"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

 

 

 



PH212 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 lecture. Lab instructions should be printed and brought to lab.

All homework must be submitted to the MasteringPhysics web site by 11:55 p.m. on the date posted. Textbook homework (listed by chapter.number) from the exercises and problems section may have their numbers randomized. You may appeal your grade on textbook homework by submitting written solutions the next lecture. I will post solutions to the textbook homework 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 15.4, syllabus

Concepts: Fluids

Animations: Balloons and Buoyancy, Fluids Physlets

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

 

7
Lecture: Fluids

Read: 15.5

8
Lecture: Fluids

Lab: Archimedes' Principle, Lab Instructions, Sample Lab

9
Lecture: Fluids

MasteringPhysics: Introduction to MasteringPhysics (optional), Fluids

2 12
Lecture: Oscillations

Read: 14.1 to 14.4

Textbook Homework: 15.13, 15.43, 15.62, 15.63, 15.73

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

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

13
Lab: Hooke's Law
14
Lecture: Oscillations

Read: 14.5, 14.6

Quiz: Fluids
15
Lecture: Oscillations

Read: 14.7, 14.8

MasteringPhysics: Oscillations

Lab: Hooke's Law
16
Lecture: Oscillations

Textbook Homework: 14.15, 14.19, 14.23, 14.47

Bonus Problem: Design a pendulum with a period of 5.00 s that will fit in a 1 m3 cube. It must work in an inertial reference frame on earth. Submit this separately at any time before finals' week.

3 19
20
Lab: Pendulum
21
Lecture: Travelling Waves

Read: 20.1 to 20.3

Quiz: Oscillations

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

Songs: Waves, Normal Modes

22
Lecture: Travelling Waves

Read: 20.4 to 20.7

Lab: Pendulum

23
Lecture: Travelling Waves

MasteringPhysics: Travelling Waves
4 26
Lecture: Superposition

Read: 21.1 to 21.5, Interference Tip Sheet

Textbook Homework: 20.16, 20.23, 20.35, 20.37, 20.66
27
Lab: Standing Sound Waves
28
Lecture: Superposition

Read: 21.6 to 21.8

Quiz: Travelling Waves
29
Lecture: Superposition

MasteringPhysics: Superposition

Lab: Standing Sound Waves
30
Lecture: A Macroscopic Description of Matter

Read: 16.1 to 16.4

Textbook Homework: 21.7, 21.19, 21.21, 21.25

Song: Ice, Motion,

Animations: Gas Properties


February 2009

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
5 2
Lecture: A Macroscopic Description of Matter

Read: 16.5, 16.6

3
Lab: Sound Waves

Sounds for Lab: Fiddle, Flute, Singer, Drum
4
Lecture: A Macroscopic Description of Matter

Quiz: Superposition

MasteringPhysics: A Macroscopic Description of Matter
5
Lecture: Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics

Read: 17.1 to 17.4, Thermodynamic Tip Sheet (note that the tip sheet uses "e" for efficiency and U for internal energy)

Textbook Homework: 16.6, 16.9, 16.33, 16.40, 16.64

Lab: Sound Waves

Sounds for Lab: Fiddle, Flute, Singer, Drum

6
Lecture: Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics

Read: 17.5 to 17.7

Songs: Heat, Engines

6 9
Lecture: Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics

MasteringPhysics: Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics

Quiz: A Macroscopic Description of Matter

10
Lab: Thermal Conduction
11
Lecture: The Micro/Macro Connection

Textbook Homework: 17.5, 17.16, 17.21, 17.27, 17.61, 17.65

Read: 18.1 to 18.5

12
Lecture: The Micro/Macro Connection

Read: 18.6

Lab: Thermal Conduction
13
Lecture: The Micro/Macro Connection

Quiz: Work, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics

MasteringPhysics: The Micro/Macro Connection
7 16
Lecture: Heat Engines and Refrigerators

Textbook Homework: 18.3, 18.10, 18.22, 18.35, 18.41

Read: 19.1 to 19.3

17
Lab: Latent Heat
18
Lecture: Heat Engines and Refrigerators

Quiz: The Micro/Macro Connection

Read: 19.4 to 19.6

19
Lecture: Heat Engines and Refrigerators

Lab: Latent Heat
20
Lecture: Heat Engines and Refrigerators

MasteringPhysics: Heat Engines and Refrigerators
8 23
No Class (Erik at a conference)
24
Lab: Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
25
Lecture: Electric Charges and Forces

Read: 25.1 to 25.4

Concepts: Electric Charges, Forces, and Fields

Textbook Homework: 19.16, 19.20, 19.58, 19.60. You will submit this work on papers by 4 pm. The last two problems are worth double.

26
Lecture: Electric Charges and Forces

Read: 25.5, 25.6

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

Lab: Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
27
Lecture: Electric Charges and Forces

MasteringPhysics: Electric Charges and Forces

Quiz: Heat Engines and Refrigerators

March 2009

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
9 2
Lecture: The Electric Field

Read: 26.1 to 26.4

Textbook Homework: 25.1, 25.14, 25.27, 25.42, 25.60

3
Lab: Electric Dipole
4
Lecture: The Electric Field

Read: 26.5 to 26.7

Quiz: Electric Charges and Forces

5
Lecture: The Electric Field

MasteringPhysics: The Electric Field

Lab: Electric Dipole
6
No Class (Erik at a conference)
10 9
Lecture: Gauss's Law

Textbook Homework: 26.2, 26.7, 26.13, 26.24, 26.32

Read: 27.1 to 27.6

10
Lab:  Electrostatic Field Mapping
11
Lecture: Gauss's Law

Quiz: The Electric Field

Student versus Staff Basketball Smackdown V, 6 pm in building 7.
12
Lecture: Gauss's Law

MasteringPhysics: Gauss's Law

Lab:  Electrostatic Field Mapping
13
Lecture: Review
Finals' Week 16 17
Comprehensive Final Exam: 8-9:50 a.m. in 8-208
18
End of term event TBA