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| PHY 1114 - GENERAL PHYSICS I | FALL SEMESTER 2005 | ||||
| DATE | LECTURE TOPIC | TEXT READING | HOMEWORK | ||
| Mon | Aug 22 | ntroduction, Units and Measurement | 1.1 - 1.4 | ||
| Wed | Aug 24 | Vectors | 1.4 - 1.8 | ||
| Fri | Aug 26 | Velocity and Acceleration | 2.1 - 2.3, 2,7 | ||
| Mon | Aug 29 | Conatant Acceleration | 2.4 - 2.5 | HW #0 DUE | |
| Wed | Aug 31 | Freely Falling Bodies | 2.6 | HW #1 DUE | |
| Fri | Sep 2 | Projectile Motion | 3.1 - 3.3 | ||
| Mon | Sep 5 | NO CLASS- LABOR DAY HOLIDAY | |||
| Wed | Sep 7 | Relative Velocity | 3.4 | HW #2 DUE | |
| Fri | Sep 9 | Newton's 1st and 2nd Laws | 4.1 - 4.4 | ||
| Mon | Sep 12 | Newton's 3rd Law and Forces | 4.5 - 4.8, 4.10 | ||
| Wed | Sep 14 | Friction | 4.9 | HW #3 DUE | |
| Fri | Sep 16 | EXAM #1 (Over Chapters 1, 2, 3) | |||
| Mon | Sep 19 | Using Newton's Laws | 4.11 - 4.12 | ||
| Wed | Sep 21 | Uniform Circular Motion and Centripetal Force | 5.1 - 5.3 | HW #4 DUE | |
| Fri | Sep 23 | Applications of Centripetal Forces | 5.4 - 5.7 | ||
| Mon | Sep 26 | Work and Kinetic Energy | 6.1 - 6.2, 6.9 | ||
| Wed | Sep 28 | Conservative Forces and Potential Energy | 6.3 - 6.4 | HW #5 DUE | |
| Fri | Sep 30 | Conservation of Energy | 6.5 - 6.6, 6.8 | ||
| Mon | Oct 3 | Energy and Power | 6.7 | ||
| Wed | Oct 5 | Impulse and Momentum | 7.1 | HW #6 DUE | |
| Fri | Oct 7 | Conservation of Momentum | 7.2 | ||
| Mon | Oct 10 | Collisions | 7.3 - 7.4 | ||
| Wed | Oct 12 | Center of Mass | 7.5 | HW #7 DUE | |
| Fri | Oct 14 | EXAM #2 (Over Chapters 4, 5, 6) | |||
| Mon | Oct 17 | Rotational Motion | 8.1 - 8.2 | ||
| Wed | Oct 19 | Rotational Kinematics | 8.3 | HW #8 DUE | |
| Fri | Oct 21 | NO CLASS - FALL BREAK | |||
| Mon | Oct 24 | Angular Variables and Tangential Variables | 8.4 - 8.6 | ||
| Wed | Oct 26 | Torque and Equilibrium of Rigid Body | 9.1 - 9.3 | HW #9 DUE | |
| Fri | Oct 28 | Rotational Dynamics | 9.4 | ||
| Mon | Oct 31 | Rotational Work and Energy | 9.5 | ||
| Wed | Nov 2 | Angular Momentum | 9.6 | HW #10 DUE | |
| Fri | Nov 4 | Elasticity | 10.1 - 10.2 | ||
| Mon | Nov 7 | Ideal Springs and SHM | 10.3 - 10.4 | ||
| Wed | Nov 9 | Energy of Springs and SHM | 10.5 | HW #11 DUE | |
| Fri | Nov 11 | EXAM #3 (Over Chapters 7, 8, 9) | |||
| Mon | Nov 14 | Fluids and Pressure | 11.1 - 11-5 | ||
| Wed | Nov 16 | Buoyancy and Archimedes Principle | 11.6 | HW #12 DUE | |
| Fri | Nov 18 | Fluids in Motion | 11.7- - 11.10 | ||
| Mon | Nov 21 | Temperature and Thermal Expansion | 12.1 - 12.5 | ||
| Wed | Nov 23 | NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY | HW #13 DUE | ||
| Fri | Nov 25 | NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY | |||
| Mon | Nov 28 | Ideal Gases | 14.1 - 14.2 | ||
| Wed | Nov 30 | Kinetic Theory of Ideal Gas | 14.3 | HW #14 DUE | |
| Fri | Dec 2 | Thermodynamic Processes | 15.1 - 15.6 | ||
| Mon | Dec 5 | Heat Engines and Refrigerators, 2nd Law of Thermodynamics | 15.7 - 15.10 | ||
| Wed | Dec 7 | Waves and Wave Interference | 16.1 - 16.2 and 17.1 - 17.3 | HW #15 DUE | |
| Fri | Dec 9 | Beats and Standing Waves | 17.4 - 17.6 | ||
| Wed | Dec 14 | FINAL EXAM (9:00 - 10:50) | |||
| Part 1 (Chapters 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) | |||||
| Part 2 (Chapters 1 – 10) | |||||