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Physics 1110, General Physics 1

Instructor: Steven Pollock

To accelerate an object, you must apply a force. The two reusable solid fuel rocket boosters, plus the 3 main engines (running on liquid H2 and O2) of NASA's space shuttle can provide a total upward force of over 32 million Newtons (that's 7.3 million pounds) at liftoff. Despite its dramatic and tragic failures, the space shuttle remains among the greatest, most sophisticated engineering accomplishments in the history of humanity, and a remarkable example of using little more than Newton's laws to control and predict astoundingly complex phenomena!

Week 4 Highlights: Forces and Newton's Laws.

This week, we're in Ch 5 of HRW, or, Thinkwell section 3 (Newton's laws)

Special notes:

First Midterm is coming up soon - Tues, Sept 23, 7:30-9 PM. See the "exams and grades" link on the left (bottom of middle list) for more information. You will be assigned to take the exam in a particular room based on your TA, you can find out where by going to that link.
I will hold an extra office hour Monday evening, 6-7 PM, (the day before the midterm) in G-125. (That's one floor HIGHER than the lecture halls). I won't prepare anything, it'll just be a last minute opportunity to ask questions, if you like. If nobody has any questions, we'll just end it early!
I'm changing my office hours to be available to more of you. On Wed my new help room hour will now be 3-4 PM. Mon is still 1-2 PM. Friday will be 2-2:30 PM for admin office hours (others, by app't) If none of these work for you, remember I'm also always available after class behind the stage as long as people have questions (i.e. MWF 10 AM, and again 12 noon, right after class). Then there's "virtual office hours" - email me! And, if NONE of those work, we can schedule appointments too!

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