Physics 170 - General Physics I

Class meets 10:30-11:20 MTWF in Watanabe Hall 420
Instructor: Tom Browder
Office: Watanabe 224
Office Hrs: 11:30-12:20 MTWF.
Please feel free to stop by my office at other times.
phone: (808)-956-2936
e-mail : teb@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu
WWW address : http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~teb/physics170.html
Text: Physics by Paul A. Tipler, Worth Publishers, 4th Edition
(Please note that this is a new edition)


Grading: Problems - 20%, Midterms -40%, Final - 40%
Prerequisites: Math 205 (or concurrent).
Calculus is used in this course.
You must also have a computer account with access to World-Wide-Web (WWW)
Homework assignments, computer exercises and useful information for the course
will be posted on the WEB

There are three midterm exams. The worst score will be
dropped in the computation of the final grade.
You must take all three midterms.

To learn physics you must do the homework.
Also you will probably need to complete at least 1/2 of the homework to pass the course.
Late homework is not accepted
Grader: Melinda McKinney
Solutions to the homework will be posted outside Room 224
Grader's mailbox: Room 235
Grader's e-mail: mmckinne@hawaii.edu


Free Tutoring by the Society of Physics Students
is available in Watanabe Room 421
Hours are posted on the blackboard in WAT 421

Syllabus for Physics 170

• Monday August 24: Units, Dimensional Analysis and Orders of Magnitude
  Read Chapter 1
  Homework I: Do 1-4, 1-6, 1-18, 1-20, 1-26, 1-52
  (due Friday August 28th)
  
  
• Tuesday August 25: Displacement and Velocity
  Read Chapter 2
  
  
• Wednesday August 26: Acceleration
  Read Chapter 2
  
  
• Friday August 28: More Kinematics
  Homework I due
  Homework II: Do 2-8, 2-15, 2-22, 2-24, 2-36, 2-40
  (due Wednesday September 2nd)
  
  
• Monday August 31: Vectors, Relative Velocity
  Read Sections 3-1 to 3-4
  
  
• Tuesday September 1: Relative Velocity, Addition of Vectors
  Read Section 3-4
  
  
  
• Wednesday September 2: Projectile and Circular Motion
  Homework II due
  Homework III: Do 2-72, 2-76, 2-82, 2-122, 3-14, 3-16
  (due Friday September 4)
  
  
• Friday September 4: Newton's First and Second Laws
  Homework III due
  Homework IV: Do 3-36, 3-38, 3-42, 3-58, 3-70, 3-102
  (due Wednesday September 9)
  Begin reading Chapter 4
  
  
• Monday September 7: Labor Day
  
  
  
• Tueday September 8: Newton's Third Law and Forces
  Read Chapter 4
  
  
• Wednesday September 9: Applications of Newton's Laws
  Homework IV Due
  Homework V: Do 4-12, 4-14, 4-24, 4-32 (due Friday September 11 )
  
  
• Friday September 11: Applications of Newton's Laws
  Homework V Due
  Homework VI: Do 4-42, 4-47, 4-56, 4-76, 4-81
  (due Wednesday September 16)
  Start reading Chapter 5
  
  
• Monday September 14: Applications of Newton's Laws
  Read Chapter 5
  
  
• Tuesday September 15: Friction and Dissipative Forces
  Read Chapter 5
  
  
• Wednesday September 16: Drag Forces
  Homework VI Due
  Homework VII: Do 5-4, 5-14, 5-22, 5-55, 5-66 (due Friday September 18)
  
  
• Friday September 18: Work and Kinetic Energy
  Homework VII Due
  Start Reading Chapter 6
  Homework VIII: Do 5-34, 5-52, 5-108, 6-6, 6-10, 6-20, 6-26
  (due Wednesday September 23rd)
  
  
• Monday September 21: Conservation of Energy
  Read Chapter 6
  
  
• Tuesday September 22: Variable Force and Work in 3 dimensions
  Continue to Read Chapter 6
  
  
• Wednesday September 23: Potential Energy, Equilibrium
  Homework VIII due
  Homework IX: Do 6-42, 6-56, 6-61, 6-78, 7-6
  (*** due Friday October 2nd after the midterm ***)
  
  
• Friday September 25: Review Chapters 1-5
  
  
• Monday September 28: Midterm Exam I
  
  
• Tuesday September 29: Applications of Energy Conservation
  Read Chapter 7/1-7/3
  
  
• Wednesday September 30 : Conservation of Energy
  Read Chapter 7
  
  
• Friday October 2: Conservation of Energy, Power
  Homework IX due
  Homework X: Do 7-8, 7-18, 7-20, 7-42, 7-49, 7-82
  (due Wednesday October 7)
  Read Chapter 7
  
  
• Monday October 5: Center of Mass(CM), Conservation of Momentum
  Read Chapter 8 (sections 8-1 to 8-4)
  
  
• Tueday October 6: Conservation of Momentum
  Read Chapter 8 (sections 8-5 to 8-7)
  
  
• Wednesday October 7: Collisions in 1 dimension
  Homework X due
  Homework XI: Do 8-6, 8-7, 8-18, 8-19, 8-32 (due Friday October 9)
  Read Chapter 9 (sections 9-1 to 9-3)
  
  
• Friday October 9: Collisions in 3 dimensions
  Homework XI Due
  Homework XII: Do 8-66, 8-69, 8-114, 8-121
  (due Wednesday October 14)
  Note that problems 9-6, 9-23 are now due on Friday
  Read Chapter 9 (sections 9-4 to 9-6)
  
  
• Monday October 12: Angular Variables, Torque
  Start to Read Chapter 10
  
  
  
• Tueday October 13: Rotational Kinetic Energy, Angular Momentum
  Read Chapter 10
  
  
  
• Wednesday October 14: Angular Momentum
  Homework XII due
  Homework XIII: Do 9-6, 9-23, 9-30, 9-33, 9-48, 9-68 (due Friday October 17)
  Read Chapter 10
  
  
  
• Friday October 16: Applications of Angular Momentum Conservation
  Homework XIII due
  Homework XIV: Do 9-86, 9-92, 9-118, 10-4, 10-5, 10-26, 10-72
  (Homework XIV is due Wednesday October 21)
  
  
  
• Monday October 19: Rolling and Slipping
  Read Chapter 11
  
  
• Tueday October 20: Gravity and Kepler's Laws
  
  
  
• Wednesday October 21: Review Chapters 5-9
  Homework XIV due
  Homework XV: Do 10-34, 10-38, 10-50, 10-82
  (*** due Wednesday October 28th after the midterm ***)
  
  
• Friday October 23: Midterm Exam II
  
  
• Monday October 26: Gravity and Kepler's Laws
  
  
  
• Tueday October 27: Escape Velocity, Spherical Symmetry
  Read Chapter 11
  
  
  
• Wednesday October 28: Static Equilibrium I
  Homework XV due
  Homework XVI: Do 11-14, 11-38, 11-50, 11-78
  (due Friday October 30th)
  
  
• Friday October 30: Static Equilibrium II
  Homework XVI due
  Homework XVII: Do 11-81, 11-105, 12-16, 12-28, 12-34, 12-48
  (due Wednesday November 4th)
  Read Chapter 12
  
  
  
• Monday November 2: Fluids
  Read Chapter 12
  
  
  
• Tueday November 3: Election Day (VOTE!)
  
  
  
• Wednesday November 4: Archimedes' Principle, Bernoulli's Equation
  Homework XVII due
  Homework XVIII: Do 13-18, 13-12, 13-26, 13-51
  (*** due Monday November 9th ***)
  Read Chapter 13
  
  
  
• Friday November 6: Simple Harmonic Motion I
  Read Chapter 13
  
  
• Monday November 9: Simple Harmonic Motion II
  Homework XVIII due
  Homework XIX: Do 14-6, 14-18, 14-46, 14-58, 14-116
  (*** due Friday November 13 ***)
  
  
  
• Tuesday November 10: Waves and Speeds of Waves
  Pendulum lab Do the virtual pendulum lab Read Chapter 12
  
  
• Wednesday November 11: Veteran's Day
  
  
• Friday November 13: Superposition, Standing Waves
  Homework XIX due
  Homework XX: Do 14-76, 14-90, 15-8, 15-28, 15-36, 15-40
  (due Wednesday November 18th)
  
  
• Monday November 16: Standing Waves, Speed of Sound
  
• Tuesday November 17
  
  
• Wednesday November 18: Standing Waves, Doppler Effect
  Homework XXI: Do 15-44, 15-68, 15-60, 15-101, 16-12, 16-46, 16-49
  (*** due Wednesday November 25th ***)
  
  
• Friday November 20: Review Chapters 9-14
  
  
  
• Monday November 23: Midterm III
  
  
  
• Tuesday November 24: Intensity, Beats in Sound
  
  
  
• Wednesday November 25: Temperature, Thermal Expansion, Ideal Gas Law
  Homework XXI due
  Homework XXII: Do 16-8, 16-76, 18-24, 18-32, 18-40, 18-44, 18-62
  (*** due Monday November 30th ***)
  
  
• Thursday November 26: Thanksgiving Holiday
  
  
• Friday November 27: Thanksgiving Holiday
  
  
• Monday November 30: Kinetic Theory of Gases
  Assignment XXII due
  Homework XXIII: Do 19-2, 19-6, 19-10, 19-12, 19-28, 19-40
  (*** due Friday December 4th ***)
  
  
• Tuesday December 1: Heat Capacity, PV Diagrams
  
  
  
• Wednesday December 2: 1st Law of Thermodynamics
  
  
  
• Friday December 4: More Thermodynamics
  Assignment XXIII due
  Assignment XXIV: Do 19-20, 19-38, 19-54, 20-6, 20-52
  (due Wednesday December 9th)
  
  
• Monday December 7: More Thermodynamics
  Read Chapter 16
  
  
• Tuesday December 8: Finish Thermodynamics and Review for Final Exam
  
  
• Wednesday December 9: Review for Final Exam, Chapters 1-19 (skip 17)
  Assignment XXIV due
  
  
• Friday December 11: Additional Review for Final Exam (if requested)
  
  
• Friday December 18: Final Exam 9:45-11:45 a.m.

  Tom Browder
  Sunday November 15th HST 1998