UNC-CH P&A Classes Physics and Astronomy

Physics 116 Mechanics

Text: Fundamentals of Physics I Haliday, Resnick, and Walker (7/e)
Supplementary: Ford, Feynman, etc (reserved in Brauer)
As always, the best source of practice problems is in the Schaum's Outine series: College Physics for this course.

All exams will contain 4 to 5 problems and you will be allowed to use a single, hand-written sheet with formulas, etc
Classroom Grades: approximately 10% HW problems, 50% midterms, 40% final exam
Course Grades: Nominally 80% Classroom grade and 20% Lab grade (this ratio might float a little but never lower than 75:25)

There will be no credit awarded for HW turned in after 9:45 of the due date (by my watch and calendar).

Needful mathematical skills:
(1) second order ordinary differential equations
(2) integral and differential calculus on several variables


Date chapter topics, main themes covered in lectures problems due at 9:45 Lab Exercise
5-12 1,2 Measurements, Errors, One-dimensional motion
5-13 2, 3 Motion, Vectors 2: Q3, Q6, P10, P13, P32, P48, P78
5-14 3, 4 Kinematics, Uniform Circular motion 3: Q1, Q4, P7, P25, P35, P77 -----------
5-15 4, 5
Force, Newton's Laws, the EoM 4: Q2, Q9, P11, P15, P27, P28
5-18 5 More EoM examples 4: Q11, P43, P53, P61. 5: Q5, Q6
5-19 5, 6 Static Equilibrium, gravity UCM revisited 5: Q11, P9, P26, P29, P39, P49, P56 -----------------
5-20 -- Review for test
5-21 1-4 Test 1
5-22 7, 8 Conservation of Energy and Work 6: Q2, Q10, P15, P21, P31, P45, P51
5-26 8, 9 Impulse, Conservation of momentum, Center of Mass 7: Q4, Q5, P5, P10, P23, P34, P44, P48
5-27 9, 10 Rotational Kinematics, Moment of Inertia 8: Q3, Q9, P7, P22, P29, P36, P43, P61 ------------
5-28 11, 12 Angular momentum, Torque; Statics, Elasticity 9: P4, P17, P44, P63, P69; 10: Q4, P13
5-29 12 Review 10: P29, P40, P47, P55; 11: Q6, P12, P20, P28
6-1 5-9 Test 2
6-2
12, 13 Statics; Gravity of extended body (Gauss's Law) 11: P32, P59; 12: Q3, P24, P30, P40, P42 -------------
6-3 13, 14 Gravity, Kepler problem (GR-lite); Fluids 13: Q4, P9, P22, P37, P49, P59
6-4 14, 15 Fluids, Bernoulli, Navier-Stokes, Oscillators 14: Q5, P16, P23, P34, P39, P54; 15: Q10
6-5 15, 16 Simple Harmonic Oscillator, Waves 15: P24, P37, P49, P56; 16: Q1, Q10
6-8 16, 17 Waves, Interference, Doppler 16: P22, P25, P47; 17: Q7, Q9 ----------
6-9 Review 17: P15, P29, P40, P48, P54 ----------
6-10 10-15 Test 3
6-11 Review
6-12 Review
6-15 Final Exam, 8am

Solving physics problems is a creative activity at its best, not a rote process of following instructions

Here are some tutorial applets that illustrate concepts relevant to course topics from Ohanian and Markert . Univ Colorado PHET project .
Also here is a lesson on how to read Vernier caliper scales in the lab.


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