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Physics & Space

Classical Mechanics: The MapPhysics becomes much easier once the formulas stop looking like unrelated tricks.
Fluids: Pressure, Buoyancy, and FlowA fluid cannot sustain a static shear stress the way a rigid solid can. It deforms and flows.
Forces and Newton's LawsKinematics says how motion changes. Dynamics asks why.
From AP Physics 1 to Physics C Mechanics: What Calculus AddsAP Physics 1 and AP Physics C: Mechanics describe largely the same classicalmechanics world.
Kinematics: Position, Velocity, and AccelerationKinematics describes motion without yet asking what causes it.
Linear Momentum, Impulse, and CollisionsMomentum becomes especially powerful when forces are large, complicated, and shortlived — collisions, explosions, catches, impacts.
Oscillations and Simple Harmonic MotionMany systems displaced from a stable equilibrium experience a force pushing them back toward it.
Rotational Energy and Angular MomentumRotation has close analogues of the energy and momentum ideas used for translation.
Torque and Rotational DynamicsA force can change an object's translational motion. But for an extended object, where the force acts also matters.
Work, Energy, and PowerForce is a local description: what interaction acts right now?

Chaos: Sensitive Dependence Without RandomnessIn ordinary speech, "chaos" means disorder.
Double Pendulum: Two Simple Joints, Nonlinear MotionA simple pendulum already has nonlinear dynamics at large angles.
EntropyEntropy is often introduced as “disorder,” but that metaphor fails surprisingly quickly. The more useful statistical idea is multiplicity: how many microscopic arrangements correspond to the same macroscopic state.
Galileo Thermometer: Temperature Read Through BuoyancyA Galileo thermometer looks like a sealed glass column containing several floating glass bulbs, each carrying a temperature tag.