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Khan Academy: Choosing Kinematic Equations
Kinematic equations help solve for an unknown in a problem when an object has either a constant velocity or constant acceleration. This video will help you choose which kinematic equations you should use, given the type of problem you're...
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Khan Academy: Introduction to Reference Frames
How the choice of reference frame is related to speed and velocity measurements. [6:54]
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Khan Academy: Wave Interference
David explains wave interference and solves a few examples to find the value of the total wave when two wave pulses overlap. [7:24]
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Khan Academy: Quantum Wavefunction
In this video David gives an introductory explanation of what the quantum wavefunction is, how to use it, and where it comes from. [10:11]
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Khan Academy: Emission Spectrum of Hydrogen
Using Balmer-Rydberg equation to solve for photon energy for n=3 to 2 transition. Solving for wavelength of a line in UV region of hydrogen emission spectrum. [10:50]
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Khan Academy: De Broglie Wavelength
In this video, David explains how Louis De Broglie got his Nobel Prize for the idea of matter having a wavelength. [11:20]
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Khan Academy: The Caesar Cipher
Brit explains the Caesar cipher, the first popular substitution cipher, and shows how it was broken with 'frequency analysis'.
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Khan Academy: Perfect and Imperfect Competition
The most common forms of competition you learn about in microeconomics are perfect competition, monopolies, oligopoly, monopsony, and monopolistic competition. In this video [9:59] we briefly describe the key features of each.
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Khan Academy: Percentage Tax on Hamburgers
This video [5:39] discusses what would happen if we have a percentage tax instead of a fixed dollar amount.
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Khan Academy: Option Expiration and Price
In this video [3:26], we explore how aspects of an option's expiration affect the option's price.
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Khan Academy: Optional Calculus Proof to Show That Mr Has Twice Slope of Demand
This video [4:55] explains how using some basic calculus to show that marginal revenue has twice the slope of the demand curve for a monopolist.
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Khan Academy: Optimal Point on Budget Line
This video [9:23] explains using indifference curves to think about the point on the budget line that maximizes total utility.
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Khan Academy: Optimal Decision Making and Opportunity Costs
A rational agent considers all costs, including explicit and implicit costs, when deciding whether or not to undertake an action. In this video [5:08], learn about how opportunity costs represent the cost of the next best alternative.
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Khan Academy: Opportunity Cost and Comparative Advantage Using an Output Table
In this video [9:55], we use the PPCs for two different countries that each produce two goods in order to create an output table based on the data in the graph. We then use the output table to determine the opportunity costs of producing...
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Khan Academy: Pegging the Yuan
How the Chinese Central Bank could peg the Yuan to the dollar by printing Yuan and buying dollars (building up a dollar reserve).
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Khan Academy: P/e Conundrum
This video [13:41] discusses P/E Conundrum, a situation where the price to earnings ratio seems to not fairly price an asset.
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Khan Academy: Payday Loans
Payday loans, which are sometimes called cash advances, are a form of unsecured short-term loans that are typically associated with very high interest rates. In this video [10:46] we explore an example of a payday loan and use that to...
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Khan Academy: Parsing Gross Domestic Product
In this video [11:58], we break down GDP into its components to better understand what's counted in GDP and what's not counted.
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Khan Academy: Overview of Fractional Reserve Banking
This video [8:28] focuses on the big picture of how money enters circulation and how lending can increase the money supply.
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Khan Academy: It Was Just Mayhem
This Khan Academy resource is a video interview of entrepreneurs Dave Gilboa and Neil Blumenthal who are the owners of Warby Parker.
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Khan Academy: Toward a Smarter Grid
Video also investigates how we are trying to provide electricity to a 21st-century with an electric grid that is a 20th-century system. [2:57]
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Khan Academy: Severe Storms
A video exploring how cloud formation can relate to a powerful storm development. Also, learn how severe storms are predicted. [3:38]
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Khan Academy: Introduction to Channel Capacity
Introduction to Channel Capacity & Message Space.
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Khan Academy: Information Entropy
Finally we arrive at our quantitative measure of entropy.
