Mechanics
1: Introduction, measurement, estimation; measurement and uncertainty; Significant digits, units, standards and SI units; Unit conversion; Dimensions and dimensional analysis
2: Description of movement: kinematics in one dimension: Reference systems and displacement; average speed; instantaneous speed; acceleration; movement at constant speed
3 Kinematics in two dimensions; Carriers; Vectors and scalars; Vector sum - Graphical methods; Subtraction of vectors and multiplication of a vector with a scalar; Sum of vectors by components
4: Dynamics: Newton's Laws of Motion; Force; Newton's first law of motion; Mass; Newton's second law of motion; Newton's third law of motion; Weight: the force of gravity; and normal Strength; Solving problems with Newton's laws: free body diagrams; Problems involving friction, inclinations; Troubleshooting: A General Approach
5: Circular movement; Gravitation; Kinematics of uniform circular motion; Dynamics of uniform circular motion; Newton's law of universal gravitation

6: work and energy; Work done by a Constant Force; Kinetic energy and the principle of the energy of work; Potential energy; Conservative and Non-Conservative Forces; Mechanical energy and its conservation; Solving problems using the law of conservation of mechanical energy; Other forms of energy: energy transformations and the law of conservation of energy; Power
7: Linear Moment: Moment and its relation to force; Preservation of the moment
Center of Mass (CM); Center of mass and translational motion
8: Rotational movement; angular quantities; Constant angular acceleration; Couple; Rotational dynamics; Torque and rotational inertia; Problem solving in rotation dynamics; Rotational kinetic energy
9: Static balance; Elasticity and fracture; The conditions for equilibrium; Troubleshooting Static; Applications on muscles and joints; stability and balance; Elasticity; Stress and tension; Fracture
10: Fluids; Phases of Matter; Density and specific gravity; Pressure in fluids; Pressure relative to atmospheric pressure; Pascal's principle; Pressure measurement; Gauges and barometer; Buoyancy and Archimedes' principle; moving fluids; Flow rate and continuity equation; Bernoulli's Principle, Applications of Bernoulli's Principle: from Torricelli to Airplanes, Baseballs and TIAs, Viscosity, Flow in test tubes: Poiseuille's equation, blood flow
11: Vibrations and waves, Wave motion, Types of waves: transversal and longitudinal, Energy carried by waves, Intensity relative to amplitude and frequency, reflection and transmission of waves, Interferences; Superposition principle, Standing waves; Resonance
12: Sound, Sound characteristics, Sound intensity: decibels, Sound sources: vibrating strings and Air columns, Sound wave interference; Doppler effect.
13: Electric charge and electric field, static electricity; Electric charge and its conservation, Electric charge in the atom, insulators and conductors, Induced charge; the electroscope, Coulomb's law, Solving problems concerning Coulomb's law and vectors, The electric field, Field lines, electric fields and conductors
14: Electric potential, Electric potential energy and potential differences, Relationship between electric potential and electric field, Equipotential lines, The electron volt, a unit of energy: Electric potential due to point charges: Capacities: Dielectrics: storage of electric energy
15: Electric currents: The electric battery, The electric current, Ohm's law: resistance and resistors, resistivity, electric energy, Microscopic view of the electric current
16: DC circuits; EMF and terminal voltage, Resistors in series and in parallel, Kirchhoff's rules, EMF in series and in parallel; Charging a Battery, Circuits Containing Capacitors in Series and in Parallel, RC Circuits-Resistor and Capacitor in Series, Electrical Phenomena in Biological Systems
17: Magnetism; Magnets and magnetic fields, electric current produces magnetic fields, Force on an electric current in a magnetic field: definition of B, Force on an electric charge moving in a magnetic field, magnetic field due to a long straight wire, Law of Amperes
18: Electromagnetic induction and Faraday's law, induced EMF, Faraday's law of induction; Lenz's law, EMF induced in a moving conductor, The change in magnetic flux produces an electric field
19: Electromagnetic waves, Variable electric fields produce magnetic fields; Maxwell's equations, Production of electromagnetic waves, Light as an electromagnetic wave and the electromagnetic spectrum, Energy in EM waves
20: The Wave Nature of Light, Visible Spectrum and Scattering, Optical Instruments
21 X-rays and X-ray diffraction, X-ray imaging and computed tomography (CT), Nuclear physics and radioactivity, Early quantum theories and model of the atom, early models of the atom, Bohr's model
22: Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity, Structure and Properties of the Nucleus, Binding Energy and Nuclear Forces, Radioactivity, Alpha Decay, Beta Decay, Gamma Decay, Nucleotide Number Conservation and Other Conservation Laws, Half-Life and Decay, Calculations Involving Rates of decay and half-life
23: Nuclear power; Effects and Uses of Radiation, Nuclear Reaction and Transmutation of Elements, Measurement of Radioactivity-Dosimetry, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
24: Thermodynamics, Theory of Temperature and Kinetics, Atomic Theory of Matter, Temperature and Thermometers, Thermal Equilibrium and Zeroth's Law of Thermodynamics, Thermal Expansion, The Gas Laws and Absolute Temperature, The Ideal Gas Law, Troubleshooting with the ideal gas law, ideal gas law in terms of molecules: Avogadro's number, kinetic theory and molecular interpretation of temperature
25: Heat, Heat as energy transfer, Internal energy, specific heat, Calorimetry, Latent heat, Heat transfer: conduction, Heat transfer: convection, Heat transfer: radiation, The laws of thermodynamics, The first law of thermodynamics, thermodynamic processes and the first law, Second law of thermodynamics: introduction

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