Physics 2C 2000 Winter 2001: Lecture Notes

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Week 1:

• Lecture 1 - Fluid Density and Pressure
• Lecture 2 - Hydrostatics (Pascal, Archimides)
  Buoyant Force Java animation
  Pascal's Principle

• Lecture 3 - Ideal Fluid flows (Continuity, Bernoulli)
  Bernoulli's equation and baseball.

Week 2:

• Lecture 4 - Temperature, thermal properties (expansion)
• Lecture 5 - heat capacity, heats of transformation, heat transfer, conductivity

Week 3:

• Lecture 6 - Work, heat, temperature, ideal gases
  Ideal gas applet

• Lecture 7 - Kinetic theory, internal energy
  One-dimensionalone-atomgas- a good intro to kinetic theory.

• Lecture 8 - Adiabatic transformations, PV diagram review
  Thermodynamic Animations - Quicktime movies (some files large)

Week 4:

• Lecture 9 - Entropy, irreversible processes, 2nd law.
• Lecture 10 - Engine cycles, ideal engine.
• Lecture 11 - Refrigerators, statistical view of entropy.

Week 5:

• Lecture 12 - Wave motion: general and harmonic waves.
• Lecture 13 - Wave speed and energy on strings.
• Lecture 14 - Wave addition: Fourier, interference, phasors, standing waves and resonance.

Week 6:

• Lecture 15 - Sound waves: pressure/displacement, interference, Intensity
• Lecture 16 - Beats
• Lecture 17 - Doppler effect, supersonic shocks.
  Doppler effect Java applet - set the speed of the source.
  Doppler effect cartoon - a whimsical example.
  Mach cone produced by a Navy F-16. (1.5 Mbyte MPEG movie). The F-16 breaks the sound barrier before it gets to the ship, then it slows down a bit and breaks the sound barrier a second time right near the ship. This second time, you can see the shock form at the nose of the plane, then "slide back" to the tail. The mach cone has such a big opening angle, because the plane is traveling only slightly faster than the sound speed.

Week 7:

• Lecture 18 - EM waves, energy transport, polarization.
• Lecture 19 - Polarization in nature, reflection, refraction, Snell's law, total internal reflection.