List of Figures

• Scientific Method
• Epicycles explain the motion of planets
• Definition of Instantaneous Velocity
• Position-Time Graph
• Free fall acceleration
• Free fall velocity
• Free fall position
• Forces on a book lying on a table
• Free fall motion
• Kinetic energy of a freely-falling object
• Gravitational potential energy of a freely-falling object
• Total energy of a freely-falling object
• Mass attached to a spring
• Motion of a body about a fixed axis
• Rotation of an extended object about a fixed axis.
• Torque associated with a force
• Static equilibrium for a teeter-totter
• Gravitational Potential Energy
• Elliptic orbits
• Precession of Mercury's orbit
• Curved Space Around a Massive Object
• Fluid flow in a hose of variable size
• Action of a spray atomizer
• Lift of an aircraft wing
• Heat transfer by conduction
• Measurement of thermal conductivity
• Convection currents in boiling water
• Flow of material through a pressure difference
• Formation of breezes near large bodies of water
• A generic heat pump
• A refrigerator cycle
• A generic heat engine
• A simplified internal combustion engine
• Basic model of the atom
• Test charge in the presence of a fixed charge distribution
• Electric field lines of a positive charge
• Voltage vs. current for an Ohmic material
• Magnetic field lines of a bar magnet
• Mass spectrometer
• Force on a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field
• Basic electric motor / electric generator
• Basic speaker / microphone
• Electromagnet
• A non-magnetic material
• A permanent magnet
• A ferromagnet
• A ferromagnet in an external magnetic field
• Magnetic recording / reading
• Wire loop
• Metal detector / magnetic levitation
• Image formed from reflection of light in a mirror
• Refraction of light
• Image formed from a lens
• Apparent depth of an object under water
• Refraction of light from water into air
• Fiber optic cable
• Dispersion of white light by a prism
• Rainbow
• Diffraction through a slit
• Interference effects
• Double slit interference
• A simple wave
• Refraction of Waves
• Principle of Least Action
• Interference of waves
• Plane and circular waves.
• Wave description of the two slit experiment
• The Doppler effect
• Electromagnetic spectrum
• Two Frames of Reference in Relative Motion
• Relative Velocity - 1
• Relative Velocity-2
• Light Clock
• Light clocks in relative motion
• Planetary model of the atom
• An unstable wave orbit
• A stable wave orbit
• Photon emission
• Possible transitions in the Bohr atom
• Photon absorption
• Stimulated emission
• Photon scattering
• Photoelectric effect
• A two slit diffraction experiment
• Carbon Dioxide
• Silicon
• n-type semiconductor
• p-type semiconductor
• Diode
• Transistor
• Nuclear decay in time
• The Solar System
• The layers of the Earth
• Continental drift
• Tectonic plates
• Plate boundaries
• Earth's convection currents
• Weather map
• Earth's precession
• Greenhouse effect
• Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
• Hubble's Law
• Expanding Raisin Bread
• Microwave background