Date |
Topics and Assignments |
Monday, August 30
|
Lecture Topic: Outline
of the course; Introductory Concepts
|
| Background Reading; Walker Ch.
1 |
| Wednesday, September 1 |
Lecture Topic: Motion Concepts |
| Background Reading; Walker 2.1 - 2.4 |
| Thursday, September 2 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, September 3 |
Lecture Topic: Motion
Concepts; ILD #1: Human Motion |
| Monday, September 6 |
Labor Day Holiday; no class |
| Wednesday, September 8 |
Lecture Topic: Motion
in One Dimension; Free Fall |
| Background Reading; Walker, 2.5 - 2.7 |
| Thursday, September 9 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, September 10 |
Lecture Topic: Motion
in One Dimension; ILD #2: Motion with Carts; |
| Monday, September 13 |
Lecture Topic: Introduction
to Vectors (add/drop period ends) |
| Background Reading; Walker, 3.1
- 3.4 |
| Wednesday, September 15 |
Lecture Topic: Relative
Motion |
| Background Reading; Walker, 3.5 - 3.6 |
| Thursday, September 16 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, September 17 |
Lecture Topic: Motion
in two dimensions; Projectile motion |
| Background Reading; Walker, 4.1 - 4.2 |
| Monday, September 20 |
Lecture Topic: Motion
in two Dimensions; Projectile motion
|
| Background Reading; Walker, 4.3
- 4.5 |
| Wednesday, September 22 |
Lecture Topic: Introduction
to Newton's Laws |
| Background Reading; Walker, 5.1-5.3 |
| Thursday, September 23 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, September 24 |
Exam 1, covers
Chapters 1--4, related homework assignments and related lecture material.
(in class) |
| Monday, September 27 |
Lecture Topic: Newton's
Laws, cont'd. |
| Background Reading; Walker, 5.4-5.7 |
| Wednesday, September 29 |
Lecture Topic: Newton's
Laws, cont'd. |
| Thursday, September 30 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, October 1 |
Lecture Topic: ILD #3;
Newton's First & Second Laws |
| Monday, October 4 |
Lecture Topic: Applications
of Newton's Laws |
| Background Reading; Walker, 6.1
- 6.4 |
| Wednesday, October 6 |
Lecture Topic: Applications
of Newton's Laws, cont'd.; Work & Energy |
| Background Reading; Walker, 6.4 - 6.5; 7.1,
7.2 |
| Thursday, October 7 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, October 8 |
Fall Break: No Class |
| Monday, October 11 |
Lecture Topic: Work and
Energy, cont. |
| Background Reading; Walker, 7.3, 7.4 |
| Wednesday, October 13 |
Lecture Topic: Work and
Energy, cont'd. Potential Energy |
| Background Reading; Walker, 8.1-8.3 |
| Thursday, October 14 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, October 15 |
Lecture Topic: Energy
Conservation; Introduction to Momentum |
| Background Reading; Walker, 8.4, 8.5, 9.1-9.4 |
| Monday, October 18 |
Lecture Topic: Linear
momentum, Collisions |
| Background Reading; Walker, 9.5 - 9.7 |
| Wednesday, October 20 |
Lecture Topic: Momentum cont'd
|
| Background Reading; Walker, |
| Thursday, October 21 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, October 22 |
Exam 2, covers Chapters 5-8, related
homework assignments and related lecture material. (in class) |
| Monday, October 25 |
Lecture Topic: Rotational
Motion |
| Background Reading; Walker, 10.1 - 10.3 |
| Wednesday, October 27 |
Lecture Topic: Rotational
Motion, cont'd. |
| Background Reading; Walker, 10.4 - 10.6 |
| Thursday, October 28 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, October 29 |
Lecture Topic: Rotational
Dynamics (Last day to withdraw from the course) |
| Background Reading; Walker, 11.1-11.4 |
| Monday, November 1 |
Lecture Topic: Rotational
Dynamics; Angular momentum |
| |
Background Reading; Walker, 11.5-11.7 |
| Wednesday, November 3 |
Lecture Topic: Rotational
work; Vectors in rotational motion |
| Background Reading; Walker, 11.8-11.9 |
| Thursday, November 4 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, November 5 |
Lecture Topic: Oscillations |
| Background Reading; Walker, 13.1 - 13.3 |
| Monday, November 8 |
Lecture Topic: Oscillations,
cont'd. mass/spring, pendulum |
| Background Reading; Walker, 13.4
- 13.6 |
| Wednesday,
November 10 |
Lecture Topic:
Damping and Resonance |
| Background Reading; Walker, 13.7 - 13.8 |
| Thursday, November 11 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, November 12 |
Lecture Topic: Waves
and Sound |
| Background Reading; Walker, 14.1, 14.2, 14.4,
14.5 |
| Monday, November 15 |
Lecture Topic: Waves
and Sound, cont'd. |
| Background Reading; Walker, 14.6
- 14.9 |
| Wednesday, November 17 |
Lecture Topic: Waves
and Sound, cont'd. |
| Thursday, November 18 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, November 19 |
Exam 3, covers
Chapters 9 -11 and related Homework and Lecture material,
(in class) |
| Monday, November 22 |
Lecture Topic: Universal Gravitation
|
| Background Reading; Walker, 12.1,
12.2 |
| Wednesday, November 24 |
Thanksgiving Break: no class |
| Thursday, November 25 |
Thanksgiving Break: no class |
| Friday, November 26 |
Thanksgiving Break: no class |
| Monday, November 29 |
Lecture Topic: Planetary
and Satellite motion |
| |
Background Reading; Walker, 12.3 - 12.5 |
| Wednesday, December 1 |
Lecture Topic: Planetary
and Satellite motion; continued |
| Thursday, December 2 |
Recitation: see homework
assignments |
| Friday, December 3 |
Lecture Topic: Fluids
at Rest |
| Background Reading; Walker, 15.1
- 15.5 |
| Monday , December 6 |
Lecture Topic: Fluids
in Motion |
| Background Reading; Walker, 15.6
- 15.8 |
| Wednesday, December 8
|
Lecture Topic: Catch
up, Review |
| Chapter 15 homework
assignments |
