| Date |
Lecture
subject |
Required
reading |
| January 17 |
Introduction,
Units, Error Analysis. |
1 |
| January 22 |
Pre-test |
|
| January 22 |
Motion (velocity
and acceleration) in 1D. |
2 |
| January 24 |
Vectors. |
3 |
| January 29 |
Motion in
a plane, Projectile Motion. |
3 |
| January 31 |
No class |
|
| February 5 |
Circular
Motion, Newton's First Law. |
3 + 4 |
| February 7 |
Newton's
Second and Third Law. |
4 |
| February 12 |
Friction. |
5 |
| February 14 |
Gravity,
Newton's Law of Gravity, Potential Energy. |
6 |
| February 19 |
Planetary
Motion, Kepler's Law. |
6 |
| February 21 |
Work and
Energy (Constant and Variable Force). |
7 |
| February 26 |
Kinetic
and Potential Energy. |
7 + 8 |
| February 28 |
Midterm Exam # 1 |
|
| February 28 |
Conservation
of Energy. |
8 |
| March 4 |
Conservative
and Non-Conservative Forces. |
8 |
| March 6 |
Center of
Mass, Linear Momentum, Conservation of Momentum. |
9 |
| March 18 |
Elastic
and Inelastic Collisions in 1D. |
9 |
| March 20 |
Collisions
in 2D. |
9 |
| March 25 |
Midterm Exam # 2 |
|
| March 25 |
Rotational
Motion. |
10 |
| March 27 |
Rotational
Kinetic Energy, Inertia, Torque. |
10 |
| April 1 |
Rotational
Kinetic Energy, Torque. |
10 |
| April 3 |
Angular
Momentum. |
11 |
| April 8 |
Conservation
of Angular Momentum. |
11 |
| April 10 |
Equilibrium. |
12 |
| April 15 |
Harmonic
Motion, Damped Motion. |
14 |
| April 17 |
Temperature,
Heat. |
17 |
| April 22 |
Midterm Exam # 3 |
|
| April 22 |
Kinetic
Theory of Gases, Ideal Gas, Mean Free Path. |
18 |
| April 24 |
First Law
of Thermodynamics, Heat Capacity,
Equipartition of Energy. |
19 |
| April
29 |
Post-test |
|
| April 29 |
Second Law
of Thermodynamics. |
20 |
| May 8 |
Final Exam |
|
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