PHYS 101 lecture notes
14 sections201 worked examples275 exercises97 figures
These notes are generated. They are written against the official syllabus week by week, and the section numbers are the ones the syllabus names; the book itself was not read into them. They cover the common curriculum of the course, not one particular section: this term it runs in 14 sections with 10 different instructors. Before an exam, check them against your own instructor's slides; those are what bind you.
306 entries across 14 sections
01Introduction, measurement and estimating: uncertainty, significant figures, units and dimensionsweek 118 worked examples · 29 exercises · 7 figures02Describing Motion: Kinematics in one Dimensionweek 222 worked examples · 32 exercises · 7 figures03Kinematics in two or three dimensions: vectors, projectile motion and relative velocityweek 317 worked examples · 29 exercises · 7 figures04Dynamics: Newton's Laws of Motionweek 420 worked examples · 32 exercises · 7 figures05Review and consolidation I: measurement, kinematics, and Newton's laws as one machineweek 515 worked examples · 23 exercises · 6 figures06Using Newton’s Laws: Friction, Circular Motion, Drag Forcesweek 620 worked examples · 32 exercises · 7 figures07Gravitation and Newton’s Synthesisweek 727 worked examples · 33 exercises · 8 figures08Work and Energyweek 820 worked examples · 32 exercises · 7 figures09Conservation of Energyweek 921 worked examples · 32 exercises · 7 figures10Review and consolidation II: applying Newton's laws, gravitation, work and energy as one decisionweek 1014 worked examples · 27 exercises · 6 figures11Linear Momentumweek 1118 worked examples · 32 exercises · 7 figures12Rotational motion: angular kinematics, torque, rotational inertia and rollingweek 1218 worked examples · 32 exercises · 7 figures13Angular momentum, the law that survives when the shape changes, and rotation about an axis that is free to moveweek 1318 worked examples · 32 exercises · 7 figures14Oscillationsweek 1421 worked examples · 30 exercises · 7 figures
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