Two times each weak, 1-16 weeks.
M & W 15:20-16:55
@507 & 201 XueLou
Office Hour:
W 12:00-13:00 @ 233 LihuaLou
About the score:
Your total score consists of your homework (20%) + In-class tests & engagement (10%) + final test (70%).
Textbook:
University Physics with Modern Physics – 12th
by Hugh D. Young, Roger A. Freedman
Physics I:
- Chp.1 – Units, Physical Quantities, and Vectors (Summary)
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- To learn three fundamental quantities of physics and the units to measure them
- To understand vectors and scalars and how to add vectors graphically
- To determine vector components and how to use them in calculations
- To understand unit vectors and how to use them with components to describe vectors
- To learn two ways of multiplying vectors
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- Chp.2 – Motion Along a Straight line (Summary)
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- To describe straight-line motion in terms of velocity and acceleration
- To distinguish between average and instantaneous velocity and average and instantaneous acceleration
- To interpret graphs of position versus time, velocity versus time, and acceleration versus time for straight-line motion
- To understand straight-line motion with constant acceleration
- To examine freely falling bodies
- To analyze straight-line motion when the acceleration is not constant
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- Chp.3 – Motion in Two or Three Dimensions (Summary)
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- To use vectors to represent the position of a body
- To determine the velocity vector using the path of a body
- To investigate the acceleration vector of a body
- To describe the curved path of projectile
- To investigate circular motion
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- Chp.4 – Newton’s Laws of Motion (Summary)
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- To understand the meaning of force in physics
- To view force as a vector and learn how to combine forces
- To understand the behavior of a body on which the forces balance: Newton’s First Law of Motion
- To learn the relationship between mass, acceleration, and force: Newton’s Second Law of Motion
- To relate mass and weight
- To see the effect of action-reaction pairs: Newton’s Third Law of Motion
- To learn to make free-body diagrams
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- Chp.5 – Applying Newton’s Laws (Summary)
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- To use Newton’s first law for bodies in equilibrium
- To use Newton’s second law for accelerating bodies
- To study the types of friction and fluid resistance
- To solve problems involving circular motion
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- Chp.6 – Work and Kinetic Energy (Summary)
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- To understand and calculate the work done by a force
- To understand the meaning of kinetic energy
- To learn how work changes the kinetic energy of a body and how to use this principle
- To relate work and kinetic energy when the forces are not constant or the body follows a curved path
- To solve problems involving power
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- Chp.7 – Potential Energy and Energy Consavation (Summary)
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- To use gravitational potential energy in vertical motion
- To use elastic potential energy for a body attached to a spring
- To solve problems involving conservative and nonconservative forces
- To determine the properties of a conservative force from the corresponding potential-energy function
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- Chp.8 – Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions (Summary)
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- To learn the meaning of the momentum of a particle and how an impulse causes it to change
- To learn how to use the conservation of momentum
- To learn how to solve problems involving collisions
- To learn the definition of the center of mass of a system and what determines how it moves
- To analyze situations, such as rocket propulsion, in which the mass of a moving body changes
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- Chp.9 – Rotation of Rigid Bodies (Summary)
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- To describe rotation in terms of angular coordinate, angular velocity, and angular acceleration
- To analyze rotation with constant angular acceleration
- To relate rotation to the linear velocity and linear acceleration of a point on a body
- To understand moment of inertia and how it relates to rotational kinetic energy
- To calculate moment of inertia
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- Chp.10 – Dynamics of Rotational Motion (Summary)
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- To learn what is meant by torque
- To see how torque affects rotational motion
- To analyze the motion of a body that rotates as it moves through space
- To use work and power to solve problems for rotating bodies
- To study angular momentum and how it changes with time
- To learn why a gyroscope precesses
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- Chp.11 – Equilibrium and Elasticity (Summary)
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- To study the conditions for equilibrium of a body
- To understand center of gravity and how it relates to a body’s stability
- To solve problems for rigid bodies in equilibrium
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- Chp.12 – Gravitation (Summary)
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- To calculate the gravitational forces that bodies exert on each other
- To relate weight to the gravitational force
- To use the generalized expression for gravitational potential energy
- To study the characteristics of circular orbits
- To investigate the laws governing planetary motion
- To look at the characteristics of black holes
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- Chp.13 – Periodic Motion (Summary)
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- To describe oscillations in terms of amplitude, period, frequency and angular frequency
- To do calculations with simple harmonic motion
- To analyze simple harmonic motion using energy
- To apply the ideas of simple harmonic motion to different physical situations
- To analyze the motion of a simple pendulum
- To examine the characteristics of a physical pendulum
- To explore how oscillations die out
- To learn how a driving force can cause resonance
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Chp.14 – Fluid Mechanics (Summary)Chp.15 – Mechanical Waves (Summary)Chp.16 – Sound and Hearing (Summary)
Assignments: (should be returned within one week)
- hw01: (Exercises 1.1, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.31, 1.38, 1.50, 1.54, 1.58)
- hw02: (Exercises 2.3, 2.10, 2.13, 2.14, 2.25, 2.27, 2.32, 2.35, 2.38, 2.39, 2.40, 3.3, 3.8, 3.9, 3.12, 3.14, 3.29, 3.35, 3.36)
- hw03: (Exercises 4.1, 4.3, 4.4, 4.11, 4.13, 4.14, 4.17, 4.18, 4.25, 4.28, 4.31, 4.32, 5.2, 5.4, 5.8, 5.9, 5.12, 5.13, 5.17, 5.19, 5.24, 5.27, 5.28, 5.33, 5.36, 5.37, 5.38, 5.39, 5.45, 5.49, 5.53, 5.55, 5.56)
- hw04: (Exercises 6.7, 6.11, 6.30, 6.31, 6.37, 6.38, 6.40, 6.69, 6.73, 7.39, 7.42, 7.49, 7.50, 7.52)
- hw05: (Exercises 8.19, 8.25, 8.30, 8.40, 8.59, 8.62, 8.68, 8.86)
- hw06: (Exercises 9.70, 9.85, 9.86, 10.16, 10.40, 10.57, 10.64, 10.70)
- hw07: (Exercises 11.45, 11.48, 11.49, 11.59, 11.74)
- hw08: (Exercises 12.24, 12.36, 12.40, 12.41, 12.49, 12.52)
- hw09: (Exercises 13.2, 13.4, 13.17, 13.19)
- hw10: (Exercises hw10)
Physics II:
- Electricity and magnetism
- Thermal dynamics
- Relativity