Physics 121 Schedule Fall 2010

(Note: This schedule is TENTATIVE and subject to frequent change)

Class Class number Reading
in UP, K, T* (date due)		 Assignments Due Content Lab Tutorial
             
Week 1         No lab-- Survey --
8/30 1     Introduction to the class    
9/1 2     Why is this class different from all other classes?    
9/3 3 Sig. figs. and estimation
(on web)		 HW 1L Mechanism, Measurement, and Math: Dimensions and units    
Week 2        

No lab--
9/8 4

 

   Coordinates and Graphs    
9/10 5

UP 1, K 1, T1

HW 2F Velocity: average and instantaneous    
Week 3:         Lab 1 --
Measurement		 Tutorial 1 -- Meaning of speed
9/13 6     ILD 1 -- Position, velocity graphs: checking for coherence as a mistake-avoidance strategy Quiz 1  
9/15 7     Velocity graphs and examples    
9/17 8

UP 2.1-2.4
K 2.1-2.3
T 2.1-2.3

 HW 3L ILD 2 -- Velocity & acceleration: What if something violates common sense? Looking at it another way    
Week 4         Lab 2--
Grandfather clock:1
 Tutorial 2-- Acceleration
9/20 9   HW 1T How do things move? Newton's laws Quiz 2  
9/22 10     Examples    
9/24 11 UP 2.5,
K 2.4-2.5,
T 2.4-2.6 		HW 4L The implications game; Newton's 3rd Law    
Week 5         Lab 3 -- Grandfather clock:2
 Tutorial 3 -- Counterintuitive ideas. Newton's 3rd law
9/27 12   HW 2T Gravity Quiz 3  
9/29 13     Free fall    
10/1 14

 

 HW 5L **Coordinates in 2D; vectors; N2 in 2D; Projectiles    
Week 6         Lab 4 -- Let it roll Tutorial 4 -- Reconciling Newton's laws and common sense
10/4 15

 

 HW 3T Friction Quiz 4  
10/6 16     ILD 3 -- Reconciling intuition by looking at it another way: the Normal Force    
10/8 17     MIDTERM EXAM 1  
Week 7         Lab 5 -- Endangered creatures
 Tutorial 5 -- Free-body diagrams
10/11 18


HW 4T Go over exam 1    
10/12 19     Properties of forces: Friction and Normal force    
10/14       Make up exam 1    
10/15 20   HW 6L ILD 4 -- Deriving conservation of momentum from N2 & N3: The search for coherence, pt. 1    
Week 8         Lab 6 -- No free launch:1

 Tutorial 6 -- Momentum
10/18 21   HW 5T Work and Energy in 1D Quiz 5  
10/20 22    

Work and Energy in 2D: Dot product

    
10/22 23   HW 7L Energy conservation    
Week 9         Lab 7 --No free launch:2 Tutorial 7 -- Work and energy
10/25 24   HW 6T Collisions Quiz 6  
10/27 25     Collision examples    
10/29 26   HW 8L Circular motion, kinematics  
Week 10         Lab 8 -- Roller coaster:1
 Tutorial 8 -- Torque
11/1 27   HW 7T ILD 5 -- Circular motion Quiz 7  
11/3 28     Circular motion, forces      
11/5 29   HW 9L Circular motion, angular variables    
Week 11         Lab 9 -- Roller coaster:2
 Tutorial 9 -- Properties of matter
11/8 30 UP 8, 11 HW 8T Torque, Cross products Quiz 8  
11/10 31     Center of mass    
11/12 32     MIDTERM EXAM 2    
Week 12         Lab 10 -- Gravity:1
 Tutorial 10 -- Making sense of pressure
11/15 33   HW 9T Go over exam 2    
11/17 34     ILD 6 -- Rotational energy     
11/18       Makeup exam 2    
11/19 35   HW 10L Properties of matter: density and pressure    
Week 13         No lab--

No Tutorial --
11/22 36     Buoyancy examples Quiz 9  
11/24 37     Universal Gravitation    
Week 14         Lab 10 -- Gravity:2 Tutorial 11 -- Ideal gases
11/29 38   HW 10T Fluid flow    
12/1 39     Temperature, specific heat, and change of state Quiz 10  
12/3 40   HW 11L ILD 7 -- Heat and heat flow     
Week 15         Makeup lab / Suvey Tutorial 12 -- Heat and Temperature
12/6 41   HW 11T The atomic structure of matter: diffusion and Brownian motion Quiz 11  
12/8 42     Transforming energy: The first law    
12/10 43   HW 12L Transforming organization: The second law    
             
12/17       FINAL EXAM (8:00-12:00)    

*
UP="Understanding Physics" by Cummings et al.
K = "College Physics" by Knight, Jones, & Field
T = "Introductory Physics: Building Understanding" by Touger

**
Substitute lecturer

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Edward F. Redish
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Last revision 3.October.2010.