Note: This is the new schedule (as of 4/02). The old
schedule is here.
PHY 121 SPRING 2023 SCHEDULE - 3:05 MW
INSTRUCTOR G.B. Adams
Topic Day Date Topic Reading
# Chapter: Sections
M 1/09: Introduction; Exercise on Vectors
1. W 1/11: Vectors; Position and Velocity 1:1-9 2:1
M 1/16: Martin Luther King Day Holiday
2. W 1/18: Acceleration; Free Fall (MQ0) 2:2-6
3. M 1/23: Projectile Motion (MQ1) 3:1-3
4. W 1/25: Circular Motion; Relative Velocity 3:4-5
5. M 1/30: Newton's Laws; Weight (MQ2) 4:1-6, 5:5
6. W 2/01: Forces Between Surfaces; Slopes; 5:1-2,tension***
Tension
TEST #1 During Recitation on FRI 2/03
TEST #1 covers Topics 1-4
7. M 2/06: Pulleys; Elevators 5:1-2
8. W 2/08: Friction 5:3 (midpage 146)*
9. M 2/13: Forces in Circular Motion (MQ3) reread p. 84,5:4
10. W 2/15: Scalar Product; Work; Kinetic Energy 1:10 (top page 22)*
work.pdf
6:1,3 (midpage 182)*
TEST #2 During Recitation on FRI 2/17
TEST #2 covers Topics 5-8
11. M 2/20: Springs; Conservative Forces 6:3 (top page 183)*
7:3 (page 217)*
GisCons.pdf
14:2 (midpage 432)*
12. W 2/22: Power; Potential & Mechanical Energy 6:4 7:1-2 (top page 212)*
meCons.pdf
13. M 2/27: Force from Potential Energy; 7:4-5
Energy Diagrams (MQ4)
14. W 3/01: Vertical Springs; Energy Conservation 7:2 energy.pdf
14:4 (midpage 443)*
TEST #3 During Recitation on FRI 3/03
TEST #3 covers Topics 9-13
3/06- 3/10 Spring Break
15. M 3/13: Center of Mass; Momentum and Impulse 8:1-2,5
16. W 3/15: Collisions 8:3-4
17.a M 3/20: Rotational Kinematics; 9:1-5 10:1-2 p. 312**
Rotational Inertia; Torque (MQ5)
17.b W 3/22: Torque; 2nd Law for Rotation
TEST #4 During Recitation on FRI 3/24
TEST #4 covers Topics 14-17a
18. M 3/27: Statics; Energy and Rotation 9:4 10:4 11:1-3
19. W 3/29: Rolling 10:3 (midpage 313)*
20. M 4/03: Angular Momentum for Rotation in 2d angmom2D.pdf, pp. 320-321
21. W 4/05: Torque and Angular Momentum 1:10 10:1,5-7
Generalized (MQ6)
22. M 4/10: Universal Gravitation 13:1-3,7
23. W 4/12: Orbits and Conservation Principles; 13:4-5
Kepler's Laws (MQ7)
TEST #5 During Recitation on FRI 4/14
TEST #5 covers Topics 17b-21
23.b M 4/17: Orbits and Conservation Principles; 13:4-5
Kepler's Laws
24. W 4/19: Simple Harmonic Motion DiffEq+ 14:1-4 (midpage 443)*
25.a M 4/24: The Pendulum; Resonance in 14:4-6,8 TaylorSeries++
Driven SHM
25.b W 4/26: Continuation of Topics from Class 25 (MQ8)
TEST #6 in PSH-563 During Recitation on FRI 4/28
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 (in H563 on WA) (30 Numerical Questions)
MW 3:05 class -- FRI May 05 2:30- 4:20 PM