Fall 2007 PHY 101 Lectures

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Lecture #1: What it takes to do PHY101
Lecture #2: The tortoise and the hare: One-dimensional motion
Lecture #3: The monkey and the hunter (or The Professor and Otto): Two-dimensional motion
Lecture #4: The monkey and the hunter (or The Professor and Otto): Two-dimensional motion (contd)
Lecture #5: Is gravity getting you down?: Forces
Lecture #6: More fun with forces and work with energy
Lecture #7: What exactly is energy anyway?
Lecture #8: The power of conservation laws: Energy!
Lecture #9: The power of conservation laws: Momentum!
Lecture #10: When worlds collide: Momentum
Lecture #11: When lightning strikes: Electric force
Lecture #12: I want my MTV: Electric fields
Lecture #13: Electric potential
Lecture #14: Electrical energy
Lecture #15: The circus of circuits I
Lecture #16: The circus of circuits II
Lecture #17: "Humanism" and magnetism
Lecture #18: You spin me right round: Magnetism
Lecture #19: You spin me right round take 2: Magnetism
Lecture #20: What can you DO with magnetism?
Lecture #21: Creating electricity with magnetism
Lecture #22: The tale of two wizards
Lecture #23: Starting to come full circle
Lecture #24: More on circular motion
Lecture #25: The finale