General Physics
Summer 2008
Most recent update on August 15, 2008
This page contains
information for the Summer 2008 courses. If the courses are
offered in Summer 2009, they will be very similar. The basic
content will be approximately the same. Of course start dates,
possibly class times and rooms will be different. This page will
be updated shortly before the course starts.
The General Physics course is a two semester calculus based
sequence. If
you are interested in an algebra based course, see the Elements of
Physics courses, PHY 111K & 112.
PHY 121 K General Physics I_
Dates: 5/12 - 6/20/08
Times: PHY 121 meets Monday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 9:00
to noon. There are three sections of the PHY 114 lab course, all on
Tuesday.
Prerequisite: Prior or concurrent registration in Calculus A or
equivalent. The lecture course (PHY 121) can be taken without the lab
course (PHY 114), but
the lab cannot be taken without prior or concurrent registration in
lecture.
Brief description: General physics I is the first semester of a two
semester calculus based physics course intended for science majors. It
covers
the basic areas of mechanics including oscillations and waves .
It also covers Heat and Thermodynamics.
Text: Physics
for Scientists and Engineers, 4th Edition by Douglas
Giancoli. If you will take both Physics 121 and 123 this
summer, you can get the complete volume. If you will just take
Physics 121, Volume I covers all the information you will need.
Lab: The lab is a separate course - register for PHY 114K if
you need to take lab. The lab schedule is included below with the
course schedule.
Instructor: Robert Coakley coakley@usm.mREMOVEaine.edu
(207)
780-4733
Probable Schedule - Including the PHY 114K Lab schedule
5/12
M Ch 2 - One dimensional motion.
5/13 T Lab: Motion on an
Incline
5/14 W Review ch 2. Ch 3 - Two
dimensional
Motion.
5/16 Th Review ch 3. Ch 4 -
Newton's Laws
5/19 M No Class
5/20 T Lab: The Force
Table - A
Vector Exercise
5/21 W Review
ch 4.
Pre test review
5/22 Th First
Test: Chapters 2, 3, 4
5/26 M Memorial Day - No class
5/27 T Lab: Atwood's
Machine
5/28 W Ch 5 More Newton's Laws, Ch 6 – Gravity
5/29 Th Review chs 5,6. Ch 7 – Work and
Energy, Start Ch 8
6/2 M Review ch 7. Ch 8 Conservation of
Energy. Start Ch 9 –
Momentum
6/3 T Lab:
The
Ballistic Pendulum
6/4 W Review Ch 8.
Finish Ch 9. Ch 10 – Rotation
6/5 Th Review
chs 9 and 10. Pre test
review.
6/9 M Second
Test: Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
6/10 T Lab: Pendulums
and Springs
6/11 W Ch 14 -
Oscillations, Ch 15 Waves
6/12 Th Review chs 14, 15
Ch 17 - Temperature, Ch 18 - Kinetic Theory
6/16 M Review chs 17, 18. Chs
19 and 20 - The Laws of Thermodynamics
6/17 T Lab: Heat of
Fusion of
Water
6/18 W Finish Ch 20 if necessary. Final review
6/19 Th Third
Test: Chapters 14, 15, 17, 18, 19,
20
Problem Assignments (Always due at the test):
Chapter
Problems
2
1, 11, 17, 20, 25, 31, 33, 37, 44, 48, 51,
53, 58, 61
3
1, 3, 5, 9, 11, 21, 23, 29, 3, 35, 44, 45
4
1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 16, 32,
35, 37, 43, 46, 50
First Test
Thursday 5/22
5
1, 4, 7, 10, 11, 17, 20,
29, 35, 38
6
1, 3, 9, 14,23, 33, 51
7
1, 5, 9, 11, 15, 23, 27, 40, 51,
53, 57, 63, 64
8
1, 5, 11, 13, 21, 23, 31, 32,
46, 49, 62, 65
9
3, 9, 13, 16, 19, 23, 35, 44, 98
10
1, 5, 9, 17, 27, 29, 31, 41, 48, 71
Second Test
Monday 6/9
14
3, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18, 27, 35, 37, 41
15
1, 6, 15, 24, 25, 44, 49
17
3, 9, 15, 28, 34, 37, 42, 53
18
1, 3, 8, 9, 12
19
1, 5, 7, 12, 19, 27, 29, 31, 33
20
1, 4, 8, 13, 14, 17
Third Test
Thursday 6/19
PHY 123 General Physics
II
Dates: 6/30 - 8/8/2008
Times: PHY 123 lecture meets Monday, Wednesday and Thursday
from 9:00 am to noon The PHY 116 Lab course meets on Tuesday.
Brief description: General Physics II is a continuation of
General Physics I. It covers electricity and magnetism, and light and
optics.
Prerequisite: Completion of Physics 121 or equivalent and one
semester of calculus.
Text: Physics for
Scientists and Engineers, 4th edition by Douglas Giancoli.
All material for this course is in Volume II as well as in the comlete
volume you may have used for Physics 121.
Instructor: Robert Coakley coakley@usm.mREMOVEaine.edu
(207) 780-4733
Lab: The lab is a separate course - register for PHY 116 if
you need to take lab. The lab schedule is included below with the
course schedule.
Schedule
6/30 M Chapter 21 Electric Force
and Electric Field, Chapter 22 Gauss's Law
7/1 T No
Lab. Instead a regular class will be held from 9:00 -
12:00. Review Ch 21,22
7/2 NO CLASS
7/3 Th . Chapters 23
and 24 Electric Potential and Capacitance.
7/7 M Review Chapters 23 and 24
7/8 T Lab:
Electric Field Plotting
and Equipotentials
7/9 W Chapters 25 and 26 Electric
Current and Circuits
7/10 Th Review Chapters 25 and 26
7/14 M First
Test Chapters 21 - 26
7/15 T Lab: Ohm's Law and Electric
Circuits
7/16 W Chapters 27 and 28. Magnetism.
7/17 Th Review Chapters 27 and 28
7/21 M Chapters 29
and 31 Electromagnetism
7/22 T Lab: Magnetic Current Balance
7/23 W Review Chapters 29 and 31
7/24 Th Second
Test Chapters 27, 28, 29 and
31
7/28 M Chapter 32 Light -
Reflection, Refraction, Mirrors
7/29 T Lab:
Reflection and Refraction
of Light
7/30 W Chapter 33 Lenses and Optical
Instruments
7/31 Th Review Chapters 32 and 33.
8/4 M Chapters 34 and 35
Interference and Diffraction
of Light Waves
8/5 T Lab: Lenses
8/6 W Review Chapters 34 and 35
8/7 Th Third
Test Chapters 32, 33, 34, and 35
Problem Assignments (Always due at the test)
Chapter
Problems
21 3, 7, 8, 12, 16, 21, 26, 31, 33, 42, 57
22 1, 5, 7, 13, 19, 29
23 3, 6, 11, 24, 25, 27, 31, 34, 55, 76
24 1, 3, 8, 11, 17, 41, 43
25 1, 4, 9, 11, 31, 32, 36, 39, 43, 49, 52
26 1, 5, 7, 16, 19, 22, 48, 69
First Test Monday 7/14
27 1, 2, 5, 6, 13, 16, 17, 23, 36
28 1, 2, 9, 14, 18, 25, 29, 35
29 1, 3, 6, 7, 10, 15, 27, 29, 47, 50
31 9, 13, 15, 16, 17
Second Test
32 3, 4, 9, 12, 14, 25, 33, 38, 45, 48, 53, 59
33 1, 3, 6, 11, 13, 21, 41, 45, 51, 63, , 73,
77
34 3, 4, 8, 13, 23, 30
35 1, 7, 25, 27, 30, 31, 36
Third Test Thursday 8/7