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PHYSICS 2211 A - INTRODUCTORY PHYSICS I

Course Schedule

Date

Class

Reading

Aug

21

Mon

Introduction:  what is this course about?

Website, 1.1

 

23

Wed

How do we describe motion?

1.2 – 1.5

 

25

Fri

How do we analyze motion?

1.6 – 1.9


 

28

Mon

How are position and velocity linked?

 2.1 - 2.4

 

30

Wed

What is the effect of acceleration?

2.5

 Sep

1

Fri

How does the Earth affect motion?

2.6 - 2.7


 

4

Mon

Labor Day Holiday


 

6

Wed

What if acceleration changes?

2.8

 

8

Fri

How are vectors used?

3.1 – 3.4


 

11

Mon

What are forces?

4.1 – 4.4


13

Wed

Quiz #1 Ch 1 – 3

Practice

 

15

Fri

How does motion change?

4.5 - 4.7


 

18

Mon

What is equilibrium?

5.1 –5.2

 

20

Wed

How are weight and mass related?

5.3

 

22

Fri

What are common forces?

5.4 – 5.6


 

25

Mon

What is the path of a thrown ball?

 6.1 - 6.3

 

27

Wed

Quiz #2 Ch 4 – 5

Practice

 

29

Fri

Do two people see the same motion?

6.4


 Oct

2

Mon

How is circular motion described?

7.1 – 7.2

 

4

Wed

Why do astronauts feel weightless?

7.3 - 7.4

 

6

Fri

Is there a centrifugal force?

7.5 - 7.6


 

9

Mon

What keeps you in your chair?

8.1 - 8.3


11

Wed

How does a rope work?

8.4

 

13

Fri

How do we analyze interactions? 

8.5


 

16

Mon

Fall Recess

 

 

18

Wed

What happens during a collision?

9.1 - 9.3

 

20

Fri

How does a rocket work?    

9.4 - 9.6


 

23

Mon

Quiz #3 Ch 6 – 8

Practice

 

25

Wed

What is energy?

10.1 – 10.3

 

27

Fri

How does a spring work?

10.4 – 10.5


 

30

Mon

What is a perfectly elastic collision?

10.6 - 10.7

 Nov

1

Wed

How is energy transferred?

11.1 - 11.4

 

3

Fri

When is energy conserved?

11.5 - 11.6



6

Mon

Where does energy go?

11.7 - 11.9

 

8

Wed