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Introductory Physics Topics

Varsity Physics can help with all of the introductory physics topics you'll encounter in your high school class:

Digital Chronometer

Units and Measurement

Foundations for understanding physical quantities, units, and conversions.

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2D Kinematics

Parabolic motion, projectiles, ballistics, vector resolution, and sports!

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1D Kinematics

Speed, velocity, acceleration, free fall, and equations of motion.

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Force and Newton's Laws

Newton's three laws of motion, free-body diagrams, friction, normal force, and gravity.

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Vectors and Scalars

Vector magnitude and direction, vector addition and subtraction, vector multiplication by a scalar.

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Work, Energy, and Power

Potential energy, kinetic energy, work, power, conservation of energy.

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Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation

Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation, centripetal vs centrifugal force, Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion.

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Light and Geometric Optics

The nature of light, wave-particle duality, mirrors, lenses, the Law of Reflection, the Law of Refraction.

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Linear Momentum and Impulse

Conservation of Linear Momentum, impulse, three types of collisions.

Water Filter Maintenance

Fluid Mechanics

Pressure, buoyancy, Bernoulli's principle and its applications.

Wind Turbines

Rotational Motion

Torque, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum, rotational kinematics and dynamics

Newton's Pendulum

Oscillations and Waves

Periodic motion, simple harmonic motion, springs, pendulums, and energy.

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Electric Fields

Coulomb's law, electric field strength, "static electricity," quantization of charge.

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Electricity and DC Circuts

Ohm's law, series and parallel circuits, resistors, capacitors, batteries, circuit analysis.

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Electric Potential

Voltage, potential energy, electric potential, and potential difference.

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Atomic and Nuclear Physics

Atomic models, nuclear reactions, radioactivity, radiation.

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Magnetism and Electromagnetism

Magnetic fields, forces on moving charges, induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law.

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Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computing

Superposition, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, Schroedinger's Cat, and more.

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