PHYS 1110 Fall 2015
General Physics I

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Telescope/Space Science Web sites:

Fun Links (including those suggested by students from our class)

I will add these as I find them - and, we are waiting on your emails/suggestions!

 

This is from a student in class:

Professors, After today's lecture, I thought of this video.  It's a cool demonstration of a standing wave where someone suspends water in the air with two speakers.  He then "pops" the bubbles by increasing the amplitude of the waves.It's some of the coolest slomo video I've ever seen, and you could probably do it for a future class.  https://youtu.be/0K8zs-KSitc  The slomo footage starts around 4:00.


Here is a "beta version" phet sim about trig functions.

Simple Harmonic motion is the same as uniform circular motion "viewed from the side" - see here

 

(I love that Calvin is totally thinking about dad's "paradox"!)

 

If you have never seen this before, check out the Veritasium youtube channel. These are really great Physics puzzlers - well presented, entertaining, and interesting!

 

Here is a really nice link about Center of Mass (explaining the "Fosbury flop" move in high-jumping in terms of basic physics)

 

Here is a student video (slo-mo, taken in class) of SJP on the "rocket-sled" in class. It's a large download if you're on a slow network (almost 50 MB.) I feel a little bad for the student who got "blasted" (but I really did warn him about it before class! And, it's just a little CO2... & it looks longer in slow-mo than it really lasted! )


Here is the video SJP showed in class about the "Ball and feathers" drop. So awesome :-)
And here's another one - from the moon! (Watch either movie clip just before the 167:22:06 time mark)

 

Here's a video a student pointed out to me showing the consequences of force and acceleration in a spectacular way. It could be faked (the footage has a "break" in it that suggests the possibility to me). Any thoughts? How can we decide? (Thanks, Cooper!) (Conversation to be continued on our piazza page...)

 

Here's another very short video, which I will show in class when we get to projectiles. Megawoosh - it's brilliant - watch it and decide for yourself if it's real or fakes. How could you decide?
See here for some thoughts about that (but think about it yourself first!) And, a more conclusive statement.

I showed a demo in lecture about how x- and y- motion are independent, here's the slo-mo video of it.

 

Here's a nice professional version of the demo we do demonstrating "all objects near the earth subject only to gravity accelerate the same" (the famous "ball and feathers" demo, or "Galileo ball drop")

 

 

Send from a student, an impressive "projectile motion" hockey trick shot. (Alas, you have to sit through an uninteresting 30 second car ad first, sorry)

 

Here's an image about "units" to start us off, look carefully!