Physics 2


Lessons


Module 1: Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law, The Electric Field, Gauss' Law, Electric Potential Energy and Potential, and The Electrical Properties of Materials

Electromagnetism: A Preview and Electric Charge and Conductors and Insulators
Coulomb's Law, Continuous Charge Distributions, and Conservation of Charge
What is a Field?, The Electric Field, and Electric Field of Point Charges
Electric Field of Continuous Charge Distributions, Electric Field Lines, and A Point Charge in an Electric Field
A Dipole in an Electric Field and The Nuclear Model of the Atom
What is Gauss' Law All About and The Flux of a Vector Field
The Flux of the Electric Field and Gauss's Law
Applications of Gauss' Law, Gauss's Law and Conductors, and Experimental Tests of Gauss' Law and Coulomb's Law
Potential Energy, Electric Potential ENergy, and Electric Potential
Calculating the Potential from the Field, Potential Due to Point Charges, and Electric Potential of Continuous Charge Distributions
Calculating the Field from the Potential and Equipotential Surfaces
The Potential of a Charged Conductor and The Electrostatic Accelerator
Types of Materials, A Conductor in an Electric Field: Static Conditions, and A Conductor in an Electric Field: Dynamics Conditions
Ohmic Materials, Ohm's Law: A Microscopic View, and An Insulator in an Electric Field
Test 1 Review
Test 1

Module 2: Capacitance, DC Circuits, The Magnetic Field, The Magnetic Field of a Current, Faraday's Law of Induction, Magnetic Properties of Materials, Inductance, Alternating Current Circuits, and Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves

Capacitors, Capacitance, and Calculating the Capacitances
Capacitors in Series and Parallel, Energy Storage in an Electric Field, and Capacitors with Dielectrics
Electric Current, Electromotive Force, and Analysis of Circuits
Electric Fields in Circuits, Resistors in Series and Parallel, Energy Transfers in an Electric Circuits, and RC Circuits
Magnetic Interactions and Magnetic Poles, The Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge, and Circulating Charges
The Hall Effect, The Magnetic Force on a Current-Carying Wire, and the Torque on a Current Loop
The Magnetic Field due to a Moving Charge and The Magnetic Field of a Current
Two Parallel Currents and the Magnetic Field of a Solenoid
Ampere's Law and Electromagnetism and Frames of Reference
Faraday's Experiments and Faraday's Law of Induction, and Lenz' Law and motional emf
Generators and Motors, Induced Electric Fields, and Induction and Relative Motion
The Magnetic Dipole and The Force on a Dipole in a Nonuniform Field
Atomic and Nuclear Magnetism and Magnetization
Magnetic Materials, The Magnetism of the Planets, and Gauss' Law for Magnetism
Inductance and Calculating the Inductance
LR Circuits and Energy Storage in a Magnetic Field
Electromagnetic Oscillations: Qualitative, Electromagnetic Oscillations: Quantitative, and Damped and Forced Oscillations
Alternating Currents and Three Separate Elements
The Single Loop RLC Circuit, Power in AC Circuits, and The Transformer
The Basic Equations of Electromagnetism, Induced Magnetic Fields, and The Displacement Current
Maxwell's Equations and Generating an Electromagnetic Wave
Traveling Waves and Maxwell's Equations, Energy Transport and the Poynting Vector, and Radiation Pressure
Test 2 Review
Test 2

Module 3: Light Waves, Mirrors and Lenses, Interference, Diffraction, Grating and Spectra, Polarization, and The Nature of Light

The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Visibile Light, and The Speed of Light
Reflection and Refraction of Light Waves, Total Internal Reflection, and The Doppler Effect for Light
Image Formation by Mirrors and Lenses and Plane Mirrors, and Spherical Mirrors
Spherical Refracting Surfaces, Thin Lenses, and Optical Instruments
Two-Source Interference and Double-Slit Interference, and Coherence
Intensity in Double-Slit Interference, Interference from Thin Films, and Michelson's Interferometer
Diffraction and The Wave Theory of Light, and Single-Slit Diffraction
Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction, Diffraction at a Circular Aperture, and Double-Slit Interference and Diffraction Combined
Multiple Slits and Diffraction Gratings
Dispersion and Resolving Power, X-Ray Diffraction, and Holography
Polarization of Electromagnetic Waves, Polarizing Sheets, and Polarization by Reflection
Double Refraction, Circular Polarization, and Polarization by Scattering
Introducing the Photon and Thermal Radiation
The Photoelectric Effect and the Compton Effect
The Photon Revealed, Photons and Waves, and Slowing Down Atoms by Photon Bombardment
Test 3 Review
Test 3

Module 4: The Nature of Matter, Electrons in Potential Wells, Atomic Structure, Electrical Conduction in Solids, Nuclear Physics, Energy from the Nucleus, and Particle Physics and Cosmology

Matter Waves and Testing DeBroglie's Hypothesis
Waves and Particles and Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principles
The Wave Function, Schrodinger's Equation, and Barrier Tunneling
Electrons, Free and Bound and An Electron Trapped in a Potential Well
An Electron Trapped in a Finite Well and An Electron Trapped in an Atom
The Ground State of the Hydrogen Atom and Angular Momentum of Electrons in Atoms
Excited State of the Hydrogen Atom and Counting the States of Hydrogen
The X-Ray Spectrum of Atoms and Building Atoms
The Periodic Table, Atomic Magnetism, and The Stern-Gerlach Experiment
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Magnetism and Atomic Radiations, and Lasers and Laser Light
Quantum Theory of Solids and Conduction Electrons in a Metal
Filling the Allowed States and Electrical Conduction in Metals
Bands and Gaps, Conductors, Insulators, and Semiconductors
Doped Semiconductors and The pn Junction
Optical Electronics, The Transistor, and Superconductors
Discovering the Nucleus, Some Nuclear Properties, and Radioactive Decay
Alpha Decay, Beta Decay, and Measuring Ionizing Radiation
Natural Radioactivity, Nuclear Reactions, and Nuclear Models
The Atom and the Nucleus, Nuclear Fission: The Basic Process, and Theory of Nuclear Fission
Nuclear Reactions: The Basic Principles, A Natural Reactor and Thermonuclear Fusion: The Basic Process
Thermonuclear Fusion in Stars and Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion
Particle Interactions and Families of Particles
Conservation Laws and The Quark Model
The Big Bang Cosmology, Nucleosynthesis, and The Age of the Universe
Test 4 Review
Test 4

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