| Date | Lecture subject | Required/ recommended reading |
| September 1 | Introduction to Physics 141, Units, Making Measurements | |
| September 3 | Physics 141 Pre Test | |
| September 3 | Interactions and Motion | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 1.1 - 1.11 |
| September 8 | Introduction to VPython. The Momentum Principle: Impulse and Momentum Change. | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 2.1 - 2.14 |
| September 10 | Introduction to VPython. The Momentum Principle: Impulse and Momentum Change (continued.) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 2.1 - 2.14 |
| September 14 | Laboratory Experiment 1 | |
| September 15 | The Momentum Principle: Non-constant Forces | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 3.1 - 3.14 |
| September 17 | The Momentum Principle: Non-constant Forces (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 3.1 - 3.14 |
| September 22 | Contact Forces and the Momentum Principle | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 4.1 - 4.20 |
| September 24 | Contact Forces and the Momentum Principle (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 4.1 - 4.20 |
| September 28 | Laboratory Experiment 2 | |
| September 29 | The Energy Principle | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 5.1 - 5.21 |
| October 1 | The Energy Principle (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 5.1 - 5.21 |
| October 6 | The Energy Principle (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 5.1 - 5.21 |
| October 8 | Midterm Exam # 1 | |
| October 8 | Energy in Macroscopic Systems | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 6.1 - 6.14 |
| October 12 | Laboratory Experiment 3 | |
| October 13 | Energy in Macroscopic Systems (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 6.1 - 6.14 |
| October 15 | Energy Quantization | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 7.1 - 7.10 |
| October 20 | Energy Quantization (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 7.1 - 7.10 |
| October 22 | Multiparticle Systems | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 8.1 - 8.9 |
| October 27 | No Class | |
| October 29 | Multiparticle Systems (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 8.1 - 8.9 |
| November 3 | Collisions | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 9.1 - 9.10 |
| November 5 | Collisions (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 9.1 - 9.10 |
| November 9 | Laboratory Experiment 4, Data Collection | |
| November 10 | Angular Momentum | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 10.1 - 10.12 |
| November 12 | Angular Momentum (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 10.1 - 10.12 |
| November 16 | Laboratory Experiment 4, Data Analysis | |
| November 17 | Midterm Exam # 2 | |
| November 17 | Angular Momentum (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 10.1 - 10.12 |
| November 19 | Entropy: Limits on the Possible | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 11.1 - 11.8 |
| November 24 | Entropy: Limits on the Possible (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 11.1 - 11.8 |
| November 30 | Laboratory Experiment 5 | |
| December 1 | Entropy: Limits on the Possible (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 11.1 - 11.8 |
| December 3 | Gases and Engines | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 12.1 - 12.10 |
| December 8 | Midterm Exam # 3 | |
| December 8 | Gases and Engines (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 12.1 - 12.10 |
| December 10 | Physics 141 Post Test | |
| December 10 | Gases and Engines (continued) | Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 12.1 - 12.10 |
| December 18 | Final Exam |
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