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Arapahoe High School Physics Podcasts
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This podcast introduces the formula for calculating rate of heat transfer through conduction, with an example problem to help demonstrate how the formula is used.
Thermal Conduction Problems (APB)
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This podcast explains the definition of heat, and how it differs from internal energy. It also explains conduction, convection, and radiation as the three methods of heat transfer.
Heat as Energy Transfer (APB)
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This podcast is intended to review some conceptual ideas related to work, energy, and momentum. It just consists of 8 conceptual questions, with answers discussed.
Work, Energy, & Momentum Conceptual Questions (Intro, APB, APC)
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This podcast describes strategies for solving problems involving connected objects, through working two examples of this type of problem.
2nd Law Problems with Connected Objects (Levels: Intro, APB, APC)
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This podcast provides extra practice with 'easy' one-dimensional equilibrium problems, and also with problems using Newton's 2nd Law when multiple forces are involved.
2nd Law Problems with Multiple Forces (Levels: Intro, APB, APC)
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This podcast introduces you to how to add vectors graphically, and also how to use basic trig to solve for resultants and vector components. (Only deals with parallel and perpendicular pairs of vectors.)
Intro to Vector Addition (Levels: Intro, APB, APC)
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This podcast for AP Physics C students reviews how to use the power rule and product rule to perform derivatives, and then how to apply derivatives to find velocity and acceleration functions.
Basic Derivatives in Physics (APC)
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This podcast discusses how to represent different motions on velocity-time graphs, including the meaning of slope and area these graphs.
Velocity-Time Graphs (Levels: Intro, APB, APC)
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This podcast discusses how different motions are represented on graphs of position versus time, with a special emphasis on the meaning of slope for these graphs.
Position-Time Graphs (Levels: Intro, APB, APC)
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This podcast introduces concepts of displacement, velocity, and acceleration. Basic calculations are discussed, as well as the meanings of positive and negative values for those three quantities in straight-line motion situations.
Displacement, Velocity, & Acceleration Concepts (Levels: Intro, APB, APC)
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This podcast introduces the concept of motional emf, relating it to Faraday's law of induction.
Motional emf
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This podcast reviews rules for determining directions in magnetic field problems. Topics include the right-hand rule for forces on currents and charges, right-hand rule for B-field created by a current, and Lenz's law.
Magnetic Directions Review
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This podcast introduces concepts related to RC circuits - circuits with a resistor and capacitor in series with a voltage source. Intended to intro the ideas to students who have already learned capacitor ideas and are in the midst of studying electric circuits.
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Intro to RC Circuits (APC)
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This podcast is a review of how to use vector addition ideas, along with Coulomb's law, to find the net force acting on a charge when it is pushed/pulled by multiple electric forces.
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Electric Force Problems (Levels: Intro, APB, APC)
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This podcast discusses calculations for the linear and volume expansion of objects when heated.
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Thermal Expansion (Level: APB)
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This podcast deals with the similarities between simple harmonic motion and uniform circular motion. Problem-solving is discussed, using functions for position, velocity, and acceleration of a simple harmonic oscillator.
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SHM & Uniform Circular Motion (Level: APC)
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This podcast explains how to think about the energy of a simple harmonic oscillator (specifically a mass-spring system), and also how to solve related problems.
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Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion (Levels: APB, APC)
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This podcast explains how to evaluate definite integrals at given limits of integration, and how this idea relates to finding the area under the curve when a function is graphed.
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Definite Integrals (Level: APC)
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This podcast introduces integrals with the idea "un-doing" a derivative, and then works several examples based on the reverse of the power rule.
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Indefinite Integrals (Level: APC)
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This podcast explains how to apply your understanding of derivatives to the problem of finding the maximum or minimum value of a function.
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Derivatives and Max/Min (Level: APC)
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This podcast introduces how to perform derivatives for some more complicated functions, specifically how to use the chain rule for derivatives of composite functions, and how to use the product rule for the derivative of the product of two functions.
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Chain Rule and Power Rule (Level: APC)