| Date | Subject or Due date | Reading/Notes | Problems |
| Thursday Sept 1, 2022 | Lecture: Introduction. Units, Measurements, Uncertainty | Lecture notes on units and errors | PS1 on errors |
| Monday Sept 5 | No lab this week because of Labor day |
Lab analysis notes on errors NC Notes on uncertainty |
WebWork1 |
| Tuesday Sept 6 | Lecture: Error propagation. Estimating the mean and standard deviation | ||
| Tuesday Sept 6 | Workshops/Recitations start | ||
| Thursday Sept 8 | Lecture: Vectors, Velocity, Acceleration, Motion in 3D, Circular motion, Fundamental particles and interactions |
Feynman on motion
Feynman on vectors On vectors Motion in 1d Motion in 3d, projectiles |
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| Friday Sept 9 | Problem set 1 is due at noon Turn the written problems into the homework lockers on the first floor of Bausch & Lomb Hall. Webwork should be done on line through blackboard. |
Lecture notes on acceleration and force Notes on demonstrations |
PS2 on acceleration |
| Monday Sept 12 | Labs start. Lab 1 | WebWork2 | |
| Tuesday Sept 13 | Lecture: Momentum and changes in momentum, Gravity |
Chaps 1-4 on motion, University physics (UPh) vol1
Chaps 5.8,5.9 on relativistic momentum of UPh vol3 Feynman on relativity Feynman on relativistic momentum |
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| Thursday Sept 15 | Lecture: The Shell theorem, Newtons's laws, orbits |
shell theorem ,
Chaps 5,6,13 on Newton's laws and Gravity UPh vol1 Feynman on Newton's laws |
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| Friday Sept 16 | Problem set 2 is due at noon. |
Lecture notes on harmonic motion and springs
On paradoxes in spring networks |
PS3 on force |
| Monday Sept 19 | Lab 1 continued | Chap 15 on Harmonic motion UPh vol1 | WebWork3 |
| Tuesday Sept 20 | Lecture: Harmonic motion, Springs, Damped and Driven Harmonic Motion | Feynman on the harmonic oscillator | |
| Wednesday Sept 21 | First lab report due at noon. | ||
| Thursday Sept 22 | Lecture: Springs in series and parallel, Stress and atomic forces in solids | ||
| Friday Sept 23 | Problem set 3 is due at noon. | Lecture notes on work, friction, relativistic energy | PS4 on work, friction, energy |
| Monday Sept 26 | Lab 2 begins | WebWork4 | |
| Tuesday Sept 27 | Lecture: Friction, Drag, Work, Energy, Power | Chaps 7,8 on work and energy UPh vol1 | |
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| Thursday Sept 29 | Lecture: Energy and Work, Rest mass, Potential Energy | ||
| Friday Sept 30 | Problem set 4 is due at noon. | PS5 on potential energy |
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| Monday Oct 3 | Lab 2 continued | WebWork5 | |
| Tuesday Oct 4 | Lecture: Paths, Potential Energy, Equilibrium | Lecture notes on potential energy | |
| Wednesday Oct 5 | Lab 2 report due at noon. | ||
| Thursday Oct 6 | Lecture: Energy Quantization and Lasers | Lecture notes on Quantization | |
| Friday Oct 7 | Problem set 5 is due next week. | PS6 on center of mass |
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| Monday Oct 10 | no labs, fall break | WebWork6 | |
| Tuesday Oct 11 | Fall break. No lecture, no workshops | ||
| Wednesday Oct 12 | no workshops | ||
| Thursday Oct 13 | Lecture: Center of Mass | Lecture notes on center of mass, multiple particle systems | |
| Friday Oct 14 | Problem set 5 is due! | PS7 on collisions |
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| Monday Oct 17 | Lab 3 | WebWork7 | |
| Tuesday Oct 18 | Lecture: Thrust. Multi-particle systems | Feynman on center of mass | |
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| Thursday Oct 20 | Lecture: Collisions in 1 dimension | Lecture notes on collisions | |
| Friday Oct 21 | Problem set 6 due at noon | Chap 9 on collisions UPh vol1 | |
| Monday Oct 24 | Lab 3 continued | ||
| Tuesday Oct 25 | Lecture: Collisions in 3 dimensions and relativistic collisions | ||
| Wed Oct 26 | Lab 3 report due at noon | ||
| Thursday Oct 27 | Lecture: Rotational energy, rigid body rotation, moment of inertia. | Lecture notes on spin, angular momentum and torque | |
| Friday Oct 28 | Problem set 7 is due at noon. | Chaps 10,11 on Spin UPh vol1 | PS8 on angular momentum |
| Monday Oct 31 | Lab 4 | WebWork8 | |
| Tuesday Nov 1 | Lecture: The parallel axis theorem. Rolling without slipping. Angular momentum. | ||
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| Thursday Nov 3 | Lecture: Torque. Keplerian orbits. Stability of spinning objects, Conservation of angular momentum | ||
| Friday Nov 4 | Problem set 8 due at noon | PS9 on torque |
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| Monday Nov 7 | Lab 4 continued | WebWork9 | |
| Tuesday Nov 8 | Lecture: More on angular momentum | ||
| Wednesday Nov 9 | Lab 4 report due at noon | ||
| Thursday Nov 10 | Lecture: Precession of a top, Quantization of angular momentum | ||
| Friday Nov 11 | Problem set 9 is due at noon. | Chap 12 on Statics UPh vol1 | PS10 on force balance |
| Monday Nov 14 | No labs unless you arrange a make-up lab | WebWork10 | |
| Tuesday Nov 15 | Lecture: Force balance at equilibrium (Statics), Small oscillations about equilibrium | Lecture notes on statics and small oscillations | |
| Thursday Nov 17 | Lecture: Heat. Multiplicity of States. Two closed systems in thermal contact. | Lecture notes on multiplicity of states and entropy | |
| Friday Nov 18 | Problem set 10 is due at noon. |
Kittel's first 2 chapters on multiplicity of states and entropy
Kittel's second 2 chapters on the Boltmann factor |
PS11 on entropy |
| Monday Nov 21 | No labs/workshops this week because of Thanksgiving | ||
| Tuesday Nov 22 | Lecture: Entropy and temperature. Thermal equilibrium. | Chaps 1-4 on Thermo UPh vol2 | WebWork11 |
| Thursday Nov 24 | No class, Happy Thanksgiving! | ||
| Monday Nov 28 | Lab #5 | ||
| Tuesday Nov 29 | Lecture: The laws of thermodynamics. A system in contact with a thermal reservoir. The Boltzmann factor. | ||
| Thursday Dec 1 | Lecture: The Maxwellian velocity distribution. A particle in a box. | Lecture notes on ideal gases and the Boltzmann factor | |
| Friday Dec 2 | Problem set 11 due at noon |
PS12 Webwork only |
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| Monday Dec 5 | Lab #5 continued | WebWork12 On PdV work and heat |
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| Tuesday Dec 6 | Lecture: Pressure and the ideal gas law. | ||
| Wed Dec 7 | Lab 5 report due at noon | ||
| Thursday Dec 8 | Lecture: Thermodynamics, Heat engines, Adiabatic index | ||
| Friday Dec 9 | Problem set 12 due date delayed | ||
| Tuesday Dec 13 | Last Lecture: On order of magnitude physics | Notes on order of magnitude physics | |
| Wed Dec 14 | Problem set 12 (last one!) is due at midnight. | Notes on special relativity |