Syllabus

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

3:33 PM
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Dimensional Analysis 1.
Example:
What is n?
[x] = meters
[t] = seconds
[g] = m/s
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Vectors 2.
Examples of vectors: position, velocity, acceleration
Rate of change
Derivatives 3.
Discussion Week 1
Thursday, September 25, 2008
3:45 PM
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Th 5:30-6:30
W 5-6
Office hours
Knudson 2240 (schedule on door)
Tutoring Center
Midterm I: Oct 20, Monday
Midterm II: Nov 12, Wed
Final: Dec 9, Tue, 8-11
Midterms 20% each
Final 25%
Homework 10%
Lab 15%
Grade:
Webassign
Website:
Description of material world
Establish relationships between quantities
Determine natural laws
What is physics?
Measure quantities
meters
Length: how far?
Seconds
Time: how long
Measured in kg
Mass: how hard is it to set object into motion
Volume V
Example:
Density
Speed
Lecture 09/25
Fri day, September 26, 2008
11:04 AM
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Speed
Two significant figures for this class
Number of significant figures in multiplication or division is equal to the number of significant
figures with the smallest number of significant figures

Significant Figures:
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Lecture
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Audio recording started: 10:57 AM Monday, September 29, 2008
Lecture 09/29
Monday, September 29, 2008
10:54 AM
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Homework #1 Questions
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
11:50 PM
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Scalars Vectors
Magnitude
Temperature, mass
Magnitude + direction
Lecture 10/01
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
11:00 AM
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Speed = positive
Velocity = positive or negative
Instantaneous velocity -
BBOOOORRREEEEDDDD!
Lecture 10/03
Fri day, October 03, 2008
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Speed is always positive
Velocity can be positive or negative
Lecture 10/06
Monday, October 06, 2008
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Lecture 10/08
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
11:00 AM
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Homework #2
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
11:35 AM
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"Vector kinematics"
Motion in Two Dimensions
Constant acceleration
Lecture 10/10
Fri day, October 10, 2008
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Fixed speed
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Monday, October 13, 2008
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An object can move with constant velocity with no force being exerted!
First Law of Motion:
If an object is not interacting with other objects then it moves with constant velocity
Rephrase: if an object is not interacting with other objects then you can find a frame of reference with
acceleration = 0.
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Midterm Review Th 5-7
Frans hall 1260
Midterm AL - FRANS 1178
Laws of Motion
Can bring 1 page equation sheet
Ft = 0
If Ft = 0 on an object then it moves with constant velocity.
NI
(look frame of reference)
What is the constant velocity in NI?
Notes 10/15
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
10:57 AM
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IFR
-> reference frame for which N1 (newton's 1st law) is valid.
Is earth an IFR? No - it spins and rotates
Rocket is an IFR if engine is off (not accelerating)
Newton said use fixed stars are good IFR. Based coordinate system based on fixed stars.
*Inertial fram of reference
Total force on object
N2
Force exerted by Earth on object is the weight
What is acceleration of the object
Units:
Weight is a force, expressed in N. EXTRINSIC
Mass: expressed in kg. INTRINSIC
Example 2:
There must be a second force "N" that compensates
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There must be a second force "N" that compensates
N = reaction force (aka normal force) by the track on the car
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Review Session Midterm 1
Thursday, October 16, 2008
5:01 PM
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Diagram, choose coordinate system, chose system 1)
Free body force diagram ON system 2)
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Fri day, October 17, 2008
11:04 AM
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Tension T in a rope that
runs over a free pulley is
the same
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Homework #3
Fri day, October 17, 2008
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Laws of Motion Chapter 4 & 5
FAB= -FBA
*Forces never exist in isolation
*Law about interaction
On object A
If objet A exists a force FAB on object B then object B exerts a force FBA
Example #1 NIII
Third Law
Notes 10/22
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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Example #2 NIII
Example #8
Coordinate system 1)
Free body force diagram 2)
Steps:
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Homework #4
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
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Laws of Motion
Static force is a cumulative effect of lots of interactions
Notes 10/24
Fri day, October 24, 2008
11:11 AM
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Block of mass M on an plane included as an angle. What is the critical where the block slides? Given
M,us, uk
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Today: Ch 5: 5.1-5.3
Read: 5.5 and Ch 6
Uniform Circular Motion
NII: There must be a radial inward force
Notes 10/27
Monday, October 27, 2008
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Static friction provide a force up
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Uniform Circular Motion
Notes 10/29
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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Force of gravity
*attractive force
*magnitude
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Different forms: rules of "energy exchange"
Energy
WAB
Identify system
Identify interaction of system Y with environment
The work WAB done by force F on system Y
Work
Constant Force
Example 1:
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Fri day, October 31, 2008
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Example. Constant force
Math Intermezzo
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Math Intermezzo
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Force is not constant:
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A car is traveling at 52.0 mi/h on a horizontal highway.
(a) If the coefficient of static friction between road and tires
on a rainy day is 0.099, what is the minimum distance in
which the car will stop?
m
(b) What is the stopping distance when the surface is dry
and s = 0.595?
Homework #5
Saturday, November 01, 2008
6:42 PM
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Work
Work "scalar" unit Joule (J)
By a force F on system Y
W=Fr12cos(theta)
Force constant
Work by spring on stretching must be negative
Notes 11/03
Monday, November 03, 2008
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Work-kinetic energy theory: when work is done on a system and the only result is a change in velocity
then the work done is the change in kinetic energy.
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Franz Hall 1187 Monday 5pm
Ch 4-6 (didn't cover fluid/drag in chap 5), 11.1 gravity
Midterm II Review
K=1/2MV
2
"energy by virtue of motion"
Kinetic energy
*only effect of work Wif change V from Vi to Vf
Wif=Kf-Ki
Example
Energy
*add work done by friction force
Notes 11/06
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
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Draop a ball on spring
Serway problem
Part I:
Break up problem into 2 parts. One before ball hits spring (h) and one during spring
compression (d)
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Potential Energy
"energy stored by virtue of the position of a system"
Energy storage
Gravitational positional energy 1.
U + K = constant (sum of kinetic and potential energy is constant)
E = K + U
E = mechanical energy
K = kinetic energy
U = potential energy
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Franz Hall 1178
Monday 5pm
Knudsen hall main entrance 5pm
Energy by virtue of motion
Tuesday 5-6pm
Midterm Review
"Gravitation Potential Energy" 1.
Notes 11/07
Fri day, November 07, 2008
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Potential Energy of a Harmonic Spring 2.
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Electrical Potential Energy 3.
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Homework #6
Sunday, November 09, 2008
2:26 PM
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Units N=kgm/sec
Force F
Force addiion: F1 +/- F2 vector addition
NI) If an object does not interact with other objects than a=0
Chapter 4
NII) If object interacts with other objects than
NIII) If 1 exerts a force F12 on 2 then 2 exerts a force F21=-F12 on 1
Fundamental Macroscopic
Gravity, electromagnetic, strong/weak interaction Normal, tension, contact, spring, friction
Types of Forces
Notes 11/10
Monday, November 10, 2008
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Friction f
Chapter 5
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Chapter 6: Energy
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Energy of motion
Power delivered by a force F is work done per second by the force
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Power delivered by F at t
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Practice MT 2
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
12:09 PM
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Keplar's Law
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Midterm Review
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
5:04 PM
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Gravity does positive work because it's force is in direction of displacement
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U: energy by virtue of position
Potential Energy: Ch 7, Ch 8
*Isolated mechanical system (no friction)
Energy Conservation
Forces:
Conservative Nonconservative
Gravity
Electrical
Potential energy
Friction
Viscous drag
No potential energy
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"momentum"
Collisions d=1
Elastic
Perfectly Inelastic collision
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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Serway example 8
By how much is the spring compressed during collision b)
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Homework #8
Saturday, November 22, 2008
1:30 PM
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Wednesday Office Hour 5-7
Ch 10 & 11 (1.4) due dec 5th midnight
HW set #9
Center of Mass
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Monday, November 24, 2008
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Rotation
Notes 12/01
Monday, December 01, 2008
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Angular Momentum
Notes 12/03
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
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NI, NII, NIII
Conservatio nLaws
Energy: momentum, angular
Mechanics solar system
*holds solar system together a.
Universal Law of gravitation 1)
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Though orbit is not circular:
A planet moves in an elliptical orbit with the sun as a focus
Keplar's first Law
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A planet moves in an elliptical orbit until the sun as a forces
Keplar's 2nd Law
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Today: extra office hours, J Hansen 2-3pm
Monday review 5-7pm MS4000A
Tuesday: FINAL Last name A-L PAB 1425.
Final 8
Not covered from serway
Ch 7: 7.8
Ch 8: 8.7
Ch 10: 10.10 & 10.12
Review Chapters: 7,8,10 and 11.4
Ug = mgy
Chapter 7: Potential energy
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Fri day, December 05, 2008
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Chapter 8
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