DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS Physics 1A January 5, 2009 General Physics – Mechanics (Lecture) Winter 2009 Web page: http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/winter2009/physics1a/ INSTRUCTOR: 1A Prof. Frank Wuerthwein fkw@ucsd.edu Office: 5515 Mayer Hall Office Hour: Monday 2:30-3:30pm Phone: 858 822 3219 (send email instead of phone!) COURSE COORDINATOR: Patti Hey, 118 Urey Hall Addition, 822-1468, plhey@physics.ucsd.edu 1A TEACHING ASSISTANT: 1A Agnieszka Cieplak acieplak@ucsd.edu Office: 2102 Mayer Hall Office Hour: TBA CLASS SCHEDULE: Lectures: 1A MWF Quizzes: Fri., Jan. 23rd Mon., Feb. 2nd Fri., Feb. 13th Fri., Feb. 27th Mon., Mar. 9th Problem Sessions: Th Final Exam: 1A TBA 1:00 – 1:50 PM WLH 2001 TBA Friday, March 20, 11:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m., location TBA Final Examination: The final examination will cover all of the material of the course. Please check your final exam schedule and inform the instructor of any conflicts within the first two weeks of the quarter. TEXT: Serway and Faughn, College Physics, 7th Edition, Vol. 1, Thomson/Brooks/Cole PREREQUISITES: Math 10A, concurrent in 10B or 20A. Trigonometry, vectors, and calculus will be used in lectures, problem sets and exams. Help Is Available: Problem sessions will be held on TBA evening. At these sessions, problems will be worked out and the weekly lectures gone over. Attendance is voluntary, but students are encouraged to use these meetings to help master course material and prepare for quizzes. Individual assistance is available during office hours. The Physics Dept. tutorial center (location 2102 Mayer Hall) is also open SundayThursday from 3-8 p.m. COURSE FORMAT: Physics 1 A-B-C is a lecture course covering mechanics, electricity and magnetism, waves and modern physics. This sequence is not suitable for students majoring in Physics, MAE, ECE or CSE. Other majors should check with their departments for the appropriate sequence. Physics 1A deals with Newtonian mechanics. The course schedule follows. A laboratory meeting each week will give hands-on experience of the physical concepts dealt with in the course. Concurrent enrollment in the 1A lab is required. Lab information can be found at: http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/winter2009/. Homework Assignments: Problem sets are assigned as selections from each text chapter. Solutions will be available on the course web site. The problems will be worked in detail during the problem session. The homework will not be graded, but exam problems may resemble homework that is assigned. Quizzes: Problem quizzes will be given beginning the 3rd week (Jan. 23rd, Feb. 2nd, Feb. 13th, Feb. 27th and Mar. 9th). Your lowest quiz score will be dropped. There will be no make-up quizzes. You must purchase your own scantron form for quizzes (No. X101864-PAR). They are available at the Bookstore and the general store co-op for $0.15 each. You will need a No. 2 pencil to fill in the scantron. At the first quiz you will be assigned a quiz code number. This number is yours for the rest of the quarter. You have to put your proper quiz code number on every quiz and the final. When results of exams are posted on-line, they will be listed by quiz code number. Grading Policy: Quizzes 60% (Determined by your top four quiz scores) Final Exam 40% Add/Drop: Use WebReg to add/change/drop, drop from waitlists. See Sharmila Poddar (534-3290; <spoddar@physics.ucsd.edu>) in the Physics Department, Student Affairs Office, Urey Hall Addition, Room 115, if you have any problems with WebReg. If you need advice, see the TA or the instructor, but they do not sign any cards. Add/Drop Deadlines: Add Drop without ‘W’ on transcript Drop with ‘W’ on transcript Academic Dishonesty: Friday, January 19th Friday, February 2nd Friday, March 9th Please read “UC Policy on Integrity of Scholarship” in the UCSD General Catalog. PHYSICS 1A TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE Week Date Topics Lecture 1 Jan. 5 Jan. 6 Jan. 9 M W F Introduction, Units Introduction, Units 1D Motion with Constant Acceleration 1A 1B 2A 2 Jan. 12 Jan. 14 Jan. 16 M W F Free fall under gravity Vector, 2D Motion Relative Velocity/ Projectile Motion 2B 3A 3B 3 Jan. 19 Jan. 21 Jan. 23 M W F UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY Force, Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws Quiz 1 (Ch 1,2, & 3) 4A 4 Jan. 26 Jan. 28 Jan. 30 M W F Applications of Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws Newton’s 3rd Law Applications of Newton’s Laws and ILD 4B 4C 4D 5 Feb. 2 Feb. 4 Feb. 6 M W F Quiz 2 (Ch 4) Work, Kinetic Energy; Work Energy Theorem Potential Energy, Conservative Forces 5A 5B 6 Feb. 9 Feb. 11 Feb. 13 M W F Conservation of Energy Momentum and Impulse Quiz 3 (Ch 5) 7 Feb. 16 Feb. 18 Feb. 20 M W F UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY Conservation of momentum Collisions 8 Feb. 23 Feb. 25 Feb. 27 M W F Rotational Motion Gravity; Orbital Motion Quiz 4 (Ch 6) 7A 7B 9 Mar. 2 Mar. 4 Mar. 6 M W F Torque and Equilibrium Center of Gravity States of Matter; Archimedes Principle 8A 8B 9A 10 Mar. 9 Mar. 11 Mar. 13 M W F Quiz 5 (Ch 7 & 8) Fluids in Motion; Bernoulli’s Eqn. Class Review 9B 5C 6A 6B 6C