Tentative Syllabus

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Date

Ch.

Sections

Topics

9-Jan

2

1

Introduction, Average Speed, Average Velocity

11-Jan

2

2-3

Derivatives, Instantaneous Speed, and Acceleration 

16-Jan

1, 2 1:1-10, 2:4-5

Units, dimensional analysis, motion graphs, and constant acceleration

18-Jan

2

6

Freefall

23-Jan

3,4

3:1-4, 4:1

Vectors,   Vector Addition, X, V, A as vectors

25-Jan

3

5

RelativeVelocity

30-Jan

4

2-5

Projectile Motion, Circular Motion, begin Newton's Laws

1-Feb

EXAM 1 -- Over Chapters 1, 2, and 3

6-Feb

5 1-8

Newton's Laws, F=ma, and freebody diagrams

8-Feb

6

1-2

Continue F=ma

13-Feb

6, 9

6:3-5, 9:1-3

Frictional, Centripetal, and Gravitational Forces

15-Feb

23

23:1-3

Electrical Forces

20-Feb

Monday Tuesday Switch Day -- No Class

22-Feb

EXAM 2 -- Over Material Since First Exam

27-Feb

7

1-3, 5-6

Work, Power, and Kinetic Energy

1-Mar

8

1-3

Potential Energy

6-Mar

8

3-5

Conservation of Energy

8-Mar

More practice with Energy Concepts and Problems

20-Mar

15

1-3, 5-7

Simple Harmonic Motion

22-Mar

10, 11 10:1, 11:1

Center of Mass, Momentum, and Impulse

27-Mar

10, 11, 12, 13 10:2, 11:2-4, 12:1, 13:2-4

Conservation of Momentum and Angular Momentum

29-Mar

EXAM 3 -- Over Chapters 7, 8, and 15

3-Apr 16, 17 16:1-6, 17:1-2, 5-6 Mechanical Waves and Sound

5-Apr

34, 37 34:7, 37:1-4

Interference and Diffraction of LIght Waves

10-Apr

39 1-3

History of the atom and the "Old" Quantum Theory

12-Apr

39 4

Atomic Spectra

17-Apr

39

5-6

Uncertainty Principle, Wave-Particle Duality, and the "New" Quantum Theory

19-Apr

EXAM 4 --Over Material Since Last Exam

24-Apr

40

1-3

Continue Quantum Theory

26-Apr

40 4-10

Understanding the Periodic Table

 

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