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Physics 1501 - Modern Technology

Randy Kobes & Gabor Kunstatter
Physics Department
University of Winnipeg

September, 1999

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Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction
- Science as Art
- The Scientific Method
- Statistics
- Aspects of science
- Symmetry
- Units and measurements
- Questions
Motion
- Position
- Velocity
- Acceleration
- Graphing Motion
- Free fall motion
- Questions
Forces and Newton's Laws
- Forces
- Newton's Laws
- Weight and Mass
- Questions
Work and Energy
- Work
- Power
- Kinetic Energy
- Potential Energy
- Other types of energy
- Conservation of momentum
- Symmetries and Conservation Laws
- Questions
Rotational Motion
- Circular motion
- Torque
  - Static Equilibrium
  - Moment of inertia
- Rotational kinetic energy
- Angular momentum
- Questions
Gravity
- Newton's Law of Gravity
- Gravitational Acceleration
- Weight and Mass, Revisited
- Gravitational Potential Energy
- Escape Velocity
- Orbital Motion and Kepler's Laws
- Gravity as Curved Space: Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
- Black Holes
- Questions
Fluids
- States of Matter
- Fluid Flow and the Continuity Equation
- Pressure
- Buoyancy
  - Bernoulli's Principle
- Questions
Heat
- The nature of heat
- Temperature
- Heat Capacity
- Heat Transfer
- 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
- Questions
Electricity and Magnetism
- Electric charges
  - Atomic view of charges
- Electric field
- Charges in motion
- Magnetism and magnetic fields
- Magnetic forces on moving charges
- Magnetism from electricity
  - Magnetic materials
- Currents from magnetism
- Questions
Light
- Properties of light
- Waves
- Electromagnetic waves
  - Electromagnetic spectrum
- Questions
Special Relativity
- The Postulates of Special Relativity
- Frames of Reference and Galilean Transformations
- Time Dilation
- Length Contraction
- Lorentz Transformations and the Addition of Velocities
- Other Implications of Special Relativity
Quantum Theory
- Early models of the atom
  - Problems with early models
- Bohr model of the atom
- Bohr model
- Wave particle duality
- Complex atoms
Nuclear Physics
- Nuclei
- Mass and Energy
  - The Strong Nuclear Force and Binding Energy
- Radioactivity
- Measuring Radioactivity
- Half life
  - Radon gas
- Nuclear Reactions
- Uses of radiation
  - Non-medical uses
  - Medical uses
Earth and other Planets
- The Solar System
  - Nebular Hypothesis
  - Evolution of the Earth
- The Dynamic Earth
- Plate Tectonics
  - Plate boundaries
    - Earthquakes and volcanoes
  - Mantle Convection
- Earth's Cycles
- Human Consequences
Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe
- Stars
  - Hertzsprung-Russell Diagrams
  - Lives and Deaths of Stars
- Galaxies
- The Universe
Index
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modtech@theory.uwinnipeg.ca
1999-09-29