Skill — Checking and deriving formulas by verifying the consistency of dimensions.
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Linked atoms
29 linked atoms.
00 Grandezze fisiche, stime, equilibrio
- Worked exercise — The halved lead cube
- Problem — Dimensional analysis of the pendulum
- Problem — Derivation of Stevin’s law
- Problem — True or false (dimensional analysis)
- Problem — True or false on vectors
00b Metodo sperimentale
01 Cinematica
04b Oscillazioni e moto armonico
09 Teoria cinetica dei gas
- Problem — Collision frequency
- Problem — Estimating collisions per second on a hand
- Problem — Critical temperature from Van der Waals
13 Forza di Coulomb ed elettrostatica
16 Onde
- Piano string and timbre
- From velocity to tension
- Doppler effect of an ambulance
- Fundamental and harmonics of a string
- Refractive index from velocity
- Intensity of a 3 kW light bulb
- Wavelength of la4
- Problem — Dimensional analysis: velocity on a string
- Velocity on a violin string
17 Il campo magnetico
19 Le equazioni di Maxwell e le onde elettromagnetiche
- Problem — Dimensional analysis of the Poynting vector
- Problem — Speed of light from vacuum constants
- Speed of electromagnetic waves