"For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge, increases sorrow."
-Ecclesiastes 1:18

"Pain is weakness leaving the body."
-Saying of the United States Marine Corps

 

 

 



PH202 Calendar Winter 2009

Do not print this calendar or download documents far in advance. I will make changes throughout the term.

Reading should be done before attending lecture. Lab instructions must be printed and brought to lab.

All textbook homework (listed by chapter.problem number) must be submitted in class or to my office (8-236) by 4 p.m. on the date posted. For odd numbered numerical problems, your solutions must include an extra digit beyond those provided at the back of the book. I will post solutions to the eLearn web site after the due date.


January 2009

Week

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

1

5
Lecture: Introduction, Fluids

Read: 15-1 to 15-5, syllabus

Animations: Balloons and Buoyancy, Fluids Physlets

Concepts: Fluids

6
Lab: Archimedes' Principle, Lab Instructions, Sample Lab

 

7
Lecture: Fluids

Read: 15-6 to 15-8

8
Lab: Archimedes' Principle, Lab Instructions, Sample Lab

9
Lecture: Fluids

Textbook Homework: 15.5, 15.14, 15.16, 15.21, 15.29, 15.38

Hint for 15.16: Use a free body diagram and Newton's first law for each of the pistons to find the pressure in the liquid just beneath each of them. Then use equation 15-7 to relate the two pressures and calculate h.

2 12
Lecture: Fluids

Textbook Homework: 15.52, 15.57, 15.72

13
Lab: Hooke's Law
14
Lecture: Oscillations About Equilibrium

Read: 13-1 to 13-4

Songs: Vibration, Hooke and Newton, Simple Harmonic Oscillator Rap

Animations:
ActivPhysics Vibrations, Masses and Springs, Simple Harmonic Motion Physlets

Concepts: Oscillations

15
Lab: Hooke's Law
16
Lecture: Oscillations About Equilibrium

Read: 13-5 to 13-7

Quiz: Fluids

3 19 20 21
Lecture: Oscillations About Equilibrium

Textbook Homework: 13.1, 13.25, 13.32, 13.46, 13.56

22
Lab: Pendulum
23
Lecture: Waves and Sound

Read: 14-1 to 14-5

Animations: ActivPhysics Waves, Waves on a String, Sound, Acoustics, Doppler Effect Animation, Wave Physlets, Sound Physlets

Song: Waves, Normal Modes

4 26
Lecture: Waves and Sound

Read: 14-6 to 14-9, Interference Tip Sheet

Quiz: Oscillations About Equilibrium

27 28
Lecture: Waves and Sound

29
Lab: Standing Sound Waves
30
Lecture: Waves and Sound

Textbook Homework: 14.5, 14.11, 14.22, 14.30, 14.40, 14.51, 14.53


February 2009

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
5 2
Lecture: Temperature and Heat

Concepts: Thermodynamics

Songs: Motion, Heat

Read: 16-1 to 16-4

3 4
Lecture: Temperature and Heat

Read: 16-5 to 16-6

Quiz: Waves and Sound

5
Lab: Sound Waves

Sounds for Lab: Fiddle, Flute, Singer, Drum
6
Lecture: Temperature and Heat

Textbook Homework: 16.18, 16.24, 16.30, 16.46
6 9
Lecture: Phases and Phase Changes

Read: 17-1 to 17-2, 17-4 to 17-6

10

11
Lecture: Phases and Phase Changes

Song: Ice

Animations: Gas Properties

Quiz: Temperature and Heat

12
Lab: Thermal Conduction
13
Lecture: Phases and Phase Changes

Textbook Homework: 17.15, 17.21, 17.60, 17.77
7 16
Lecture: The Laws of Thermodynamics

Read: 18-1 to 18-5, Thermodynamic Tip Sheet

Song: Engines

Concepts: Thermodynamics

Animations: ActivPhysics Thermodynamics, Thermodynamics Physlets

17

18
Lecture: The Laws of Thermodynamics

Read: 18-6 to 18-10

Quiz: Phases and Phase Changes

19
Lab:  Latent Heat
20
Lecture: The Laws of Thermodynamics
8 23
No Class (Erik at a conference)
24
25
Lecture: Electric Charges, Forces, and Fields

Read: 19-1 to 19-4

Textbook Homework: 18.4, 18.5, 18.20, 18.29, 18.36, 18.88 (2 points)
26
Lab: Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
27
Lecture: Electric Charges, Forces, and Fields

Read: 19-5, 19-6

Animations: ActivPhysics Electricity, Balloons and Static Electricity, Electric Field Hockey, Electric Field of Dreams, Electrostatics Physlets, Gauss's Law Physlets

Songs: Electricity, Gauss, Electricity and History

March 2009

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9 2
Lecture: Electric Charges, Forces, and Fields

Quiz: The Laws of Thermodynamics
3 4
Lecture: Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy

Read: 20-1 to 20-4

Textbook Homework: 19.15, 19.28, 19.34, 19.71, 19.78

5
Lab: Electric Dipole
6
No Class (Erik at a conference)

Concepts: Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy

Animations: ActivPhysics Electricity, John Travoltage, Electric Potential Physlets, Capacitor Physlets 

10 9
Lecture: Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy

Read: 20-5 and 20-6

Quiz: Electric Charges, Forces, and Fields

10 11
Lecture: Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy

Student versus Staff Basketball Smackdown V, 6 pm in building 7.
12
Lab: Electrostatic Field Mapping
13
Lecture: Review

Textbook Homework: 20.12, 20.19, 20.33, 20.38, 20.48, 20.59
Finals' Week 16 17 18
Comprehensive Final Exam: 10-11:50 am in 8-244

End of term event TBA
19 20