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Deep AP Physics #21: Nuclear Radiation
Episode twenty one of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This is nuclear radiation and nuclear structure.
Covers chapter 31 of the text below. It addresses topic 7 for the AP physics 2 course.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #20: Atomic Physics
Episode twenty of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This is quantum.
Covers chapter 30 of the text below. It addresses topic 7 for the AP physics 2 course.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Online Education and Families with Nicole Barbaro
Here is a discussion I had with evolutionary psychologist and educator Nicole Barbaro. We talk about lessons learned about online education over the last year, the return to the college classroom, and her research on the family.
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Deep AP Physics #19: Quantum Mechanics
Episode nineteen of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This is quantum.
Covers chapter 29 of the text below. It addresses topic 7 for the AP physics 2 course.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #18: Special Relativity
Episode eighteen of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This is special relativity, with some tangents into particle physics and thermodynamics.
Covers chapter 28 of the text below. It is not listed as a topic for any AP physics course. But, it's still fun to learn :-)
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #17: Wave Optics, Interference, Diffraction
Episode seventeen of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This one is about wave optics with some quantum mechanics and interference stuff mixed in.
Covers chapter 27 of the text below and topic 6 for AP 2.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #16: Mirrors, Vision, and Adaptive Optics
The sixteenth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This one is about mirrors, adaptive optics, some stuff on quantum mechanics, how the eye works, and the moon's orbit.
Covers parts of chapters 25 and 26 of the text below and topic 6 for AP 2.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #15: Maxwell's Equation and Light
The fifteenth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This one is about magnetism, electroweak theory, and some circuits.
Covers parts of chapters 22 and 24 of the text below and topic 10 for AP 5 for AP 2, and 4 and 5 for AP E&M.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #14: Magnetism and Circuits
The fourteenth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This one is about magnetism, electroweak theory, and some circuits.
Covers parts of chapters 20 and 21 of the text below and topic 9 for AP 1, 4 for AP 2, and 1, 2, and 3 for AP E&M.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #13: Electricity and Electric Charge
The thirteenth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This one is about electric charge, electricity, and some magnetism.
Covers parts of chapters 18 and 19 of the text below and topic 8 for AP 1, 10 for AP 2, and 1 and 2 for AP E&M.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #12: Waves and Sound
The twelvth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This one is about waves and sound.
Covers chapters 16 and 17 of the text below and topic 10 for AP 1.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #11: Entropy and Oscillations
The eleventh episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. We start with a discussion of entropy, then move on to some statistical mechanics. The last half of the piece is looking at oscillations and simple harmonic motion.
Covers chapters 15 and 16 of the text below and topic 6 for both AP 1 and Mechanics.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #10: Heat Engines
The tenth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. This video gives an overview of different heat engines. It's a bit of a departure. Less deep content, more practical explanation.
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Deep AP Physics #9: Compressible Fluids (gases)
The ninth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. We now talk about compressible fluids, specifically ideal gases. We also cover heat and phase transitions.
Covers chapters 13, 14, and 15 of the text below and topic 2 for AP 2.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #8: Incompressible Fluids
The eighth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. We move from particles to continuous media and talk about incompressible fluids.
0:00 Introduction and review
1:00 Continuous medium
11:00 Bernoulli's equation (conservation of energy)
24:05 Some examples (airplanes, water fountains, dark matter detectors)
36:30 Pascal and Archimedes
47:00 Capillaries
1:01:00 Laminar and Turbulent Flow
1:06:40 Water Fountains (conservation of matter)
1:15:45 Equations of State (compressible fluids intro)
Covers chapters 11 and 12 of the text below and topic 1 for AP 2.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #7: Gravity
The seventh episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. We talk about gravity, the equivalence principle, Kepler's laws, noninertial reference frames, and the olympics.
0:00 Introduction and review
1:00 Gravity
8:05 Equivalence Principle
16:40 Testing gravity with mirrors on the moon
29:00 Why gravity wins
34:00 Fake News Forces
48:00 Kepler's Laws
1:00:30 Olympic sports
Covers chapter 6 of the text below and topic 3 for AP 1 and topic 7 for AP Mechanics.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #6: Angular Momentum and Spin
The sixth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. We now consider rotations, angular momentum, and spin (including a bit on quantum spin).
0:00 Introduction and review
4:25 Angular momentum
17:20 Similarities between linear and angular physics
10:00 An alternative formulation (Lagrangians)
28:50 Spin
35:00 Quick overview of upcoming material
38:50 Back to spin, with animations!
53:45 Cool experiment with spin
Covers chapter 10 of the text below and topic 7 for AP 1 and topic 5 for AP Mechanics.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #5: Friction and Lagrange Mechanics
The fifth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. Now, we look briefly at the nature of friction before exploring an alternative formulation of physics (Lagrangian mechanics). My apologies up front as it was the first time I've tried to present that material. I briefly cover momentum conservation.
0:00 Introduction
0:30 Catching up on energy conservation
6:10 Friction
10:00 An alternative formulation (Lagrangians)
26:18 Newton's second law derived from energy
30:48 Add rotation and Lorentz force
42:03 Momentum
Covers chapters 4 and 7 of the text below and topics 4 and 5 for AP 1 and topic 3 for AP Mechanics.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #4: Energy
The fourth episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. Now, we add physics to the mathematical framework that we've built up in the previous two installments. We cover Newton's laws, the fundamentals of force, and get a preview of some of the conserved quantities that we will explore next time.
0:00 Introduction
1:05 Energy
11:55 Origin of "Force"
21:30 Macroscopic Forces
31:00 Conservation Laws
49:00 Power and Energy Transformation
58:03 Bad Math (1,000,000 Joules / 100 Megawatts)
58:33 Chemical Energy (Burning)
1:06:25 Q&A
Basically chapter 7 of the text below and topic 4 for AP 1 and topic 3 for AP Mechanics.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #3: Enter Newton
The third episode of our deep dive into the material that is covered in AP physics classes. Now, we add physics to the mathematical framework that we've built up in the previous two installments. We cover Newton's laws, the fundamentals of force, and get a preview of some of the conserved quantities that we will explore next time.
0:00 Introduction
1:50 Physics joins the party
16:50 Forces
38:30 Defining a system
45:30 How to win a tug of war
57:13 It's E&M all the way down
1:13:25 Fake News Forces
1:22:10 Q&A
Basically chapter 4 of the text below and topic 2 for AP 1 and AP Mechanics.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #2: mapping reality onto mathematics (a.k.a. kinematics)
The second episode where I dig into the deep aspects of the material that is covered in AP physics classes—hopefully providing interesting insights that would otherwise be overlooked. Here I discuss kinematics—how we map what we observe onto a mathematical framework.
0:00 Introduction
6:10 Geometry
28:45 Mapping reality onto coordinate systems
54:00 Q&A
Basically chapters 2 and 3 of the text below and topic 1 for AP 1 and AP Mechanics.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Deep AP Physics #1: units, coordinate systems, accuracy and precision
This episode is the first in a series where I discuss the fundamental aspects of the AP physics course. Rather than teaching the curriculum, I dig into the deep aspects of the material that is covered—hopefully providing interesting insights into what is otherwise taught in the class.
0:00 Introduction to the series
6:10 Units
36:05 Coordinate Systems
51:11 Accuracy and Precision
1:06:39 Q&A
Covers roughly chapter 1 from the text below and is preliminary information from AP 1 and AP Mechanics.
OpenStax textbook: https://openstax.org/details/books/college-physics-ap-courses
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Cool Physics #18: Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory
This is my attempt to showcase the Pierre Auger observatory. It is an enormous cosmic ray observatory, located in Argentina near the Chilean border. Big detector (3000 square kilometers) = rare events.
Image from ASPERA/Novapix/L. Bret
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Cool Physics #17: LIGO and Gravitational Radiation
This is a somewhat long overview of the design of the LIGO gravitational radiation detector. LIGO detected the first inspiral of stellar-mass (30~ish solar mass) black holes in 2015. There is a lot to unpack, especially regarding the science. I'll probably have to revisit it to go into some of those details.
Image from R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL
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Cool Physics #16: Ice Cube, neutrinos, and Antarctica
This is a brief overview of the Ice Cube neutrino detector at the south pole. It is a cubic kilometer of detector volume to measure the highest energy neutrinos.
Image from E. Jacobi/NSF
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