Instructor: | David B. Thiessen, | Webster Physical Sciences 754 |
Office Hours: | Tu 1:30-2:30 pm | |
Th 10:30-11:30 am | ||
Phone: | 335-4908 | |
E-mail: | thiessen@wsu.edu | |
Teaching Assistant: | Catherine Mount, | Webster Physical Sciences 647 |
Office Hours: | to be announced | |
Phone: | 335-1646 | |
E-mail: | cmount@wsu.edu |
Textbook: Physics, 4th edition, by Douglas C. Giancoli. The textbook will be required for homework and quizzes. Textbooks may not be shared during quizzes.
Laboratory Manual: Physics 101 Lab Manual
Supplements: The following texts may be of assistance to some students. They have different styles and you should try to evaluate which would be useful to you. Nobody needs both.
Calculators: A calculator will be needed for homework, quizzes, laboratories, and exams. If you do not own a calculator, it is recommended that you acquire one that can use scientific notation, and has trigonometric functions and logarithmic functions (about $15.00).
Examinations and Grading: The course grade will be based on the approximate weighting shown below:
Hour Exams: | 40 % |
Quizzes: | 15% |
Final Exam: | 20% |
Laboratory: | 25% |
Final Exam will be held from 3:10 pm to 6:10 pm on Thursday, Dec. 18 in accordance with university regulation. Any deviation from this schedule will require special university approval. The final exam is comprehensive.
Daily Work Evaluation (Quizzes): Homework problems for each lecture are listed in the syllabus. Also listed are periodic quiz dates. On that day at the end of class there will be a short ~10 minute quiz drawn directly from the problems listed in the syllabus. This will be an open text, open note quiz. You should have little problem with the quiz if you have previously worked out the homework problems. Participation in the quizzes is mandatory. Because these quizzes are an evaluation of your work, daily work solutions will not be posted until after the quiz. Quiz questions should also alert you to problems you may have had in understanding the homework before you have to face it on an Hour Exam. The final quiz average will be based on the best 10 out of 12 quizzes. No make-up quizzes will be given unless prior arrangements have been made.
Hour Exams: Four hour exams (50 min.) will be given during the semester. NO make-up exams will be given unless PRIOR arrangements have been made.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~thiessen
I will try to post homework and exam solutions on the web. The solutions posted to the web will be the same as those posted at SLIC.Phys 103-01 Tu 3:10 pm Webster B7 (line no. 71381)
Phys 103-02 Wed 7:10 pm Webster B7 (line no. 71399)
Reasonable accommodations are available for students who have a documented disability. Please notify the instructor during the first week of class of any accommodations needed for the course. Late notification may cause the requested accommodations to be unavailable. All accommodations must be approved through the Disability Resource Center (DRC) in Administration Annex 206, 335-1566.
Date | Topic | Reading | Homework Problems |
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Aug. 25 | Measurement and Units | 1-1 -> 1-7 | Ch. 1: 2,6,8,10,14,15 |
27 | Speed and Velocity | 2-1 -> 2-6 | Ch. 2: 3,5,8,10 |
29 | Acceleration | 2-7 -> 2-9 | Ch. 2: 15,21,22,24 |
Sept. 1 | Labor Day Holiday | ||
3 | Free Fall | 2-10 -> 2-11 | Ch. 2: 33,37,40,45 |
5 | Vectors Quiz 1: Chs. 1&2 |
3-1 -> 3-3 | Ch. 3: 5,9,10,13 |
8 | Relative Velocity | 3-4 | Ch. 3: 21,22,26,29 |
10 | Projectile Motion | 3-5 -> 3-7 | Ch. 3: 39,43,48,51 |
12 | Force and Inertia, Quiz 2: Ch. 3 |
4-1 -> 4-3 | |
Sept. 15 | Exam 1: Chapters 1-3 | ||
17 | Newton's Laws of Motion | 4-4 -> 4-6 | Ch. 4: 3,6,8,14,17 |
19 | Free-Body Diagrams | 4-7 | Ch. 4: 21,24,25,30 |
22 | Frictional Force | 4-8 -> 4-10 | Ch. 4: 36,37,42,49,53 |
24 | Circular Motion, Quiz 3: Ch. 4 | 5-1 -> 5-2 | Ch. 5: 2,8,10,12 |
26 | Gravity | 5-5 -> 5-6 | Ch. 5: 24,28,32,34 |
29 | Orbital Mechanics | 5-7 -> 5-9 | Ch. 5: 36,42,49,55 |
Oct. 1 | Work & Energy, Quiz 4: Ch. 5 |
6-1, 6-3 & 6-4 | Ch. 6: 2,7,21,23,30 |
3 | Conservation of Mechanical Energy | 6-5 -> 6-7 | Ch. 6: 33,35,38,40 |
6 | Energy Transformation | 6-8 -> 6-10 | Ch. 6: 49,53,57,61 |
8 | Conservation of Momentum Quiz 5: Ch. 6 | 7-1 -> 7-3 | Ch. 7: 4,8,11,16 |
Oct. 10 | Exam 2: Chapters 4-6 | ||
13 | Collisions | 7-4 -> 7-6 | Ch. 7: 22,24,26,32 |
15 | Center of Mass | 7-7 -> 7-9 | Ch. 7: 39,48,53,56 |
17 | Angular
Quantities, Torque, Quiz 6: Ch. 7 | 8-1 -> 8-3 | Ch. 8: 7,12,24,28,29 |
20 | Rotational Dynamics | 8-4 -> 8-5 | Ch. 8: 32,36,40,42 |
22 | Angular Momentum | 8-6 -> 8-7 | Ch. 8: 46,48,57,63 |
24 | Statics/Stability, Quiz 7: Ch. 8 |
9-1 -> 9-3 & 9-5 | Ch. 9: 6,7,18,22 |
27 | Stress, Strain
& Fracture | 9-6 & 9-7 | Ch. 9: 44,49,55,61 |
29 | Fluids, Density
& Pressure Quiz 8: Ch. 9 | 10-1 -> 10-5 | Ch. 10: 2,8,14,21 |
Oct. 31 | Exam 3: Chapters 7-9 | ||
Nov. 3 | Buoyancy | 10-6 | Ch. 10: 23,24,26,32 |
5 | Fluid Dynamics | 10-7 -> 10-9, & 10-13 | Ch. 10: 36,38,39,44,64 |
7 | Simple Harmonic Motion, Quiz 9: Ch. 10 | 11-1 -> 11-4 | Ch. 11: 2,6,8,12 |
10 | Resonance | 11-5 -> 11-8 | Ch. 11: 18,22,29,31,34 |
12 | Waves | 11-9 -> 11-12 | Ch. 11: 39,48,52,56,57 |
14 | Sound, Quiz 10: Ch. 11 | 12-1,12-2, & 12-4 | Ch. 12: 3,5,11,14 |
17 | Sound Generation | 12-5 -> 12-8 | Ch. 12: 28,37,47,56 |
19 | Temperature, Quiz 11: Ch. 12 | 13-1 -> 13-5 | Ch. 13: 1,2,9,12,21 |
21 | Ideal Gas Law | 13-6 -> 13-11 | Ch. 13: 25,27,33,39,46 |
Nov. 24-28 | Thanksgiving Vacation | ||
Dec. 1 | Heat/Calorimetry | 14-1 -> 14-6 | Ch. 14: 1,7,16,18,23,25 |
3 | Heat
Transfer Quiz 12: Ch. 13 | 14-7 -> 14-9 | Ch. 14: 30,33 |
Dec. 5 | Exam 4: Chapters 10-13 | ||
8 | First Law
of Thermodynamics | 15-1 -> 15-3 | Ch. 15: 5,7,9,14 |
10 | Second Law
of Thermodynamics | 15-4->15-5, & 15-7 | Ch. 15: 17,23,32,38 |
12 | Review for Final | ||
Thurs. Dec. 18 | FINAL EXAM (3:10 pm - 6:10 pm) |