All exams: 3-4 problems. You'll need paper and writing sticks
and you may use approved calculators (not needed usually)
Grades: approximately 25% hw
problems, 40% midterm exams, 35% final
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Aug 23 |
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Rules, Inertia and motion, and Newton's laws |
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Weight, Projectiles, Friction, Conservation laws |
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Aug 28 |
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Seesaws and can-openers |
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Torques, rotations, |
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Sept 4 |
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How much do you weigh? Home runs, fair rides |
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Hooke's law, collisions, vibration harmonics |
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Sept 11 |
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Bicycles, Space ships |
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Equilibrium, gravity, orbits |
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Sept 18 |
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Balloons, Water flow, Airplanes |
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Sept 25 |
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How to heat your home (and Orange County) |
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Heat, engines, entropy, phase transitions |
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Sept 27 |
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Exam on Chapters 1-4 |
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Oct 2 |
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Home heating and energy efficiency |
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An energy plan for the future |
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Oct 9 |
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Clocks, Violins |
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oscillations, resonance, harmonics |
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Oct 16 |
Fall Break == no class Friday |
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Oct 25 |
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Exam on Chapters 5-8 |
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Oct 23 |
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Tides and Waves |
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Interference, Diffraction and all that |
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Oct 30 |
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Flashlights and Photocopiers |
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Charge, voltage, current, Coulmb's Law, circuits |
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Nov 6 |
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Microwave Ovens and Radios |
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E&M waves, AM, FM, oscillations of molecules |
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Nov 13 |
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Rainbows, Lasers, LEDs |
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Refraction, dispersion, optical transitions |
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Nov 20 |
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Exam: 9-13 |
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Nov 20 |
15 |
Thanksgiving == no class Wednesday & Friday |
Thanksgiving |
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Nov 27 |
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Cameras & Televisions |
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lenses, CCDs |
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Dec 4 š |
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Medical imaging, Cat Scans, MRI |
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Nuclear weapons, Reviews |
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Dec 9 |
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Final Exam, 8am |
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Electronic version (and updates) available from http://www.physics.unc.edu/~sean/Phys100/syllabus.html