See schedule below.. updated 10 February 2015 (fixed Good Friday date)
Prerequisites: Physics 151 or 170, and Math 232
(concurrent alright), and Physics 310 or equivalent (see instructor for
exceptions).
Schedule: These dates and some problem numbers may
change, but the schedule will remain roughly the same…
Month |
Date |
Week |
Day |
Topic
in Class |
Assign due this Class Day |
Assign # |
Jan |
12 |
1 |
Mon |
Introduction |
|
|
14 |
Wed |
10 |
Read Chapter 10 |
|
||
16 |
Fri |
10 |
10.2, 10.12 |
1 |
||
19 |
2 |
Mon |
MLK Holiday |
|
||
21 |
Wed |
10 |
10.6, 10.16 |
2 |
||
23 |
Fri |
10 |
10.18, 10.25 |
3 |
||
26 |
3 |
Mon |
10 |
10.33, 10.38 |
4 |
|
28 |
Wed |
10 |
10.45, 10.47 |
5 |
||
30 |
Fri |
10 |
10.55, 10.57 |
6 |
||
Feb |
2 |
4 |
Mon |
11 |
Read 11 |
|
4 |
Wed |
11 |
11.1, 11.2 |
7 |
||
6 |
Fri |
11 |
11.5, 11.12 |
8 |
||
9 |
5 |
Mon |
11 |
11.14, 11.20 |
9 |
|
11 |
Wed |
11 |
11.24, 11.29 |
10 |
||
13 |
Fri |
11 |
11.32, 11.35 |
11 |
||
16 |
6 |
Mon |
President’s Day |
|
||
18 |
Wed |
First mid-term |
Chapts
10,11 |
|
||
20 |
Fri |
12 |
Go over exam, Read Chapt. 12 |
|
||
23 |
7 |
Mon |
12 |
12.1, 12.5 |
12 |
|
25 |
Wed |
12 |
12.6, 12.7 |
13 |
||
27 |
Fri |
12 |
12.10, 12.13 |
14 |
||
Mar |
2 |
8 |
Mon |
12 |
12.20, 12.27 |
15 |
4 |
Wed |
12 |
12.32 |
16 |
||
6 |
Fri |
13 |
Read 13 |
|
||
9 |
9 |
Mon |
13 |
13.1, 13.3 |
17 |
|
11 |
Wed |
13 |
13.7, 13.11 |
18 |
||
13 |
Fri |
13 |
13.18, 13.23 |
19 |
||
16 |
10 |
Mon |
13 |
13.25, 13.35, Read 14 |
20 |
|
18 |
Wed |
14 |
14.1, 14.2, 14.7 |
21 |
||
20 |
Fri |
14 |
14.9, 14.12, 14.18 |
22 |
||
23 |
x |
Mon |
Spring Break |
|
||
25 |
Wed |
Spring Break |
|
|||
27 |
Fri |
Spring Break |
|
|||
30 |
12 |
Mon |
14 |
14.20, 14.23 |
23 |
|
Apr |
1 |
Wed |
14 |
14.27, 14.29 |
24 |
|
3 |
Fri |
Good Friday Holiday |
|
|||
6 |
12 |
Mon |
Second Mid-Term |
Chapts
12,13,14 |
|
|
8 |
Wed |
15 |
15.2, 15.3, 15.5, 15.7 |
25 |
||
10 |
Fri |
15 |
15.14, 15.28 |
26 |
||
13 |
13 |
Mon |
15 |
15.35, 15.46, 15.48 |
27 |
|
15 |
Wed |
15 |
15.53, 15.59, 15.78 |
28 |
||
17 |
Fri |
15 |
15.79, 15.90, 15.109 |
29 |
||
20 |
14 |
Mon |
16 |
Read
16 |
|
|
22 |
Wed |
16 |
16.1, 16.2, 16.5 |
30 |
||
24 |
Fri |
16 |
16.9, 16.12, 16.17 |
31 |
||
27 |
15 |
Mon |
16 |
16.25, 16.26, 16.28 |
32 |
|
29 |
Wed |
16 |
16.31, 16.32 |
33 |
||
May |
1 |
Fri |
16 |
16.36, 16.38 |
34 |
|
4 |
16 |
Mon |
Review |
|
||
6 |
Wed |
Last Class |
|
|||
8 |
Fri |
Study Day |
|
|||
11 |
17 |
Mon |
Exam Week |
|
||
13 |
Wed |
Exam Week |
|
|||
15 |
Fri |
Final Exam |
? 9:45-11:45 114 Watanabe
Hall |
|
Student
Learning Outcomes-
At the
successful completion of this course a student is expected to have:
1) modest facility with the mathematical
methods needed for this level of course;
2) mastered Newtonian Mechanics;
3) come to appreciate the importance of
oscillations in phenomena, and
4)
carry out
simple calculations with the simple harmonic oscillator;
5) mastered first level applications in
Newtonian gravitation;
6) understood some methods in the Calculus of
Variations;
7) gotten beginning appreciation of, and
facility with,
8) and perhaps most important, have made
progress in learning to “think like a physicist’’.
teacher:
Prof. John G. Learned
office: 327 Watanabe Hall, UHM
office phone: begin_of_the_skype_highlighting(808)-956-2964end_of_the_skype_highlighting
email: jgl at phys.hawaii.edu
office hours: after class until lunch time, and other times by
appointment.
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