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Review Guide and Problems for Introductory Physics
Robert G. Brown
Duke University Physics Department
Durham, NC 27708-0305
rgb@phy.duke.edu
Contents
Introduction
Learning versus Memorization
Problem Solving to Learn Physics
About Solutions
About Solution Methodology
Beyond Assigned Problems
Study Hints
Study Hint: Schedule Your Study
Study Hint: Study Groups
Study Hint: Get Enough Sleep
Study Hint: Caffeine and Chocolate
Study Hint: Review All Assigned and Completed Work
Study Hint: Learn How to Start a Problem
Study Hint: Some Things To Have Learned By Name
Study Hint: How to Distribute Your Efforts
Study Hint: Specific Advice for Spring 2004
Format of the Final
Specific Hints
Heat Equation Problem
Fluids Problem
Inclined Planes
Statics Problem
Torque, Moments of Inertia, Angular Momentum
Gravity
Harmonic Oscillators
Waves on Strings
Sound Waves
Momentum Conservation and Collisions
Work and Energy
Conclusion
Good Luck, Whoever You Are
Review Problems
Math Review
Trajectories on the Moon
Cannoneer
Braking the Car
Catching the Bus
Waves on a String Fixed at Both Ends
Waves on a String Fixed at One End
Modes of a Pan-Pipe
Moving Source Doppler Shift
Out of Phase Speakers
Pulling blocks on a Rough Table
Dead Man's Curve
The Ski Jump
Spring and Rough Incline
Crocodile Bait
Spring Launched Trajectory
Blocks and Pulley on Inclined Plane I
Blocks and Pulley on Inclined Plane II
Blocks and Pulley on Inclined Plane III (bored yet?)
Skater with Gun
Duke's Geosynchronous Satellite
Block Loops-the-Loop
Fishing Spool Unrolls
Ballistic Spring
Struck Pendulum
Truck and Car Collide
Static Crane
Pumping Iron
Ball Rolls Down Incline
Dinosaur Killer Asteroid
Neutron Star Tides
Bernoulli Fountain
The Beer Keg
Ballistic Oscillator
Physical Pendulum
Assorted Short Newton's Law Problems - Practice Setting Up
Ambitious Amy
Centrifuge
Diabolical Engine I
Diabolical Engine II
Three-pointer Trajectory
The Banked Turn with Friction
Tether Ball
Ballistic Spring (again?)
Rolling the Wheel
Center of Mass (via integration)
Escape from a Small Planet
Ballistic Block on a Rough Table
Pushing Down the Wall
Comet Hits Jupiter
Door Hinges (static equilibrium)
Sound Modes of an Organ Pipe
Irrigation Pump
The Harmonic Bobber
Resonant modes on a String
Adiabatic Fire Starter
Water Pipe Barometer
Grandfather's (physical pendulum) Clock
Gas in a Cylinder with Piston
Cyclic Heat Engine
Cannoneer and Foxhole
Skier Loops-the-Loop
Harmonic Transit Tunnel through the Earth
Cylinder over Step
Police Sirens (doppler shift and beats)
Probably Masses, Planes, Pulleys IV (no figure)
Skier Loops-the-Loop - again?
Spherical Yo-Yo
Yet Another Tunnel through the Earth
More Beer Kegs for Students
Another (or the same) Cyclic Heat Engine
Mass Driver for Escape Velocity
Short Answer Questions - Things to Know
License Terms for ``Review Problems for Introductory Physics''
General Terms
The ``Beverage'' Modification to the OPL
OPEN PUBLICATION LICENSE Draft v0.4, 8 June 1999
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Robert G. Brown 2004-04-22
