include lectures, demonstrations, and plenty of worked out example problems with High School physics curriculum and the AP Physics 1 curriculum in mind. This is perfect for any student planning to take the AP exam or any Introductory College physics student. While this course does not cover calculus based physics, any student enrolled in such course will still benefit from the ground work laid out here.
While this course does have sections for both High School and AP Level Physics, the videos intended for the AP crowed will be clearly labeled.
Upon completion of this course students should look to complete my other courses regarding the other content areas in AP Physics 1 and AP Physics 2