assignments
There will be 22 pre-class assignments, 10 weekly assignments, 2 take at home tests and a in class final
Pre-class Assignments
due Sat Jan 25
Pre-class-1
Reading: Chapter 15, sections 1-3
Conceptual Questions: 2, 3, 4
due Mon Jan 27
Pre-class-2
Reading: Chapter 15, section 4 (we will skip section 5-6)
Conceptual Questions: 6, 7, 8
due Sat Feb 1
Pre-class-3
Reading: Chapter 16 - all
Conceptual Questions: 4 - 6 - 8 - 10 - 12
due Tue Feb 4
Pre-class-4
By lunch time!
Reading: Chapter 17 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Conceptual Questions: 2 - 3 - 4
Since we did not meet on the fifth, the pre-class assignment 4 has an extension. New due date 2/9/2014 by lunch time!
due Tue Feb 11
Pre-class-5
By lunch time!
Reading: Chapter 17 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8
Conceptual Questions: 7 - 10 - 12
due Sun Feb 16 1:00 pm
Pre-class-6
Reading: Chapter 18 :1-2-3
Conceptual Questions: 4 - 5 - 7
due Tue Feb 18 1:00 pm
Pre-class-7
Reading: Chapter 18 : all
Conceptual Questions: 4 - 5 - 7- 8 - 9
due Sun Feb 23 1:00 pm
Pre-class-8
Reading: Entropy file
- Please explain in your own words the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
- Explain why in a free expansion process entropy increases. Describe how you can calculate \(\Delta S\) in this situation.
due Tue Feb 25 1:00 pm
Pre-class-9
Reading: Chapter 19: 1-2-3
Conceptual Questions: 1-2-4
due Sun Mar 2 1:00 pm
Pre-class-10
Reading: Chapter 19: 4-5-6
Conceptual Questions: 5-6-8
due Wed Mar 5
Pre-class-11
Half-semester Review:
Come to class with two questions (about topic you would like review and discuss further), and select one problem, to propose to the other students.
Practice problems. We will solve some of these problems in class. Read them, and try to solve some of them. The goal is to select the problems that you think would be good to discuss in class.
- Chapter 15: 44, 71
- Chapter 16: 51
- Chapter 17: 63, 70 (this was suppose to be 79)
- Chapter 18: 37, 51, 41
- Chapter 19: 61, 63, 70
due Mon Mar 10 7:30 am
Pre-class-12
- Reading: chapter 12 (book volume I), sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
- Conceptual questions: 2, 3, 5, 8
due Mon Mar 31 7:30 am
Pre-class-13
- Reading: Chapter 12 (book volume I), Sections 6, 7, 8, 9
- Conceptual questions: 9, 10, 11
due Wed Apr 2 7:30 am
Pre-class-14
- Reading: Chapter 12 (book volume I), sections 10, 11
- Conceptual questions: 12, 13
due Wed Apr 9 7:30 am
Pre-class-15
Reading: Book volume I : Chapter 14: 14.1 and 14.2
Conceptual questions: 3
Book volume III: Chapter 20: 20.1- 20.2 20.3
Conceptual questions: 1, 4
due Mon Apr 14 7:30 am
Pre-class-16
Reading: Chapter 20: 20.4, 20.5, 20.6, 20.7
Conceptual questions: 7, 9, 12
due Mon Apr 21 7:30 am
Pre-class-17
Reading: 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4
Conceptual questions: 21.1, 21.2, 21.6
due Wed Apr 23 7:30 am
Pre-class-18
Reading: 21.5, 21.6, 22.1, 22.2, 22.3
Conceptual questions: 22.1, 22.3, 22.4
due Mon Apr 28 7:30 am
Pre-class-19
Reading: 22.4, 22.5, 22.6
Conceptual questions: 22.6, 22.9, 22.10
due Wed Apr 30 7:30 am
Pre-class-20
Reading: 23.1, 23.2, 23.3, 23.4, 23.5
Conceptual questions: 23.3, 23.4
due Mon May 5 7:30 am
Pre-class-21
Select topics you want to review chapters 12-20-21-22
due Wed May 7 7:30 am
Pre-class-22
Select topics you want to review on chapters 12-15-16-17-18-20-21-22
Weekly Assignments
due Mon Feb 3
Assignment 1
Student Learning Objectives
- To understand pressure in liquids and gases.
- To practice using a variety of pressure units.
- To use Archimedes’ principle to understand buoyancy.
Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of the topics listed in the learning objectives.
Chapter 15, Problems: 33, 40, 50, 53
due Mon Feb 10
Assignment 2
Student Learning Objectives
- To develop atomic-level models of solids, liquids, and gases.
- To recognize and use the state variables that characterize macroscopic phenomena.
- To understand the idea of phase change and interpret a phase diagram.
Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of the topics listed in the learning objectives.
Chapter 16, Problems: 34; 35; 45; 63
due Mon Feb 17
Assignment 3
Student Learning Objectives
Chapter 16:
- To understand and use the ideal-gas law.
- To understand and practice using pV diagrams for ideal-gas processes.
Chapter 17:
- To understand energy conservation as expressed in the first law of thermodynamics.
- To begin the process of understanding the concept of heat.
- To learn how heat is related to temperature change through specific heats and molar specific heats.
- To apply heat transfer ideas to practical situations of calorimetry.
- To understand adiabatic processes.
Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of the topics listed in the learning objectives.
Chapter 16, Problems: 58; 64; 73;
Chapter 17, Problems: 48; 59; 62
due Mon Feb 24
Assignment 4
Student Learning Objectives
- To recognize the connection between temperature, thermal energy, and the average translational kinetic energy of the molecules in the system.
- To understand the molecular basis for pressure and the ideal-gas law.
- To use the micro/macro connection to predict the molar specific heats of gases and solids.
- To understand how heat is transferred via molecular collisions and how thermally interacting systems reach equilibrium.
- To obtain a qualitative understanding of entropy, the second law of thermodynamics, and some of the implications of the second law.
Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of the topics listed in the learning objectives.
Chapter 18: 39; 45; 54; 60
due Wed Mar 5
Assignment 5
Student Learning Objectives
- To understand the thermodynamics of the four basic processes of an ideal gas.
- To understand the physics of simple heat engines and refrigerators.
- To recognize that thermodynamics has practical applications to real devices.
- To learn that there is a limit to the efficiency of a heat engine.
Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of the topics listed in the learning objectives.
Chapter 19: 35, 46, 59, 72
due Mon Mar 31
Assignment 6
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.
Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of the topics listed in the learning objectives.
Chapter 12: 12, 20, 22, 54,
due Mon Apr 7
Assignment 7
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.
Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of the topics listed in the learning objectives.
Chapter 12: 62, 64, 70, 79
due Mon Apr 14
Assignment 8
Student Learning Objectives
Chapter 14:
- To understand the physics and mathematics of oscillations.
- To draw and interpret oscillatory graphs.
- To learn the concepts of phase and phase constant
Chapter 20:
- To use the wave model and understand how it differs from the particle model.
- To visualize wave motion and develop intuition about waves.
- To work with functions of two variables, using graphical representations.
Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of the topics listed in the learning objectives.
Problems Chapter 14: 10, 31
Chapter 20: 4, 6, 9, 58
due Mon Apr 21
Assignment 9
- To work with functions of two variables, using both graphical and mathematical representations.
- To become familiar with the properties of sinusoidal waves, such as wavelength, wave number, phase, and frequency.
- To study important characteristics of sound waves and light waves.
- To understand the Doppler effect.
Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of the topics listed in the learning objectives.
Problems Chapter 20: 53, 59, 60, 68
due Mon Apr 28
Assignment 10
- To understand and apply the principle of superposition.
- To understand that standing waves are the superposition of two traveling waves.
- To study the basic properties of standing waves.
- To understand how and why interference occurs in one dimension and in two and three
dimensions.
Please, come to my office or talk with the physics tutor if you feel that you need clarification about any of the topics listed in the learning objectives.
Problems Chapter 21: 44, 55, 61, 67
Mid-term
due Fri Mar 14
Mid-Term
See email (I will send it on March 7th).
Second take-home
Exam
Final grade
