Physics
122 Schedule, Spring 2011
Physics
122 Schedule, Spring 2011| Class | Class number | Reading in UP, KJF* |
Assignments Due | Content | Lab | Tutorial |
| Week 1 | ||||||
| 1/24 | 1 | Introduction to the class | ||||
| 1/26 | 2 | Deeper learning goals: The psychology of learning and memory | ||||
| 1/28 | 3 | Sig. figs. (on web) |
HW 0L (review HW) |
Review of Physics 121 | ||
| Week 2 | Lab 0 -- Using Excel |
Tutorial 1 -- Harmonic oscillation | ||||
| 1/31 | 4 | ILD 1 -- Seeking consistency: Harmonic Oscillation |
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| 2/2 | 5 | Harmonic motion |
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| 2/4 | 6 | KJF 14, UP 16Estimation |
HW 1L | The pendulum | ||
| Week 3 | HW 1T** | Lab 1 -- Damped oscillations: 1 |
Tutorial 2 --Finding mechanism: Pulses | |||
| 2/7 | 7 | Wave pulses | Quiz 1 | |||
| 2/9 | 8 | Superposition | ||||
| 2/11 | 9 | KJF 15, 16.1, UP 17 |
HW 2L | Sinusoidal waves |
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| Week 4 | HW 2T** | Lab 2 -- Damped oscillations:2 |
Tutorial 3-- A model for light |
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| 2/14 | 10 | The ray model of light, light and shadow |
Quiz 2 | |||
| 2/16 | 11 | Mirrors and virtual
images |
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| 2/18 | 12 | KJF 18, UP 35.1-8 |
HW 3L | Curved mirrors
and real images |
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| Week 5 | HW 3T** | Lab 3-- Light
refraction: 1 |
Tutorial 4 -- How
can you tell where things are by looking? |
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| 2/21 | 13 | The mirror equations |
Quiz 3 | |||
| 2/23 | 14 | Refraction and total internal reflection |
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| 2/25 | 15 | KJF 19 |
HW 4L | Lenses |
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| Week 6 | HW 4T** | Lab 4 -- Light
Refraction: 2 |
Tutorial 5 -- Can
an image float in empty space? |
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| 2/28 | 16 |
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ILD 2 -- Lenses: Working out what a model implies |
Quiz 4 | ||
| 3/2 | 17 |
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Review and examples |
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| 3/4 | 18 | MIDTERM EXAM 1 | ||||
| Week 7 | HW 5T** | Lab 5-- Double
slit interference: 1 |
Tutorial 6 -- Two
source interference |
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| 3/7 | 19 |
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Go over Exam I | |||
| 3/9 | 20 |
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Huygens' principle: waves |
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| 3/10 | Make up exam 1 | |||||
| 3/11 | 21 | KJF 17, UP 36 | HW 5L | Recovering the ray model results |
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| Week 8 | HW 6T** | Lab 6 -- Double
slit interference: 2 |
Tutorial 7 -- Wave
properties of light |
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| 3/14 | 22 | The wave model and
two slit interference |
Quiz 5 | |||
| 3/16 | 23 | Diffraction |
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| 3/18 | 24 | HW 6L | Diffraction: Examples |
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| Week 9 | HW 7T** | Lab 7 --Ohmic materials: 1 |
Tutorial 8 -- Working from a model: Static electricity |
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| 3/28 | 25 | Electric charge, ILD 3 -- Making a model: Thinking about electric force |
Quiz 6 | |||
| 3/30 | 26 | Electric forces and Coulomb's Law |
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| 4/1 | 27 | KJF 20, 21 |
HW 7L | ILD 4 -- Representation as communication: Fields | ||
| Week 10 | HW 8T** | Lab 8 -- Ohmic
materials: 2 |
Tutorial 9 -- Abstract concepts: Fields | |||
| 4/4 | 28 | Fields: Examples | Quiz 7 | |||
| 4/6 | 29 | Electrical energy and voltage | ||||
| 4/8 | 30 | KJF 22, 23 UP 25, 26 |
HW 8L | ILD 5 -- Electrostatic potential and analogies | ||
| Week 11 | HW 9T** | Lab 9 -- Magnetic
force: 1 |
Tutorial 10 -- Potentials | |||
| 4/11 | 31 | Understanding currents: Analogies and Kirchhoff's Laws | Quiz 8 | |||
| 4/13 | 32 | Currents | ||||
| 4/15 | 33 | MIDTERM EXAM 2 | ||||
| Week 12 | HW 10T** | Lab 10 -- Magnetic
force: 2 |
Tutorial 11 -- Hidden
assumptions: Electric circuits |
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| 4/18 | 34 | Go over exam 2 | ||||
| 4/20 | 35 | Currents | ||||
| 4/21 | Make up exam 2 | |||||
| 4/22 | 36 | UP 27, 28 | HW 9L | Examples with currents | ||
| Week 13 | HW 11T** | No lab-- |
Tutorial 12--Implications
of a model: Electric circuits |
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| 4/25 | 37 | More complex examples with currents | Quiz 9 | |||
| 4/27 | 38 | Capacitance | ||||
| 4/29 | 39 | KJF 24, UP 29,30 |
HW 10L | Magnetic forces and fields | ||
| Week 14 | HW 12T** | No lab-- | Tutorial 13 --Organizing observations: magnets and fields |
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| 5/2 | 40 | Magnetism and moving charge. | Quiz 10 | |||
| 5/4 | 41 | Puzzles in the structure of matter: Interaction of matter and light | ||||
| 5/6 | 42 | KJF 28, UP 37 | HW 11L | A third model of light: the photon | ||
| Week 15 | Makeup lab | No Tutorial-- | ||||
| 5/9 | 43 | Review | ||||
| 5/18(?) | FINAL
EXAM (8:00-12:00) |
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UP="Understanding Physics" by
Cummings et al.
KJF = "College Physics" by Knight, Jones, and Field
** "T" (Tutorial) homework is due during the week at the beginning of your recitation section.
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Last revision 25. March, 2011.