University of Colorado at Boulder
Department of Physics

Physics 2010
Lecture Topics and Reading Assignments

Summer 2005, Session A
Tuesday, May 31 - Friday, July 1

MAIN TOPICS 
OF THE WEEK*

MONDAY 

TUESDAY 

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY 

FRIDAY 


Measurements.
Motion.
 


 

May 31 (Day 1)
Introduction.
Measurements.
Significant figures.

June 1 (Day 2)
Speed.
Velocity.
Acceleration.

June 2 (Day 3)
Falling bodies.

June 3 (Day 4)
Vectors. Projectile motion.

Forces.
Circular Motion.
Gravity.
Work and Energy.

June 6 (Day 5)
Inertia.
Newton's I and II Law.

June 7 (Day 6)
Newton's III Law.
Free-body diagrams.

June 8 (Day 7)
Uniform circular motion.

June 9 (Day 8)
Gravitation.
Satellites.
"Weightlessness".

June 10 (Day 9)
Work. Kinetic and Potential Energy.

Collisions.
Rotations.
Statics.
Fluids.

June 13 (Day 10)
Energy conservation - problem solving.

June 14 (Day 11)
Momentum.
Collisions.

June 15 (Day 12)
Angular motion.
Kinematics.

June 16 (Day 13)
Rolling motion.

Rotational dynamics.

June 17 (Day 14)
Statics.
Equilibrium.
Stress and strain.


Oscillations.
Sound.
Ideal gas.

June 20 (Day 15)
Fluids.
Buoyancy.
Archimedes.

June 21 (Day 16)
Harmonic motion.
Reference circle.

June 22 (Day 17)
Damped oscillations. Waves.

June 23 (Day 18)
Sound.
Beats.
Doppler effect.

June 24 (Day 19)
Atoms. 
Thermal expansion.


Thermodynamics.

June 27 (Day 20)
Ideal gas law.
Kinetic theory of gases.

June 28 (Day 21)
Temperature.
Heat.
Calorimetry.

June 29 (Day 22)
Laws of thermodynamics.

June 30 (Day 23)
Heat engines.
Entropy.

July 1 (Day 24)
Final Exam

 

Material for Exam I

Material for Exam II

Material for Exam III

Final Exam is comprehensive

 

* Sections to skip

Week

Fifth Edition

Sixth Edition

1

3.7, 3.8

3.7, 3.8

2

5.4, 5.10

5.4, 5.10

3

7.9, 7.10, 8.9, 9.4, 9.8

7.9, 7.10, 8.9, 9.3, 9.7

4

10.8 – 10.13, 11.9, 11.10, 11.13, 12.3, 12.9, 12.10

10.9 – 10.14, 11.9, 11.10, 11.14, 11.15, 11.16, 12.2 (last topic), 12.8, 12.9

5

13.15, 15.12

13.14, 15.12