TENTATIVE SCHEDULE, PHYSICS 171, SPRING 2004
Date To read Topic HW "6 Ideas" Chpt
Week 1     1-D MOTION    
26-Jan Intro, Measurement, Units
27-Jan Chpt 1 Interactions C1
29-Jan 2.1,2.2 1-D motion C1
30-Jan 2.3,2.4 Acceleration and Free Fall N4
Week 2     MOTION and MOMENTUM    
2-Feb 3.1, 3.2 Vectors and Coordinate Systems C2, N2
3-Feb 3.3-3.5 2 & 3D motion C3, N2, N10
5-Feb QUIZ HW1
6-Feb 4.1,4.2 momentum and Force C3
Week 3     FORCES and NEWTON's LAWS    
9-Feb 4.3 -4.4 Gravity, Forces and Interactions N1
10-Feb 4.5 Free Body Diagrams N3
12-Feb synthesis HW2
13-Feb 4.6,4.7 Newton's Third Law N3, N7
Week 4     APPLICATIONS OF NEWTON    
16-Feb 5.1, 5.3 Friction and Drag N6
17-Feb 5.2 Circular Motion and Drag N8
19-Feb synthesis HW3
20-Feb EXAM #1
Week 5     ENERGY and WORK    
23-Feb 6.1 Work, Energy and Power C6,C8
24-Feb 6.2,6.3 Dot products:  Power C8
26-Feb synthesis HW4
27-Feb 6.4 Potential Energy C6,C7
Week 6     CONSERVATION of ENERGY    
1-Mar 7.1-7.2 Conservation of Energy C6, N11
2-Mar the Work-Energy Theorem C8
4-Mar QUIZ HW5
5-Mar 7.3-7.4 Mass, Energy and Quantization
Week 7     CONSERVATION of MOMENTUM  
8-Mar 8.1-8.3 Center of Mass C4
9-Mar 8.4,8.5 Conservation of Linear Momentum C4,C5
11-Mar synthesis HW6
12-Mar 8.6 Collisions I C5
Week 8          
15-Mar Collisions II C5
16-Mar 8.7,8.8 Reference Frames
18-Mar synthesis HW7
19-Mar EXAM #2
Week 9     SPRING BREAK    
22-Mar          
23-Mar          
25-Mar          
26-Mar          
Week 10     ROTATIONAL MOTION    
29-Mar 9.1-9.2 Rotational motion and energy C9
30-Mar 9.3,9.4 Moments of Inertia, Newton's Laws N5, C9
1-Apr synthesis HW8
2-Apr 9.5 Applications
Week 11     ANGULAR MOMENTUM    
5-Apr 9.6 Rolling C9
6-Apr 10.1-10.2 Torque and Angular Momentum
8-Apr QUIZ HW9
9-Apr 10.3 Conservation of Angular Momentum
Week 12     GRAVITATION    
12-Apr 11.1 Kepler's Laws of Orbits N12
13-Apr 11.2-11.3 Newton's Law of Gravity
15-Apr synthesis HW10
16-Apr 11.4 Gravitational PE and fields
Week 13     RELATIVITY    
19-Apr Non-inertial reference Frames N9
20-Apr Principle of relativity R1
22-Apr synthesis HW11
23-Apr EXAM #3
Week 14     RELATIVITY    
26-Apr Synchronization and Time R2, R3
27-Apr The Metric Equation R4
29-Apr synthesis HW12
30-Apr Lorentz Transformations R6,R7
Week 15     RELATIVISTIC MOMENTUM    
3-May Speed of Light R8
4-May Four Momentum and Energy R9,R10
6-May QUIZ  HW13 
7-May 13.1, 13.3 Density and Fluids in Motion
Week 16     GASES and FLUIDS    
10-May 17.1-17.3 Temperature and Gases in Motion
11-May 17.5 Kinetic Theory of Gases
FINAL EXAM,  ???