| Date |
Lecture
subject |
Required/
recommended reading |
| September 1 |
Lec. 01: Introduction
to Physics 141. Units and Making Measurements. Error analysis. |
Lecture slides. |
| September 3 |
Lec. 02: Error analysis(continued). |
Lecture slides. |
| September
8 |
Lec. 03: Interactions and Motion. |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 1.1 - 1.11 |
| September 10 |
Lec. 04: The Momentum Principle. Introduction to VPython. |
Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 2.1 - 2.11 |
| September
14 |
Laboratory Experiment
1. |
|
| September
15 |
Lec. 05: The Fundamental Interactions. |
Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 3.1 - 3.15 |
| September 17 |
Lec. 06: Contact Interactions. |
Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 4.1 - 4.6 |
| September
22 |
Lec. 07: Contact Interactions (continued). |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 4.9 - 4.15 |
| September 24 |
Review Midterm Exam 1 |
Chapters 1 - 3 |
| September
28 |
Laboratory Experiment
2 |
|
| September 29 |
Midterm Exam # 1 |
Error analysis + Chapters 1 - 3 |
| September 29 |
Lec 08: Rate of Change of Momentum, The Energy Principle. |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 4.7-4.8, 5.1 - 5.7, 6.1-6.3 |
| October 1 |
Lec 09: The Energy Principle, Internal Energy. |
Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 6.1 - 6.22, 7.1-7.12 |
| October 6 |
Lec 10: The Energy Principle, Internal Energy. |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 6.1 - 6.22, 7.1-7.12 |
| October 8 |
Lec 11: Internal Energy (continued). |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 7.1-7.12 |
| October 13 |
Fall Break, No Class |
|
| October
15 |
Lec 12: Energy Quantization. |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 8.1 - 8.9 |
| October 19 |
Laboratory Experiment 3 |
|
| October
20 |
Lec 13: Energy Quantization (continued), Multi-particle Systems. |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 8.1 - 8.9, 9.1 - 9.9 |
| October
22 |
Lec 14: Multi-particle Systems. |
Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 9.1 - 9.9 |
| October
27 |
Review Exam # 2 |
|
| October 29 |
Midterm Exam # 2 |
Chapters 4 - 7 |
| October
29 |
Lec 15: Collisions. |
Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 11.1 - 11.10 |
| November 2 |
Laboratory Experiment 4 |
|
| November 3 |
Lec 16: Collisions (continued). |
Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 11.1 - 11.10 |
| November 5 |
Lec 17: Rotational and rolling motion. |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 10.1 - 10.10 |
| November 10 |
Lec 18: Angular Momentum. |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 10.1 - 10.10 |
| November
12 |
Lec 19: Angular Momentum (continued). |
Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 10.1 - 10.10 |
| November 16 |
Laboratory Experiment 5, Data Collection |
|
| November 17 |
Lec 20: Equilibrium. |
Extra material. |
| November 19 |
Review Exam # 3 |
|
| November
24 |
Midterm Exam # 3 |
Chapters 8 - 11 |
| November 24 |
Lec 21: Entropy: Limits on the Possible. |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 12.1 - 12.8 |
| November 26 |
No Class, Happy Thanksgiving |
|
| November 30 |
Laboratory Experiment 5, Data Analysis |
|
| December 1 |
Lec 22: Entropy: Limits on the Possible (continued). |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 12.1 - 12.8 |
| December 3 |
Lec 23: Entropy: Limits on the Possible (continued) and Gases and Engines. |
Chabay and Sherwood,
Sections 12.1 - 12.8, Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 13.1 - 13.10 |
| December 8 |
Lec 24: Gases and Engines. |
Chabay and Sherwood, Sections 13.1 - 13.10 |
| December 10 |
Lec 25: The physics of flying. |
|
| TBD |
Final Exam |
All chapters + Supplement 1 (no error analysis) |
