assignments
due Fri Sep 2
Reading-sep 02
- Chapter 1: sections 1.1 to 1.5
- Conceptual Questions: 3, 4
In case your book did not arrive yet, here is the first chapter of the book, you must login to be able to see it (right upper corner). If you cannot login contact me at salimbeni@marlboro.edu. If you cannot open the file try to download the linked file.
due Mon Sep 5
Reading-sep 05
- Chapter 1: finish the chapter
- Conceptual Questions: 5, 6, 7, 8
due Wed Sep 7
Assignment 1-sep 07
- Chapter 2: 2.1, 2.2
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 4, 5, 6
Learning Goals
- Particle model
- Motion Diagram
- Understand differences between position, velocity and acceleration. Recognize the relationship between them.
- Gain initial experience with graphical addition and subtraction of vectors.
- Analyze a problem statement and translate the information into other representations
- Position vs time diagram in one dimension
- Significant figure
- Unit conversion
These are your learning goals from the reading, discussion and exercises on Chapter 1. Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of these topics.
Many exercises are about pictorial representation and graphical analysis of a physical situation. In addition to answer the questions in the problem, you can solve the problem, if you know how.
Chapter 1- Exercises: 18, 21, 27, 28, 42
due Fri Sep 9
Reading-sep 09
- Chapter 2: 2.3, 2.4, 2.5
- Conceptual Questions: 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
due Mon Sep 12
Reading-sep 12
- Finish chapter 2
- Chapter 3: 3.1, 3.2
due Wed Sep 14
Assignment 2-sep 14
- To differentiate clearly between the concepts of position, velocity, and acceleration.
- The interpret kinematic graphs.
- To translate kinematic information between verbal, pictorial, graphical, and algebraic representations.
- To learn the basic ideas of calculus (differentiation and integration) and to utilize these ideas both symbolically and graphically.
- To understand free-fall motion.
- To begin the development of a robust problem-solving strategy. To solve quantitative kinematics problems and to interpret the results.
These are your learning goals from the reading, discussion and exercises on Chapter 2. Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of these topics.
- Exercises Chapter 2: 20, 26, 37, 78, 83. For who wants something that includes calculus you can change one of the previous problems with problem 80. (note for Jeff: please, skip the exercise 20 and do the 27 and 28 from chapter 1 instead. Designe the motion diagrams on the problems from chapter 2)
due Fri Sep 16
Reading-sep 16
- Finish chapter 3
- Please, make a first draft of a formula sheet.
due Mon Sep 19
Reading-sep 19
- Chapter 4: 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7
due Wed Sep 21
Assignment 3-sep 21
Learning Goals
- To understand the basic properties of vectors.
- To add and subtract vectors both graphically and using components.
- To be able to decompose a vector into its components and to reassemble vector components into a magnitude and a direction.
- To recognize and use the basic unit vectors.
- To work with tilted coordinate systems.
These are your learning goals from the reading, discussion and exercises on Chapter 3. Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of these topics.
Chapter 3: 22, 23, 29, 37, 43
due Fri Sep 23
Reading-sep 23
- Chapter 4: finish chapter 4
- Conceptual Questions: 6, 8, 10, 13, 15
due Mon Sep 26
Reading-sep 26
- Chapter 5: 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
- Conceptual Questions: 2, 4
due Wed Sep 28
Assignment 4-sep 28
Learning Goals
- To identify the acceleration vector for curvilinear motion.
- To compute two-dimensional trajectories.
- To understand projectile motion.
- To understand relative motion.
- To understand the kinematics of uniform circular motion.
- To understand angular acceleration and the kinematics of nonuniform circular motion.
These are your learning goals from the reading, discussion and exercises on Chapter 4. Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of these topics.
Chapter 4: 45, 48, 55, 58, 63, 73 (extra 70)
due Fri Sep 30
Reading-sep 30
- Chapter 5: finish
- Conceptual questions:11, 12, 14, 15
- Review main concepts, and summarize them in your formula sheet
due Mon Oct 3
Reading-oct 3
- Chapter 6: 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
- Conceptual questions: 1, 4, 5
due Wed Oct 5
MIDTERM-oct 5
See email
due Fri Oct 7
Reading-oct 7
- Chapter 6: finish
- Conceptual questions: 9, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18
due Mon Oct 10
Reading-oct 10
- Chapter 7:7.1, 7.2, 7.3
- Conceptual Questions: 6, 7, 10
due Wed Oct 12
Assignment 5-oct 12
Student Learning Objectives chapter 5-6
- To recognize what does and does not constitute a force.
- To identify the specific forces acting on an object.
- To draw an accurate free-body diagram of an object.
- To begin the process of understanding the connection between force and motion.
- To begin learning how to explain an observation on the basis of physical principles.
- To draw and make effective use of free-body diagrams.
- To recognize and solve simple equilibrium problems.
- To distinguish mass, weight, and gravity.
- To learn and use simple models of friction and drag.
- To apply the full strategy for force and motion problems to problems in single-particle dynamics.
- Exercises Chapter 5: 28, 57
- Exercises Chapter 6: 28, 48, 51, 55, 66 (you can change one the previous problems with 72, it requires calculus)
due Fri Oct 14
Reading-oct 14
- Chapter 7:7.4, 7.5
- Conceptual Questions: 11, 13, 14
due Wed Oct 19
Assignment 6-oct 12
Student Learning Objectives chapter 7:
- To learn how two objects interact.
- To identify action/reaction pairs of forces.
- To understand and use Newton’s third law.
- To understand how to use propulsion forces and tension forces.
These are your learning goals from the reading, discussion and exercises on Chapter 7. Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of these topics.
Exercises : 22, 23, 35, 46, 49, 55
due Fri Oct 21
Reading-oct 21
- Chapter 8: 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
- Conceptual Questions: 2, 3, 4
due Mon Oct 24
Reading-oct 24
Still the same reading since we did not discussed on Friday plus 8.4
- Chapter 8: 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
- Conceptual Questions: 2, 3, 4
due Wed Oct 26
Assignment 7-oct 26
- Assignment 6 due
- Use this week to try to turn in missing exercises, you can check them in the grades page
- For Chapter 8: 25, 34
due Fri Oct 28
Reading-oct 28
- Chapter 8: Finish chapter
- Conceptual Questions: 8, 9
due Mon Oct 31
Reading-oct 31
- Chapter 9: 9.1, 9.2, 9.3
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 2, 3, 4
due Wed Nov 2
Assignment 8-Nov 2
- Student Learning Objectives chapter 8:
- To compute two-dimensional trajectories.
- To understand the dynamics of uniform circular motion.
- To learn the basic ideas of orbital motion.
- To answer “How does the water stay in the bucket?” and related questions.
- Chapter 8:41, 43, 51, 55, 75
due Fri Nov 4
Reading-Nov 4
- Chapter 9: Finish chapter 9
- Conceptual Questions: 6, 7, 13
due Mon Nov 7
Reading-Nov 7
- Chapter 10: 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5
- Conceptual Questions: 2, 5, 6, 7, 8
due Wed Nov 9
Assignment 9-Nov 9
- Student Learning Objectives chapter 9:
- To understand interactions from the new perspective of impulse and momentum.
- To learn what is meant by an isolated system.
- To apply conservation of momentum in simple situations.
- To understand the basic ideas of inelastic collisions, explosions, and recoil
- Chapter 9: 40, 42, 45, 70, 72
due Fri Nov 11
Reading-Nov 11
- Chapter 10: Finish chapter 10
- Conceptual Questions: 12, 13, 14
due Mon Nov 14
Reading-Nov 14
- Chapter 11: 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 11.4
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 3, 5
due Wed Nov 16
Assignment 10-Nov 16
- Student Learning Objectives chapter 10:
- To introduce the concepts of kinetic and potential energy.
- To learn Hooke’s law for springs and the new idea of a restoring force.
- To learn to interpret energy diagrams.
- Chapter 10: 41, 43, 48, 52, 68, 71
due Fri Nov 18
Reading-Nov 18
- Chapter 11: Finish chapter 11
- Conceptual Questions: 7, 8, 11, 12
due Mon Nov 21
Reading-Nov 21
- Chapter 12: 12.1,12.2,12.3,12.4
- Conceptual Questions:1, 2, 4
due Wed Nov 23
Assignment 11-Nov 23
- Student Learning Objectives chapter 11
- To introduce and use the basic energy model.
- To recognize transformations between kinetic, potential, and thermal energy.
- To define work and use the work-kinetic energy theorem.
- To develop a complete statement of the law of conservation of energy.
- To introduce and use the idea of power
- Exercises : 42, 50, 54, 65, 61, 72
due Mon Nov 28
Reading-Nov 28
- Chapter 12: review 12.2,12.3,12.4, read 12.5
- Conceptual Questions: 8, 9
due Wed Nov 30
Reading-Nov 30
- Chapter 12: 12.6,12.7,12.8
- Conceptual Questions: 10
due Fri Dec 2
Reading-Dec 02
- Chapter 12: finish chapter 12
- Conceptual Questions: 11,12,13
due Mon Dec 5
Second test-Dec 5
See email sent on Nov 28
due Wed Dec 7
Assignment 12-Dec 7
- Updated your formula sheet and bring it to class to review together
- Select 3 problems to solve in class on any of the topics we studied this semester. Please choose problem that you consider challenging.
- Student Learning Objectives
- To extend the particle model to the rigid-body model.
- To understand the equilibrium of an extended object.
- To understand rotation about a fixed axis.
- To understand rolling motion.
- To introduce the vector description of rotational motion and angular momentum.
- Exercises : 22, 62, 64, 70, 84, 85
due Tue Dec 13
In class exam-Dec 13
