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Physics 8A - (Golightly)

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This study guide is tailored to Physics 8A with Professor Golightly 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

  • Components & Dot Product
  • Graphical Subtraction of Vectors
  • Kitty Kinematics
  • Trip to the Store
  • Acceleration on an Incline
  • Vertical Free-Fall
  • Jetliner Landing
  • Throwing a Rock from a Truck
  • Miniature Rocket Launch
  • Rising Rocket
  • Physics Rocks
  • Catching the Bus
  • Coming at Each Other
  • Trains Crossing
  • Highway Patrol
  • Trains Approaching
  • Dropped and Tossed Balls
  • Airport Connection
  • Stop-and-Go Traffic
  • Relay Race
  • The Tortoise & the Hare
  • Furiously Fast
  • Dropping vs. Throwing
  • Tiger on a Linear Hunting Path
  • Biking Along
Projectile Motion

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Analysis of a Jump
  • Hats Off to Frosty
  • Hoop Spacing
  • Air Delivery
  • Water Balloon Game
  • Ball Thrower
  • Medieval Attack Reenactment
  • Ring Toss
  • Jump of a Grasshopper
  • Air Drop
  • A Ball Game
  • Throwing a Rock Off a Cliff
  • Rescue Operation
  • The Impressive Spit of the Archerfish
  • Clearing the Edge of a Cliff
  • Golf Course
  • Women’s Golf Tournament
  • Throwing a Rock Over a Plateau
  • Tennis Ball Launcher and Mobile Target
  • Throwing Gum Out an Elevator
Newton's Laws

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Three Hanging Masses
  • Hanging Mass
  • Three Blocks at Rest
  • Keeping a Box at Rest
  • Rocket Launch
  • Acceleration and Friction Forces
  • Resting or Sliding Up an Incline
  • Max and Min Angle of an Incline
  • Sliding or Not?
  • Pushing a Crate
  • Rough Interfaces
  • Corvette Flying Off a Cliff
  • Small Block on Larger Moving Block
  • Pulling Stacked Blocks
  • Blocks Sliding Down a Ramp
  • Small Block Sliding on Another
  • Atwood Machine
  • Acceleration Constraint
  • Pulling Two Connected Boxes
  • Alpinist in Danger
  • Blocks and Pulley
  • Who is Pulling Who?
  • Two Blocks on the Verge of Slipping
  • Lifting a Box with Pulleys
  • Climbing Up a Rope
Circular Motion

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Space Ride
  • Connected Blocks and Circular Motion
  • Interconnected Blocks
  • A Fairground Ride
  • Tether Ball
  • Twirling Pendulum
  • Rotating Around a Rod
  • Racing Outside of a Cone
  • Cube on a Rotating Disk
  • Pendulum on Planet Vulcan
  • Bead on a Rotating Ring
  • Banked Road
  • Banked Curve vs. Flat Curve
  • Car Rounding a Curve
  • Racing Outside a Banked Curve
  • Ferris Wheel
  • Circular Hills and Valleys
  • Whirling a Stone
  • Ball Launched from a Tube
  • Around the Loop
  • Skateboarding in the Hills
Work & Energy

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Over Two Hills
  • Sliding Down the Track
  • Landing on a Spring
  • Sliding Down Onto a Spring
  • Sliding Over a Hill
  • Rough Sliding
  • Puck on an Incline
  • Up the Incline
  • Springs and Friction
  • Launching a Block Up a Rough Incline
  • Sliding Down and Bouncing Back Up
  • Sliding Across a Track
  • Roller Coaster
  • Loop-the-Loop then Friction
  • Downhill Ski Race
  • Sliding Block
  • Loop-the-Loop
  • Swinging on a Vine
Midterm 1 Review

1. Solved old exams

  • 2005 Summer M1
  • 2007 Summer M1
  • 2016 Summer M1
  • 2017 Summer M1
  • 2018 Summer M1
  • 2019 Summer M1
  • 2020 Summer M1
  • 2021 Summer M1
  • 2022 Summer M1
  • 2023 Summer M1
  • 2024 Spring M1
Impulse & Momentum

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Catching a Ball on a Boat
  • Bullet Fired into a Block
  • Ball Bouncing Off a Wall
  • Hockey Puck Bouncing Off a Wall
  • Space Chase
  • Sliding and Colliding
  • Collision Course
  • Two Collisions in a Row
  • Ballistic Pendulum
  • Fun with a Slingshot
  • Colliding Particles
  • Bumper Car Collision
  • Sinking the 9-Ball
  • Fun at the Arcade
  • Hockey Pucks
  • Elastic Collision Between Pucks
  • Blocks Colliding
  • Explosion of a Hockey Puck
  • Inelastic Collision vs. Elastic Collision
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
  • A Grenade Exploding in Mid-air
  • Exploding Firework
Torque - Statics

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Balanced Beam
  • Resting Ladder
  • Ladder and Painter
  • Holding a Sign
  • A Ball Attached to an Incline
  • Art Exhibit
  • Straw Balanced Across a Glass
  • Non-Uniform Balancing Rod
  • Suspended Beam
  • Static Equilibrium of a Crane
  • Drawbridge
  • Balanced Beam with Hanging Mass
  • Car Rescue
  • Balancing Force
Torque - Dynamics

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Helicopter Blade
  • Rotating a Disk
  • Kinematics of a Hollow Sphere
  • Two Rockets on a Rod
  • Acceleration of a Yo-yo
  • Pulling a Spool of Thread
  • Atwood Machine
  • A Non-Ideal Pulley
  • Cylinder Dragging a Box
  • Pulley Lowering a Block
  • Block Lowered by a Pulley
  • Dropping the Bucket into the Well
  • Pulling a Load
  • Double Pulley
Torque - Energy & Momentum

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Down the Incline
  • Rolling Up an Incline
  • Track with a Bump
  • Large Ball Rolling Down a Track
  • Rolling Ball and Semicircular Track
  • Rolling Without Slipping Around a Loop
  • Ball Race
  • Minigolf Course
  • Spring-Launched Objects
  • Bar Suspended by a Rope
  • Swinging Bar
  • Hoisting Device
  • Spring-Block in Circular Motion
  • Rusty Barn Door
Fluids

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • U-Shaped Tube with Oil and Water
  • The Hidden Part of the Iceberg
  • Hot Air Balloon
  • Floating in Two Fluids
  • Ball Suspended in Water
  • Hydraulic Press
  • Filling a Leaking Tank
  • Pitot Tube
  • Fire Hydrant Flow
  • Manometer Reading
  • Syringe of Water
  • Drinking Fountain
  • Leaky Cylindrical Tank
Midterm 2 Review

1. Solved old exams

  • 2005 Summer M2
  • 2007 Summer M2
  • 2015 Summer M2
  • 2016 Summer M2
  • 2017 Summer M2
  • 2018 Summer M2
  • 2019 Summer M2
  • 2020 Summer M2
  • 2023 Summer M2
  • 2024 Spring M2
Oscillations

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Mass-Spring Systems
  • Oscillations and Rolling Without Slipping
  • Pivoting Rod Attached to a Spring
  • Springs in Series and in Parallel
  • Bobbing Cylinder
  • Mathematics of Oscillations
  • Oscillating Block
  • Superposed Oscillating Blocks
  • Choosing a Torsional Constant
  • Hitting a Pendulum
  • Landing on a Spring
  • Energy of a Horizontal Oscillator
  • Energy of a Simple Pendulum
  • Oscillating Block
  • Acrobatic Show
  • Launched Block and Oscillations
Mechanical Waves

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Describing a Wave Mathematically
  • Guitar String
  • Two Strings
  • Speaker and Microphone
  • A Tuning Fork and a Tube
  • Interfering Soundwaves
  • Strings Attached
  • Foghorns n the Bay
  • Doppler Doppelganger
  • The Perfect Wave
  • Waves on a Rope
Calorimetry

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

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

1. Lecture Notes & Videos

2. Practice Problems

  • Adiabatic Equations
  • Gas Compression
  • Spring-Loaded Piston
  • Cylinder with Moving Piston
  • Hot Air Balloon
  • Submerged Balloon and Weight
  • Cyclic Process
  • Thermodynamic Cycle
  • Thermodynamic Processes
  • Triangular Thermodynamic Cycle
  • Engine or Refrigerator
  • A Three-Stroke Heat Engine
  • Thermodynamic Cycle Efficiency
  • Heat Engine and Square Cycle
  • Heat Engine
  • Methane Thermodynamic Cycle
  • Study of a Cycle
Final Review

1. Solved old exams

  • 2007 Summer Final
  • 2008 Summer Final
  • 2014 Summer Final
  • 2015 Summer Final
  • 2016 Summer Final
  • 2017 Summer Final
  • 2018 Summer Final
  • 2019 Summer Final
  • 2023 Summer Final
  • 2024 Spring Final

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Physics 8A

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Physics 8A

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