How Things Work: An Introduction to Physics

How Things Work: An Introduction to Physics

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Syllabus

  • Week 1 - Course Introduction
    Start here!
  • Week 2 - Skating
    Professor Bloomfield examines the principle of inertia through skate boarding. Objects at rest tend to remain at rest while objects in motion, tend to remain in motion. Why does a stationary skater remain stationary? Why does a moving skater tend to continue...
  • Week 3 - Falling Balls
    Professor Bloomfield examines the physics concepts of gravity, weight, constant acceleration, and projectile motion working with falling balls.
  • Week 4 - Ramps
    Professor Bloomfield examines the physics concepts of Newton's third law including conserved quantities, support forces, work, energy, and mechanical advantage working with ramps.
  • Week 5 - Seesaws
    Professor Bloomfield illustrates the physics concepts of rotational versus translational motion, Newton's law of rotation, and 5 physical quantities: angular position, angular velocity, angular acceleration, torque, and rotational mass using seesaws.
  • Week 6 - Wheels
    Professor Bloomfield illustrates the physics concept of frictional forces through experiments with wheels.
  • Week 7 - Bumper Cars
    Professor Bloomfield examines the physics concepts of momentum, impulse, angular momentum, angular impulse, and the relationship between potential energy and force using bumper cars.
  • Week 8 - Final
    This is the final exam.

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

Louis A. Bloomfield
Professor of Physics

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The University of Virginia (also known as UVA, UVa, Virginia) is located on the east coast of the United States in Charlottesville, Virginia. It has also been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1987. The university was founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and the third American president. 

The University of Virginia is a renowned public institution of higher education that belongs to the Universitas 21 network. Always ranked in the top 25 American universities, it is also part of the "Public Ivies", a network of the best public universities in the country, which are reputed to offer a level of education comparable to that of Ivy League institutions.

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