Text Box: PHY125: General Physics I
Fall 2018
Class Schedule

 Note: Class schedule is tentative and it may change depending on pace at which material is being covered in the class.

 

DATE 

CHAPTER & TOPIC (Serway and Jewett: Physics for Scientists and  Engineers, 9th edition, Thomson Brooks/Cole)

ACTIVITIES AND NOTES

Aug 24

 Ch1: Physics and Measurement

 

Aug27

Lab 1: Measurement and Error

 

Aug 29

Ch2: Motion in One Dimension, Diagnostic Test

Diagnostic Test

Activity: Average Speed&Velocity

 

 

Aug 31

Ch2: Continued

 

Sep 5

Lab2: Free-Fall Motion

 

Sep 7

Ch3: Vectors, Ch4:Motion in Two Dimensions

 

Sep10

Ch4: Two-dimensional Motion

 

Sep12

Lab3: Projectile Motion

 

Sep 14

Ch5 : The Laws of Motion

 

Sep 17

Ch5: Continued

 

Sep 19

Lab4: Dynamics of Linear Motion

 

Sep21

Ch6: Circular Motion and Other Applications of Newton's Laws

 

Sep24

Ch6: Continued

 

Sep26

Ch6: Circular Motion  Review for Exam I (Ch1-5)

 

 Sep28

Exam I (Ch1-5)

 

Oct1

Ch 7:  Energy of the system

 

Oct3

Ch 7:  Continued

 

Oct5

Ch 8: Conservation of Energy

 

Oct8

Lab5: Conservation of Energy

 

 

Oct10

Ch 8: Continued

 

Oct12

Mid Semester Break, no class

 

Oct15

Ch 9: Conservation of Linear Momentum

 

Oct17

Ch9: Continued

 

Oct19

, Ch9: Continued

 

Oct22

Ch9: Continued

 

Oct24

 Ch10: Rotation of the Rigid Object

 

Oct26

 Ch10: Continued, Review for Exam II Ch. 6-9

 

Oct 29

Exam II Ch. 6-9

 

 

 

Oct 31

Lab 6: Dynamics of Rotational Motion

 

 

Nov2

Ch11: Angular Momentum

 

 

Nov5

Ch12: Static Equilibrium,

 

 

Nov7

 Ch12: Static Equilibrium

Lab 7: Static equilibrium

 

Nov9

Ch13: Universal Gravitation

 

Nov12

 Ch13: Continued

 

 

Nov14

Ch14: Fluids

Lab8: Archimedes’ Principle

 

Nov16

Ch 14: Continued

 

Nov19

Ch15: Oscillatory Motion

 

Nov21-25

Thanksgiving-No Classes

 

Nov26

 Ch15: Continued

Lab 9: Simple Pendulum,

 

Nov28

Ch 16: Wave motion, Review for Exam III

 

Nov 30

 Exam III (Ch10-14)

Ch 16: Wave Motion

 

Dec3

Ch 17: Sound Waves

 

Dec5

Ch 18: Superposition and Standing Waves

 

Dec 7

Lab 10: Velocity of a Wave in a String

 

Dec 14

Final Exam (Ch1-18)

12-2 pm