Course Calendar

 Week

 Monday

Tuesday

 Wednesday

Thursday
Friday

Week 1

Chapters 1 and 2: Introduction to the course, Kinematics and motion Displacement, velocity, acceleration

CAPA: Set 1

Chap. 2.4-.6

Motion at constant velocity and at constant acceleration. Gravity.

CAPA: Set 2

Chap. 3.1-.5

Vectors. Addition and subtraction of vectors. Components of vectors.

Written HWK 1

Chap. 4.1-.5

Projectile motion and circular motion

CAPA: Set 3

Chap. 5.1-.8

Newton's Laws: Inertia, net force accelerates, each action has an equal, but opposite reaction.

HWK 2

Week 2

Chap. 6.1-.5

Force laws. Normal forces and friction. Solving problems with Newton's Laws.

Exam 1

Chap. 6.1-.5

More solving problems with Newton's Laws. Free body diagrams. Friction effects.

CAPA: Set 4

Chapter 6.3

Circular motion. Centripetal acceleration.

HWK 3

Chapter 7.1-.5

Work, kinetic energy, and power.

CAPA: Set 5

Chapter 8.1-.6

Potential energy, conservative and non-conservative forces, conservation of energy.

HWK 4

 Week 3

Chap. 9.1-.4

Universal gravitation, planetary orbits, Kepler's laws, gravitational potential energy.

Exam 2

Chapter 10.1-.3

Systems of particles: Center of mass, cons. of momentum, kinetic energy

CAPA: Set 6

Chapter 11.1-.4

Collision problems. Impulses, cons. laws for elastic and inelastic collisions

HWK 5

Chapter 12.1-.5

Rotational motion. Angular variables, rotational inertia, torque, rotational kinetic energy

CAPA: Set 7

Chapter 13.1-.5

Rotational vectors, angular momentum, and cons. of angular momentum.

HWK 6

Week 4

Chapter 14.1-.4

Statics: Forces and torques on objects in equilibrium.

Exam 3

Chapter 15.1-.5

Oscillatory Motion: Periodic motion, simple harmonic motion, energy flows.

CAPA: Set 8

Chapter 16

Wave motion

HWK 7

Chapter 17

Sound

CAPA: Set 9

Chapter 18

Fluid motion

HWK 8

Week 5

Chapter 19

Temperature and heat

Exam 4

Chapter 20

Thermal behavior of matter

CAPA: Set 10

Review FINAL EXAM