Physics WarmUp Archives

IUPUI First Semester Introductory Physics
WarmUps	Puzzles	What is Physics Good For?	LabPreps
1D kinematics 1D kinematics part 2 2D kinematics 2D kinematics: relative motion Newton's Laws: Forces Newton's Laws: Forces part 2 Work Energy Potential energy Momentum Momentum part 2 Rotation Rotation part 2 Angular momentum Periodic motion Periodic motion part 2 Statics Stress and Strain Gravitation Gravitation part 2 Fluids Fluids part 2 Waves Waves part 2 Sound	1D kinematics Projectile motion Newton's laws Conservation of Energy Kinetic energy Force and momentum Angular momentum Static equilibrium Ball drop	Speed Throwing Stones Newton 3 Energy Units and Standards Momentum and Driving Gyroscopes The internet Keeping time Sructures The Cassini Mission Floating Sound recording	Vectors Kinematics Kinematics Kinematics Projectiles Newton's laws Mechanical energy Momentum and collisions Simple harmonic motion Static Equilibrium

IUPUI Second Semester Introductory Physics
WarmUps	Puzzles	What is Physics Good For?	LabPrep
Ideal Gases 1 Thermodynamic Processes Heat Engines and Refrigerators Coulomb's Law Charge Densities and Distributions Gauss's Law Electric Potential Capacitors DC Currents Kirchoff's Laws Magnetic Forces on Charges Magnetic Forces on Currents Sources of Magnetic Fields Ampere's Law Faraday's Law Discplacement Current Inductors AC circuits Resonance Refraction Geometrical Optics Geometrical Optics 2 Optical Instruments	Thermal Conduction Thermodynamic Processes Laws of Thermodynamics Symmetry in Electrostatics Work and Potential Capacitors Kirchoff's Laws and Power in DC circuits Magnetic Forces on Currents Biot-Savart Law and Current Loops Faraday's Law Inductors and RL circuits Series RLC Circuit Mirrors Lenses and Vision	Color and Temperature - Thermodynamics 1 Hurricanes - Thermodynamics 2 Refrigerators - Thermodynamics 3 Lightning - Electrostatics 1 Photocopiers - Electrostatics 2 Glass - Electrostatics 3 Superconductors - DC Electricity Loudspeakers - Magnetism 1 Magnetic Materials - Magnetism 2 Magnetic Recording - Magnetism 3 Edison vs. Westinghouse - AC Electricity Rainbows - Optics 1 Vision - Optics 2 Scanning Tunneling Microscopy - Research Topic	Calculus part 1 Calculus part 2 Calculus part 3 Excel DC circuits Magnetic Fields RC circuits AC circuits Optics Calorimetry

Warmups for other physics courses
Thermal Physics at IUPUI	Statistical Physics and Thermodynamics at USAFA
Basic statistics Large number statistics Counting states Exact differentials Entropy Ideal gases External parameters Basic statistics Temperature changes Ideal gases (again) Canonical ensemble Canonical ensemble part 2 Equipartition theorem Kinetic theory phase transitions	Request for Intro Info about Students Multiplicity Function, Average Values Average Values again, Binary Systems, Probability Distribution Functions Ensembles, Binary Systems, Configurations Multiplicity, Entropy, Thermal Equilibrium Entropy, Laws of Thermodynamics Boltzmann Factor, Partition Function Pressure, Helmholtz Free Energy Helmholtz Free Energy, Ideal Gas Part I The Micro & Macro picture, Ideal Gas Part II Thermal Radiation: Blackbodies and Radiation Laws Thermal Radiation: Planck Law and Stefan-Boltzmann Law Phonons in Solids, Debye Theory Debye Temperature, Questions? Chemical Potential, Part I Chemical Potential, Entropy, Thermodynamic Identity Revisited, and Gibbs Factor Gibbs Factor, Grand Partition Function, Absolute Activity Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein Distribution Functions Classical Limit of F-D and B-E Distributions: The Ideal Gas Classical Distribution Function: The Ideal Gas, Part II Classical Distribution Function: The Ideal Gas, Part III Density of States, Fermi Gases Fermi Gases: Heat Capacity, Metals and White Dwarf Stars Fermi Gas Leftovers, Boson Gas, Einstein Condensation Boson Gas, Einstein Condensation, Questions? Heat and Work, Converting Heat into Work Energy Conversion, Carnot Cycle Carnot Cycle, Irreversible Work, Heat and Work at Constant T or Constant P Gibbs Free Energy Gibbs Free Energy, Equilibrium in Reactions Law of Mass Action Phase Transformations, Clausius-Clapeyron Equation "Clapeyron-Clausius"(!) Equation, Van der Waals Equation of State van der Waals Gas, Law of Corresponding States, Transitions Watching Ice Melt Kinetic Theory, Maxwell distribution Collision Cross-sections, Mean Free Paths, and Transport Processes Transport Processes, Generalized Forces Boltzmann Transport Equation Boltzmann Transport Equation (part II), Transport examples Wrapping it all up...
Classical Mechanics at USAFA	Quantum Mechanics at Davidson College
Getting Started (Request for Intro Info about Students) Newton's Laws Modeling Real World Problems More Numerical Modeling, Systems of Particles Conservation Rockets! Energy and Simple Harmonic Motion Newtonian Mechanics Limitations, Plane Pendulum Calculus of Variations: Euler's Equation More on the Euler Equation External Constraints, Lagrange Multipliers Hamilton's Principle and Lagrangian Mechanics Lagrange's Equation, Generalized Coordinates, Review Lagrange's Equations with Undetermined Multipliers The Essence of Lagrangian Dynamics, Conservation Theorems Hamiltonian Dynamics Law of Universal Gravitation, Potential Ocean Tides, Tidal Forces Central Force Motion: Reduced Mass, First Integrals of Motion Central Force Motion; Equations of Motion, Intro to Planetary Motion Orbits, Centrifugal Energy and Effective Potential Orbital Dynamics, Part I Orbital Dynamics, Part II Collisions and Scattering; Elastic Collisions of Two Particles Kinematics of Elastic Collisions Elastic and Inelastic Collisions Scattering Cross Sections Cross Sections, Rutherford Scattering Scattering Wrap-up, Intro to Noninertial Reference Frames Rotating Reference Frames, Coriolis Force Rotating Reference Frames, Foucault Pendulum Rotational Dynamics: Rigid Body Dynamics Dynamics of Rigid Bodies: Inertia Tensor Moment of Inertia Tensor, Principal Axes of Inertia Angular Momentum and Torque Laminar Motion of a Rigid Body Non-Laminar Rotations and Stability of Rotations of a Rigid Body Wrapping it all up...	Classical probability distributions stationary-state wave functions Plane waves in one dimension Time dependence Measurement and superposition Momentum and energy of a plane wave Position and momentum space Scattering from a one dimensional step Scattering from a one dimensional barrier Mini-survey Superposition of eigenstates Eigenstates in a well Harmonic oscillator in one dimension "a-hat" Degeneracy two dimensions Three dimensions! Angular momentum
Classical Mechanics and Davidson College	Mathmatical Methods at Davidson College
Fermat's Principle Air resistance Potential energy Probability distributions Relating postion and velocity Simple harmonic motion Phase space Damped oscillators Damped, driven oscillators Driven oscillator simulation Non-sinusoidal driving forces Pendulum Nonlinear oscillator Damped, driven pendulum Chaotic pendulum Minimum path Gravity Hamiltonians Gauss's theorem	Taylor series Complex numbers Mathematica Complex numbers II Determinants Determinants II Rotations Eigenvectors and eigenvalues Coupled oscillators Differential vector operations Vector integrals Gauss's theorem Electric fields and potentials
Astronomy at Davidson College	Electromagnetic Theory I at USAFA
Motions in the sky Local coordinates Rising and setting Daily motion of the Sun Daily motion of the Sun II Motion of the planets Newton's laws of motion and gravitation Ptolemaic model Balance and rotation Precession Plantetology The Sun Radiation Spectra Properties of the Stars	Line charge Volume charge distribution Spherical charge distribution Gauss's Law Gauss's Law II Div and Curl of E Curl of E and Potential Potential of a localized charge distribution Electrostatic boundary conditions Work and Energy in Electrostatics Laplace's Equation Method of images Separation of variables Separation of variables II Separation of variables III Separation of variables IV Multipole expansion Dipoles and bound charge Bound charge and electric displacement Boundary value problems with linear dielectrics Energy in dielectrics Biot-Savart Law Div and curl of B Ampere's Law Magnetic vector potential Magnetic vector potential II Magnetic dipoles Bound currents Bound currents II The "Auxilliary Field"
Electromagnetic Theory II at USAFA	Modern Physics at Brigham Young University
Getting started Electromotive force Faraday's Law and induced fields Inductance Energy in magnetic fields Maxwell's Equations Poynting's Theorem Newton's Third Law in E&M Maxwell stress tensor Maxwell stress tensor and momentum Conservation of Momentum Conservation of Angular Momentum The wave equation Reflection, transmission, and polarization EM waves in a vacuum Energy and momentum in EM waves Reflection and transmission Reflection and transmission II Waves and conductors Frequency dependence Waves guides Electric dipole radiation Magnetic dipole radiation Radiation from an arbitrary source Power radiated by a point charge Radiation reaction force Radiation reaction force II Lorentz transformations Relativistic mechanics How the fields transform How the fields transform II EM in tensor notation EM in tensor notation II Review	Relativity I Relativity II Atoms Quantization I Quantization II The DeBroglie Hypothesis 1D Schrödinger Equation Schrödinger Equation in several dimensions Spin and the Pauli Principle Multielectron Atoms Transitions Molecules Introduction to Solids Semiconductors Nuclear Physics Radioactivity Particle Physics
Optics at USAFA	Your Warmups here?!
Note: Page and equation numbers refer to Hecht "Optics", 4th edition Wave motion Electromagnetic waves Energy and momentum Radiation Light in matter Scattering and refraction Fresnel equations Fermat's principle Intro to geometrical optics Mirrors Human vision Optical instruments Thick lenses Aberrations Polarization Dichroism and birefringence Producing and changing polarization Interference Adaptive optics Interferometry Diffraction Multiple slit diffraction Superposition and phasors Fourier analysis intro to Fourier optics Applications of Fourier optics Applications of Fourier optics II Intro to atomic physics Laser basics Optical cavities Gaussian beams Stable and unstable resonantors Nonlinear optics	I would be grateful to anyone interested in sharing additional warmups for the courses above, or for new courses not yet covered!