Week
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Date
Reading Assignment/Topics
24 Aug
Chapters 1 - 2 / Intro to Course and Physics
26 Aug
How to solve problems/units/build intuition
28 Aug
Ch 2: Description of motion
31 Aug HW#1 Ch 2: Intro to vectors and Newton's First Law
2 Sep
Ch 3: Constant motion in a straight line
4 Sep HW#2 Ch 3: Acceleration in a straight line or a circle
7 Sep
Labor Day
9 Sep
Ch 4: Newton's 2nd Law of Motion
11 Sep HW#3 Ch 4: Sliding down an inclined plane
14 Sep
Ch 5: Newton's Third Law
16 Sep HW#4 Ch 4&5: Newton's Laws of Motion
18 Sep
Test 1 in class
21 Sep
Ch 6: Momentum
23 Sep HW#5 Ch 6: Impulse
25 Sep
Ch 6: Collisions
28 Sep HW#6 Ch 7: Energy and work
30 Sep HW#7 Ch 7: Potential energy
2 Oct
Ch 7: Kinetic energy
5 Oct
Test 2 in class
7 Oct
Ch 8: Rotational motion I
9 Oct
Ch 8: Rotational motion II
12 Oct HW#8 Ch 8: Angular momentum
14 Oct
Ch 9: Newtonian Gravity
16 Oct
Ch 9: Newtonian Gravity
19 Oct HW#9 Ch 9: Newtonian Gravity
21 Oct
Ch 10: Projectile motion
23 Oct
Ch 10: Black holes & cosmology (not covered on test #3!)
26 Oct
Ch 10: Satellite motion
Test #3
28 Oct
Test 3
Has been
30 Oct
Ch 19: Waves and vibrations
Moved to
2 Nov
Ch 19: Wave speed and interference
28-Oct
4 Nov
Ch 19: Doppler effect and bow waves
6 Nov
Homecoming Holiday
9 Nov
Ch 20: Sound
11 Nov
Veteran's Day
13 Nov
Ch 20: Resonance, interference and beats
16 Nov
Test 4, in class
18 Nov
Ch 22: Electrostatics
20 Nov
Ch 22: Coulomb's Law
23 Nov
Ch 22: Electric field and potential
25 Nov
Thanksgiving Holiday
27 Nov
Thanksgiving Holiday
30 Nov
Ch 23: Electricity and Magnetism
2 Dec
Ch 23: Simple circuits
4 Dec
Ch 23: Simple circuits
7 Dec
Test 5, in class
9 Dec
Review of entire semester
16 Dec
Final exam 3:00pm - 5:00pm in the usual classroom