Crash Course: Physics background

Crash Course: Physics

2016 - PresentNR8.1

Dr. Shini Somara leads us through the topics of AP Physics 1 and 2.

Episodes:

Episode 2 Derivatives

2. Derivatives

Aired: Apr 7, 2016

This episode will take our first steps into the language of Physics; mathemat...

Episode 3 Integrals

3. Integrals

Aired: Apr 14, 2016

Continuing with last week's introduction of calculus, Shini leads us through ...

Episode 4 Vectors and 2D Motion

4. Vectors and 2D Motion

Aired: Apr 21, 2016

Continuing in our journey of understanding motion, direction, and velocity, S...

Episode 5 Newton's Laws

5. Newton's Laws

Aired: Apr 28, 2016

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks about Newton's laws of m...

Episode 6 Friction

6. Friction

Aired: May 5, 2016

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini Somara tells us about Static a...

Episode 8 Newtonian Gravity

8. Newtonian Gravity

Aired: May 19, 2016

Shini discusses the apple story and the law of universal gravitation.

Episode 10 Collisions

10. Collisions

Aired: Jun 2, 2016

A big part of physics is understanding collisions and how they're not all the...

Episode 12 Torque

12. Torque

Aired: Jun 16, 2016

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini discusses what torque is, how ...

Episode 13 Statics

13. Statics

Aired: Jun 23, 2016

The Physics we're talking about today has saved your life. Whenever you walk ...

Episode 15 Fluids in Motion

15. Fluids in Motion

Aired: Jul 14, 2016

This episode continues our exploration of fluids and fluid dynamics.

Episode 17 Traveling Waves

17. Traveling Waves

Aired: Jul 28, 2016

Ropes can tell us a lot about how traveling waves work so, in this episode of...

Episode 18 Sound

18. Sound

Aired: Aug 4, 2016

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini goes over some of the basics (...

Episode 19 The Physics of Music

19. The Physics of Music

Aired: Aug 11, 2016

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about how music fu...

Episode 20 Temperature

20. Temperature

Aired: Aug 18, 2016

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about temperature ...

Episode 22 The Physics of Heat

22. The Physics of Heat

Aired: Sep 8, 2016

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks about the Physics of heat.

Episode 23 Thermodynamics

23. Thermodynamics

Aired: Sep 15, 2016

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about Thermodynami...

Episode 24 Engines

24. Engines

Aired: Sep 22, 2016

In this episode of Crash Course Physics, Shini talks to us about how engines ...

Episode 25 Electric Charge

25. Electric Charge

Aired: Sep 29, 2016

Shini talks about electrostatic forces, electrical charge, Coulomb's law, and...

Episode 26 Electric Fields

26. Electric Fields

Aired: Oct 7, 2016

Shini chats about capacitors, conductors, electric field lines, and how objec...

Episode 28 Electric Current

28. Electric Current

Aired: Oct 20, 2016

Shini talks to us about electric current, voltaic cells, and how we get elect...

Episode 30 Circuit Analysis

30. Circuit Analysis

Aired: Nov 4, 2016

Shini walks us through the differences between series and parallel circuits a...

Episode 32 Magnetism

32. Magnetism

Aired: Dec 1, 2016

Shini takes us into the world of magnetism.

Episode 33 Ampère's Law

33. Ampère's Law

Aired: Dec 8, 2016

Hans Christian Oersted had just discovered the connection between electricity...

Episode 36 AC Circuits

36. AC Circuits

Aired: Jan 6, 2017

Shini delves into the world of AC Circuits.

Episode 37 Maxwell's Equations

37. Maxwell's Equations

Aired: Jan 13, 2017

In the early 1800s, Michael Faraday showed us how a changing magnetic field i...

Episode 39 Light Is Waves

39. Light Is Waves

Aired: Jan 26, 2017

Shini shows us how we know that light exists as a wave and why that's really ...

Episode 41 Optical Instruments

41. Optical Instruments

Aired: Feb 16, 2017

Shini talks to us about optical instruments and how they make magnification p...

Episode 42 Special Relativity

42. Special Relativity

Aired: Feb 23, 2017

Shini talks to us about perspective, observation, and how relativity is reall...

Episode 45 Nuclear Physics

45. Nuclear Physics

Aired: Mar 20, 2017

Shini sits down to go over the basics of Eienstien and Nuclear Physics.

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Current Status: Returning Series

Network: YouTube

Production Country: United States