Physics 117 Class and Lab Plan


 
Here you find a tentative plan of the lectures and of the lab activities. Exams date are just indicative and may be subject to changes during the course. Please check often the "What's New" section of the main web page as well as this page for  future changes to this plan. Finally remember that quizzes will be given periodically and without pre-allert during the course so they are not shown in the tables below.

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  Physics 117

Syllabus

Course contents overview

Homework

Homework & Quiz solutions



*Tentative* Class Plan
(last updated 3/7)
week
Monday
Wednesday
Friday
1/27

Syllabus, Prologue
Ch.1: Describing motion
2/3
Ch.2: Explaining motion
Ch.2: Explaining motion
No class: snow
2/10
Ch.2: Explaining motion
"Newton's third law
"
Ch.3: Motions in space
Last 20 min: Quiz 1
Ch.3: Motions in space
2/17
No class: snow

No class: snow
Ch.4: Gravity
2/24
Ch.4: Gravity
Last 15 min: Quiz 2
Ch.5: Momentum
Ch.5: Momentum
3/3
Ch.6: Energy
Last 15 min: Quiz 3
Ch.6: Energy
Pre-Exam Review
(during lecture)

3/10
Exam 1 (definitive schedule)
Ch.7: Structure of Matter
Ch.7: Structure of Matter
3/17
Ch.8: States of Matter
Last 15 min: Quiz 4
Ch.8: States of Matter
Ch.8: States of Matter
3/24
NO CLASS:
SPRING BREAK
NO CLASS:
SPRING BREAK

NO CLASS:
SPRING BREAK

3/31
Ch.9: Thermal Energy

Ch.9: Thermal Energy
Last 15 min: Quiz 5
Ch.9: Thermal Energy
4/7
Ch.10: Available energy
Last 15 min: Quiz 6
Ch.10: Available energy
Ch.10: Available energy
4/14
Pre-Exam Review
(during lecture)

Exam 2 (tentative schedule)
Ch.11:
Classical Relativity
4/21
Ch.12: Special Relativity
Ch.12: Special Relativity
Ch.14: General Relativity
Last 15 min: Quiz 7
4/28
Ch.19: Electricity

Ch.19: Electricity

Ch.22: The early atom
Last 15 min: Quiz 8
5/5
Ch.22: The early atom

Ch.23: The modern atom

Ch.23: The modern atom
The subatomic world
Last 15 min: Quiz 9
5/12
Ch.23: The modern atom
The subatomic world
Epilogue

Pre-Final Exam Review
SPRING 2003 Last Class


5/19

Final exam
8:00-10:00am,
Room 1410


*Tentative* Lab activities Plan
(last updated 1/6)
week
Thursday
1/30
Warm-up Meeting in Rm. 3310
2/6
EXPT. I: Graphs, Functions, & Motions, Part I
2/13
EXPT. II: Graphs, Functions, & Motions, Part II
2/20
EXPT. III: Motion Under a Varying Force: Springs
2/27
EXPT. IV: The Physics of Spring Oscillations: Hooke's Law and Newton's Second Law
3/6
EXPT. V: Period of a Pendulum vs. L and M
3/13
MAKE-UP LABS I-V
3/20
EXPT. VI: Centripetal Force and Acceleration
3/27
NO LAB: SPRING BREAK
4/3
EXPT. VII: Sensing and Mixing Hot and Cold
4/10
EXPT. VIII: Specific Heat of Copper vs. Water
4/17
EXPT. IX: Changes of State: Freezing & Melting
4/24
EXPT. X: Investigating Subatomic Particles with a Particle Accelerator
5/1
EXPT. XI: Elementary Particle Physics with the Cloud Chamber
5/8
MAKE-UP LABS IV-XI


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