IB Physics Topic 1 Videos

This video introduces the fundamental concepts of motion, including displacement, velocity, acceleration, and how they are measured and analyzed in motion experiments.

This video explores the five SUVAT equations used to solve advanced motion problems, with detailed examples and practice questions.

This video explains how to interpret and analyze displacement-time, velocity-time, and acceleration-time graphs, focusing on their slopes and areas.

This video covers aerial motion, including free fall, normal fall with air resistance, and projectile motion, and how these are affected by drag forces.

This video dives deeper into projectile motion, explaining its components, key equations, and how to calculate values like maximum height, time of flight, and range.

This video introduces forces, including their types, properties, and representations in free-body diagrams, along with common examples and practice questions.

This video covers Newton’s three laws of motion, focusing on equilibrium, resultant forces, and their applications in mechanics.

This video explores opposing forces such as friction, drag, and buoyancy, explaining their principles and practical examples.

This video discusses forces on slopes, including reaction and frictional forces, and analyzes equilibrium scenarios on inclined planes.

This video explains tension forces in suspended systems and pulleys, covering equilibrium, acceleration, and mechanical advantage.

This video introduces momentum and impulse, their formulas, and applications, including force-time graph analysis.

This video examines the conservation of momentum in collisions and explosions, detailing elastic, inelastic, and perfectly inelastic scenarios.

This video covers uniform circular motion, centripetal force, and acceleration, with examples and calculations.

This video explores angular displacement, angular velocity, and period, and connects these concepts to circular motion equations.

This video focuses on vertical circular motion, explaining how forces change at different points in the motion and key exam-specific formulas.

This video introduces the concept of work as energy transfer, with examples and calculations involving forces, distances, and angles. It also covers work in springs and efficiency.

This video explores different types of energy, including kinetic, potential, and elastic, with a focus on the principle of conservation of energy and efficiency calculations.

This video discusses power as the rate of energy transfer, with formulas and examples, and includes efficiency calculations in practical scenarios.

This video examines renewable and non-renewable energy sources, their specific energy and energy density, and the use of Sankey diagrams to illustrate energy conversions.

This video introduces rotational motion, comparing it to translational motion and explaining key concepts such as angular velocity, centripetal acceleration, and angular acceleration.

This video covers rotational kinematics, introducing the SUVAT equations for angular motion and demonstrating their application in solving rotational motion problems.

This video explores torque as a measure of rotational force, its dependence on force and distance, and the conditions for rotational equilibrium.

This video explains the concept of moment of inertia, its role in rotational motion, and how mass distribution affects an object’s resistance to angular acceleration.

This video discusses angular momentum, its conservation, and how angular impulse leads to changes in rotational motion, using real-world examples.

This video explores rotational kinetic energy, its relationship with angular momentum, and how total kinetic energy combines translational and rotational energy in moving objects.

This video introduces the concept of frames of reference, explaining how motion depends on the observer’s perspective. It compares Galilean relativity, which assumes absolute time and space, with special relativity, where space and time are relative and interconnected.

This video explores Galilean relativity in detail, focusing on relative motion equations and how velocities add linearly. It discusses the limitations of this framework, highlighting evidence from Maxwell’s equations and pion decay experiments that led to the development of special relativity.

This video covers the core principles of special relativity, including the postulates of invariant light speed and consistent physical laws. It introduces Lorentz transformations, which describe how space and time change at high velocities, and explains velocity addition in relativistic contexts.

This video explains key invariant quantities in relativity, such as the spacetime interval, proper time, proper length, and rest mass. It explores how these remain unchanged across different reference frames, providing a foundation for understanding relativistic motion.

This video delves into key relativistic effects, including simultaneity, time dilation, and length contraction. It explains how these phenomena affect moving objects and provides experimental evidence, such as muon decay, to support their real-world impact.

This video introduces spacetime diagrams as a visual tool for understanding relativistic effects. It explains how time dilation and length contraction appear graphically and explores how different reference frames experience events differently based on their motion.