physics notes
physics notes
Basics of Waves
A wave is just a disturbance that transfers energy from one point to another without the net
movement of matter.
Waves can be classified into:
Key Parameters:
Mathematically:
Think of a skipping rope tied at both ends—if you shake it, certain points remain still (nodes)
while others vibrate wildly (antinodes).
Experiment Setup
Light passes through two slits to create two coherent sources of light waves.
The waves overlap and interfere on a screen.
Where:
www = fringe spacing,
λ\lambdaλ = wavelength of light,
DDD = distance from slits to screen,
sss = slit separation.
What it Proved: Light behaves as a wave because it produces an interference pattern instead
of two sharp lines.
where:
Example: An ambulance siren sounds higher when approaching and lower when it passes by.
That’s the full wave drama! 🌊✨ Let me know if you want a deep dive into anything. 🚀
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Coherence is when two or more waves have a constant phase difference and the same
frequency. Without coherence, no stable interference patterns form.
Types of Coherence
If the sources aren’t coherent, the interference pattern fades away due to
phase randomness.
Laser light is highly coherent, which is why it's used in experiments like
Young’s double slit.
Polarization is when transverse waves oscillate in a single plane instead of in all directions.
🚨 Only transverse waves can be polarized (longitudinal waves, like sound, cannot).
Types of Polarization
1. Plane Polarization ✨
o Vibrations occur in only one direction (instead of all 3D directions).
o Achieved using Polaroid filters or reflection at specific angles.
2. Circular & Elliptical Polarization 🔄
o The electric field rotates as the wave moves.
o Happens when two perpendicular waves have a phase difference (circular =
90° phase difference, elliptical = any other phase).
A diffraction grating is an optical device with many closely spaced slits (thousands per mm).
When light passes through, it creates sharp interference patterns due to diffraction.
Key Differences Between a Diffraction Grating & Double Slit
Where:
How it Works
When light hits the multiple slits, constructive interference happens at certain
angles where path difference = nλn\lambdanλ.
Each wavelength of light diffracts at a different angle, allowing wavelength
separation.
If you shine white light, each wavelength spreads out into a spectrum (red at max
angle, violet at the smallest angle).
This is how spectrometers analyze light from stars to determine chemical
composition (astronomers’ BFFs!).
That’s all the wave drama, babe! 🌊✨ Let me know if you need a plot twist or a deeper dive
into any of these! 🚀💖
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You said:
Ooooh, you want a plot twist? Let’s turn up the wave drama to max level! 🔥💅 Buckle up,
because things are about to get wild!
You thought coherence was your bestie? Nope! It’s actually a very demanding diva.
In real life, light sources like bulbs & LEDs have random phase changes → No
stable interference patterns.
Even lasers, the "kings of coherence," aren’t perfect—they slowly lose phase sync
over time (called coherence length).
What if I told you diffraction grating helped solve the mystery of the universe? 🤯
💀 Final Drama:
Without diffraction gratings, we might never have known that the universe is expanding at
an accelerating rate! That’s some next-level plot twist.
CDs & DVDs: The rainbow effect on discs? That’s diffraction grating at work!
Oil Slicks & Soap Bubbles: Those iridescent colors? They happen due to thin-film
interference, a cousin of diffraction!
Your Eyelashes?!: If you squint at a light source through your lashes, diffraction
patterns appear. Yes, your eyelashes are basically a diffraction grating! 👀✨
I hope that plot twist shook you. Let me know if you want another mind-blowing
revelation! 🚀✨
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You said:
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kirchhoffs law, resistance, resistivity and practical circuits
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Ohhh babe, you want the scandalous tea on electricity? ⚡🔌 Well, get ready because
electricity is messy, full of betrayals, drama, and shocking twists! 💀⚡
Metals don't "lose" electrons like we thought. Instead, they have a sea of free
electrons that just casually move around like it’s a party.
💡 Juicy Secret?
🔥 Scandalous Fact?
Voltage can exist without current, but current can’t exist without voltage.
That’s like saying you can have pressure without water flowing, but you can’t have
flow without pressure.
Biggest Betrayal?
Batteries don’t "store" electricity, they store chemical energy that gets converted
into electrical energy when needed.
Your phone dying isn’t “out of electricity”—it’s out of usable chemical energy.
🔥 Shady Truth?
If charge ever disappears, it means you messed up your circuit calculations or your
wires are faulty! 💀
This means you can’t get more energy than you started with.
No free energy (RIP to all perpetual motion machine scams).
🔥 Circuit Betrayal?
If your circuit "mysteriously" loses voltage, check for resistance or heating effects
—energy is probably escaping as heat!
It’s like a bad WiFi connection—the higher the resistance, the slower everything
moves.
V=IRV = IRV=IR
Where:
🔥 Shocking Betrayals?
Parallel circuits drain batteries faster because they pull more current.
That’s why fairy lights in parallel use up batteries quickly.
Everything you use—from your phone to your laptop charger—is just electrons moving
around in loops.
Electricity is literally a bunch of tiny charges being pushed around by invisible forces…
and yet, it runs your entire life!
💀 You are literally paying bills for moving charges.
Electricity is the biggest scam… and we willingly pay for it. 😭💸
BABE, THAT’S THE ELECTRIC TEA! ⚡🔥 I just spilled all the shocking scandals. Want
even more drama? Let me know which part you want deep-dived! 🚀✨
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You said:
OH. MY. GOD. You want the scandalous lives of thermistors, diodes, and LDRs? Buckle
up, babe, because these electronic components have more drama than a reality TV show
😭🔥.
Your laptop would literally overheat and die without an NTC thermistor monitoring
the temperature!
If you overheat a thermistor too much, it betrays you and stops working forever.
💡 Scandalous Real-Life Use?
Your fridge, AC, and car engines ALL use thermistors to sense temperature and
control cooling.
If thermistors didn’t exist, your ice cream would melt and your engine would
explode. 🚗💥🍦
Ultimate betrayal:
If thermistors get too hot, they sometimes fail permanently and refuse to work ever
again.
Literally a toxic ex—when it goes bad, it won’t come back. 😭💀
They only allow current to flow in one direction and block it the other way.
That’s right, they’re basically controlling everything and saying NO to reverse
current.
Diodes protect circuits from backstabbing batteries that try to send current the
wrong way.
LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) are just attention-seeking diodes that glow when
current flows through them.
Your phone charger? It has diodes inside making sure the current doesn’t flow
backward and kill your phone.
Final Twist?
If a diode fails, it either blocks ALL current or lets EVERYTHING through,
ruining your circuit either way. No in-between. 💀
🔥 Shocking Truth?
If you take an LDR into a completely dark room, it acts like a total brat and blocks
current almost completely.
But as soon as you shine light on it, it immediately switches sides and lets current
flow.
Final Betrayal?
LDRs get weak over time and stop reacting as quickly to light changes.
They also work slower in colder temperatures—just like people who don’t want to
get out of bed in winter.
You thought circuits were all clean and scientific, but NOPE—it’s all just electronic drama!
You said:
now the tea on matter and materials you know all about density pressure hookes law young
modulus and electric potential energy
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and Materials. These physical properties are shadier than a soap opera villain, and trust
me, they have enough drama to fuel an entire season of a reality TV show.
Titanic TEA! Why did the Titanic sink? Icebergs are less dense than water so they
float, but that huge metal ship? Too dense to stay up.
Helium Balloons vs. Air? Helium is less dense than air, so it rises like an
influencer’s Instagram clout. 🎈
Osmium vs. Styrofoam? Osmium (the densest metal) is literally 22,000 times
heavier than Styrofoam for the same volume. Body-shaming at its finest!
🔥 Shocking Truths:
Why do stilettos hurt more than sneakers? Same force, smaller area = HIGH
PRESSURE. That’s why your friend stepping on you in heels is basically an
assassination attempt. 🔪👠
Hydraulics? Pressure is sneaky enough to stay the same in all directions—this is how
car brakes, lifts, and even your blood circulation work.
💔 Biggest Betrayal?
Deep-sea creatures get crushed because pressure increases with depth (P = ρgh).
Too deep, and your organs get flattened. 😭
It says that the more you stretch something, the more it tries to snap back.
Formula? F = kx (Force = stiffness × extension).
At first, everything is fine… until you reach the limit.
🔥 Drama Alert:
If you stretch beyond the elastic limit, the object never returns to its original
shape—just like a broken heart after betrayal. 💔
Springs in trampolines, shocks in cars, and even your own muscles follow Hooke’s
Law!
💔 Biggest Scandal?
Plastic Deformation: When you stretch past the limit, things never go back.
This is why a rubber band snaps when pulled too hard.
🔥 Scandalous Exposures:
💔 Biggest Betrayal?
Brittle vs. Ductile Drama: Glass has a high Young’s Modulus but shatters instead
of stretching. Total diva move!
Metals? They bend before breaking, making them tougher than glass despite having
a lower Young’s Modulus.
🔥 Scandalous Betrayal:
If charges move in the opposite direction of the electric field, they gain potential
energy instead of losing it.
This is how capacitors store energy, making them literal energy hoarders in
circuits.
You said:
you got any tea on momentum? knowing you im pretty sure you do
ChatGPT said:
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last drop of tea on it. Get ready, because this is messier than a cheating scandal on reality TV.
The bigger and faster something is, the more unstoppable it becomes.
If you're tiny but speedy (like a bullet) or huge and slow (like a truck), you still have
clout in the momentum world.
A mosquito vs. a truck? Mosquitoes don’t stand a chance because their mass is
tiny, while trucks have momentum strong enough to turn them into history. 🚛💥🦟
If something has zero velocity, it has ZERO momentum. That’s right, if you’re
standing still, physics treats you like you don’t even exist. 💀
💔 Biggest Betrayal?
You think you’re safe because something looks small? If it's moving fast enough,
IT WILL WRECK YOU.
A bullet has less mass than a baseball, but because of its insane velocity, its
momentum is deadly.
🔥 Scandalous Moments:
Why do airbags save lives? They increase the time of impact, reducing the force on
your body. Without them? Instant momentum change = tragedy. 🚗💥
Why does jumping on a mattress hurt less than jumping on concrete? Longer
impact time = lower force.
If impulse is the same, the force can be tiny or MASSIVE—it all depends on how
long it’s applied.
That’s why a karate chop breaks wood—the force is applied quickly and brutally.
They don’t lose energy. Momentum AND kinetic energy are perfectly conserved.
It’s like plastic surgery—everything bounces back like nothing ever happened.
🔥 Shocking Examples:
Gas molecules? They collide elastically ALL the time. That’s how gases behave
without losing energy.
A Newton’s Cradle? The balls bounce back perfectly because momentum is
transferred without loss.
Most real-life collisions AREN’T ELASTIC. There’s always some energy loss
through heat, sound, or deformation.
Elastic collisions are like filtered Instagram pictures—too perfect to be real.
When objects collide, they stick together like a toxic couple that just CAN’T break
up.
Momentum is still conserved, but kinetic energy? TRAGICALLY LOST.
A car crash. The cars crumple, energy is lost as heat and sound, and they might even
fuse together. 🚗💥🚙
A football hitting mud. It doesn’t bounce back—it just sinks and absorbs the
impact.
💔 Biggest Scandal?
Energy disappears, but momentum never lies. Even though kinetic energy
decreases, momentum stays constant.
That’s why explosions are technically inelastic collisions in reverse! 💥🔥
This is why guns recoil. The bullet moves forward, so the gun must move backward
with equal and opposite momentum. 🔫💥
Rocket Science 101: A rocket expels gases downwards, and momentum pushes the
rocket upwards. 🚀
💔 Final Drama?
okay now onto the juicier stuff, work, energy and power, forces: vectors and moments,
dynamics explaining motion, accelerated motion and kinematics describing motion
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friendships, and power struggles. 💅✨
Work is literally force trying to push or pull something in the same direction it’s
moving.
But here’s the tea: If an object doesn’t move, NO WORK is done.
o Imagine pushing a wall for 10 hours straight – You feel exhausted but
physics says: "Nah, you did nothing, babe." 💀
You can apply force all you want, but if there’s NO displacement, it’s all useless.
🚫
Work Done (W) = Force × Distance × cos(θ)
o If θ = 90° (like holding a bag while walking), NO WORK is done.
o Gravity? Pulls down, but if you move horizontally, gravity did NO work on
you.
🔥 MESSY MOMENT:
Lifting something up? Gravity fights you every step of the way. You vs. Gravity:
The Eternal Feud.
Dropping something? Gravity finally wins and does all the work.
💔 PLOT TWIST?
🔥 ICONIC SCANDAL:
A slow jogger and a sprinter? Both do work, but the sprinter has WAY more
power. 🏃♀️💨
A sports car vs. a truck? The truck does more work, but the sports car does it
FASTER = more power. 🚗💨
💔 BACKSTABBING FACT?
Powerful things aren’t always efficient. A machine can waste energy as heat,
sound, or vibrations.
🔥 BIGGEST BETRAYALS:
Force NEVER acts alone. Newton’s Third Law says every force has an equal and
opposite reaction.
o Push a wall? It pushes you back. 😭
o Jump off a boat? The boat moves backward. 🚤
🔥 SCANDAL:
💔 BETRAYAL?
If two equal forces act opposite to each other, they cancel out.
Example: Tug of war – no movement = balanced forces.
🔥 ICONIC SCANDAL:
Opening a door? Ever tried pushing near the hinge? It won’t move.
Using a long wrench? You apply less force but get MORE rotation.
💔 JUICY BETRAYAL:
A small force can still have a HUGE impact if it acts far from the pivot.
That’s why see-saws can work even if a kid and an adult sit on it.
🚀 The Drama of Motion (Kinematics &
Dynamics) 🚀
KINEMATICS – The Story of Every Move
💔 PLOT TWIST?
Free fall? Objects accelerate at 9.81 m/s², but air resistance is the enemy.
Terminal velocity? When drag force equals weight, motion stops accelerating.
🔥 SCANDALOUS BETRAYALS:
Mass ≠ Weight.
o Mass is the amount of stuff you have.
o Weight is how much gravity pulls on you.
Space has NO WEIGHT but still has MASS.
You said:
ok now onto the equations and definitions and principles of all these topics you spilt the tea
on
ChatGPT said:
BABE. TIME TO BRING OUT THE RECEIPTS. 📜✨ You want equations, definitions,
and principles? I gotchu. Here’s the cold, hard physics facts behind all the scandals and
drama we just uncovered. Buckle up, because we’re about to get academic (but still spicy).
🔥
📌 Equations
1. Work Done:
o F = force (N)
o d = displacement (m)
o θ = angle between force and displacement
o Work is only done if there's movement! 😤
2. Kinetic Energy (KE):
PE=mghPE = mghPE=mgh
📌 Equations
F=maF = maF=ma
p=mvp = mvp=mv
1. Final velocity:
v=u+atv = u + atv=u+at
2. Displacement:
3. Velocity squared:
4. Average velocity:
vavg=u+v2v_{\text{avg}} = \frac{u+v}{2}vavg=2u+v
F=maF = maF=ma
📌 Equations
1. Current:
I=QtI = \frac{Q}{t}I=tQ
V=IRV = IRV=IR
📌 Kirchhoff’s Laws
📌 Equations
📌 Equations
1. Density:
ρ=mV\rho = \frac{m}{V}ρ=Vm
2. Pressure:
P=FAP = \frac{F}{A}P=AF
3. Hooke’s Law:
F=kxF = kxF=kx
k = spring constant, x = extension
o
4. Elastic Potential Energy:
5. Young’s Modulus:
You said:
what about the receipts for waves superposition, stationary waves and atomic structure and
particle physics
ChatGPT said:
Wave: A disturbance that transfers energy from one place to another without
transferring matter.
Transverse Wave: Particles oscillate perpendicular to wave direction.
Longitudinal Wave: Particles oscillate parallel to wave direction.
📌 Equations
1. Wave Speed:
v=fλv = f \lambdav=fλ
o w = fringe spacing
o λ = wavelength, D = distance to screen, s = slit separation.
Stationary Wave: Formed when two waves moving in opposite directions interfere.
Nodes: Points of zero displacement (where destructive interference happens).
Antinodes: Points of maximum displacement (where constructive interference
happens).
📌 Equations
λ=2L\lambda = 2Lλ=2L
o Second Harmonic:
λ=L\lambda = Lλ=L
o Third Harmonic:
λ=2L3\lambda = \frac{2L}{3}λ=32L
fn=nf1f_n = n f_1fn=nf1
📌 Equations
1. Charge of an Electron:
2. Mass of a Proton:
E=mc2E = mc^2E=mc2
o m = mass (kg), c = speed of light (3.0 × 10⁸ m/s).
o Mass can turn into energy (nuclear reactions).
📌 Equations
o β⁺ decay:
🔥 BABE, THAT’S ALL THE TEA ON WAVES, PARTICLES, AND THE ATOMIC
WORLD. 🔥
This is where reality gets WEIRD. Particles pop in and out of existence, waves interfere
like drama queens, and atoms hold all the secrets to nuclear energy. Highlight it, memorize
it, OWN it. 🏆💯
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You said:
i also want a conversion table for every SI unit and a base unit for every SI unit
ChatGPT said:
BABE, HERE'S THE ULTIMATE SI UNIT CONVERSION TABLE & BASE UNITS
CHEAT SHEET! 📜🔥
📢 Final Thoughts
Babe, now you have all the receipts for SI units and conversions. Use this table to flex on
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