PHYS 20473 - Physics I Fall 2006

Lectures: MWF 9:00 - 9:50 @ SWR 357

Instructor: Yuri M. Strzhemechny

Email: Y.Strzhemechny@tcu.edu

Web: http://personal.tcu.edu/~ystrzhemechn/

Office: SWR 373

Phone: 817-257-5793

Office Hours: Tuesday 8:00-10:00 am, Friday 10:00-11:00 am & by appointment

Required textbook: “Fundamentals of Physics”, Extended 7th Edition, by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker (ISBN: 0-471-23231-9)

Course Description: This is part one of a two-semester calculus-based physics course. We will cover chapters 1-20 of the text, dealing with classical mechanics and thermodynamics.

Grading: The course grades will be determined as follows:

A: 100 – 90.1 pts., B: 90 – 80.1 pts., C: 80 – 70.1 pts., D: 70 – 55.1 pts., F: 55 and below.

Weekly quizzes: 12.5 %

Test 1: 25 %

Test 2: 25 %

Final Exam: 37.5 %

Weekly quizzes consisting of a few problems (very similar to the homework problems) will be given every Friday from 9:00 to 9:10 am, and will include material covered during the previous week. The quizzes grade will be determined as the average of all the quiz grades but one, with the lowest grade dropped. Final exam will be cumulative, but the emphasis will be given to Chapters 15-20. Each of the three tests will contain conceptual questions and problems. No PDA’s, graphing calculators, or cell phones on the tests, please. Make-up tests will be provided to students having an Official University Absence. Students with valid reasons for missed tests (e.g. doctor's note) will have to contact me regarding make-up tests as early as possible.

Homework: It is crucial for you to learn how to apply conceptual knowledge for problem solving. The textbook provides excellent guidelines for you to acquire this skill. You are strongly encouraged to go through the solutions of the sample problems as well as ‘Problem-Solving Tactics’ sections. In addition, for each chapter, I supply a number of recommended problems for your homework. It is in your best interest to solve those problems in a timely manner for several reasons. First, it will provide additional training in self-education. Second, homework problems will be very similar to those given in the weekly quizzes. Third, homework problems will be related to those offered in the tests and the final. Please refer to the course calendar for the problems assigned for each chapter. I will not be grading your homework assignments but I will sure grade the quizzes and the tests. If you are having difficulty solving the homework problems you may want to contact me during my office hours, or perhaps get a tutor (for tutors available within the department, check our web page at http://www.phys.tcu.edu).

You will have an option of getting up to 5% of extra credit for an extracurricular research. Such assignments will be given on request from a pool of topics on a lottery basis.

Class calendar: We will follow the schedule given below

Dates	Lectures (Chapters)	Problems
08/21/06	Intro
08/23/06	1 (Measurement)	3,15,19,29,37,51
08/25/06	2 (Linear Motion)	1,12,16,28,42,68,81
08/28/06	3 (Vectors)	5,12,29,38,47,58,67
08/30/06	3 (Vectors)
09/01/06	4 (2D/3D Motion); Quiz 1	3,8,10,20,48,56,60
09/06/06	5 (Force I)	2,10,22,63,83
09/08/06	5 (Force I); Quiz 2
09/11/06	6 (Force II)	2,32,36,40,97,104
09/13/06	6 (Force II)
09/15/06	7 (Kinetic Energy); Quiz 3	5,8,19,35,40,65
09/18/06	7 (Kinetic Energy)
09/20/06	8 (Potential Energy)	5,18,41,47,68,89
09/22/06	8 (Potential Energy); Quiz 4
09/25/06	Review
09/27/06	Test 1 (Ch. 1-7)
09/29/06	9 (Momentum)	2,10,18,26,39,46, 57,66,70
10/02/06	9 (Momentum)
10/04/06	10 (Rotation)	2,10,22,36,46,50, 64,69,78,101
10/09/06	10 (Rotation)
10/11/06	11 (Torque)	1,4,18,26,32,37,42
10/13/06	11 (Torque); Quiz 5
10/16/06	12 (Equilibrium)	8,10,14,38,48,75
10/18/06	12 (Equilibrium)
10/20/06	13 (Gravitation); Quiz 6	2,4,17,20,32,39,54
10/23/06	13 (Gravitation)
10/25/06	14 (Fluids)	2,12,,22,24,42,55
10/27/06	15 (Oscillations); Quiz 7	2,28,38,42,58,61,91
10/30/06	15 (Oscillations)
11/01/06	Review
11/03/06	Test 2 (Ch. 8-14)
11/06/06	16 (Waves I)	2,15,24,26,30,46,81
11/08/06	16 (Waves I)
11/10/06	17 (Waves II); Quiz 8	6,8,14,23,36,50,85
11/13/06	17 (Waves II)
11/15/06	18 (Temperature)	4,10,22,44,50,63
11/17/06	18 (Temperature); Quiz 9
11/20/06	19 (Gases)	2,7,19,23,28,40,50, 53,85
11/27/06	19 (Gases)
11/29/06	20 (Entropy)	6,22,34,43,52,63
12/01/06	20 (Entropy); Quiz 10
12/04/06	Review
12/06/06	Review
12/11/06	Final Exam (8 am)

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