FIZ 101e Mechanics

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Syllabus

 
You might like to check the course notes in MIT or look atthe Turkish translation of these notes.

Do not miss the videos of the course by astrophysicist Walter Lewin!

If you are taking the course for the second time you might like to see the article Five Frequently Fatal Freshman Physics Fantasies

Links related to Lecture 1:

1-Train yourself to be fluent in "back of the envelope" calculations (Fermi problems) using "order of magnitude physics."       

 Lecture notes by Sanjoy Mahayan or look here. A nice book called Guesstimation by Weinstein and Adam  

2- Wiki article on dimensional analysis

3-Wiki article on International System of Units

 

4-Wiki article on SI prefixes

 

5-Wiki article on significant figures

6- Wiki article on Accuracy and precision

Lecture slides on Newtonian Mechanics


Continuous Mass Distributions

Shell Problem

Gauss’s Law for gravity