PHY211 - General Physics I
Calendar
- Week 1
Tuesday August 26: Lecture #1.1 Course overview, motion in 1D
(Reading: none)
Wednesday August 27: Workshop #1.1 Velocity
(Homework due:none)
Thursday August 28: Lecture #1.2 Kinematics and graphs
(Reading:2.1-2.3)
Friday August 29: Workshop #1.2 Motion with graphs
- Week 2
Tuesday September 2: Lecture #2.1 Kinematics, constant acceleration
(Reading: 1.7-1.9)
Wednesday September 3: Workshop #2.1 Acceleration in 1D
(Homework due:HW 1)
Thursday September 4: Lecture #2.2 Vectors, vector components
(Reading: 2.4-2.6)
Friday September 5:Workshop #2.2 Practice with vectors
(Homework due:MPHW 1)
- Week 3
Tuesday September 9: Lecture #3.1 Vectors in 2D motion
(Reading: 3.1-3.2)
Wednesday September 10:Workshop #3.1 Motion in 2D
(Homework due: HW 2)
Thursday September 11: Lecture #3.2 Motion in 2D
(Reading: 3.3-3.4)
Friday September 12: Workshop #3.2 Problems in 2D
- Week 4
Tuesday September 16:Lecture #4.1 Relative Motion
(Reading: 3.5)
Wednesday September 17: Workshop #4.1 Kinematics review
(Homework due: HW 3)
Thursday September 18: Exam 1
(Reading: review)
Friday September 19: Workshop #4.2 Frames of reference
(Homework due: MPHW 2)
- Week 5
Tuesday September 23: Lecture #5.1 Forces, Newton's laws
(Reading: 4.1-4.3)
Wednesday September 24: Workshop #5.1 Forces
(Homework due: HW 4)
Thursday September 25: Lecture #5.2 Newton's third law
(Reading: 4.5-4.6)
Friday September 26: Workshop #5.2 Applications of Newton's laws (1)
- Week 6
Tuesday September 30: Lecture #6.1 Weight and friction
(Reading:4.4,5.1-5.3)
Wednesday October 1: Workshop #6.1 Newton's 2nd and 3rd law
(Homework due: HW 5)
Thursday October 2: Lecture #6.2 Tension, circular motion
(Reading 5.4)
Friday October 3: Workshop #6.2 Applications of Newton's laws (2)
(Homework due: MPHW 3)
- Week 7
Tuesday October 7: Lecture #7.1 Work, scalar product
(Reading: 6.1-6.2)
Wednesday October 8: Workshop #7.1 Work and the W-KE theorem
(Homework due: HW 6)
Thursday October 9: Lecture #7.2 Power, potential energy
(Reading: 6.3-6.4)
Friday October 10: Autumn break - no classes
- Week 8
Tuesday October 14: Lecture #8.1 Mechanical energy
(Reading:7.1-7.3)
Wednesday October 15:Workshop #8.1 Work and Applications of W-KE Thm.
(Homework due: HW 7)
Thursday October 16: Exam 2
(Reading: review)
Friday October 17: Workshop #8.2 Conservation of energy
(Homework due: MPHW 4)
- Week 9
Tuesday October 21: Lecture #9.1 Impulse and momentum
(Reading:8.1-8.2)
Wednesday October 22: Workshop #9.1 Conservation of momentum
(Homework due: HW 8)
Thursday October 23: Lecture #9.2 Collisions
(Reading: 8.3-8.4)
Friday October 24: Workshop #9.2 Applications of conservation laws
- Week 10
Tuesday October 28: Lecture #10.1 Extended objects, center of mass
(Reading: 8.5,10.1)
Wednesday October 29: Workshop #10.1 Equilibrium of rigid bodies
(Homework due: HW 9)
Thursday October 30: Lecture #10.2 Rigid body equilibrium, torque, rotation
(Reading: 9.1-9.3)
Friday October 31: Workshop #10.2 Rotational Motion
(Homework due: MPHW 5)
- Week 11
Tuesday November 4: Lecture #11.1 Torque, angular acceleration and energy
(Reading: 10.2-10.4)
Wednesday November 5: Workshop #11.1 Problems on torque and rotational
energy
(Homework due: HW 10)
Thursday November 6: Lecture #11.2 Rolling and Angular momentum
(Reading: 10.5,10.6)
Friday November 7: Workshop #11.2 Problems on rolling
- Week 12
Tuesday November 11: Lecture #12.1 Periodic Motion
(Reading: 13.1-13.3)
Wednesday November 12: Workshop #12.1 Revision - Practice Exams for Exam 3
(Homework due: HW 11)
Thursday November 13: Exam 3
(Reading:review)
Friday November 14: Workshop #12.2 Problems on oscillations
(Homework due: MPHW 6)
- Week 13
Tuesday November 18: Lecture #13.1 Waves
(Reading: 15.1-15.3)
Wednesday November 19: Workshop #13.1 Problems on waves
(Homework due: none)
Thursday November 20: Lecture #13.2 Special Relativity, distance in spacetime
(Reading: none)
Friday November 21: Workshop #13.2
Spacetime diagrams
- Week 14
Tuesday November 25: Lecture #14.1 Newtonian gravity
(Reading: 12.1-12.3)
Wednesday November 26 -- Friday November 27 - Thanksgiving - no classes
- Week 15
Tuesday December 2: Lecture #15.1 Time dilation, twin paradox
(Reading: none)
Wednesday December 3: Workshop #15.1 Time dilation
(Homework due: HW 12)
Thursday December 4: Lecture #15.2 Relativistic Mechanics
(Reading: none)
Friday December 5: Workshop #15.2 relativisitic mechanics
(Homework due: MPHW 7)
Final: Friday 12 December 2:45pm -- 4.45 pm
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