See schedule below.. update 18 October 2012… see change in second exam date
Prerequisites: Physics 151 or 170, and Math 232
(concurrent alright), 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 |
Aug |
21 |
1 |
Tues |
Introduction |
Read Chapt. 1 |
23 |
Thur |
Chapter 1 |
1- 10, 13, 19, 22 |
||
28 |
2 |
Tues |
1 |
1- 23, 24, 25, 36 |
|
30 |
Thur |
1 |
1- 41, 45, 48 |
||
Sep |
4 |
3 |
Tues |
2 |
2- 1, 5, 7, 11 |
6 |
Thur |
2 |
2-
12, 13, 14, 15 |
||
11 |
4 |
Tues |
2 |
2-18,
24, 27, 28 |
|
13 |
Thur |
3 |
3
- 1, 2, 4, 8, 11 |
||
18 |
5 |
Tues |
3 |
3
- 13, 21, 25 |
|
20 |
Thur |
3 |
3
- 27, 31, 35 |
||
25 |
6 |
Tues |
4 |
4-
2, 3, 4, 8, 15, 26 |
|
27 |
Thur |
4 |
4
- 31, 34, 36, 41, 46 |
||
Oct |
2 |
7 |
Tues |
Review |
|
4 |
Thur |
First mid-term |
Chapts 1-4 |
||
9 |
8 |
Tues |
5 |
||
11 |
Thur |
5 |
5
- 2, 5, 6, 7 |
||
16 |
9 |
Tues |
5 |
5
- 12, 13, 26, 29, 35 |
|
18 |
Thur |
6 |
5
- 43, 44, 45, 50 |
||
23 |
10 |
Tues |
6 |
6
- 1, 2, 5 ,11 |
|
25 |
Thur |
6 |
6
- 24, 25, 27 |
||
30 |
11 |
Tues |
Review |
||
Nov |
1 |
Thur |
Second Mid-Term |
Chapters
5-6 |
|
6 |
12 |
Tues |
Election Day Off |
||
8 |
Thur |
7 |
7-
2, 8, 9, 14 |
||
13 |
13 |
Tues |
7 |
7-
21, 22, 23 |
|
15 |
Thur |
7 |
7
– 29, 31, 44, 51 |
||
20 |
14 |
Tues |
8 |
8
- 3, 5, 6 |
|
22 |
Thanksgiving |
||||
27 |
15 |
Tues |
8 |
8
- 12, 15, 17 |
|
29 |
Th |
8 |
8
- 18, 22, 25 |
||
Dec |
4 |
16 |
Tu |
8 |
8
- 28, 30, 35 |
6 |
Th |
Review |
Chapters 1-8 |
||
13 |
17 |
0945 - 1145 |
Final Exam,
Chapters 1-8 |
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 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: (808)-956-2964
email: jgl at phys.hawaii.edu
office hours: after class, until lunch time, and other times by
appointment.
Grader: TBA
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