Course Schedule

Here is an outline of the expected structure of the course. While this is based on what happened last year it is really only a guess about this year. It is likely to be about as reliable as a weather forcast: quite accurate at the beginning and steadily less and less and reliable the further you look to the future. This is less true of the labs because we keep the labs in Physics 100 and Physics 200 in sync with each other because both courses share the same labs.

Week: Topics Readings Laboratory
1: 8/27 Measurement, 1-D Kinematics 1:1-8, 2:1-8 Measuring Data
2: Kinematics in 2-D 3:1-8 Motion I
3: Newton's Laws of Motion 4:1-6 Motion II
4: Newton Contd. & Circular Motion 4:7-9, 5:1-3 Projectile Motion
5: Gravitation, Orbital Motion 5:4-10 Cavendish Experiment
6: Work and Energy 6:1-7 Mass on a Spring/Energy
7: Energy Conservation, Momentum 6:8-10, 7:1-3 Mid-term Exam I
8: FB10/15-17 Momentum. Collisions, Centre of Mass 7:4-10 No Lab
9: Rotational Motion about a Fixed Axis 8:1-8 Ballistic Pendulum
10: Statics, Equilibrium, and Fluids 9:1-4, 10:1-4 Rotation
11: Seth @ PI Fluids, Pressure, and Flow 10:5-14 Fluids I
12: Vibrations and Waves, Maybe a hint of sound 11:1-15 Mid-Term Exam II
13: 11/20 TB Thermodynamics I: Temperature and Kinetics 13:1-10 No Lab
14: Thermodynamics II: Heat and Heat Transfer 14:1-8 Thermo I
15: Thermodynamics III: The Laws and Heat Engines 15:1-9 Thermo II
12/15
Final Exam 2-5pm.

NOTES: FB = Fall Break, TB = Thanksgiving Break, PI is Perimeter Institute

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