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