Schedule

Syllabus Modules Schedule Assignments

Please fill out the Fall 2007 online class evaluations

Students are expected to study the Web-based material and the corresponding material in the textbook during the time interval indicated in the schedule below. 

22-Aug - 29-Aug   Module 1 Newton's laws:  Motion of a single particle
29-Aug - 5-Sep   Module 2 Newton's laws:  Rigid body motion
5-Sep - 12-Sep   Module 3 Impulsive forces, collisions
12-Sep - 19-Sep   Module 4 Lagrange's and Hamilton's equations
19-Sep - 26-Sep   Module 5 Oscillations and waves
27-Sep - 3-Oct   Module 6 Motion in a central potential
3-Oct - 17-Oct   Module 7 Relativistic kinematics
17-Oct - 24-Oct   Module 8 Relativistic dynamics
24-Oct   31-Oct   Module 9 General Physics
31-Ot - 7-Nov   Module 10 Electrostatics
7-Nov - 14-Nov   Module 11 Dielectrics
14-Nov - 21-Nov   Module 12 Magnetostatics
21-Nov - 28-Nov   Module 13 Magnetic Material
    28-Nov
 
  Practice Test
Alt. Practice Test
Review
 

The Web-based material is divided into 13 modules.  Each modules has a physics theme.  It reviews concepts and formulas associated with this theme and presents 10 solved problems.  Each solution addresses the following points:

Concepts, principles, relations that apply to the problem:

Why do they apply?

How do they apply?

Details of the calculation:

Student unfamiliar with the the concepts and formulas needed to solve a problem should refer to their junior/senior-level undergraduate textbook for a review.

If you are not using Internet Explorer under Windows, many equations probably will not display correctly.  They use the Windows Symbol Font (and the MT Extra Font for hbar).  Click here for fixing this problem Firefox under Windows and Linux. (Courtesy Zachary Barnett)