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This study guide is tailored to Physics 8A with Professor Lowhorn and contains lecture notes, practice problems, and old exams with step-by-step solutions.

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Kinematics

1. Lecture notes & videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Average Velocity
  • Components & Dot Product
  • Graphical Subtraction of Vectors
  • Trip to the Store
  • Acceleration on an incline
  • Vertical Free-Fall
  • Jetliner Landing
  • Miniature Rocket Launch
  • Rocket Launch
  • Rising Rocket
  • Cars Racing Alongside Each Other
  • Physics Rocks
  • Catching the Bus
  • Coming at Each Other
  • Trains Crossing
  • Highway Patrol
  • Balls Colliding in Mid-air
  • Passing a Car
  • Dropped and Tossed Balls
  • Airport Connection
  • Furiously Fast
  • Biking Along
  • Tiger on a Linear Hunting Path
Projectile Motion

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Analysis of a Jump
  • Projectile Launched from an Unknown Height
  • Hoop Spacing
  • Air Delivery
  • Ball Landing on an Incline
  • Air Drop
  • A Ball Game
  • Throwing a Rock Off a Cliff
  • Rescue Operation
  • Ball Toss
  • Home Run
  • Ball Thrown in the Air
  • Football Toss
  • Clearing the Wall
  • Clearing the Edge of a Cliff
Newton's Laws

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Three Hanging Masses
  • Hanging Mass
  • Keeping a Box at Rest
  • Blocks Slipping on an Incline
  • Holding a Block on an Incline
  • Holding a Block Up Against a Wall
  • Pressing a Block Against a Wall
  • Holding Up a Block
  • Resting of Sliding Up an Incline
  • Acceleration and Friction Forces
  • Pushing on Three Blocks
  • Blocks Sliding Down a Ramp
  • Small Block on Larger Moving Block
  • Pulling Stacked Blocks
  • Atwood Machine
  • Acceleration Constraint
  • Pulling Two Connected Boxes
  • Pulling Three Blocks
  • Pulling and Lifting
  • Connected Blocks
  • Minimum Slipping Force
  • Pulling Blocks on an Incline
  • Pulling and Lifting
  • Slanted Push
  • Who is Pulling Who?
Circular Motion

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Connected Blocks and Circular Motion
  • Rotating Around a Rod
  • Twirling Pendulum
  • Whirling Chamber
  • Toy Car
  • Holding a Block against a Wall
  • Pendulum
  • Banked Road
  • Car Rounding a Curve
  • Banked Curve vs. Flat Curve
  • A Fun Ride
  • Semicircular Hill and Valley
  • Flying in a Loop
  • Ball Launched from a Tube
  • Ferris Wheel
  • Around the Loop
  • Skateboarding in the Hills
Work & Energy

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Package Landing on a Spring
  • Blocks Connected Over a Pulley
  • Block on a Vertical Spring
  • Frictionless Ramp
  • Over Two Hills
  • Sliding Down the Track
  • Sliding Down Onto a Spring
  • Mass-Spring System
  • Shooting a Crate
  • Back and Forth Between Springs
  • Shooting a Crate
  • Non-Conservative Force
  • Friction Under a Spring
  • Rough Sliding
  • Springs and Friction
  • Launching a Block Up a Rough Incline
  • Risky Swinging
  • Projectile Launched from a Ramp
  • Pushing a Block on the Ceiling
  • Energy of Connected Masses
  • Spring, Pulley, and Masses
Midterm 1 Review

1. Solved old exams

  • 2018 Fall M1
  • 2019 Fall M1
  • 2021 Spring M1
  • 2022 Spring M1
  • 2023 Spring M1
Impulse & Momentum

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Catching a Ball on a Boat
  • Game of Catch
  • Bullet Fired into a Block
  • Ball Bouncing Off a Wall
  • Hockey Puck Bouncing Off a Wall
  • Sliding and Colliding
  • Collision Course
  • Two Collisions in a Row
  • Blocks & Compressed Spring
  • Three Colliding Blocks
  • Sequence of Collisions
  • Inelastic Collision
  • Collision Between Three Masses
  • Masses Bouncing Off Each Other
  • Speed Before and After a Collision
  • Speeds from Collisions
  • Blocks Colliding
  • Explosion of a Hockey Puck
  • Inelastic Collision vs. Elastic Collision
Gravitation

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Lunar Eclipse
  • Accelerations Due to Gravity
  • Mass Density of the Earth & the Moon
  • Space Maneuvers
  • Orbiting Satellite
  • Geostationary Satellite
  • Three Orbiting Bodies
  • From One Planet to Another
  • Gravitational Potential Energy
  • Orbiting Spaceship
  • Blast Off
  • Putting a Satellite in Orbit
  • Changing Orbits
  • Satellite Orbiting Earth
  • Of Kepler’s Laws
Center of Mass

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Elephant on a Train Car
  • Collision and COM of Two Blocks
  • Two Sliding Masses
  • Two Sliding Masses at it Again
  • COM of Three Boxes
  • Stacked Blocks
  • A Grenade Exploding in Mid-air
  • Exploding Firework
Torque - Statics

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Balanced Beam
  • Resting Ladder
  • Ladder and Painter
  • Balanced Pole
  • A Ball Attached to an Incline
  • Straw Balanced Across a Glass
  • Non-Uniform Hanging Bar
  • Non-Uniform Balancing Rod
  • Rod in Equilibrium
  • Balancing a Horizontal Rod
  • Two Balanced Rods
  • Beam with Two Sections
  • Joined Sections
Torque - Dynamics

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Rotating a Disk and a Rod
  • Rotating Cylinder
  • Opposing Torques
  • Pushing a Door and a Box
  • Rotating a Disk
  • Kinematics of a Hollow Sphere
  • Two Rockets on a Rod
  • Atwood Machine
  • A Non-Ideal Pulley
  • Acceleration of a Pulley
  • Blocks & Non-Ideal Pulley
  • Pulley Lowering  a Block
  • Unknown Falling Mass
  • Cylinder Dragging a Box
  • Pulley Lowering a Block
Torque - Energy & Momentum

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Down the Incline
  • Velocity of a Rolling Disk
  • Disk Rolling then Sliding
  • Unraveling a String Wound on a Sphere
  • Biking Down a Hill
  • Kinetic Energy of a Spool
  • Rotating Rod
  • Two-Disk Pulley
  • Rolling Without Slipping Around a Loop
  • Around the Loop
  • Incline Height
  • Spring-Launched Objects
  • Bar Suspended by a Rope
  • Swinging Bar
  • Swinging Physical Pendulum
  • Collision with a Swinging Stick
  • Spinning Wheel
  • Potter Wheel
  • A Walk on the Merry-go-round
Fluids

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • U-Shaped Tube with Oil and Water
  • The Hidden Part of the Iceberg
  • Floating Glass Beaker
  • Anchored Barge
  • Piece of Iron with Cavities
  • Weighing Suspended Blocks
  • Hot Air Ballon
  • Flow Through a Horizontal Pipe
  • Large Hole in a Water Tank
  • Hose Draining a Tank
  • Flow Through a Pipe
  • Flow Through a Pitot Tube
  • Narrow Pipe on a Tank
  • Pitot Tube
  • Drinking Fountain
  • Water Leaking Out of a Tank
  • Leaky Cylindrical Tank
Midterm 2 Review

1. Solved old exams

  • 2018 Fall M2
  • 2019 Fall M2
  • 2021 Spring M2
  • 2022 Spring M2
  • 2023 Spring M2
Oscillations

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Spring in Series and in Parallel
  • Oscillating Plate
  • Oscillations and Rolling Without Slipping
  • Mathematics of Oscillations
  • Oscillation Block
  • Superposed Oscillating Blocks
  • Choosing a Torsional Constant
  • Oscillating Block
  • Horizontal Block
  • Mass of an Oscillating Block
  • Motion of an Oscillator
  • Collision then Oscillations
  • Mass Dropped on an Oscillator
  • Landing on a Spring
  • Energy of a Horizontal Oscillator
  • Energy of a Simple Pendulum
Calorimetry

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Heating a Cooling Horseshoe
  • Cooling of a Metal Disk
  • Heating an Ice Cube
  • Water Vapor and Ice
  • Whiskey on the Rocks
  • Magic Shell
  • Ice Cube in Water
  • Composition of Final Mixture
  • Composition of a Mixture
  • Ice-Water Mixture
1st Law of Thermodynamics

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Adiabatic Equations
  • Gas Compression
  • Spring-Loaded Piston
  • Cylinder with Moving Piston
  • Ideal Gas in a Cylinder
  • Work and Heat over a Cycle
  • Heat and Work
  • Thermodynamic Cycle
  • Three-Step Cycle
  • Heat Transfer over a Cycle
  • Mystery Process
  • Cycle with Linear Segment
  • Cycle of a Monatomic Gas
  • Engine or Refrigerator
  • Heat Engine and Square Cycle
  • A Three-Stroke Heat Engine
  • Methane Thermodynamic Cycle
Final Review

1. Solved old exams

  • 2018 Fall Final
  • 2019 Fall Final
  • 2021 Spring Final
  • 2022 Spring Final

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