Physics and Astrophysics 1st Year Tutorial Archive
Tutorial Materials
I designed these tutorial materials for first-year undergraduate students in Maths with Physics and Physics with Astrophysics. Feel free to contact me for solutions or additional guidance.
- Week 2: see "Complex Number" worksheet
- Week 6: see "Curve Sketching" worksheet
- Week 9: see "Waves" worksheet
- Week 19: see "Integration" worksheet
Accessibility
You can find the PDF versions of my tutorial materials available here. Additionally, I offer accessible versions in DOC, DOCX, and ODT formats, specifically designed for non-visual students. Feel free to reach out to me if you need these formats.
| NameSelect to sort (ascending) | DescriptionSelect to sort (ascending) | File Size | Last UpdatedSelect to sort (ascending) | KeywordsSelect to sort (ascending) | |
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| PDF document | Week 3 | Applications of vectors in kinematics and dynamics | (234 KB) | 15/11/24 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 4 | How to launch a rocket (Potential, forces, and stable and unstable equilibrium) | (433 KB) | 15/11/24 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 5 | How does a seismograph work? (Oscillations and differential equations for damped oscillations) | (367 KB) | 15/11/24 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 7 | How does a gyroscope work? (Rotational mechanics, torques, angular momentum, moment of inertia and linear - rotational equivalencies ) | (420 KB) | 15/11/24 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 8 | How does overtone work on a string instrument? (Waves and the transverse wave speed on a string) | (358 KB) | 15/11/24 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 10 | Python exercise: visualise two-dimensional waves using Python and understand wave factors | (142 KB) | 02/12/24 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 15 | Free falling of two stacked balls. What is the ballistic velocity of a supernova expansion? What is gravity assist? How to make a new particle in a relativistic collision? (Newtonian and relativistic collisions, zero-momentum/centre-of-mass frames) | (375 KB) | 02/03/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 15 additional notes | A paper that shows the velocity map of the filaments in Crab nebula. This is to demonstrate the outer layer of the supernova remnant has a higher velocity than the inner layer. | (17 MB) | 02/03/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 16 | What is an ellipse? What are the mathematical properties of an ellipse? What are the three Kepler's Laws? How to prove Kepler's Laws using algebra? | (111 KB) | 16/01/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 16 additional notes | Why is the path of a planet planar? (Lecture notes from Clark University) | (172 KB) | 16/01/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 17 | Lorentz transformation, time dilation, length contraction, invariant speed of light | (98 KB) | 16/01/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 17 additional notes | An introduction to the modern history of the time before Special Relativity and the Michelson–Morley experiment (Lecture notes from Case Western Reserve University, where the Michelson-Morley experiment took place) | (1.3 MB) | 16/01/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 18 | Gauss's Law, electric field, gravitational field | (96 KB) | 06/02/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 19 additional notes | Gravitational and inertia mass, moment of inertia and the Equivalence Principles | (143 KB) | 06/02/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 21 | Charging a capacitor, energy conservation in circuits, resistors, ladder network, Delta-Wye transformation, engineering, computational circuits | (290 KB) | 21/02/25 | Tutorial Resources, Physics |
| PDF document | Week 22 | A taste of E&M field using an example of a moving parallel plate capacitor, Special Relativity | (32 KB) | 21/02/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 23 | A first taste of astrophysical research: Write a Python code to calculate an exoplanet transient light curve and compare your model with the Spitzer data of DS Tuc A; Python; Learn how to ask questions | (405 KB) | 02/03/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 23 additional notes | A journal paper that measures the dynamical properties of DS Tuc A using TESS and Spitzer data | (1.9 MB) | 02/03/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 24 | How to write a good lab report? Measuring g using a pendulum | (48 KB) | 11/03/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |
| PDF document | Week 24 additional notes | How to write a good lab report? Measuring g using a pendulum | (316 KB) | 11/03/25 | Physics, Tutorial Resources |