| 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 | ||||
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| 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, ??? | |||||