Excursions in Physics

PHY 3050

Summer 2003

24/7 on the Internet

( Only Excursions Online is offered this summer;

there is no section of Excursions Live! )

Dr Doug Davis

Office: Room 1114, Old Science Building

581-6346

DDavis@eiu.edu

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Dates are tentative or approximate

General Course Calendar

June
Mon 10 -- Introduction
                TMU 1, Intro to TMU
          Ch 2 (of Conceptual Physics), Linear Motion
Tue 11 -- Ch 2, Linear Motion
                TMU 2, Falling Bodies
          Ch 3, Nonlinear Motion
Wed 12 -- Ch 2, Linear Motion;  Ex 11, 12, 15, 19, 20; Pb 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
          Ch 3, Nonlinear Motion;  Ex 6, 9, 10, 14, 17, 27; Pb 1, 6, 10
                TMU 4,  Inertia
ThR 13 -- Ch 4, Newton's Laws of Motion
               TMU 6,  Newton's Laws
               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 

Fri 14 -- Ch 6, Energy
                TMU 13, Conservation of Energy

Mon 17 --       TMU 14, Potential Energy
          Ch 6, Energy;  Ex 5, 7, 8, 9, 21, 23; Pb 1, 2, 4
          Ch 5, Momentum
                TMU 15, Conservation of Momentum
Tue 18 -- Ch 5, Momentum;  Ex 1, 2, 3, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 31, 32
          Ch 7, Rotational Motion
                TMU 20, Torques and Gyroscopes
Wed 19 -- 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
          Ch 8: Gravity; Ex 2, 6, 10, 11, 13, 15, 21, 38, 40; Pb 1
ThR 20 -- Mid-Term Exam
Fri 21 -- Ch 10 (of Adventures in Physics), Periodic Motion
                 TMU 16, Harmonic Motion
          Ch 10, Periodic Motion;  3, 4, 5, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16
                 TMU 17, Resonance
          Ch 11, Waves

Mon 24 -- Ch 11, Waves
                 TMU 18, Waves
          Ch 11, Waves;  1, 3, 7, 8, 9, 12, 14, 15
          Ch 12, Sound and Music
Tue 25 -- Ch 12, Sound and Music;  1, 2, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 22
Wed 26 -- Ch 16, Reflection and Refraction
ThR 27 -- Ch 16, Reflection and Refraction;
                              1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 15, 16, 18, 19, 22
                 TMU 40, Optics
          Ch 17, Color and Vision 
Fri 28 -- 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
          Ch 18, Mirrors and Lenses (Image Formation & Ray Diagrams!)
          Ch 19, Optical Instruments

July
Mon  1 -- 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, 1 - 10
          Ch 20, Wave Optics
               TMU 27, Beyond the Mechanical Universe
               TMU 52, The Quantum Mechanical Universe
Tue   2 -- Ch 20, Wave Optics, 1 - 12
Wed   3 -- Final Exam

Excursions Bulletin Board and Online Quizzes

My hope is that you will use 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 1200 (noon) of the day listed in this calendar for the homework for that chapter. Summer School, by its very nature, is a hectic time. The idea behind the Online Quizzes is to help you not get too far behind. The multiple-guess questions of the Online Quizzes 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!

Please don't wait until the deadline. Computers are contankerous! Networks do go down! Take the quizzes as early as you like.

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