PHY 121 FALL 2023 SCHEDULE - 4:30 MW
INSTRUCTOR G.B. Adams
Topic Day Date Topic Reading
# Chapter: Sections
1. M 8/21: Vectors; Position and Velocity review 1:1-9
2:1 3:1
2. W 8/23: Acceleration; Free Fall 2:2-6
3. M 8/28: Projectile Motion 3:2-3
4. W 8/30: Circular Motion; Relative Velocity 3:4-5
M 9/04: LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
5. W 9/06: Newton's Laws; Weight 4:1-6, 5:5
TEST #1 During Recitation on THU 9/07
TEST #1 covers Topics 1-4
6. M 9/11: Forces Between Surfaces; Slopes; 5:1-2,tension***
Tension
7. W 9/13: Pulleys; Elevators 5:1-2
8. M 9/18: Friction 5:3 (midpage 146)*
9. W 9/20: Forces in Circular Motion reread p. 84,5:4
10. M 9/25: Scalar Product; Work; Kinetic Energy 1:10 (top page 22)*
work.pdf
6:1,3 (midpage 182)*
11. W 9/27: Springs; Conservative Forces 6:3 (top page 183)*
7:3 (page 217)*
GisCons.pdf
14:2 (midpage 432)*
TEST #2 During Recitation on THU 9/28
TEST #2 covers Topics 5-8
12. M 10/02: Power; Potential & Mechanical Energy 6:4 7:1-2 (top page 212)*
meCons.pdf
13. W 10/04: Force from Potential Energy; 7:4-5
Energy Diagrams
M 10/09: FALL BREAK
14. W 10/11: Vertical Springs; Energy Conservation 7:2 energy.pdf
14:4 (midpage 443)*
TEST #3 During Recitation on THU 10/12
TEST #3 covers Topics 9-13
15. M 10/16: Center of Mass; Momentum and Impulse 8:1-2,5
16. W 10/18: Collisions 8:3-4
17.a M 10/23: Rotational Kinematics; 9:1-5 10:1-2 p. 312**
Rotational Inertia; Torque
17.b W 10/25: Torque; 2nd Law for Rotation
TEST #4 During Recitation on THU 10/26
TEST #4 covers Topics 14-17a
18. M 10/30: Statics; Energy and Rotation 9:4 10:4 11:1-3
19. W 11/01: Rolling 10:3 (midpage 313)*
20. M 11/06: Angular Momentum for Rotation in 2d angmom2D.pdf, pp. 320-321
21. W 11/08: Torque and Angular Momentum 1:10 10:1,5-7
Generalized
22. M 11/13: Universal Gravitation 13:1-3,7
23. W 11/15: Orbits and Conservation Principles; 13:4-5
Kepler's Laws
TEST #5 During Recitation on THU 11/16
TEST #5 covers Topics 17b-21
23.b M 11/20: Orbits and Conservation Principles; 13:4-5
Kepler's Laws
24. W 11/22: Simple Harmonic Motion DiffEq+ 14:1-4 (midpage 443)*
25. M 11/27: The Pendulum; Resonance in 14:4-6,8 TaylorSeries++
Driven SHM
25.b W 11/29: Continuation of Topics from Class 25
TEST #6 During Recitation on THU 11/30
TEST #6 covers Topics 22-25
* In these cases, the reading stops in the middle of a section.
The note indicates the location where the reading assignment
ends. In most cases, the relevant section is assigned again
later in the class; the section reading resumes at the earlier
stopping place.
** In this case, page 312 is an additional page to read in
Chapter 10 in addition to sections 1 and 2. Also, in section
9.4, your reading stops at the bottom of page 285.
*** Read the introduction and "Tension in one dimension"
on Wikipedia's Tension page
+ Read the introduction to Wikipedia's Differential Equations page
++ Read the introduction and Definition on Wikipedia's Taylor
Series webpage
FINAL EXAM (30 Numerical Questions)
MW 4:30 class -- MON Dec 4 4:50- 6:40 PM