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Week |
Weekly Topic |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
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Week 1 |
Sec 1.1-1.5
Introduction to the course; 3D vectors |
8/27
Introduction |
8/28
Due: Class survey |
8/29
Due: Intro to WebAssign
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8/30 |
8/31
Due: Ch1 HW1 |
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Week 2 |
Sec
1.6- 1.11
Interactions; velocity; position updage; momentum;
change in momentum; principle of relativity
Sec 2.1 - 2.3
The Momentum Principle; net force; Updating Momentum
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9/3 Labor day:
No classes |
9/4 |
9/5
Due: Ch1 HW2
and Group Contracts
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9/6 |
9/7
Due: Ch1 HW3
Quiz 1
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Week 3 |
Sec
2.4 - 2.14
Updating position if momentum is changing; Predicting motion;
Constant Force; Problems of greater complexity (hockey puck; colliding
students); Physical models; System of Several objects; Collisions'
Conservation of Momentum |
9/10
Due: Ch2 HW1 and
Intro to 3D Computer Modeling
Lab:
Motion in the x direction
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9/11 |
9/12
Due: Ch2 HW2 |
9/13 |
9/14
Due: Ch2 HW3
Quiz 2 |
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Week 4 |
Sec
3.1-3.14
Changing forces; Iterative prediction of motion (spring force);
fundamental forces; Gravitational force law; approximate gravitational
force near Earth's surface; Predicting motion of gravitationally
interacting objects; Choosing a time step; The electric force law;
Reciprocity; Newton and Einstein; Determinism and chaos |
9/17
Due: Ch2 HW4
Flight of a baseball |
9/18
Orbits in
VPython |
9/19
Due: Ch3 HW1
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9/20 |
9/21
Due: Ch3 HW2
Lab write-up from group
Gravitational Orbit
Quiz 3
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Week 5 |
Sec
4.1-4.10
Tarzan and the vine; Ball-spring model of a solid; Length of an
interatomic bond; Stiffness of interatomic spring (coupled springs);
Stress, strain, Young's modulus; Compression forces;
Contact forces and the Momentum Principle; Derivative form of the
Momentum Principle; Momentum not changing (statics) |
9/24
Due: Ch3 HW3
Springs |
9/25 |
9/26
Test 1
Sec 1.1 - 3.12 |
9/27 |
9/28
Due: Ch4 HW1 |
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Week 6 |
Sec
4.10-4.20
Finding rate of change of momentum; parallel and perpendicular
components; Why does the vine break?(curving motion examples);Speed
of sound in a solid (demo; computer model);Analytic spring-mass;
Analytic speed of sound (dimensional analysis)
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10/1
Due: Ch4 HW2
Spring Lab |
10/2 |
10/3
Due: Ch4 HW3 |
10/4
Due: 2nd Group Contract |
10/5
Due Ch4 HW4
Quiz 4 |
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Sec
5.1-5.7
The Energy Principle; Energy of a single particle (rest energy and
kinetic energy); work: mechanical energy transfer; Update form of
the Energy Principl; change of identity (change of rest energy);
Proof of energy principle for a particle; work done by nonconstant
force |
10/8
Due: Ch4 HW5 |
10/9 |
10/10
Due: Ch5 HW1 |
10/11 |
10/12
Due Ch5 HW2
Write up: Spring Lab
Teamanship Eval
Quiz 5
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Sec
5.8-5.21
Potential energy in multiparticle systems; properties of potential
energy, gravitational potential energy; applying gravitational potential
energy; gravitational U near the Earth's surface; Electric potential
energy; mass of a multiparticle system; identifying initial and
final states |
10/15
Due: Ch5 HW3
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10/16 |
10/17
Due: Ch5 HW4
VPython Flyby
Shell program |
10/18 |
10/19
Due: Ch5 HW5
Flyby due
Quiz 6
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Sec
6.1-6.14
Spring potential energy; Potential energy of a pair of neutral atoms;
Path independence; thermal energy; power; Open and closed systems;
choice of system; energy dissipation; air resistance |
10/22
Due: Ch5 HW6 |
10/23 |
10/24
Test 2
Sec 4.1 - 5.21 |
10/25
VPython Flyby with Energy
Graphs |
10/26
Due: Ch6 HW1 |
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Sec
7.1-7.10
Energy quanitzation; The quantum model of interaction of light
and matter; Three excitation processes; Vibrational, rotational,
nuclear, hadronic energy levels
Sec 8.1-8.3
Motion of a multiparticle system; Momentum Principle for multiparticle
systems; Energy in multiparticle systems |
10/29
Due: Ch6 HW2 |
10/30
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10/31
Due: Ch6 HW3
Filter Drop
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11/1
Due: Group Contracts |
11/2
Due: Ch7 HW1
Quiz 7 |
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Sec
8.4-8.9
The point particle system;Analyzing point particle vs. real systems
Sec 9.1-9.10
Collisions; Elastic & inelastic collisions; Analysis using
two principles (equal masses head on); Unequal masses; Scattering;
Rutherford experiment
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11/5
Due: Ch7 HW2 |
11/6 |
11/7
Due: Ch8 HW1 |
11/8 |
11/9
Due: Ch8 HW3
Quiz 8 |
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Sec
10.1-10.7
Angular momentum; Angular momentum of multiparticle systems; The
Angular Momentum Principle; Conservation;Multiparticle systems;
Systems with zero torque |
11/12
Due: Ch9 HW1
Jump-up lab |
11/13 |
11/14
Due: Ch9 HW2 |
11/15 |
11/16
Due: Ch10 HW1
Quiz 9 |
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Sec
10.8-10.12
Systems with nonzero torques; Angular momentum quantization |
11/19
Due: Ch10 HW2
Cut Up! |
11/20
Due: Jump Up lab |
11/21 Thanksgiving:
No Classes |
11/22
Thanksgiving:
No Classes |
11/23
Thanksgiving:
No Classes |
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Sec
11.1-11.6
Statistical issues; A statistical model of solids; Entropy; Thermal
equilibrium of blocks in contact; The second law of thermodynamics;
Temperature; Specific heat capacity of a solid |
11/26
Due: Ch10 HW3 |
11/27
Due: Jump Up lab Teamanship Eval |
11/28
Test 3
Sec 6.1 - 10.12
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11/29 |
11/30
Due: Ch11 HW1 |
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Sec
11.7-11.8
The Boltzmann distribution; The Boltzmann distribution in a gas
Sec 12.1-12.10
Gases, solids, and liquids; Gas through a hole; Mean free path;
Pressure and Temperature; Energy transfers with surroundings;
Fundamental limits on efficiency
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12/3
Due: Ch11 HW2 |
12/4 |
12/5
Due: Ch11 HW3 |
12/6 |
12/7
Due: Ch12 HW1 |
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12/10 |
12/11
Final Exam
10-11:50 |
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University
of Pittsburgh