Physics 1110, General Physics 1

Instructor: Steven Pollock

The semester at a glance:

1. Units/intro

2. Kinematics

3. Freefall

4. Force

5. Friction

6. Centripetal force

7. Work

8. Potential Energy

9. Center of Mass

10. Momentum

11. Angular motion

12. Statics

13. Simple Harmonic Motion

14. Waves

15. Gravity

16. Wrapping up...
We've covered a lot of ground this semester! I hope you have begun to see the deep, intimate and ubiquitous connections between what we learn in class and what you experience in the world. I also hope you have started to sense that physics is not a complicated "hodgepodge" (as the pictures above might suggest to the uninitiated!), but instead that all the diverse phenomena of the world are unified, and indeed are even simple and comprehensible at their core.

Newton's Laws form the backbone, the framework for understanding the "classical" world we live in - tying together the formulas, the phenomena, and the concepts into a beautiful and tightly woven tapestry.

Next semester, you will learn about electricity and magnetism, fundamental forces that (nearly) complete this classical story. Enjoy!



End of semester: Course is over!

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