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⚛ Physics

Based on Benjamin Crowell, Simple Nature, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0.

Calculus-based physics from conservation laws to quantum mechanics. Runnable code, inline diagrams, plain English.

v Conservation laws govern the trajectory.
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1. Conservation of Energy Energy is never created or destroyed, only converted between kinetic and potential forms
2. Conservation of Momentum Total momentum of an isolated system is constant, even through collisions
3. Conservation of Angular Momentum Spinning things keep spinning unless a torque acts on them
4. Thermodynamics Entropy always increases, and that arrow of time constrains every engine
5. Waves Waves superpose, interfere, and decompose into Fourier components
6. Electricity Charges create fields, fields do work, and circuits are the plumbing
7. Magnetism Moving charges create magnetic fields; magnetic forces are always perpendicular to velocity
8. Electromagnetism Changing electric fields create magnetic fields and vice versa: Maxwell's equations
9. Optics Light is an electromagnetic wave: reflection, refraction, diffraction
10. Relativity Space and time are one fabric; nothing outruns light
11. Quantum Mechanics Particles are waves of probability; measurement collapses the wavefunction
12. The Atom Quantum mechanics explains the periodic table, spectral lines, and chemical bonds

📺 Video lectures: Yale PHYS 200: Fundamentals of Physics (Ramamurti Shankar)

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