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| Welcome to the Georgia Tech Wiki for Intro Physics. This resources was created so that students can contribute and curate content to help those with limited or no access to a textbook. When reading this website, please correct any errors you may come across. If you read something that isn't clear, please consider revising it!
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| == Source Material == | | ==The Main Idea== |
| All of the content added to this resource must be in the public domain or similar free resource. If you are unsure about a source, contact the original author for permission. That said, there is a surprisingly large amount of introductory physics content scattered across the web. Here is an incomplete list of intro physics resources (please update as needed).
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| * A physics resource written by experts for an expert audience [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Physics Physics Portal]
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| * A wiki book on modern physics [https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Modern_Physics Modern Physics Wiki]
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| * The MIT open courseware for intro physics [http://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-8-002-a-wikitextbook-for-introductory-mechanics-fall-2009/index.htm MITOCW Wiki]
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| * An online concept map of intro physics [http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html HyperPhysics]
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| * Interactive physics simulations [https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/physics PhET]
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| * OpenStax algebra based intro physics textbook [https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics College Physics]
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| * The Open Source Physics project is a collection of online physics resources [http://www.opensourcephysics.org/ OSP]
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| * A resource guide compiled by the [http://www.aapt.org/ AAPT] for educators [http://www.compadre.org/ ComPADRE]
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| == Organizing Categories ==
| | State, in your own words, the main idea for this topic |
| These are the broad, overarching categories, that we cover in two semester of introductory physics. You can add subcategories or make a new category as needed. A single topic should direct readers to a page in one of these catagories.
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| | ===A Mathematical Model=== |
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| *[[Kinds of Matter]]
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| **[[Ball and Spring Model of Matter]]
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| *[[Detecting Interactions]]
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| *[[Fundamental Interactions]]
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| *[[System & Surroundings]]
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| *[[Newton's First Law of Motion]]
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| *[[Newton's Second Law of Motion]]
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| *[[Newton's Third Law of Motion]]
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| *[[Gravitational Force]]
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| *[[Electric Force]]
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| *[[Conservation of Charge]]
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| *[[Terminal Speed]]
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| *[[Simple Harmonic Motion]]
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| *[[Speed and Velocity]]
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| *[[Electric Polarization]]
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| *[[Perpetual Freefall (Orbit)]]
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| *[[2-Dimensional Motion]]
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| *[[Center of Mass]]
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| *[[Reaction Time]]
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| ===Theory=== | | ===A Computational Model=== |
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| *[[Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity]]
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| *[[Quantum Theory]]
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| *[[Big Bang Theory]]
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| *[[Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory]]
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| *[[Atomic Theory]]
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| *[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
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| *[[String Theory]]
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| | How do we visualize or predict using this topic. Consider embedding some vpython code here [https://trinket.io/glowscript/31d0f9ad9e Teach hands-on with GlowScript] |
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| ===Notable Scientists=== | | ==Examples== |
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| *[[Christian Doppler]]
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| *[[Albert Einstein]]
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| *[[Ernest Rutherford]]
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| *[[Joseph Henry]]
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| *[[Michael Faraday]]
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| *[[J.J. Thomson]]
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| *[[James Maxwell]]
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| *[[Robert Hooke]]
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| *[[Carl Friedrich Gauss]]
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| *[[Nikola Tesla]]
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| *[[Andre Marie Ampere]]
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| *[[Sir Isaac Newton]]
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| *[[J. Robert Oppenheimer]]
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| *[[Oliver Heaviside]]
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| *[[Rosalind Franklin]]
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| *[[Erwin Schrödinger]]
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| *[[Enrico Fermi]]
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| *[[Robert J. Van de Graaff]]
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| *[[Charles de Coulomb]]
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| *[[Hans Christian Ørsted]]
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| *[[Philo Farnsworth]]
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| *[[Niels Bohr]]
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| *[[Georg Ohm]]
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| *[[Galileo Galilei]]
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| *[[Gustav Kirchhoff]]
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| *[[Max Planck]]
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| *[[Heinrich Hertz]]
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| *[[Edwin Hall]]
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| *[[James Watt]]
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| *[[Count Alessandro Volta]]
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| *[[Josiah Willard Gibbs]]
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| *[[Richard Phillips Feynman]]
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| *[[Sir David Brewster]]
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| *[[Daniel Bernoulli]]
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| *[[William Thomson]]
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| *[[Leonhard Euler]]
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| *[[Robert Fox Bacher]]
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| *[[Stephen Hawking]]
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| *[[Amedeo Avogadro]]
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| *[[Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen]]
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| *[[Pierre Laplace]]
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| *[[Thomas Edison]]
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| *[[Hendrik Lorentz]]
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| *[[Jean-Baptiste Biot]]
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| *[[Lise Meitner]]
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| *[[Lisa Randall]]
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| *[[Felix Savart]]
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| *[[Heinrich Lenz]]
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| *[[Max Born]]
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| *[[Archimedes]]
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| *[[Jean Baptiste Biot]]
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| *[[Carl Sagan]]
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| *[[Eugene Wigner]]
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| *[[Marie Curie]]
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| *[[Pierre Curie]]
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| *[[Werner Heisenberg]]
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| *[[Johannes Diderik van der Waals]]
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| *[[Louis de Broglie]]
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| *[[Aristotle]]
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| *[[Émilie du Châtelet]]
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| *[[Blaise Pascal]]
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| *[[Benjamin Franklin]]
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| *[[James Chadwick]]
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| *[[Henry Cavendish]]
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| *[[Thomas Young]]
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| ===Properties of Matter=== | | ===Simple=== |
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| | ===Middling=== |
| *[[Mass]]
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| *[[Velocity]]
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| *[[Relative Velocity]]
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| *[[Density]]
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| *[[Charge]]
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| *[[Spin]]
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| *[[SI Units]]
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| *[[Heat Capacity]]
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| *[[Specific Heat]]
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| *[[Wavelength]]
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| *[[Conductivity]]
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| *[[Malleability]]
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| *[[Weight]]
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| *[[Boiling Point]]
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| *[[Melting Point]]
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| *[[Higgs Boson]]
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| | ==Connectedness== |
| | #How is this topic connected to something that you are interested in? |
| | #How is it connected to your major? |
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| ===Contact Interactions=== | | ==History== |
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| * [[Young's Modulus]]
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| * [[Friction]]
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| * [[Tension]]
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| * [[Hooke's Law]]
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| *[[Centripetal Force and Curving Motion]]
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| *[[Compression or Normal Force]]
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| * [[Length and Stiffness of an Interatomic Bond]]
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| * [[Speed of Sound in a Solid]]
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| * [[Iterative Prediction of Spring-Mass System]]
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| ===Momentum=== | | == See also == |
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| * [[Vectors]]
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| * [[Kinematics]]
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| * [[Conservation of Momentum]]
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| * [[Predicting Change in multiple dimensions]]
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| * [[Momentum Principle]]
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| * [[Impulse Momentum]]
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| * [[Curving Motion]]
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| * [[Multi-particle Analysis of Momentum]]
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| * [[Iterative Prediction]]
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| * [[Newton's Laws and Linear Momentum]]
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| * [[Net Force]]
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| * [[Center of Mass]]
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| * [[Momentum at High Speeds]]
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| | Are there related topics or categories in this wiki resource for the curious reader to explore? How does this topic fit into that context? |
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| ===Angular Momentum=== | | ===Further reading=== |
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| * [[The Moments of Inertia]]
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| * [[Moment of Inertia for a ring]]
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| * [[Rotation]]
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| * [[Torque]]
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| * [[Systems with Zero Torque]]
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| * [[Systems with Nonzero Torque]]
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| * [[Right Hand Rule]]
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| * [[Angular Velocity]]
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| * [[Predicting the Position of a Rotating System]]
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| * [[Translational Angular Momentum]]
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| * [[The Angular Momentum Principle]]
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| * [[Rotational Angular Momentum]]
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| * [[Total Angular Momentum]]
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| * [[Gyroscopes]]
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| | ===External links=== |
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| ===Energy===
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| *[[The Photoelectric Effect]]
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| *[[Photons]]
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| *[[The Energy Principle]]
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| *[[Predicting Change]]
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| *[[Rest Mass Energy]]
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| *[[Kinetic Energy]]
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| *[[Potential Energy]]
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| *[[Work]]
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| *[[Thermal Energy]]
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| *[[Conservation of Energy]]
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| *[[Electric Potential]]
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| *[[Energy Transfer due to a Temperature Difference]]
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| *[[Gravitational Potential Energy]]
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| *[[Point Particle Systems]]
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| *[[Real Systems]]
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| *[[Spring Potential Energy]]
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| **[[Ball and Spring Model]]
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| *[[Internal Energy]]
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| **[[Potential Energy of a Pair of Neutral Atoms]]
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| *[[Translational, Rotational and Vibrational Energy]]
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| *[[Franck-Hertz Experiment]]
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| *[[Power (Mechanical)]]
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| *[[Energy Graphs]]
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| *[[Air Resistance]]
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| *[[Electronic Energy Levels]]
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| *[[Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy]]
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| *[[Specific Heat Capacity]]
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| *[[Electronic Energy Levels and Photons]]
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| *[[Energy Density]]
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| *[[Bohr Model]]
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| *[[Quantized energy levels]]
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| *[[Path Independence of Electric Potential]]
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| | ==References== |
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| ===Collisions===
| | This section contains the the references you used while writing this page |
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| *[[Collisions]]
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| *[[Maximally Inelastic Collision]]
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| *[[Elastic Collisions]]
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| *[[Inelastic Collisions]]
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| *[[Head-on Collision of Equal Masses]]
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| *[[Head-on Collision of Unequal Masses]]
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| *[[Frame of Reference]]
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| *[[Rutherford Experiment and Atomic Collisions]]
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| ===Fields===
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| * [[Electric Field]] of a
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| ** [[Point Charge]]
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| ** [[Electric Dipole]]
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| ** [[Capacitor]]
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| ** [[Charged Rod]]
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| ** [[Charged Ring]]
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| ** [[Charged Disk]]
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| ** [[Charged Spherical Shell]]
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| ** [[Charged Cylinder]]
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| ** [[Charged Hollow Cylinder]]
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| ** [[How Objects Become Charged]]
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| **[[A Solid Sphere Charged Throughout Its Volume]]
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| *[[Electric Potential]]
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| **[[Potential Difference Path Independence]]
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| **[[Potential Difference in a Uniform Field]]
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| **[[Potential Difference of point charge in a non-Uniform Field]]
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| **[[Sign of Potential Difference]]
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| **[[Potential Difference in an Insulator]]
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| **[[Energy Density and Electric Field]]
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| ** [[Systems of Charged Objects]]
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| *[[Electric Force]]
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| *[[Polarization]]
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| **[[Polarization of an Atom]]
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| *[[Charge Motion in Metals]]
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| *[[Charge Transfer]]
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| *[[Magnetic Field]]
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| **[[Right-Hand Rule]]
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| **[[Direction of Magnetic Field]]
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| **[[Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire]]
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| **[[Magnetic Field of a Loop]]
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| **[[Magnetic Field of a Solenoid]]
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| **[[Bar Magnet]]
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| **[[Magnetic Dipole Moment]]
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| **[[Magnetic Force]]
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| **[[Magnetic Torque]]
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| **[[Hall Effect]]
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| **[[Lorentz Force]]
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| **[[Biot-Savart Law]]
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| **[[Biot-Savart Law for Currents]]
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| **[[Integration Techniques for Magnetic Field]]
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| **[[Sparks in Air]]
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| **[[Motional Emf]]
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| **[[Detecting a Magnetic Field]]
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| **[[Moving Point Charge]]
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| **[[Non-Coulomb Electric Field]]
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| **[[Motors and Generators]]
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| **[[Solenoid Applications]]
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| *[[Components]]
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| *[[Steady State]]
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| *[[Non Steady State]]
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| *[[Charging and Discharging a Capacitor]]
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| *[[Thin and Thick Wires]]
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| *[[Node Rule]]
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| *[[Loop Rule]]
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| *[[Resistivity]]
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| *[[Power in a circuit]]
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| *[[Ammeters,Voltmeters,Ohmmeters]]
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| *[[Current]]
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| **[[AC]]
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| *[[Ohm's Law]]
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| *[[Series Circuits]]
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| *[[Parallel Circuits]]
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| *[[RC]]
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| *[[Charge in a RC Circuit]]
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| *[[Current in a RC circuit]]
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| *[[Circular Loop of Wire]]
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| *[[RL Circuit]]
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| *[[LC Circuit]]
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| *[[Surface Charge Distributions]]
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| *[[Feedback]]
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| *[[Transformers (Circuits)]]
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| *[[Resistors and Conductivity]]
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| ===Maxwell's Equations===
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| *[[Gauss's Flux Theorem]]
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| **[[Electric Fields]]
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| **[[Magnetic Fields]]
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| *[[Ampere's Law]]
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| **[[Magnetic Field of Coaxial Cable Using Ampere's Law]]
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| **[[Magnetic Field of a Long Thick Wire Using Ampere's Law]]
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| **[[Magnetic Field of a Toroid Using Ampere's Law]]
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| *[[Faraday's Law]]
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| **[[Curly Electric Fields]]
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| **[[Inductance]]
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| ***[[Transformers from a physics standpoint]]
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| ***[[Energy Density]]
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| **[[Lenz's Law]]
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| ***[[Lenz Effect and the Jumping Ring]]
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| **[[Motional Emf using Faraday's Law]]
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| *[[Ampere-Maxwell Law]]
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| *[[Superconductors]]
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| **[[Meissner effect]]
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| ===Radiation===
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| *[[Producing a Radiative Electric Field]]
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| *[[Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Radiaton]]
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| *[[Lenses]]
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| *[[Energy and Momentum Analysis in Radiation]]
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| *[[Electromagnetic Propagation]]
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| **[[Wavelength and Frequency]]
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| *[[Snell's Law]]
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| *[[Effects of Radiation on Matter]]
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| *[[Light Propagation Through a Medium]]
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| *[[Light Scaterring: Why is the Sky Blue]]
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| *[[Light Refraction: Bending of light]]
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| ===Sound===
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| *[[Doppler Effect]]
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| *[[Nature, Behavior, and Properties of Sound]]
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| *[[Resonance]]
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| *[[Sound Barrier]]
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| ===Waves===
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| *[[Multisource Interference: Diffraction]]
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| *[[Standing waves]]
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| *[[Gravitational waves]]
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| *[[Wave-Particle Duality]]
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| ===Real Life Applications of Electromagnetic Principles===
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| *[[Electromagnetic Junkyard Cranes]]
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| *[[Maglev Trains]]
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| == Resources ==
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| * Commonly used wiki commands [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Cheatsheet Wiki Cheatsheet]
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| * A guide to representing equations in math mode [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Displaying_a_formula Wiki Math Mode]
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| * A page to keep track of all the physics [[Constants]]
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| * An overview of [[VPython]]
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