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• Electricity and Magnetism
• Gravitation
• Liquids and Gases
• Mechanics
• Nuclear
• Waves

Electricity and Magnetism

• Direct Current Electrical Motor
• Electromagnetic Oscillating Circuit
• Generator
• Lorentz Force
• Magnetic Field of a Bar Magnet
• Magnetic Field of a Straight Current-Carrying Wire
• Ohm's Law
• Simple AC Circuits

Gravitation

• Kepler's First Law
• Kepler's Second Law

Liquids and Gases

• Buoyant Force in Liquids
• Hydrostatic Pressure in Liquids
• Special Processes of an Ideal Gas

Mechanics

• Uniformly Accelerated Motion
• Coupled Pendula
• Elastic and Inelastic Collision
• Equilibrium of Three Forces
• Forced Oscillations Mathematical Appendix
• Forced Oscillations (Resonance)
• Inclined Plane
• Lever Principle
• Model of a Carousel(Centripetal Force)
• Motion with Constant Acceleration
• Newton's Cannon
• Newton's Cradle
• Newton's Second Law Experiment
• Pendulum
• Projectile Motion
• Projectile Motion
• Pulley System
• Resultant of Forces (Addition of Vectors)
• Spring Pendulum
• Two-dimensional collisions
• Vector Arithmetic

Nuclear

• An Example of Time Dilation
• Bohr's Theory of the Hydrogen Atom
• Radioactive Decay Series
• The Law of Radioactive Decay
• The Photoelectric Effect

Waves

• An Example of Doppler Effect
• Electromagnetic Wave
• Interference of two Circular or Spherical Waves
• Reflection and Refraction of Waves (Explanation by Huygens' Principle)
• Refracting Astronomical Telescope
• Refraction of Light
• Shock wave
• Sonic Boom

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