- Saturday, April 20, 17:00 - 19:00
Section 01 (8:00-9:00) room A105
Section 02 (9:15-10:15) room A107
Thursday, April
11 - 6:30 - 8:00 pm,
Tallman Commons
SI sessions
Monday, March 18
- 6:30 pm,
Tallman Commons
Exam #3 - March
20
- Chapters 3, 4, 5 (except section 5.5)
Exam
3 review
Exam
2 review
| Exam # | Day | Date | Chapters |
| 1 | Wed | Jan 23 | 1, App. B |
| 2 | Wed | Feb 13 | 25, 26, 2 |
| 3 | Wed | Mar 20 | 3, 4, 5 |
| 4 | Mon | Apr 15 | 6, 7, 8 |
This is the first semester of a three-semester, calculus-based physics sequence. The following semesters are PS 160 - Physics II for Engineers, and PS 250 - Physics III for Engineers. We will cover Vectors and scalar quantities, geometrical optics, kinematics, Newton's Laws of Motion, work, work-energy, conservation of energy, conservation of momentum, center of mass and its motion. Corequisite: MA 241
Text:
Principles of Physics, 3rd edition,
by Serway and Jewett.
Chapters 1, 25, 26, 2 - 8
See the syllabus
for more detailed information.
Listening to lectures is not enough. All processes of learning are somehow connected to active participation, and the learning of physics is no exception.
On reserve at the Jack R. Hunt Library are the following items:
Lectures on Physics,
by Richard Feynman - a Nobel Prize winner deeply explains the why of physics.
Understanding
Physics, by Isaac Asimov - a great science fiction writer explains
physics.
Cartoon Guide
to Physics, by Huffman - physical principles in a visual format.
3000 Physics
Problems - lots and lots of practice quantitative problems.
Practice at problem solving is an important part of learning physics, especially for engineers. I suggest that you work as many problems as possible. I have assigned problems from each chapter, and I will post solutions to certain problems from the text. However, you are not required to hand in your solutions. I will check solutions only if they are neatly written.
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.html
http://www.rbs2.com/plag.htm
http://www.rbs0.com/tw.htm
http://www.rbs0.com/tw2.htm
(There are lots of links on this site)
