Topics

Skills

Units and measurements

 
  • SI units
  • Uncertainty
  • Dimensional analysis
  • Mean and standard deviation
 

Forces

 
  • Newton's law
  • Gravitational force
  • Coulomb force
  • Lorentz force
  • Frictional force
  • Vector addition
  • Unit vectors
  • Vector cross product
  • Differentiation
  • Integration
 

Work and energy

 
  • Work
  • Conservative forces
  • Potential energy
  • Vector dot product
  • Line integrals
  • Gradient
 

Electrostatics

 
  • Electric charge
  • Electric field
  • Gauss's law
  • Capacitance
  • Electrostatic potential
  • Divergence
  • Volume integrals
 

Magnetostatics

 
  • Magnetic field
  • Ampere's law
  • Biot-Savart law
  • Inductance
  • Lenz's law
  • Stokes's theorem
  • Surface integrals
 

Oscillations

 
  • Harmonic oscillations
  • Hooke's law
  • Resonance
  • Q-factor
  • Differential equations
  • Complex numbers
  • Euler's equation
 

Waves

 
  • Wave equation
  • Interference
  • Huygen's Principle
  • Diffraction
  • Doppler effect
  • Shock waves
  • Graphical solutions to equations
  • Partial derivative
  • Partial differential equations
 

Optics

 
  • Reflection and Refraction
  • Concave and convex surfaces
  • Dispersion
  • Thin lens equation
  • Optical instruments
  • construct optical path through interfaces and thin lenses