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Videos:
Units, dimensions, measurements
Powers of ten - on YouTube
Perceived weight, freefall: NASA weightlessness plane - on YouTube
Centripetal force, friction: The Rotor ride - on YouTube
The history of discovering the solar system structure: Kepler's discovery

Interactive simulations

Online: Really cool 
simulations - check them out!

1D motion with constant acceleration                        (Lecture 2)
Moving man - Explore position, velocity, acceleration (Lecture 2)
Freefall                                                                   (Lecture 3)
Projectile motion                                                     (Lectures 5 and 6)
Ladybug - Motion in a circle, velocity and acceleration vectors  (Lecture 8)
Advanced Ladybug - Motion in a circle                      (Lecture 8)
A game - use velocity and acceleration vectors to score a goal (Lecture 8)
Forces in one dimension. Friction
Energy skate park - Conservation of energy
Simple harmonic motion  
Torque, angular velocity and acceleration                     (Lectures 30-35)
Gravitation. Motion of planets.                                     (Lectures 36-37)


Lectures

Lecture 1 Sep 7 Units, dimensions, measurements.
Lecture 2 Sep 8 Position, velocity, acceleration. Motion in 1D.
Lecture 3 Sep 9 Motion in 1D. Freefall. Vector addition and subtraction. 
Lecture 4 Sep 12 Decomposition of vectors. Decomposition of motion in 2D and 3D. 
Lecture 5 Sep 14 Motion in 2D. Projectile motion. 
Lecture 6 Sep 15 Projectile motion. 
Lecture 7 Sep 16 Practice problems. Multiplication of vectors.
Lecture 8 Sep 19 Circular motion.
Lecture 9 Sep 21 Angular variables. Problems.
Lecture 10 Sep 22 Problems.
Lecture 11 Sep 23 Force. Newton's Laws.
Lecture 12 Sep 26 Weight. Application of 2nd Newton's law.
Lecture 13 Sep 28 Components of the force vector.
Lecture 14 Sep 29 Friction.
Review Sep 30 Review for Midterm 1..
Midterm 1 Oct 5 Midterm 1 solutions.
Lecture 17 Oct 6 Energy. Work. Conservation of energy.
Lecture 18 Oct 7 Conservation of energy. Non-conservative forces: Friction.
Lecture 19 Oct 10 Energy. Friction. Problems.
Lecture 20 Oct 12 Power. Energy transformations..
Lecture 21 Oct 13 Spring energy. Hooke's law. Pendulum energy.
Lecture 22 Oct 14 Potential energy curve. Simple harmonic motion.
Lecture 23 Oct 19 Energy. Problems.
Lecture 24 Oct 20 Momentum. Conservation of momentum..
Lecture 25 Oct 21 Collisions. Center of mass.
Lecture 26 Oct 24 Center of mass. Impulse.
Lecture 27 Oct 26 Momentum. Problems.
Lecture 28 Oct 27 Rotation. Kinetic energy of rotation.
Lecture 29 Oct 28 Vectors in rotational motion. Torque. 
Lectures 30-32 On blackboard
Lecture 33 Nov 9 Angular momentum. Solutions to Midterm 2
Lecture 34 Nov 10 Conservation of angular momentum.  
Lecture 35 Nov 13 Static case. Problems.   
Lecture 36 Nov 16 Newton's law of gravity. Gravitational potential energy.   
Lecture 37 Nov 17 Gravitation. Kepler's laws.   
Lecture 38 Nov 18 Gravitation. Problems.   
Lecture 39 Nov 21 Fluids. Pressure.   
Lecture 40 Nov 23 Pressure. Problems.   
Lecture 41 Nov 28 Buoyancy. Archemedes' law.   
Lecture 42 Nov 30 Moving fluids. Bernoulli equation.   
Lecture 43 Dec 1 Fluids. Problems.   
Lecture 44 Dec 2 Temperature. Thermal expansion. Heat.   
Lecture 45 Dec 5 Heat capacity. Heat of transformation. Radiative heat transfer.   
Lecture 46 Dec 7 Ideal gas law.   
Lecture 47 Dec 8 Molecular approach. Internal energy.   
Lecture 48 Dec 9 First law of Thermodynamics. Heat capacity of gases.   
Lecture 49 Dec 12 Phase transformations.