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PHYSICS MEDIA LIBRARY
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Active Figures |
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Interactive Examples |
| 1.6 |
Trigonometry and Cartesian Coordinates |
2.5 |
Car Chase |
| 1.7 |
Cartesian and Polar Coordinates |
2.9 |
Not a Bad Throw for a Rookie |
| 2.2 |
Position vs. Time |
3.3 |
Take a Hike |
| 2.12 |
Motion Graphs for an Accelerating Car |
3.7 |
That's Quite an Arm |
| 2.13 |
Match the Motion |
3.10 |
Crossing a River |
| 2.15 |
Acceleration and Slope |
4.10 |
Atwood's Machine |
| 2.22 |
Follow the Bouncing Ball |
4.15 |
Two Objects Connected by a Cord |
| 3.3 |
Vector Addition and Subtraction |
5.5 |
Conservation of Mechanical Energy - Free Fall |
| 3.14 |
Velocity Components in Projectile Motion |
5.9 |
A Block-Spring System |
| 3.15 |
Position and Time in Projectile Motion |
6.3 |
The Archer |
| 4.6 |
Gravitational Force |
6.7 |
Two Blocks and a Spring |
| 4.18 |
The Atwood Machine |
7.7 |
Buckle Up for Safety |
| 4.19 |
Static and Kinetic Frictional Forces |
7.15 |
Keep Your Eye on the Ball |
| 4.21 |
Acceleration Up and Down an Incline with Friction |
8.7 |
Walking a Horizontal Beam |
| 4.X |
Contact Forces |
8.8 |
Don't Climb the Ladder |
| 5.5 |
Work Done Against Gravity |
8.11 |
Angular Acceleration of a Wheel |
| 5.15 |
Projectiles Launched at Different Angles |
9.7 |
The Car Lift |
| 5.20 |
Block-Spring System I |
9.13 |
Torricelli's Law |
| 5.29 |
Block-Spring System II |
10.10 |
Heating a Spray Can |
| 6.10 |
Perfectly Inelastic Collisions |
11.10 |
The R Value of a Typical Wall |
| 6.13 |
Perfectly Elastic Collisions |
11.13 |
The Leaky Window |
| 6.15 |
Collisions in Two Dimensions |
13.10 |
Rescuing the Hiker |
| 7.5 |
Rotation of a Rigid Object About a Fixed Axis |
14.1 |
Sound Waves in Various Media |
| 7.17 |
Gravitational Force |
14.5 |
Doppler Submarines |
| 7.21 |
Properties of Ellipses |
14.6 |
Two Speakers Driven by the Same Source |
| 7.21b |
Elliptical Orbits |
14.7 |
Guitar Fundamentals |
| 7.22 |
Kepler's Second Law |
15.2 |
May the Force Be Zero |
| 8.25 |
Objects Rolling Down an Incline |
15.9 |
A Spherically Symmetric Charge Distribution |
| 9.3 |
Young's Modulus |
15.10 |
A Sphere Inside a Spherical Shell |
| 9.5 |
Shear Modulus |
16.2 |
Motion of a Proton in a Uniform Electric Field |
| 9.6 |
Bulk Modulus |
16.8 |
Equivalent Capacitance |
| 9.19 |
Buoyant Force for Different Object Densities |
16.11 |
Rewiring Two Charged Capacitors |
| 9.20 |
Buoyant Force for Different Object and Fluid Densities |
17.4 |
The Resistance of Nichrome Wire |
| 10.10 |
Thermal Expansion of a Metal Washer |
17.8 |
Linking Electricity and Thermodynamics |
| 10.12 |
Characteristics of an Ideal Gas |
18.2 |
Three Resistors in Parallel |
| 10.15 |
Maxwell Speed Distribution |
18.5 |
Applying Kirchhoff's Rules |
| 12.1 |
Work Done on a Gas |
19.10 |
Bending an Electron Beam |
| 12.2 |
PV Processes |
20.8 |
An RL Circuit |
| 12.9 |
A Heat Engine |
20.10 |
Motional emf Induced in a Rotating Bar |
| 12.12 |
A Heat Pump |
20.11 |
Magnetic Force Acting on a Sliding Bar |
| 12.15 |
The Carnot Cycle |
21.4 |
Analyzing a Series RLC Circuit |
| 13.1 |
Mass on a Spring |
21.6 |
A Resonating Series RLC Circuit |
| 13.8 |
Simple Harmonic Motion and Circular Motion Compared |
22.1 |
The Double-Reflecting Light Ray |
| 13.12 |
Simple Harmonic Motion with Different Amplitudes |
22.4 |
Light Passing Through a Slab |
| 13.13 |
Position vs. Time for a Block-Spring System |
23.2 |
Images Formed by Spherical Mirrors |
| 13.15 |
The Simple Pendulum |
23.7 |
Images Formed by Thin Lenses |
| 13.16 |
A Pendulum Compared to a Block-Spring System |
23.9 |
Two Lenses in a Row |
| 13.19 |
Damped Oscillation |
24.1 |
Measuring the Wavelength of a Light Source |
| 13.24 |
Sinusoidal Waves |
24.3 |
Nonreflective Coatings for Solar Cells |
| 13.26 |
A Sinusoidal Wave on a String |
24.6 |
A Single-Slit Experiment |
| 13.29 |
Superposition of Traveling Waves |
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| 13.32 |
Reflection of Waves |
24.7 |
A Diffraction Grating |
| 13.34 |
Pulse on a Rope - One Free and One Fixed End |
26.9 |
The Pole-in-the-Barn Paradox |
| 13.35 |
Pulse on a Rope - One Free End and Fixed-End Support |
26.10 |
Relativistic Leaders of the Pack |
| 14.2 |
Generating Longitudinal Sound Waves |
27.3 |
Photoelectrons from Sodium |
| 14.8 |
The Doppler Effect |
27.6 |
Compton Scattering at 45° |
| 14.10 |
The Doppler Effect for Two Stationary Observers |
28.1 |
The Balmer Series for Hydrogen |
| 14.18 |
Standing Waves on a String Fixed at Both Ends |
29.3 |
The Activity of Radium |
| 14.25 |
Beats |
30.7 |
Detecting Proton Decay |
| 15.6 |
Coulomb's Law |
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| 15.11 |
The Small Positive Test Charge |
| 15.16 |
Electric Field Lines |
| 15.21 |
The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment |
| 15.28 |
Electric Flux Through an Arbitrary Closed Surface |
| 16.7 |
Electric Potential and Potential Energy |
| 16.13 |
Parallel Plate Capacitors |
| 16.17 |
Capacitors Combined in Parallel |
| 16.19 |
Capacitors Combined in Series |
| 17.4 |
Electron Drift in a Conductor |
| 17.11 |
Ohm's Law and Electric Power |
| 18.1 |
A Real Battery |
| 18.2 |
Resistors Connected in Series |
| 18.6 |
Resistors Connected in Parallel |
| 18.16 |
Charging a Capacitor |
| 18.17 |
Discharging a Capacitor |
| 19.2 |
Magnetic Field of a Permanently Magnetized Bar |
| 19.15 |
Torque on a Current Loop |
| 19.17 |
A DC Generator |
| 19.19 |
Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform Magnetic Field |
| 19.20 |
A Charged Particle with a Helical Path |
| 19.21 |
A Velocity Selector |
| 19.22 |
The Mass Spectrometer |
| 19.23 |
Magnetic Field Due to a Long Straight Wire |
| 19.28 |
Force Between Long Parallel Wires |
| 20.2 |
Magnetic Flux |
| 20.4 |
Induced Currents |
| 20.13 |
Motional emf |
| 20.20 |
An AC Generator |
| 20.22 |
A DC Generator |
| 20.27 |
An RL Circuit |
| 21.1 |
Resistors in an AC Circuit |
| 21.4 |
Capacitors in an AC Circuit |
| 21.6 |
Inductors in an AC Circuit |
| 21.8 |
The RLC Series Circuit |
| 21.13 |
Resonance in an RLC Circuit |
| 21.20 |
A Transverse Electromagnetic Wave |
| 22.4 |
Reflection |
| 22.6 |
Refraction |
| 22.7 |
Transmission Through Three Media |
| 22.19 |
The Raindrop |
| 22.25 |
Total Internal Reflection |
| 22.29 |
Fiber Optics |
| 23.2 |
A Plane Mirror |
| 23.13 |
Spherical and Parabolic Mirrors |
| 23.16 |
Images Formed by Flat Refracting Surfaces |
| 23.25 |
Thin Lenses |
| 24.1 |
Young's Double-Slit Experiment |
| 24.16 |
Fraunhofer Diffraction Pattern for a Single Slit |
| 24.20 |
The Diffraction Grating |
| 24.21 |
The Diffraction Grating Spectrometer |
| 24.26 |
The Linear Polarizer |
| 25.7 |
The Compound Microscope |
| 25.8 |
The Refracting Telescope |
| 25.15 |
The Michelson Interferometer |
| 26.4 |
The Michelson-Morley Experiment |
| 26.8 |
Time Dilation |
| 26.11 |
Length Contraction |
| 27.2 |
Blackbody Radiation |
| 27.3 |
Planck's Quantized Energy States |
| 27.4 |
The Photoelectric Effect |
| 28.6 |
Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom |
| 28.17 |
Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission |
| 29.1 |
Rutherford Scattering |
| 29.6 |
Radioactive Decay |
| 29.7 |
Alpha Decay of Radium-226 |
| 30.2 |
A Nuclear Chain Reaction |
| 30.10 |
Quarks |