Date Topic Chapter Assignments
8-26 W Introduction, Scientific notation, Units 1 #1mini A
8-28 F Motion: Position, Displacement, Velocity 2.1-2.2  
8-31 M Acceleration, Motion Along a Line withá Constant Acceleration 2.3-2.4 #1A, #1Mini (1)
9-2 W Visualizing Motion Along a Line, Free Fall 2.5-2.6 #1Mini (2)
9-4 F Vector Addition, Graphical and Mathematical 3.1-3.2  
9-7 M Velocity and Acceleration in a Plane 3.3-3.4 #2A, #1 (1)
9-9 W Motion in a Plane wi Constant Acceleration, Reference Frames 3.5-3.6 #1(2)
9-11 F Applying Newton's 2nd, Reference Frames 3.4-3.5  
9-14 M Force & Newton's 1st Law 4.1-4.2 #2(1)
9-16 W Exam 1 Review   #2(2)
9-18 F Exam 1 Ch 1-3  
9-21 M Newton's 2nd and 3rd Law 4.3-4.4 #3A
9-23 W Gravitational forces, Contact forces 4.5-4.6  
9-25 F Tension, Applying Newton's 2nd Law 4.7-4.8  
9-28 M Uniform Circular Motion, Radial Acceleration 5.1-5.2 #4A, #3(1)
9-30 W Circular Orbits, Non-uniform Circular Motion 5.4-5.5 #3(2)
10-2 F Tangential and Angular Acceleration, Artificial Gravity 5.6-5.7  
10-5 M Conservation of Energy, Work by a Constant Force 6.1-6.2 #5A, #4(1)
10-7 W Kinetic Energy and Gravitational Potential Energy 6.3-6.5 #4(2)
10--9 F Work by Variable Forces, Elastic Potential Energy, Power 6.6-6.8  
10-12 M Exam 2 Review   #5(1)
10-14 W Exam 2 Ch 4-6 #5(2) suggested
10-16 F Mid Semester Break No    
10-19 M Momentum: Vector conservation law 7.1-7.2 #6A, #5 final
10-21 W Impulse-Momentum Theorem, Conservation of Momentum 7.3-7.4  
10-23 F Center of Mass 7.5-7.6  
10-26 M Collisions in 1-and 2-D 7.7-7.8 #7A, #6(1)
10-28 W Rotational Kinetic Energy, Inertia and Torque 8.1-8.3 #6(2)
10-30 F sick    
11-2 M Rotational equilibrium 8.4 #8A, #7(1)
11-4 W Equilibrium in the Human body, rotational form of newton's 2nd law 8.5-8.6 #7(2)
11-6 F Motion of rolling objects, Angular momentum 8.7-8.8  
11-9 M States of matter, pressure, pascal's principle 9.1-9.4 #8(1)
11-11 W Exam 3 Review   #8(2)
11-13F Exam 3 Ch 7-8  
11-16 M Measuring Pressure and Archimedes principle 9.5-9.6 #9A
11-18W Fluid Flow and the Bernouli equation 9.7-9.8  
11-20 F Simple Harmonic Motion 10.5-10.6  
11-23-27-27 Thanksgiving Break --no classes    
11-30 M Pendulum and graphical analysis of SHM 10.7-10.8 #10A, #9(1)
12-2 W Slinky Lab -physical description of a wave 11.2-11.3 #9(2)
12-4 F Mathematical description of a wave 11.5-11.10  
12-7 M Sound waves & The Ear 12.1-4,12.6 #10(1)
12-9 W Review   #10(2)
12-17 H FINAL EXAM 8:30-11:30 a.m. Valentine 204 Ch 1-12  
       
  course schedule is tentative, changes will be announced in class    
  Key for assignments: #5A=Problem set #5 assigned    
  #5(1)= #5 step (1) due,#5(2)=#5 step (2) due