assignments
Legend:
- RA - Reading Assignment
- A - Assignment
- TH - Take-at-Home
- F - Final
due Fri Jan 23
RA 1- Fri 23
- Reading: 14.1,14.2,14.3
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 3, 7
due Mon Jan 26
RA 2- Mon 26
- Reading: 14.4,14.5,14.6
- Conceptual Questions: 4, 5, 8, 9
due Wed Jan 28
RA 3- Wed 26
- Reading: 14.7
- Conceptual Questions: 10, 11, 12
due Fri Jan 30
A 1- Fri 26
- Problems: 14.31, 14.35, 14.40, 14.49, 14.57, 14.62
due Mon Feb 2
RA 4- Mon 2
- Reading (from the third volume!!!!): 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7
due Wed Feb 4
RA 5- Wed 4
- Reading: Finish chapter 20
- Conceptual Questions: 6, 9, 11, 12
due Fri Feb 6
A 2- Fri 6
- Problems: 20.40, 20.44, 20.59, 20.58, 20.68, 20.73
Snow day exercises
In class Lab
due Sun Feb 8
RA 6- Mon 9
- Reading (from the third volume!!!!): From 21.1 to 21.4 included
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 2, 3, 5
due Fri Feb 13
A 3- Fri 13
Student Learning Objectives
- 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.
- To understand beats as the superposition of two waves of unequal frequency.
Problems: 21.39, 21.44, 21.50, 21.55 + 20.80 (it requires calculus) or 20.71 (they really are from chapter 20)
due Mon Feb 16
RA 7- Mon 16
- Reading: Finish chapter 21
- Conceptual Questions: 7, 8, 9
due Wed Feb 18
RA 8- Wed 18
- Reading: 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7
due Fri Feb 20
A 4- Fri 20
Student Learning Objectives CH 22
- To introduce and use the wave model of light.
- To understand how and why interference of light occurs.
- To understand the interference patterns of double slits and diffraction gratings.
- To study the inevitable spreading of waves due to diffraction.
Problems: 21.61, 21.64, 22.30, 22.37, 22.41, 22.45, 22.58
due Mon Feb 23
RA 9- Mon 23
- Reading: Finish chapter 22
- Conceptual Questions:8, 9, 10
due Wed Feb 25
RA 10- Wed 25
- Reading: 23.1,23.2,23.3,23.4,23.5
- Conceptual Questions: tbd
due Fri Feb 27
A 5- Fri 27
Student Learning Objectives CH 22
- To look at how interferometers make controlled use of the interference of light.
Student Learning Objectives CH 23
- To understand the ray model of light and its domain of applicability.
- To understand reflection and refraction.
- To apply ray tracing from situations ranging from apertures to image formation.
- To understand how, when, and why images are seen.
- To apply these ideas to thin lenses and spherical mirrors.
Problems: 22.63, 22.67, 22.75 + 23.39, 23.45, 23.48, 23.79
due Mon Mar 2
RA 11- Mon 2
- Reading: 23.6,23.7.23.8
- Conceptual Questions: 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12
due Wed Mar 4
RA 12- Wed 4
- Reading:24.1, 24.2, 24.3
- Conceptual Questions:1, 2, 3
due Fri Mar 6
RA 13- Fri 6
- Reading:Finish Chapter 24
- Conceptual Questions: 4, 6, 7
due Mon Mar 9
MID TERM
I will send it by email on Monday the 2nd (At the latex on Tuesday morning)
due Mon Mar 9
RA 14- Mon 9
- Reading: 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 2, 3, 4
due Wed Mar 11
RA 15- Wed 11
- Reading: 15.4, 15.5
- Conceptual Questions: 6, 7, 9, 10
due Fri Mar 13
A 6- Fri 13
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.
- To use an ideal-fluid model to study fluid flow.
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 24, Problem: 42
Chapter 15, Problems: 33, 40, 50, 53, 60, 63
due Mon Mar 9
RA 14- Mon 9
- Reading: 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 2, 3, 4
due Wed Mar 11
RA 15- Wed 11
- Reading: 15.4, 15.5
- Conceptual Questions: 6, 7, 9, 10
due Fri Mar 13
A 6- Fri 13
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.
- To use an ideal-fluid model to study fluid flow.
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 24, Problem: 42
Chapter 15, Problems: 33, 40, 50, 53, 60, 63
due Mon Mar 30
RA 16- Mon 30
- Reading: Chapter 16
- Conceptual Questions: 4 - 6 - 8 - 10 - 12
due Wed Apr 1
RA 17- Wed 1
- Reading: 17.1, 17.2,
- Conceptual Questions: 2 - 3
due Fri Apr 3
A 7- Fri 3
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.
- To understand and use the ideal-gas law.
- To understand and practice using pV diagrams for ideal-gas processes.
Chapter 16, Problems: 34; 35; 45; 58; 64; 73; 69.
due Mon Apr 6
RA 18- Mon 6
- Reading: 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6
- Conceptual Questions: 4-6-8-9
due Wed Apr 8
RA 19- Wed 8
- Reading: 17.7, 17.8
- Conceptual Questions: 11-12
due Fri Apr 10
A 8- Fri 10
Student Learning Objectives
- 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.
Chapter 17: 38, 48, 59, 62, 79, 82
due Mon Apr 13
RA 20- Mon 13
- Reading: 18.1-18.2-18.3-18.4
due Wed Apr 15
RA 21- Wed 15
- Reading: all chapter 18
- Conceptual Questions: 3, 6, 8, 9
due Fri Apr 17
A 9- Fri 17
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; 46; 51; 54; 60; 65
due Mon Apr 20
RA 22- Mon 20
- Reading: 19.1-19.2-19.3
- Conceptual Questions: 1,2,4
due Wed Apr 22
RA 23- Wed 22
- Reading: 19.4-19.5-19.6
- Conceptual Questions: 5,6,8,9
due Thu Apr 23
A 10- Fri 23
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, 42, 46, 48, 59, 70, 72
due Mon Apr 27
RA 22- Mon 27
This reading assignment is 4 points instead than 2.
Review Chapters 15-16. Each one of you should come to class with:
- List of important topics
- Formula sheet with main formulas
- Two problems of your choice - It should something that you consider challenging or interesting - You should come to class with a clear strategy on how to solve them.
due Wed Apr 29
RA 23- Wed 29
This reading assignment is 4 points instead than 2.
Review Chapters 17-18-19. Each one of you should come to class with:
- List of important topics
- Formula sheet with main formulas
- Two problems of your choice - It should something that you consider challenging or interesting - You should come to class with a clear strategy on how to solve them.
due Fri May 1
RA 24- Fri 1
This reading assignment is 4 points instead than 2.
Review Chapters 14-20-21.Each one of you should come to class with:
- List of important topics
- Formula sheet with main formulas
- Two problems of your choice - It should something that you consider challenging or interesting - You should come to class with a clear strategy on how to solve them.
due Mon May 4
RA 25- Mon 4
This reading assignment is 4 points instead than 2.
Review Chapters 22-23-24. Each one of you should come to class with:
- List of important topics
- Formula sheet with main formulas
- Two problems of your choice - It should something that you consider challenging or interesting - You should come to class with a clear strategy on how to solve them.
NO CLASS ON 05-06-2015
due Fri May 8
Second take at home test
IN CLASS FINAL - SATURDAY 05/09/2015 at 9 am
FINAL GRADE
