Physics 1 - Mechanics

Author

Yair Mau

about

I taught the Physics 1 course in Mechanics at the Faculty of Agriculture, Hebrew University, from 2017 to 2021. Although I don’t teach this any longer, I think that the materials I developed for the course might be useful to some. Most of the material found here is in hebrew.

goals

This basic Physics course has three main goals:

  • By the end of this course you will be able to look at the world around you and start describing it in a formal (mathematical) language.
  • By the end of this course you will be able to read a graph and tell the story behind it, i.e., you will translate a formal (mathematical) language into regular speech any human can understand.
  • We will get acquainted with the concept of Energy. This, in my humblest opinion, is one of the most important ideas in Science.

patron saint

Galileo is undoubtedly our hero in this course. Honorable runners-up: Archimedes and Newton.