Physics 181 Fall 2009
Course Calendar & Information

Course Calendar

Below, is our tentative course calendar. It is completed only up to the next exam. This allows some flexibility in our pace. Here, you will find the reading assignments, homework due dates, and copies of the example problems that we did in class. Please note: I reserve the right to make adjustments to this schedule as deemed necessary

August

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 1 24
Course Overview
Reading: Online Syllabus, Appendix A
Intro to Motion 		25 26
Motion
Reading: 1.1-8
Examples: 1-7, 9, 15, 17
MP Intro due 12:45pm 		27 28
1D Kinematics
Reading: 2.1-4
Examples: 2-5, 21
MP Daily HW 1 due 12:45pm
Week 2 31
1D Kinematics
Reading: 2.5-6
Examples: 2-13, 19, 34, 62
MP Chap 1 HW due 12:45pm
MP Daily HW 2 due 12:45pm

September

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 2 1 2
Vectors
Reading: 3.1-4
Examples: 3-6, 16, 44
MP Daily HW 3 due 12:45pm 		3 4
2D Kinematics
4.1-4.3
Examples: 4-12, 41, 43
MP Chap 2 HW due 12:45pm
Week 3 7
No Class!
8 9
Relative Motion
Reading: 4.4
Examples: 4-16, 19,
MP Chap 3 HW due 12:45pm
MP Daily HW 4 due 12:45pm 		10 11
Uniform Circular Motion
Reading: 4.5,6
Examples: 4-23, 28, 29
What is this physics artwork?
MP Daily HW 5 due 12:45pm
Week 4 14
Force
Reading: 5.1-7
Examples: 5-3, 8, 25, 31, 37, 43
MP Chap 4 HW due 12:45pm 		15 16
Dynamics I
Reading: 6.1-3
Examples: 6-1, 5,
MP Daily HW 6 due 12:45pm 		17 18
Dynamics I
Reading: 6.4-5
Examples: 6-17, 41, 42
MP Chap 5 HW due 12:45pm
MP Daily HW 7 due 12:45pm
Week 5 21
Dynamics I
Reading: 6.6
Examples: 6-27, 46
MP Daily HW 8 due 12:45pm 		22
Exam 1
7:30 pm 100 Hughes
MP Chap 6 HW due 12:00 Noon 		23
Film: Newton's Dark Secrets 		24 25
Newton's Third Law
Reading: 7.1-5
Examples: 7-10, 32, 38, 41
Week 6 28
Dynamics in a Plane
Reading 8.1-4
Examples: 8-23, 25 		29 30
Dynamics of Uniform Circular Motion
Reading 8.5-7
Examples: 8-4, 8, 31, 43
MP Chap 7 HW due 12:45pm

October

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 6 1 2
Impulse & Momentum
Reading: 9.1-3
Examples: 9-4
MP Daily HW 9 due 12:45pm
Week 7 5
Impulse & Momentum
Reading: 9.4-6
Examples: 9-19, 24, 28, 41
MP Chap 8 HW due 12:45pm 		6 7
Energy
Reading: 10.1-3
Examples: 10-4, 5, 8, 33
MP Daily HW 10 due 12:45pm 		8 9
Energy
Reading: 10.4-7
Examples: 10-46, 51, 53
MP Chap 9 HW due 12:45pm
Week 8 12
Work & Energy
Reading: 11.1-4
Examples: 11-1, 3, 11, 15
MP Daily HW 11 due 12:45pm 		13 14
Work & Energy
Reading: 11.5-6
Examples: 11-43, 45
MP Chap 10 HW due 12:45pm 		15 16
No Class!
Week 9 19
Work & Energy
Reading: 11.7-9
Examples: 11-55, 18, 31
MP Daily HW 12 due 12:45pm 		20
Exam 2
7:30 pm
128 Pearson
MP Chap 11 HW due 12:00 noon 		21 22 23
Rotational Motion
Reading: 12.1-4
Examples: 12-1, 2
Week 10 26
Rotational Dynamics
Reading: 12.5-8
Examples: 12-14a, 21, 39 		27 28
Rotational Dynamics
Reading: 12.5-8
Examples: 12-14b, 28, 63, 13
MP Daily HW 13 due 12:45pm 		29 30
Rolling Motion and Angular Momentum
Reading: 12.9-11
Examples: 12-37, 87

November

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Week 11 2
Newtonian Gravity
Reading 13.1-6
Examples: 13-3, 11, 59
MP Chap 12 HW due 12:45pm 		3 4
Simple Harmonic Motion
Reading: 14.1-3
Examples: 14-2, 42 		5 6
Simple Harmonic Motion
Reading: 14.4-8
Examples: 14-31, 21, 60
MP Chap 13 HW due 12:45pm
Week 12 9
Travelling Waves
Reading 20.1-4
Examples: 20-2, 44, 12, 55
MP Daily HW 14 due 12:45pm 		10 11
Travelling Waves
Reading 20.5-7
Examples: 20-16, 58, 29, 72, 75
MP Chap 14 HW due 12:45pm 		12 13
Standing Waves
Reading 21.1-4
Examples: 21-2, 39, 15
Week 13 16
Interference & Beats
Reading: 21.5-6,8 		17
Exam 3
7:30 pm
115 Shideler
MP Chap 20 HW due 1:00pm 		18
Film: The Elegant Universe, part 1 		19 20
The Double Slit
Reading: 22.2
The State of Physics, c. 1900;
Blackbody Radiation
Reading: 38.1,8
Week 14 23
Photoelectric Effect;
Hydrogen and Rutherford
Reading: 39.1, 38.6,7 		24 25
No Class!
26
No Class!
27
No Class!
Week 15 30
Bohr & his Atom
Reading: 39.5-7

December

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

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Friday

Week 15 1 2
deBroglie & his Waves;
Psi
Reading: 39.4; 40.1-4, 6 		3 4
The Schrodinger Equation;
The Infinite Square Well
Reading: 41.1-3
Week 16 7
The Quantum Hydrogen Atom
Reading: 42.1 		8 9
The Quantum Hydrogen Atom
Reading: 42.2 		10 11
Electron Spin
Reading: 42.3
Finals
Week 		14 15 16

Comprehensive
Final Exam

12:30pm - 2:30pm 		17 18