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Brief summary of lectures and readings | ||
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| Lecture 1: (and in-class questions ) Mon, Aug 25, 2003 |
Discussion of
administrative stuff.
What is physics 1110 about? | For next time, be sure to look at HRW Ch 1 and/or Thinkwell 1.2: we won't cover it explicitly in class, but it's assumed as background. New: Read the syllabus , and read HRW Ch.2.1-2.4 and/or Thinkwell 2.1.1-4 ("investigating 1-D motion"). |
| Lecture 2: (and in-class questions ) Wed, Aug 27, 2003 | Start of 1-D kinematics: Position, distance, displacement, average speed and velocity, and instantaneous speed and velocity. | For next time, read: HRW 2.5-2.6, and/or rest of Thinkwell 2.1 ("investigating 1-D motion") |
| Lecture 3: (and in-class questions ) Fri, Aug 29, 2003 | Acceleration, and equations of motion. | For next, read HRW 2.8 (2.7 is optional) and watch Thinkwell 1-D motion with const accel" (2.2.1-3) (If you haven't watched Thinkwell yet - please do it this time. Usually, it's "and/or", but this time I'd like you to do both: T-well and HRW.) |
| Labor Day holiday | Enjoy your break. | (We'll be continuing with 1-d kinematics on Wed) |
| Lecture 4: (and in-class questions ) Wed Sept 3, 2003 | Kinematics with constant a, gravity. | For next, Read HRW 3.1-3, and/or T-well:1.3.1 and 2 ("Vectors", from the intro part) |
| Lecture 5: (and in-class questions ) Fri Sept 5, 2003 | Finish up 1-d kinematics, intro to vectors. | For next, read HRW 3.4-3.6 and 4.2, and/or T-well 2.3.1-3, "Describing motion in 2 and 3-d" |
| Lecture 6: (and in-class questions ) Mon Sept 8, 2003 | More on vectors, and unit vectors. Intro to 2-d kinematics. | For next, read HRW 4.3-4.5, and/or T-well 2.4.1-2 "Investigating motion in 2-D" You should skip the "physics in action" (demos), here and throughout! |
| Lecture 7: (and in-class questions ) Wed Sept 10, 2003 | Intro to 2-D and Projectile motion | For next, read HRW 4.6-7 (you can skip the "proof" on p 61 if you want) and/or T-well 2.5 ("Uniform Circular motion") |
| Lecture 8: (and in-class questions ) Fri Sept 12, 2003 | More on projectile motion. | For next, read HRW 5.1-4 and/or T-well 3.1-3 ( Newton's laws) (You needn't bother with "Physics in Action" demo videos ) |
| Lecture 9: (and in-class questions ) Mon Sept 15, 2003 | Finishing up projectiles and Circular motion. Intro to Newton's laws, N-I, mass. | For next, read HRW 5.5-5.6 Thinkwell 3.1.4-5 (Weight, and Newton's third law, but as usual not Physics in Action) |
| Lecture 10: (and in-class questions ) Wed Sept 17, 2003 | Newton's laws | For next read HRW 5.7-5.8, Thinkwell 3.2.1-3 ("Applications of Newton's 3 laws") |
| Lecture 11: (and in-class questions ) Fri Sept 19, 2003 | Newton's laws. | For next, Catch up!! (But, you should read through HRW 6.1 by next Wed.) T-well Catch up!! (But, watch 3.3.1 by next Wed.) |
| Lecture 12: (and in-class questions ) Mon Sept 22, 2003 | Newton's third law, and Applications of Newton's laws. | For next, no new reading - Exam on Tuesday! |
| Lecture 13: (and in-class questions ) Wed Sept 24, 2003 | Applications of Newton's laws | For next: read HRW 6.1 (if you didn't already), and 6.2. (You'll need the formula 6-2 for tutorial tomorrow!) We will skip 6.3 (just read it if you're interested) You could get started on 6.4 , but it's a little long, we'll cover it over the next two lectures. Thinkwell 3.3.2 ("The forces of friction") and 3.4.1 (Starting "Dynamics of circular motion") |
| Lecture 14: (and in-class questions ) Fri Sept 26, 2003 | Yet more applications of Newton's laws, including friction | For next: read HRW 6.4, and/or T-well 3.4.1 ("Dynamics of circular motion"), |
| Lecture 15: (and in-class questions ) Mon Sep. 29, 2003 | Dynamics of circular motion. | For next: Read HRW 7.1-3 and/or T-well 4.1.1-4 ("Work") |
| Lecture 16: (and in-class questions ) Wed Oct 1, 2003 | Finish up Ch.6. | NOTE: No tutorial, no class Thurs/Fri. (Fall break!) Catch up (or get ahead!) in your readings if you can, i.e 7.1-7.3, or T-well 4.1.1-4. We'll continue on in Ch 7 after the break. (Reading through HRW 7.4 would be useful!) |
| Fall break | Enjoy your break. | Catch up time! We'll be moving fairly rapidly through Ch 7 after the break. For Monday, try to be caught up through 7.3, or T-well 4.1.4. |
| Lecture 17: (and in-class questions ) Mon, Oct 6, 2003 | Work, and the work-KE theorem. | For next read HRW 7.4,7.5 and 7.7 (you can skip 7.6 if you want - we'll talk about the idea in class, see lecture notes too) or T-Well 4.2.1-4 ("Work, KE, and power") (Also, look at p. 41 of HRW, or T-well 1.4.1, if you don't know about dot products!) |
| Lecture 18: (and in-class questions ) Wed Oct 8, 2003 | Springs, work by variable forces, power. (Last drop date w/o Dean's signature) | For next: HRW 8.1-8.2, or T-well 4.3.1-3 "Potential energy" |
| Lecture 19: (and in-class questions ) Fri Oct 10, 2003 | Power, Energy, and potential energy | For next: Read HRW 8.3-8.4, or T-well 4.4.1-2 (Starting "Conservation of Energy") (Skip physics in action, as usual) |
| Lecture 20: (and in-class questions ) Mon, Oct 13, 2003 | Conservation of energy | For next: Read HRW 8.5-8.6 or T-well 4.4.3-4 ("Conservation of Energy") |
| Lecture 21: (and in-class questions ) Wed Oct 15, 2003 | Conservation of energy | For next: Read HRW 8.7 and 9.1, 9.2, or finish T-well 4.4 ("Conservation of Energy") and then T-well 6.1.1-3 ("Systems of particles and the center of mass.") |
| Lecture 22: (and in-class questions ) Fri Oct 17, 2003 | Conservation of Energy, and reading energy graphs. | Some time between now and next Wed, read 9.3, Or, Thinkwell 5.1.1 ("Momentum") |
| Lecture 23: (and in-class questions ) Mon Oct 20, 2003 | Finish energy, discuss center of mass and momentum | No new reading - exam tomorrow! |
| Lecture 24: (and in-class questions ) Wed Oct 22 , 2003 | center of mass and momentum, conservation of momentum | For next: Read 9.4-9.6, or T-well 5.1.2-4 (You can skip the rest of Ch 9, on rockets, and the last segment 5.1.5 on rockets... unless you're interested in rockets!) |
| Lecture 25: (and in-class questions ) Fri Oct 24, 2003 | Momentum, Conservation of momentum, Newton-II revisited | For next read 10.1-3, or view T-well 5.2.1 on collisions. |
| Lecture 26: (and in-class questions ) Mon Oct 27, 2003 | Collisions and momentum. | For next, read 10.4-10.6 or view T-well 5.2.2-3 on collisions. |
| Lecture 27: (and in-class questions ) Wed Oct 29, 2003. | Collisions in 1 and 2 D, elastic and inelastic. | For next read HRW 11.1 and 11.2, or watch T-well 6.2.1-3 ("Describing angular motion") (11.3 is optional) |
| Lecture 28: (and in-class questions ) Fri Oct 31, 2003 | Wrap up collisions, intro to rotational motion. | For next, read HRW 11.4-6 or Thinkwell 6.3.1-2 (Rotational KE and inertia ) |
| Lecture 29: (and in-class questions ) Mon Nov 3, 2003 | Rotational kinematics | For next: read HRW 11.7-8 (torque) or Thinkwell 6.4.1-2 (Dynamics of rotational motion) |
| Lecture 30: (and in-class questions ) Wed Nov 5, 2003 | Moment of inertia, and torque. | For next: read page 220, 11.9 (torque) and 12.1 (You can skip 11.10 if you want, but do look at Table 11-3) or Thinkwell 6.4.3, 6.5.1 |
| Lecture 31: (and in-class questions ) Fri Nov 7, 2003 | More on torque, energy, and rolling. | For next: read HRW 12.2 (that's all we'll do in Ch. 12 for now!) AND 13.1-2 (you can skip 13.3) or T-well 6.5.2 (rolling) and 6.9.1 (statics) |
| Lecture 32: (and in-class questions ) Mon Nov 10, 2003 | Rolling | For next, read HRW 13.4 (that's all we'll do in Ch. 13 for now!) or T-well 6.9.2-3 (statics and equilibrium) |
| Lecture 33: (and in-class questions ) Wed Nov 12, 2003 | Static equilibrium | Reading. Catch up! What's coming next will be Simple Harmonic Motion, Ch. 16, you can look ahead if you like. (Or T-well Ch. 10) |
| Lecture 34: (and in-class questions ) Fri Nov 14, 2003 | Static equilibrium | For next read 16.1-3 (on Simple Harmonic Motion) or T-well 10.1.1-3 (Simple harmonic motion) |
| Lecture 35: (and in-class questions ) Mon Nov 17, 2003 | Finish up statics, intro to Simple Harmonic Motion | Next: no new reading, exam tomorrow night! |
| Lecture 36: (and in-class questions ) Wed Nov 19, 2003 | Simple Harmonic Motion and pendula | For next read 16.4, 6, and 7 (SHM and pendulum) (Or, Thinkwell 6.10.2.1-2 on pendula) |
| Lecture 37: (and in-class questions ) Fri Nov 21, 2003 | Pendula | For next read 17.1-4, (and 8 for tutorial on Tuesday), or Thinkwell 11.1.1-4 Introduction to waves Note: The tutorial homework you got yesterday is due next Tuesday (because Th is Thangskiving. It's short, but please don't forget about it) |
| Lecture 38: (and in-class questions ) Mon Nov 24, 2003 | Finish SHM, resonance, intro to waves. | For next read HRW 17-9,11, 12 (between now and when you get back) and/or T-well 11.2.1-2 superposition of waves. and 11.3 standing waves. Note: Tomorrow (Tuesday) "acts" like a Thursday at CU, there WILL be recitation tomorrow!! You have a (short) tutorial homework set due for it from last Thursday! |
| Lecture 39: (and in-class questions ) Wed Nov 26, 2003 | Resonance. | For next Catch up, enjoy the break. |
| Thanksgiving Break, Nov 27, 28. | Enjoy your break. | (Catch up on your reading, we'll be finishing up Ch. 17 upon return, and will finish the semester by going back to Ch. 14!) |
| Lecture 40: (and in-class questions ) Mon Dec 1, 2003 | Traveling waves, and standing waves. | For next, read HRW 18.6 and 18.7, and/or T-well 11.4.1 (Sound waves) |
| Lecture 41: (and in-class questions ) Wed Dec 3, 2003 | Standing waves, musical instruments. | For next, read 14.1-3, and/or T-well 7.1.1-3 "gravity" |
| Lecture 42: (and in-class questions ) Fri Dec 5, 2003 | Newtonian Gravity | For next, read HRW 14.6-8 and or T-well 7.1.4 and 7.2.1-3 (Gravitational potential energy, and orbits) (This will be your last required reading assignment!) |