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Lesson 1

Motion

Motion (along with momentum and energy) is one of the building blocks to our treatment of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity.

  • You will understand how velocity relates to distance and time.
  • You'll become experienced with two of our three “motion diagrams”: Space-Diagrams and Spacetime Diagrams.
  • You'll be able to calculate velocities from $v=\frac{\Delta x}{\Delta t};$ accelerations from $a=\frac{\Delta v}{\Delta t};$ and, by limiting ourselves to constant acceleration, you'll learn that the distance traveled under that condition is $x = \frac{1}{2}at^2$.
  • Finally, you'll appreciate that the “falling” near the earth is due to a constant acceleration which was found by Galileo Galilei, but not understood until Isaac Newton.

lesson videos (about 130 minutes)

section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
1.1 constant velocity39 min (covered first day) January 12, class 2
1.2 units and vectors29 min (covered first day) 2
1.3 constantly accelerated motion16 min (covered first day) 2
1.4 Galileo's analysis of falling motion 30 min 2
1.5 projectile motion23 min 2

examples

TBA

extras

vector addition and subtraction 19 min

light-years 15 min

airbus 330 300 speed at V1 7 min

Lesson 2 Momentum and Force

Momentum! is one of Newton's very important “discoveries” and we'll use it repeatedly. It's $p=mv$…where $m$ is mass (another Newton invention) and $v$ is velocity.

  • You'll learn how momentum is related to force as $F\Delta t = \Delta p $
  • You'll play with Newton's 3 laws of motion, but we'll not dwell on details of force problems like you would in a comprehensive physics course. Again, we're aiming at Relativity!
  • We'll spend most of our time on linear momentum ideas, but we will need to cover circular motion in order to follow Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation.
  • You'll learn how to play golf.

lesson videos (about 58 minutes

section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
2.1 momentum and impulse30 min 2
2.2 Newton's laws20 min 2
2.3 balancing forces7.5 min 2

extras

guy falling!

third law

2.4 circular motion 34 min

Lesson 3 Collisions

Much of our interest in particle physics comes from analyzing collisions of protons with protons (or antiprotons!), electrons with antielectrons, or neutrinos with protons, and so on. We'll concentrate on just a few configurations of one thing colliding with one thing. Buried in this discussion is the important concept of momentum conservation.

  • You'll learn how collisions “conserve” momentum…and about the crucial idea of “conservation laws.” Nature loves conservation laws.
  • You'll see neutrinos.
  • You'll learn to skate and how to become a neutron star.

lesson videos (about 64 minutes)

section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
3.1 momentum conservation(short gap @ 8:55 mark) 13 min January 17, imaginary Tuesday class 3
3.2 the simplest collision (?)13 min 3
3.3 our three diagrams19 min 3
3.4 2 dimensions11 min 3
3.5 conservation of angular momentum8 min 3

extras

Lesson 4 Energy

Motion (along with momentum and energy) is one of the building blocks to our treatment of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

lesson videos (about 2 hours)

section/video
section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
4.1 conservation lawsan overview of a very sophisticated idea about symmetry 13 min January 17, imaginary Tuesday class 3
4.2a kinetic energy and work18 min 3
4.2b units of energy10 min January 19, actual Thursday class 4
4.2c kinetic energy and work20 min 4
4.2d potential energy17 min 4
4.3 conservation of energy, heat, & energy analogy as "value"24 min 4
4.4 classifying collisions and dropping an apple14 min 4

extras

Lesson 5 Cosmology 1, the Greeks

Motion (along with momentum and energy) is one of the building blocks to our treatment of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

lesson videos (about 45 minutes)

section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
5.1 what did the ancients know?9 min (largely entertainment) January 24, imaginary Tuesday class 5
5.2 the Greek astronomy starting team36 min (largely entertainment) 5

extras

sky1greeks2

Lesson 6 Cosmology 2, Copernicus

Motion (along with momentum and energy) is one of the building blocks to our treatment of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

lesson videos (about 33 minutes)

section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
6.1 Copernicus33 min (largely entertainment) January 24, imaginary Tuesday class 5
6.2 the aftermath (same movie as above)29 min 5

Lesson 7 Cosmology 3, Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo

Motion (along with momentum and energy) is one of the building blocks to our treatment of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

lesson videos (about 94 minutes)

section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
7.1 Tycho's astronomy17 min January 24, imaginary Tuesday class 5
7.2 Kepler's astrophysics14 min 5
7.3 Kepler's Laws20 min 5
7.4 Galileo's astronomy43 min 5

Lesson 8 Newton and the Universal Law of Gravitation

Motion (along with momentum and energy) is one of the building blocks to our treatment of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

lesson videos (about 146 minutes)

section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
8.1 getting to gravitation30 min 5
8.2 the apple24 min January 26, actual Thursday class 6
8.3 Universal Gravitation19 min 6
8.4 gravitational potential energy37 min 6
8.5 action at a distance and Newton's cosmology35 min January 31, imaginary Tuesday class 7
8.6 consequences of Universal Gravitation17 min 7

extras

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Lesson 9 Electricity and Magnetism

Electricity and Magnetism were formalized in the middle of the 19th century after inventing the very useful concept of the “field.”

lesson videos (about 179 minutes)

section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
9.1 What You Know Already25 min January 31, imaginary Tuesday class 7
9.2 Coulomb's Law36 min 7
9.3 Magnets13 min 7
9.4 Faraday's Discoveries17 min 7
9.5 Electric Fields20 min February 2, actual Thursday class 8
9.6 Electric Field Configurations18 min 8
9.7 Electric Potential27 min 8
9.8 Magnetic Fields23 min 8
9.9a Electromagnetism29 min February 7, imaginary Tuesday class 9
9.9b ...and the Lorentz Force21 min 9

Lesson 10 Particle Accelerators, Particle Detectors, and Telescopes

Our first particle discovery! The electron emerged as a result of improved technology that made a simple “particle accelerator” to be invented and exploited by JJ Thomson. Particle accelerators and particle detectors are a part of our QS&BB story, but not in an engineering sense: you don't need to build one, just appreciate how they work. Telescopes are also particle detectors as they utilize the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

lesson videos (about 198 minutes)

section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
10.1 Discovery of the Electron 24 min February 7, imaginary Tuesday class 9
10.2a Modern Accelerators 1 22 min 9
10.2b Modern Accelerators 2 35 min February 9, actual Thursday class 10
10.3 The LHC Program 35 min 10
10.4 Jobs of Theory and Experiment 8 min 10
10.5 How to Calculate Event Rates 23 min 10
10.6 Calculation of the 2012 Higgs Boson Event Totals 13 min 10
10.7 Ionization Detectors 38 min February 14, imaginary Tuesday class 11

Lesson X Title

Motion (along with momentum and energy) is one of the building blocks to our treatment of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity

lesson videos (about XX minutes)

section/videoapproximate viewing timecomplete before class number:
39 min 1
29 min 1
16 min 1
30 min 1
23 min 2

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extras

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