Spring 2009
Physics 1A
General Physics – Mechanics (Lecture)
Web page: http://1a.ucsd.edu/
INSTRUCTOR:
Prof. Avi Yagil
Office: 5512 Mayer Hall Addition
Office Hour: Monday 11:00-12:00pm
Phone: 858 534 9504
1A TEACHING ASSISTANT:
1a@physics.ucsd.edu
Agnieszka Cieplak
1a@physics.ucsd.edu
Office: 2702 Mayer Hall Addition
Office Hour: Wed 11:00-12:00
COURSE COORDINATOR: Patti Hey, 118 Urey Hall Addition, 822-1468,
plhey@physics.ucsd.edu
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Lectures:
MWF
08:00 – 08:50 AM
Quizzes:
Apr 17, May 1, May 15, May 29
Problem Sessions:
Th
Final Exam:
Friday, June 12, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m., TBA
1700 – 1850
WLH 2001
Ledden Aud. 216
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.
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.
Tentative 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/spring2009/
NOTE: THIS IS A SEPARATE COURSE!!!
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 (Apr 17, May 1,
May 15, May 29). 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 quizcode numbers.
Grading Policy:
Quizzes
60% (Determined by your top three 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
Friday, April 10
Friday, April 24
Friday, May 29
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 2702 Mayer Hall Addition) is also open
Sunday-Thursday from 3-8 p.m.
Academic Dishonesty:
Please read “UC Policy on Integrity of Scholarship” in the UCSD
General Catalog.
PHYSICS 1A TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE
Week Date
Topics
Lecture
1
Mar 30
Apr 1
Apr 3
M
W
F
Logistics, Introduction
Units, estimation, Dimensional Analysis
1D Motion with Constant Acceleration
1A
1B
2A
2
Apr 6
Apr 8
Apr 10
M
W
F
Free fall under gravity
Vectors, 2D Motion
Relative Velocity/ Projectile Motion
2B
3A
3B
3
Apr 13
Apr 15
Apr 17
M
W
F
Force, Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws
Applications of Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws
Quiz 1 (Ch 1, 2 & 3)
4A
4B
4
Apr 20
Apr 22
Apr 24
M
W
F
Newton’s 3rd Law
Applications of Newton’s Laws and ILD
Work, Kinetic Energy; Work Energy Theorem
4C
4D
5A
5
Apr 27
Apr 29
May 1
M
W
F
Potential Energy, Conservative Forces
Conservation of Energy
Quiz 2 (Ch 4)
5B
5C
6
May 4
May 6
May 8
M
W
F
Momentum and Impulse
Conservation of momentum
Collisions
6A
6B
6C
7
May 11
May 13
May 15
M
W
F
Rotational Motion
Gravity
Quiz 3 (Ch 5 & 6)
7A
7B
8
May 18
May 20
May 22
M
W
F
Orbital Motion
Torque and Equilibrium
Moment of Inertia
7C
8A
8B
9
May 25
May 27
May 29
M
W
F
Memorial Day Holiday
Center of Gravity
Quiz 4 (Ch 7 & 8)
8C
Jun 1
Jun 3
Jun 5
M
W
F
States of Matter; Archimedes Principle
Fluids in Motion; Bernoulli’s Eqn.
Class Review
9A
9B
10