Contents

• Gravity
  • Cosmology and Kepler's Laws
  • Ellipses and Conic Sections
  • Newton's Law of Gravity
  • The Gravitational Field
  • Gravitational Potential Energy
  • Energy Diagrams and Orbits
  • Escape Velocity, Escape Energy
  
  
• Oscillations
  • Oscillations
  • Springs
  • Math: Complex Numbers and Harmonic Trigonometric Functions
  • Simple Harmonic Oscillation
  • The Pendulum
  • Damped Oscillation
  • Properties of the Damped Oscillator
  
  
• Waves
  • Wave Summary
  • Waves
  • Waves on a String
  • Solutions to the Wave Equation
  • Reflection of Waves
  • Energy
  
  
• Sound
  • Sound Summary
  • Sound Waves in a Fluid
  • Sound Wave Solutions
  • Sound Wave Intensity
  • Doppler Shift
  • Standing Waves in Pipes
  • Beats
  • Interference and Sound Waves
  
  
• Fluids
  • Fluids Summary
  • Fluids
  • Static Fluids
  
  
• Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
  • 0th Law of Thermodynamics Summary
  
  
• First Law of Thermodynamics
  • First Law of Thermodynamics Summary
  
  
• Equipartition and Adiabatic Processes
  • Equipartition and Adiabatic Processes
  
  
• Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • Second Law of Thermodynamics Summary
  
  
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