Welcome to APSC 111 – Physics I
Sections M,N,O,P,Q,3,4
Instructor: Tony Noble
Stirling Hall 304C
potato@snolab.ca
Lectures:
Fri 8:30-9:30 !!
Tues 9:30-10:30
Mon 11:30-12:30
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APSC 111 – Physics I
Important Information:
Course website at https://moodle.queensu.ca/
(This is where you should look for all information related to the course.)
Main Events:
Every Sunday
On-line assignments due by 10 PM! (12 altogether)
Mid-term Exam
Wednesday, Oct. 13th 7-9 PM
Mid-term Exam
Wednesday, Nov. 10th 7-9 PM
Final Exam
To be determined by University Services
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APSC 111 – Physics I
Grades:
• Online Assignments
7%
• Class Participation
3%
• Mechanics Background Quiz
2%
• Mid-Term Exam I
19%
• Mid-Term Exam II
19%
• Final Exam
50%
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Course text and material:
1. Required: "Fundamentals of Physics" by Halliday, Resnick, and
Walker, 9th Edition.
2. Required: "MasteringPhysics Access Code (see below).
3. Required: "TurningPoint Clicker (see below).
4. Required: "APSC 111 Course Manual" available on Moodle
website (Sample problems for review of material)
5. Required: Complete the online Mechanics Background
quiz…once at the start of the course, once at the end of the
course. You are not marked on the answers, but get 2% credit for
participation. This helps with the accreditation of your program.
6. Lecture notes: will be posted online at the Moodle site. (under
instructors name)
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Online Assignments
• Due each Sunday at 10 PM
• First one due Sunday September 19th (vectors)
→ go to www.masteringphysics.com,
• Resister for the online assignments using access code (Use
access code purchased at Bookstore. This is a better rate than
what is available online… negotiated for this class.)
• e-mail address: ajn01@queensu.ca
• student number: 7654321
• Course ID:
Important to get format right !!
APSC111MGB
• Should start with “Introduction to Mastering Physics” (this
will teach you how to enter answers properly)
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EXAMS
• No books or notes for examinations!
• Formula sheet will be provided in advance
• Best recipe for success is to make sure you
understand the conceptual ideas, and practice,
practice, practice to make sure you can apply
concepts. (Tutorials and assignments also give
you practice … that is their main function)
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Mid-term Exam I
• Wednesday, October 13th, 7:00-9:00 PM
(typically this is in multiple choice format, and covers the material
covered to date…within reason)
Mid-term Exam II
• Wednesday, November 10th, 7:00-9:00 PM
(typically this is a number of problems on all the material covered to date…within
reason)
Dates are tentative…!
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Tutorials
• Tutorials start in week 3; Questions will be assigned on Moodle site.
• Typically, at most 3 of the questions will be the topic of each tutorial. The
remaining questions should be regarded as homework. Tutorial questions
are NOT marked, but you are encouraged to attempt all problems.
• Solutions to each week's tutorial problems will be posted on Moodle over
the weekend following the tutorial.
• The most benefit from the tutorials is obtained when students attempt the
questions before hand, at least at a rudimentary level.
• Please bring list of questions to the tutorial, plus formula sheet, and
questions for the TA.
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Tutorial sections:
• please attend your assigned section!
• If there is room you can occasionally attend a
different section (same problems covered)
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“Clickers”
• We are using TurningPoint Clickers. These are the same
clickers as for your calculus course. You only need to buy one.
•
NOT iClickers (which are used more in the life sciences.)
• Clickers will be used to provide feedback on understanding of
key concepts (as a group, not for individual students)
• You are NOT graded on clicker answers!
• You are graded on participation.
• For full marks must respond to most questions in at least
80% of lectures
• See Moodle site for instructions on how to register your
clicker for APSC111
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We will use channel 41
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Where would you
find this famous
potato?
75%
1.
2.
3.
4.
MooseJaw Saskatchewan
Harvey New Brunswick
Medicine Hat Alberta.
Potato Town, Swerford UK
9%
1
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7%
2
3
10%
4
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“Mechanics Background Survey”
During the first weeks of class you will be asked to complete a brief online quiz
that will be used to assess your current knowledge of the course material,
and,
that will later be used to assess learning in the course. Your mark on this quiz
does not affect your course mark, but you will receive 2% for participation.
Information will be provided soon…we will announce when it is
open initially (and over what period). Watch Moodle for
information.
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Course Outline
1. Measurement & Vectors
2. Kinematics
3. Dynamics
4. Work and Energy
5. Linear Momentum and
collisions
6. Rotational Dynamics
7. Static Equilibrium
(Chapt 1, 3)
(Chapt 4, 5)
(Chapt 5, 6)
(Chapt 7,8)
(Chapt 9)
(~2 lectures)
(~4-5 lectures)
(~6 lectures)
(~6 lectures)
(~6 lectures)
(Chapt 10,11) (~7 lectures)
(Chapt 12)
(~4 lectures)
Oscillations & Waves no longer covered in APSC 111 … moved into APSC 112
Rotational Dynamics now covered in APSC 111 … moved out of APSC 112
Be careful when looking at old exams !
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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
(see www.queensu.ca/academicintegrity)
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Vectors
Please read Chapter 1 and 2 for very basic material we assume you are familiar
with…(units, descriptions of displacement, velocity, acceleration etc.)
This lecture covers the material of chapter 3 sections 3.1 to 3.8. Not everything
can be done in class, and this is expected to be a bit of a review. Please read
those sections.
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Vectors and Scalars:
• Addition of Vectors—Graphical Methods
• Subtraction of Vectors, and Multiplication of a
Vector by a Scalar
• Adding Vectors by Components
• Unit Vectors
• Scalar and Vector products
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Vectors and Scalars
A vector has magnitude as
well as direction.
Some vector quantities:
displacement, velocity, force,
momentum
A scalar has only a magnitude.
Some scalar quantities: mass,
time, temperature

Vector quantity specified as v

(magnitude is v = | v |)
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Addition of Vectors—Graphical Methods
For vectors in one
dimension, simple
addition and subtraction
are all that is needed.
You do need to be careful
about the signs, as the
figure indicates.
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Addition of Vectors—Graphical Methods
If the motion is in two dimensions, the situation is
somewhat more complicated.
Here, the actual travel paths are at right angles to
one another; we can find the displacement by
using the Pythagorean Theorem.
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