(start 2)
| Week | Chapter (FGT) | Topic | Week of |
| 1 | 1 | Units, Vectors | *22 Aug |
| 2 | (start 2)
| Vectors | 27 Aug |
| 3 | 2 | One dimensional motion | *3 Sep |
| (derivative, anti-derivative) | |||
| 4 | 3 | Three dimensional motion | 10 Sep |
| 5 | 4 | Newton's laws | 17 Sep |
| 6 | 5 | Newton's laws | 24 Sep |
| 7 | 8 | Linear momentum, center of mass | 1 Oct |
| 8 | 6 | Work and energy | 7 Oct |
| (integral used from here on) | |||
| 9 | 7 | Potential energy and conservation | *15 Oct |
| 10 | 8 | more on energy | 22 Oct |
| 11 | 9 | Rotation of rigid bodies | 29 Oct |
| 12 | 10 | Angular momentum and torque | 5 Nov |
| 13 | 13 | Oscillatory motion | 12 Nov |
| 14 | more on oscillation, start gravity | *19 Nov | |
| 15 | 12 | Gravitation | 26 Nov |
| *(short) | |||
Last date to drop classes: Thursday, Oct 25
Midterm notices due: Wednesday, Oct 3
The main text is by Fishbane, Gasiorowicz, and Thornton:
Physics for Scientists and Engineers, third edition.
Also Spiegel: Vector Analysis is used as a supplement. It is in the
Schaum outline series. There are not enough examples of the use of
vectors in the main text, but this has hundreds of such examples, and
there will be homework assignments from this as well as from Fishbane.
Homework will be due each week in class on Friday, at the beginning of class.
Thursday Discussion sections will include a short quiz, and each week I will post some material on the subject of the week's quiz together with practice problems on that subject.
 | I will be in my office |
| Tuesdays, 11-12 and 1-3 | |
| Wednesday and Friday 1-2:15 | |
| Or by appointment |
| Midterm Exams will be 5:00 - 6:15 P.M. |
| Monday, September 17 | |
| Monday, October 15 | |
| Monday, November 12 | |
| Final Exam: Monday, December 10, 2:00 PM |
All the exams will be in the LC building at 5:00 P.M. in rooms to be announced. Calculators or other electronic instruments will not be allowed in the exams.
The homework and quizzes together will count as 65% of a midterm exam, divided as 30% for the homework and 35% for the quizzes. The final will count as two midterms. This gives you a total of six grades for the semester ( hw+qz, mid, mid, mid, final, final). The lowest midterm exam grade will be weighted 0.5 and the highest midterm weighted as 1.5.
My office is in the physics building, room 320.
E-mail is
Phone is 284-2323, extension 7. Dialing from on campus it is also 8-7116.