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Physics 1500 Lecture Plan
Fall Semester 2005
Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4,
Week 5, Week 6, Week 7, Week 8,
Week 9, Week 10, Week 11, Week 12,
Week 13, Week 14, Week 15 , Week 16
Evolving Provisional Agenda
Week 1:
- August 25th
- Introduction to the class
- What is physics about?
Suggested reading:
"Ahistory of pi", Petr Beckmann,
St.Martin's Press, 1971
"One, Two, Three,...,
Infinity", George Gamow, Dover Science Books, 1947
"Relativity, the special and
the general theory". Albert Einstein, Wings Books, 1961
"Six not so easy pieces", Richard
P. Feynman, Basic Books, 1963
"Gravity", George Gamow, Dover
Publication, 1962
"QED, the strange theory of
light and matter", Richard P. Feynman, Princeton University Press,
1985
"What is life", Erwin Schrodinger,
Cambridge University Press, 1944
Note: I indicate the year of first publication not
the year of edition by the indicated editor.
- Measurements
- unit systems
- conversion factors
Week 2:
- September
1st
- 2) OPTICS
- Speed of light
- Reflection
- Flat mirrors
- Spherical mirrors
Week 3:
Week 4:
- September
13th
- Object image formula
- Telescopes and microscopes
- 3) MECHANICS 1: Concept of force
- Springs and Hook's law
- Vectors
Week 5:
- September
20th
- Mass hanging at a spring
- Pulleys
- Inclined planes
- September 22nd
- Frame hanging
- Simple structure 1
- Simple strucutre 2
Week
6:
- September
27th
- September
29th
Week 7:
- October
4th
- October
6th (No class)
Week 8:
- October
11th
- Instantaneous velocity
- Acceleration
- A step toward calculus
- Gravitational acceleration
- October
13th
Week 9:
Week 10:
Week 11:
- November
1st
- 6) MECHANICS 4: Motion along a curve path
- November
3rd
Week 12:
- November
8th
- November
10th
- 7) MECHANICS 5: Momentum and Energy
- Lecture
notes
- Energy and work
- Kinetic energy
- Gravitational potential energy
- Eleastic potential energy
- Homework7
and solutions.
Week 13:
- November
15th
- November
17th
- The third law of motion and momentum
- Two objects collision with only one emerging object
Week 14:
- November
22nd
- Two objects collision with two emerging objects
- The center of mass reference system
- November
24th, Thanksgiving, No class!
Week 15:
- November
29th
- 8) MECHANICS 6: Density and pressure in fluids
- Lecture notes
- Density
- Pressure
- December
1st
Week 16:
- December
6th
- 10) Electricity and
Magnetism
- Lecture notes.
- Electrostatic force
- Electric circuits and Ohm's law
- Electric power
- Magnetic force
- Homework 10 .
- December 8th
Final week:
- Friday December 16th, 1:00PM ->3:00PM,
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