assignments
due Fri Jan 22
Reading-Jan 22
- Book volume 1 - Chapter 13: sections 13.1 to 13.4
- Conceptual Questions: 2, 4, 6
due Mon Jan 25
Reading-Jan 25
- Book volume 1 - Chapter 13: sections 13.4 to the end of the chapter
- Conceptual Questions: 7, 8, 10
due Fri Jan 29
Assignment 1-Jan 29
- Book volume 1 - Chapter 14: sections 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5
- Conceptual Questions: 1-3-7
Student Learning Objectives
- To study the dynamics and energy associated with a distance-dependent force.
- To understand the basic observations of satellite and planetary motion.
- To practice force and energy ideas that will be essential for understanding electricity.
Chapter 13: 34, 42, 50, 63
due Mon Feb 1
Reading-Feb 1
- Book volume 1 - Chapter 14: to the end of the Chapter
- Conceptual Questions: 4-5-8-9
due Fri Feb 5
Reading-Feb 5
- Spend some time thinking how you approach a problem. Make a list of the steps you do or should do (i.e. Free body diagram, writing unknown and unknown quantity), and of the questions you ask your-self in solving the problem (i.e. are this forces conservative or not? is it momentum conserved?). We will discuss this assignment as first thing on Friday morning. Let me know if you have questions!
due Mon Feb 8
Assignment 2- Feb 8
Student Learning Objectives
- To understand the physics and mathematics of oscillations.
- To draw and interpret oscillatory graphs.
- To learn the concepts of phase and phase constant.
- To understand and use energy conservation in oscillatory systems.
- To understand the basic ideas of damping and resonance.
Problems: 14.30, 14.35, 14.40, 14.80
Rewrite in a clear way each step of problem done in class 14. 49
due Wed Feb 10
Reading -Feb 10
- Reading: 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 2, 3, 4
due Fri Feb 12
Reading -Feb 12
- Reading: 15.4, 15.5
- Conceptual Questions: 6, 7, 9, 10
due Mon Feb 15
Assignment 3- Feb 15
- Laboratory report
- All the missing exercises
- Problems: 13.45, 14.76
due Wed Feb 17
Reading - Feb 17
- Missing Conceptual Questions
- Missing Problems and reports!
due Fri Feb 19
Reading - Feb 19
- Reading: Chapter 16
- Conceptual Questions: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12
due Mon Feb 22
Assignment 4-Feb 22
Student Learning Objectives Chapter 15-16
- 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.
- To develop atomic-level models of solids, liquids, and gases.
- To recognize and use the state variables that characterize macroscopic phenomena.
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, 50, 53, 60, 63
- Chapter 16, Problems: 34, 35
- Reading: 17.1, 17.2
due Wed Feb 24
Reading-Feb 24
- Reading: 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6
- Conceptual Questions: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9
due Fri Feb 26
Reading-Feb 26
- Reading: 17.7, 17.8
- Conceptual Questions: 11, 12
due Mon Feb 29
Assignment 5-Feb 29
Student Learning Objectives chapter 16
- 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.
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: 45, 64
due Wed Mar 2
Reading-March 2
- Review 9.1 from Volume 1
- reading 18.1 - 18.2 - 18.3
due Wed Mar 2
Mid-term
Chapter 13 to 16 included:
I will send the midterm by email Friday 2/26
due Fri Mar 4
Reading-March 4
If haven't done it for Wednesday:
- Review 9.1 from Volume 1
- reading 18.1 - 18.2 - 18.3
New reading:
- Reading 18 finish the chapter
- Conceptual Questions: 4, 6, 8, 9
-Please check your grade book, some of you miss a good number of conceptual questions.
due Mon Mar 7
Assignment-March 7
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 Wed Mar 9
Assignment & Reading-March 9
- Carefully review Chapter 17 and 18
- Problems: 18.39 - 18.45 - 18.46
- missing problems
due Fri Mar 11
Assignment & Reading-March 11
- Update your formula sheet
- Problems: 18.51 - 18.54 - 18.60 - 18.65
- Reading: chapter 19.1 - 19.2 - 19.3
due Tue Mar 29
Assignment & Reading-March 28
- Reading: 19.1 19.2 19.3 19. 4
- Problems : 18.61 and 18.63 plus missing problems.
due Wed Mar 30
Reading- March
- Reading finish chapter 19
- Conceptual Questions:1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9
due Fri Apr 1
Problems in class
- On April 1st will go to a conference. Forest will be in class to help you with the exercises due for Monday. I will ask him to record who is present. The assignment is composed of eight exercises, some of them might take you some time.
- To have a proficient class time, friday you must come to class having solved or tried to solve at least some of the problems.
- Work as a group.
due Mon Apr 4
Assignment April 4
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, 71 72
due Wed Apr 6
Reading - April 6
- Reading (from the third volume!!!!): 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 7
due Fri Apr 8
Reading - April 8
- Reading: Finish chapter 20
- Conceptual Questions: 6, 9, 11, 12
due Mon Apr 11
Assignment April 11
Student Learning Objectives
- 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 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.
- Problems: 20.40, 20.44, 20.59, 20.58, 20.68, 20.73
- reading chapter 21: 21.1, 21.2, 21.2, 21.3, 21.4
due Wed Apr 13
reading April 13
due Fri Apr 15
reading April 15
- Reading: 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4
- Conceptual Questions: 1, 2, 3, 5, 7
due Mon Apr 18
Assignment April 18
Student Learning Objectives CH 21
- 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 threedimensions.
- To understand beats as the superposition of two waves of unequal frequency
Problems: 21.39, 21.44, 21.50, 21.55, 21.63, 21.67, 21.75
(it was —21.39, 21.44, 21.50, 21.55, 22.63, 22.67, 22.75)
due Wed Apr 20
reading April 20
- Reading: Finish chapter 22
- Conceptual Questions:8, 9, 10
due Fri Apr 22
reading April 22
- Reading: 23.1,23.2,23.3,23.4,23.5
- Conceptual Questions: tbd
due Mon Apr 25
Assignment April 25
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: 22.30, 22.37, 22.41, 22.45, 22.58, 22.61, 22.75
(it was 22.30, 22.37, 22.41, 22.45, 22.58, 21.61, 21.64 + 21.75 assigned in class)
due Wed Apr 27
reading April 27
- Reading: 23.6,23.7.23.8
- Conceptual Questions: 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12
due Fri Apr 29
reading April 29
- review waves and optics
- update your formula sheet
- come in class with questions and problem to solve
- Bring missing assignments on optic and wave (as many as you can)
due Mon May 2
Assignment May 2
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.
23.39, 23.45, 23.48, 23.79
- review thermodynamic
- update your formula sheet
- come in class with questions and problems to solve on the topic of thermodynamic
- Bring missing assignments on thermodynamic
due Fri May 6
Take-home due May 6
In class Final May 7
