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Updated 07/21/2010

Vectors and Vector Addition

• Vector Components
• Vector Addition - Patterns
• Vector Addition - Integer Components
• Vector Addition

One-Dimensional Motion

• Free fall
• Free fall with air resistance
• Matching graphs
• Car race (constant velocity vs. constant acceleration)
• Motion graphs (constant velocity vs. constant acceleration)

Forces and Free-Body Diagrams

• Free-Body Diagrams

Relative-velocity Motion

• Relative velocity race (in one dimension)

Two-Dimensional Motion

• Projectile motion

Uniform Circular Motion

• Uniform circular motion

Momentum Conservation

• Collisions in One Dimension

Simple Harmonic Motion

• The Connection between Uniform Circular Motion and Simple Harmonic Motion
• A Block on a Spring
• A Simple Pendulum
• Two Springs and a Pendulum

Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law

• Three Charges
• Electric Force in 1 dimension
• Electric Field in 1 dimension
• Electric Force in 2 dimensions
• Electric Field in 2 dimensions

Electric Potential and Capacitors

• Electric Field and Potential in 1 dimension
• Electric Field and Potential in 2 dimensions
• Parallel-plate capacitor

DC Circuits

• RC Circuit
• RC Timing Circuit

Magnetism

• A Charge in Electric and Magnetic Fields
• A Velocity Selector
• Three Wires
• RL Circuit

AC (alternating current) circuits

• AC circuit introduction
• RLC circuit

Waves

• Wave representations
• The Doppler effect
• Longitudinal waves
• Standing waves
• Longitudinal standing waves

Light and the reflection of light

• Light and shadow
• Spherical mirror (ray diagram)
• Concave mirror (ray diagram and the role of time)

Refraction of light

• Refraction and light travel time minimization
• Refraction, time minimization, and Snell's Law
• Refraction and Snell's Law
• Converging lens (ray diagram and the role of time)

Interference and Diffraction

• Interference from two sources
• Interference and Diffraction (single and double slits)
• Thin-film interference