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 | |
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6-11 | Review | |||
6-12 | Review | |||
6-15 | Final Exam, 8am | |
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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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