Excursions in Physics

PHY 3050G

Spring 2002

1300 - 1350 M, W, F

Classroom: 2153, Old Science

Dr Doug Davis

Office: Room 1114

581-6346

DDavis@eiu.edu

Office Hours: 0900 M W F

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Dates are tentative or approximate

Some of the dates have changed.

General Course Calendar

Mon, Jan  7 -- Introduction
               World Wide Web
                  TMU 1, Intro to TMU
Wed, Jan  9 -- Ch 2 (of Conceptual Physics), Linear Motion
                  TMU 2, Falling Bodies
Fri, Jan 11 -- Ch 2, Linear Motion
 
Mon, Jan 15 -- Ch 2, Linear Motion
Wed, Jan 17 -- Ch 2, Linear Motion;  Ex 11, 12, 15, 19, 20; Pb 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
               Ch 3, Nonlinear Motion
Fri, Jan 19 -- Ch 3, Nonlinear Motion

Mon, Jan 21 -- Martin Luther King, Jr, Day -- NO CLASSES
Wed, Jan 23 -- Ch 3, Nonlinear Motion;  Ex 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 27; Pb 1, 6, 10
               Ch 4, Newton's Laws of Motion
                    TMU 4,  Inertia
Fri, Jan 25 -- Ch 4, Newton's Laws of Motion
                    TMU 6,  Newton's Laws
 
Mon, Jan 28 -- Ch 4, Newton's Laws of Motion
                    TMU 9,  Moving in Circles
Wed, Jan 30 -- Ch 4, Newton's Laws of Motion;
                         Ex 4, 6, 11, 21, 22, 27, 31, 34, 36, 43; 
                         Pb 2, 3, 5
                    TMU 10,  Fundamental Forces
               Questions for first hour exam?
Fri, Feb  1 -- Hour Exam #1 (Chapters 1 - 4)
               Old Hour Exams
 
Mon, Feb  4 -- discuss Hour Exam #1
Wed, Feb  6 -- Ch 5, Momentum
                  TMU 15, Conservation of Momentum
Fri, Feb  8 -- Lincoln's Birthday Observed -- NO CLASSES
  
Mon, Feb 11 -- Ch 5, Momentum
               Ch 5, Momentum;  Ex 1, 2, 3, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 31, 32 
               Ch 6, Energy
Wed, Feb 13 -- Ch 6, Energy
                   TMU 13, Conservation of Energy
Fri, Feb 15 -- "The Convincer" 
                    Meet in the quad to the east of the Science Building.
 
Mon, Feb 18 -- Ch 6, Energy
                    TMU 14, Potential Energy
Wed, Feb 20 -- IIHS Movie "The Science of Car Crashes"
               Ch 6, Energy;  Ex 5, 7, 8, 9, 21, 23; Pb 1, 2, 4
Fri, Feb 22 -- Ch 7, Rotational Motion

Mon, Feb 25 -- Ch 7, Rotational Motion; Ex 2, 6, 11, 18, 20, 23, 28, 37; Pb 1
               Ch 8, Gravity
                    TMU 8, The Apple and the Moon 
Wed, Feb 27 -- Ch 8: Gravity; Ex 2, 6, 10, 11, 13, 15, 21, 38, 40; Pb 1
               Questions for second hour exam?
ThR, Feb 28 -- mid-term
Fri, Feb 28 -- Hour Exam #2 (Chapters 5 - 8) 
                 Old Hour Exams

Mon, Mar  1 -- discuss Hour Exam #2 
               Ch 10 (of Adventures in Physics), Periodic Motion
Wed, Mar  4 -- Ch 10, Periodic Motion
                   TMU 16, Harmonic Motion
Fri, Mar  6 -- Ch 10, Periodic Motion;  3, 4, 5, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16
                   TMU 17, Resonance
               Ch 11, Waves

Fri, Mar  8 -- Ch 11, Waves
                   TMU 18, Waves

Mon, Mar 11-- Spring Break!  NO CLASSES
Wed, Mar 13-- Spring Break!  NO CLASSES
Fri, Mar 15-- Spring Break!  NO CLASSES
 
Mon, Mar 18 -- Ch 11, Waves;  1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15
               Ch 12, Sound and Music
Wed, Mar 20 -- Ch 12, Sound and Music
Fri, Mar 22 -- NO CLASS
               Thoroughly review the homework on your own.
               Ch 11, Waves;  1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15

Mon, Mar 25 -- NO CLASS
               Thoroughly review the homework on your own.
               Ch 12, Sound and Music;  1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 22
Wed, Mar 27 -- Hour Exam #3
               Old Hour Exams
Fri, Mar 29 -- discuss Hour Exam #3

Mon, Apr  1 -- PSSC movie on video, Introduction to Optics
Wed, Apr  3 -- Ch 16, Reflection and Refraction
                    TMU 40, Optics            
Fri, Apr  5 -- Ch 16, Reflection and Refraction;
                              1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22

Mon, Apr  8 -- Ch 17, Color and Vision
Wed, Apr 10 -- Ch 17, Color and Vision; 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 17, 19,
                           20, 25, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 38, 40, 41, 47
                           Calculational 5,6
Fri, Apr 12 -- Ch 18, Mirrors and Lenses (Image Formation)

Mon, Apr 15 -- Ch 18, Mirrors and Lenses (Ray Diagrams!)
Wed, Apr 17 -- Ch 18, Mirrors and Lenses;  2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12,
                            17, 19, 20, 25, 26; Calculational 5
               Ch 19, Optical Instruments
Fri, Apr 19 -- Ch 19, Optical Instruments, 1 - 10
               Ch 20, Wave Optics

Mon, Apr 22 -- Ch 20, Wave Optics
               Ch 20, Wave Optics, 1 - 12
Wed, Apr 24 -- Hour Exam #4
               Old Hour Exams
               Final Exam for Excursions OnLine!
Fri, Apr 26 -- discuss Hour Exam #4 -- last class day 

Mon, Apr 29 -- Final Exam (1445 (2:45) - 1645)

Excursions Bulletin Board and Online Quizzes

My hope is that you will find the Bulletin Board throughout this course. I expect this Bulletin Board to be useful. Please give me lots of feedback concerning this. I will try to refrain from answering your questions immediately. I want the Bulletin Board to be a means of exchanging ideas between and among students in this class. If you have a question for me, please come see me or send it to me by eMail.

There are Online Quizzes for each chapter. The deadline for these Online Quizzes is 1300 (that's one o'clock pm) of the day listed in this calendar for the homework from that chapter. The questions are given at the end of the assigned homework. The questions -- with their answers -- are repeated following that. You can take the Online Quizzes a maximum of five times. These Online Quizzes will be normalized to 100 points and count the same as one hour exam. There is no reason that everyone should not get 100 points on these Online Quizzes.

Just don't wait until the deadline. Computers are contankerous! Networks do go down!

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