General Physics (PH201) Summer Term 2008

       Course Outline

 

 

PH201 Course Outline                                                                       Summer Term 2008                                                            

Week

Date

Topic

Reading

Problems

Laboratory

 1

M 6/23

Course Introduction

Math Review, Units, Vectors

 

1.1 – 1.9

Ch 1: 12, 14, 18,

 26, 32, 38, 42,

 46, 58, 62

No Lab

T 6/24

1-D Kinematics. Speed, Velocity

Acceleration

2.1 – 2.3

2.4 – 2.5

Ch 2: 4, 8, 12, 18,  

19, 22, 33, 36

 

No Lab

W 6/25

Falling Things. Graphing Motion.

2-D Kinematics.

2.6 – 2.9

3.1 – 3.2

 

Ch 2: 42, 43, 53,

 62,  76.  

Ch 3: 6, 8, 11

Kinematics

Th 6/26

Projectiles.

Relative Motion. 2-D Problems.

3.3

3.4 – 3.5

Ch 3: 15, 18, 20, 33, 41, 48, 54, 70

 

Kinematics

F 6/27

 

 

 

 

 

2

M 6/30

Newton’s Laws: 1st, 2nd, 3rd.

Dynamics.

4.1 – 4.5

4.6 – 4.8, 4.10

Ch 4: 2, 8, 13, 16 ,

20, 26, 31, 34, 50

 

Projectile

Motion

T 7/1

Dynamics continued. Friction.

Equilibrium. Non-equilibrium.

4.9, 4.11

Ch 4: 39, 43, 44,

51, 53, 60

 

Projectile

Motion

W 7/2

Dynamics continued. Problems.

Review.

4.12, 4.13

 

Ch 4: 63, 66, 80

 

 

Forces and

Acceleration

Th 7/3

EXAM. Chapters 1 – 4.

 

 

 

 

Forces and

Acceleration

F 7/4

Fourth of July Holiday.

 

 

 

3

M 7/7

Circular Motion. Centripetal Force and Acceleration. Artificial Gravity.

5.1 – 5.4

5.5 – 5.8

Ch 5: 3, 10, 18, 19,

28, 30, 33, 36

 

Centripetal

Force

T 7/8

Energy. Kinetic and Gravitational.

Conservation of Energy in Dynamics Problems.

6.1 – 6.3

6.8, 6.9

Ch 6: 2, 6, 8, 14, 18, 25, 29, 66, 70a, 77

Centripetal

Force

W 7/9

Conservation of Energy in Dynamics

Problems continued. Power.

6.4 – 6.7, 6.10

Ch 6: 32, 40, 42, 59, 74 

 

Work and

Kinetic Energy

Th 7/10

Momentum. Impulse. Collisions.

Conservation of Momentum.

 

7.1 – 7.3

7.4 – 7.6

Ch 7: 6, 12, 19, 28, 30, 34, 40, 46, 53

 

Work and

Kinetic Energy

F 7/11

 

 

 

 

4

M 7/14

Rotational Kinematics. Angular Velocity and Acceleration. Rolling Motion.

8.1 – 8.3

8.4 – 8.6, 8.8

Ch 8: 2, 6, 11, 18, 26, 30, 36, 39, 48, 64  

Momentum

and Collisions

T 7/15

Rotational Dynamics. Torque.

Angular Momentum.

 

9.1 – 9.4

9.5 – 9.7

Ch 9: 2, 6, 8, 20, 28, 31, 40, 44, 47, 50, 54, 64 

Momentum

and Collisions

W 7/16

Simple Harmonic Motion. Springs.

Review.

10.1 – 10.3

Ch 10: 4, 8, 14, 17, 24, 35

 

Make Up.

Th 7/17

Final Exam. Comprehensive.

 

 

 

 

Make Up.

F 7/18

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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