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.

Updated December 19, 2007

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

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

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