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PHYS 2404 - General Physics I
Course Syllabus
Fall 2009
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Description:
Mechanics is studied. Derivations and
applications of formulas using calculus are stressed. Problem solving is a
basic part of the course. Three hours
lecture and two hours laboratory per week.
Prerequisite: Mathematics
1402 concurrently.
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Objectives:
Each student will (1) develop a conceptual understanding of the basic
principles of mechanics; (2) understand the development of mechanics from
past to present including a knowledge of the scientists who shaped the course
of mechanics and their contributions; and (3) develop a flexible, logical
problem solving methodology applicable, not only to this course, but to the
greater academic and career challenges ahead.
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Scope:
This course begins with a survey of vectors and the basic laws of motion. It
continues with forces and Newton’s three laws of motion. Work and energy, momentum and collisions
are explored. Rotational motion and dynamics, gravity and Kepler’s laws are
investigated using previously covered mechanical principles. The last phase
of the course introduces wave mechanics and fluid mechanics.
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Instructor:
Dr. Buxton L. Johnson, Sr.
 Present
lectures that compliment the book and reinforce learning objectives; ensure
that all components of the course are coordinated and sequenced according to
the syllabus; provide help sessions and additional instruction as requested
(only simple examples and problems will normally be worked in class); ensure
testing and subsequent grading is equitable and consistent; and guide
students in the performance of laboratory experiments and the subsequence
preparation of laboratory reports.
Students:
You
Study
assigned sections prior to class; read and attempt to work through assigned
problems prior to deadline; develop and maintain a general physics reference
sheet (one side of an 8.5” x 11” paper for each hour exam and both sides of
one sheet for the final exam); seek addition help early--use instructor’s
office hours or make appointments--use Plus Center tutors; participate
in study groups within the guidelines of Kentucky Wesleyan’s rules on
plagiarism; visit online tutoring sites such as WebAssign; and test yourself
before the exam!
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Graded
Events
Class
Regular
quizzes will be given during class using the Turning Point student response
system. In addition, regular weekly
homework assignments will be assigned/submitted through the WebAssign online
homework system. Furthermore, three
1-hour exams and a 2-hour cumulative final exam will be administered. These
exams will cover class material, class quizzes, homework assignments, and
topics from laboratory.
Laboratory
A
laboratory experiment will be performed each week in the General Physics
Laboratory and a subsequent report will be due one week later at the beginning
of the next laboratory period. The first four laboratory reports will be
written by hand in a laboratory book and submitted to the instructor. The remaining eight laboratory reports will
be written in Microsoft Word with embedded Excel data tables and analysis,
and uploaded to Turnitin.com. Each lab
report will contain the following sections:
1.
Purpose
a.
describe
the purpose of the lab experiment;
b.
include
a diagram(s) of the experimental setup;
c.
state
the math model(s) being tested.
2.
Procedure
and Analysis
a.
document
the procedures you followed during the laboratory experiment;
b.
use
tables to show your experimental data;
c.
perform
all your calculations;
d.
include
required spreadsheets and graphs with regression lines;
e.
document
your results.
3.
Conclusions
a.
summarize
your conclusions based on your analysis of the data;
b.
discuss
the specific sources of error in the experiment.
See a sample
report. The advance study
assignment for each laboratory exercise is due at the beginning of the
laboratory period. Late advance study
assignments will not be accepted for credit. Quizzes may be given by your
instructor during laboratory.
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Schedule
Class
Ch 1 – Introduction & Vectors
Ch 2 – Motion in One Dimension
Ch 3 – Motion in Two Dimensions
Ch 4 – The Laws of Motion
Exam 1
Ch 5 – More Applications
Ch 6 – Energy and Energy Transfer
Ch 7 – Potential Energy
Ch 8 – Momentum
and Collisions
Exam 2
Ch
10 – Rotational Motion
Ch
11 – Gravity, Planetary Orbits, and the Hydrogen Atom
Ch 12 – Oscillatory Motion
Exam 3
Ch 15 – Fluid Mechanics
Final
Exam
Laboratory
Lab#2 – Measurement
Instruments
Lab#3 – The Scientific
Method: Simple Pendulum
Lab#4 – Uniformly Accelerated
Motion
Lab#5 – Projectile Motion:
The Ballistic Pendulum
Lab#6 – The Addition and
Resolution of Vectors: Force Table
Lab#7 – Newton's Second Law:
The Atwood Machine
Lab#8 – Friction
Lab#9 – Conservation of
Linear Momentum
Lab#11 – Torques,
Equilibrium, and Center of Gravity
Lab#12 – Rotational Motion and
Moment of Inertia
Lab#13 – Simple Harmonic
Motion
Lab#14 – Standing Waves in a String
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Detailed
Class/Laboratory Schedule
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Class(C)
/ Lab(L)
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Topic
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Study/Homework/Laboratory/Quiz
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C1: M
8-31
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Introduction
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Ch 1, Sec
1-5
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C2: W 9-2
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Vectors
I
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Ch 1, Sec
6-9
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L1A: W
9-2
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Lab#2 TI
– Measurement
Instruments (Mass, Volume, and Density)
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Laboratory 1, Section A
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L1B: Th
9-3
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Lab#2 TI
– Measurement
Instruments (Mass, Volume, and Density)
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Laboratory 1, Section B
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C3: F 9-4
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Vectors
II
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Ch 1, Sec
9-10
Complete
Intro to WebAssign
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M 9-7
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Labor Day
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Have a
good holiday!
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C4: W 9-9
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1-D
Motion: Velocity & Acceleration
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Ch 2, Sec
1-4
TP Quiz#1
WebAssign
HW#1
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L2A: W
9-9
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Lab#3 TI
– The Scientific
Method: Simple Pendulum
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Laboratory 2, Section A
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L2B: Th
9-10
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Lab#3 TI
– The
Scientific Method: Simple Pendulum
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Laboratory 2, Section B
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C5: F
9-11
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1-D
Motion: Constant Acceleration
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Ch 2, Sec
5-6
TP Quiz#2
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C6: M
9-14
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1-D
Motion: Free Fall
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Ch 2, Sec
7-8
TP Quiz#3
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C7: W
9-16
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2-D
Motion: Constant Acceleration
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Ch 3, Sec
1-2
TP Quiz#4
WebAssign
HW#2
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L3A: W
9-16
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Lab#4
TI/CI – Uniformly
Accelerated Motion
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Laboratory 3, Section A
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L3B: Th
9-17
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Lab#4
TI/CI – Uniformly
Accelerated Motion
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Laboratory 3, Section B
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C8: F
9-18
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2-D
Motion: Projectile Motion
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Ch 3, Sec
3
TP Quiz#5
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C9: M
9-21
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2-D
Motion: Circular Motion
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Ch 3, Sec
4-5
TP Quiz#6
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C10: W
9-23
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Newton’s
Laws of Motion
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Ch 4, Sec
1-6
TP Quiz#7
WebAssign
HW#3
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L4A: W
9-23
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Lab#5 TI
– Projectile
Motion: The Ballistic Pendulum
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Laboratory 4, Section A
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L4B: Th
9-24
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Lab#5 TI
– Projectile
Motion: The Ballistic Pendulum
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Laboratory 4, Section B
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C11: F
9-25
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Applications
of Newton’s Laws I
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Ch 4, Sec
7-8
TP Quiz#8
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C12: M
9-28
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Applications
of Newton’s Laws II
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Ch 4, Sec
7-8
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C13: W
9-30
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Friction
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Ch 5, Sec
1
TP Quiz#9
WebAssign
HW#4
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L5A: W
9-30
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Lab#6 TI
– The Addition
and Resolution of Vectors: The Force Table
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Laboratory 5, Section A
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L5B: Th
10-1
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Lab#6 TI
– The
Addition and Resolution of Vectors: The Force Table
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Laboratory 5, Section B
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C14: F
10-2
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Exam 1
(Ch 1-4)
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One hour
exam
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C15: M
10-5
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Centripetal
Force
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Ch 5, Sec
2-3
TP
Quiz#10
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C16: W
10-7
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Work
and the Scalar Product
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Ch 6, Sec
1-3
TP
Quiz#11
WebAssign
HW#5
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L6A: W
10-7
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Lab#7 CI
– Newton's
Second Law: The Atwood Machine
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Laboratory 6, Section A
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L6B: Th
10-8
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Lab#7 CI
– Newton's
Second Law: The Atwood Machine
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Laboratory 6, Section B
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C17: F
10-9
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Work
Done by a Spring
Work-Kinetic
Energy Theorem
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Ch 6, Sec
4-5
TP
Quiz#12
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C18: M
10-12
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Nonisolated
Systems
Kinetic
Friction
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Ch 6, Sec
6-7
TP
Quiz#13
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C19: W
10-14
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Potential
Energy
Isolated
Systems
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Ch 7, Sec
1-2
TP
Quiz#14
WebAssign
HW#6
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10-15 to
10-16
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Fall
Break
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Have a
good break!
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C20: M
10-19
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Conservative
Forces
Nonconservative
Forces
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Ch 7, Sec
3-4
TP
Quiz#15
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C21: W
10-21
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Linear
Momentum and Impulse
Conservation
of Linear Momentum
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Ch 8, Sec
1-2
WebAssign
HW#7
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L7A: W
10-21
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Lab#8 CI
– Friction
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Laboratory 7, Section A
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L7B: Th
10-22
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Lab#8 CI
– Friction
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Laboratory 7, Section B
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C22: F
10-23
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1-D
Collisions
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Ch 8, Sec
3
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C23: M
10-26
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2-D
Collisions
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Ch 8, Sec
4
TP
Quiz#16
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C24: W
10-28
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Rotational
Motion
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Ch 10,
Sec 1-3
TP
Quiz#17
WebAssign
HW#8
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L8A: W
10-28
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Recitation
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L8B: Th
10-29
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Recitation
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C25: F
10-30
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Exam 2
(Ch 5-8)
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One hour
exam
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C26: M
11-2
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Rotational
Kinetic Energy
Torque
and the Vector Product
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Ch 10,
Sec 4-5
TP
Quiz#18
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C27: W
11-4
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Equilibrium
Nonequilibrium
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Ch 10,
Sec 6-7
TP
Quiz#19
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L9A: W
11-4
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Lab#9 CI –
Conservation
of Linear Momentum
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Laboratory 8, Section A
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L9B: Th
11-5
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Lab#9 CI
– Conservation
of Linear Momentum
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Laboratory 8, Section B
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C28: F
11-6
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Angular
Momentum
Conservation
of Angular Momentum
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Ch 10,
Sec 8-9
TP
Quiz#20
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C29: M
11-9
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Universal
Gravitation
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Ch 11,
Sec 1
TP
Quiz#21
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C30: W
11-11
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Kepler’s
Laws
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Ch 11,
Sec 3
TP
Quiz#22
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L10A: W
11-11
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Lab#11 TI
– Torques, Equilibrium, and Center of Gravity
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Laboratory 9, Section A
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L10B: Th
11-12
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Lab#11 TI
– Torques, Equilibrium, and Center of Gravity
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Laboratory 9, Section B
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C31: F
11-13
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Planetary/Satellite
Motion
Elliptical
Orbits
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Ch 11,
Sec 4,6
TP
Quiz#23
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C32: M
11-16
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Atomic
Spectra
Bohr
Theory of Hydrogen
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Ch 11,
Sec 5
TP
Quiz#24
WebAssign
HW#9
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C33: W
11-18
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Simple
Harmonic Motion (SHM)
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Ch 12.
Sec 1-2
TP
Quiz#25
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L11A: W
11-18
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Lab#12 TI
– Rotational
Motion and Moment of Inertia
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Laboratory 10, Section A
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L11B: Th
11-19
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Lab#12 TI
– Rotational
Motion and Moment of Inertia
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Laboratory 10, Section B
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C34: F
11-20
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Energy
in Simple Harmonic Motion
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Ch 12,
Sec 3
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C35: M
11-23
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The
Simple Pendulum
The
Physical Pendulum
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Ch 12,
Sec 4-5
TP
Quiz#26
WebAssign
HW#10
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11-25 to
11-27
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Thanksgiving
Break
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Have a
good break!
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C36: M
11-30
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Damped
Oscillations
Forced
Oscillations
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Ch 12,
Sec 6-7
TP
Quiz#27
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C37: W
12-2
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Pressure
Variation
of Pressure with Depth
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Ch 15,
Sec 1-2
TP
Quiz#28
WebAssign
HW#11
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L12A: W
12-2
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Lab#13 TI
– Simple
Harmonic Motion
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Laboratory 11, Section A
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L12B: Th
12-3
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Lab#13 TI
– Simple
Harmonic Motion
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Laboratory 11, Section B
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C38: F
12-4
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Exam 3
(Ch 10-12)
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One hour
exam
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C39: M
12-7
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Buoyant
Forces
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Ch 15,
Sec 3-4
TP
Quiz#29
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C40: W
12-9
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Fluid
Dynamics
Bernoulli’s
Equation
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Ch 15,
Sec 5-7
TP
Quiz#30
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W 12-9
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Lab#14 TI
– Standing Waves in a String
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Laboratory 12, Section A
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Th 12-10
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Lab#14 TI
– Standing Waves in a String
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Laboratory 12, Section B
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C41: F
12-11
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Review
for Final
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WebAssign
HW#12
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M 12-14
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Final
Exam (Ch 1-8,10-12,15)
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8:00 to
10:00
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ATTENDANCE
– Your grade in this course is likely to be strongly influenced by your class
attendance. Exam questions are designed to cover very specifically the topics
as they are discussed in class. In addition, quiz questions will often appear
on exams. Six absences are allowed without affecting the student's grade. Beyond this, each additional absence will
result in a 20-point reduction in the final grade.
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MAKEUP
EXAMS – Students who are forced to miss an exam due to unavoidable
circumstances (illness, death in the family, athletic tournament, etc.) must
contact the instructor. The instructor will determine if the absence is to be
excused in accordance with Kentucky Wesleyan regulations on excused absences.
Students with an excused absence will be allowed to take a makeup exam. No
more than one makeup exam will be approved for any student except in unusual
and very well documented cases.
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EXAM
DISCREPANCIES – Students with exam discrepancies should record, specifically,
those items they would like considered for re-evaluation and return their
exam to the instructor before leaving the classroom. All other students can
retain their exams. No consideration will be given to exam discrepancies
submitted after the student has left the classroom.
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LABORATORY MAKEUP – All missed laboratory experiments must be
made up and all reports must be submitted to receive a grade in the
course. Students who are forced
to miss a laboratory due to unavoidable circumstances (illness, death in the
family, athletic tournament, etc.) must contact the instructor. The
instructor will determine if the absence is to be excused in accordance with
Kentucky Wesleyan regulations on excused absences. Only students with an
excused absence will receive credit for making up the missed laboratory
experiment.
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LATE WORK – Only one late homework assignment will be
accepted for credit. Only one late laboratory
report will be accepted for credit.
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CHEATING – The first
time a student is found cheating, copying, etc., a zero will be given on the
compromised work. The second time will
result in failure of the course.
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Grading
Policy
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Graded Event
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Points
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Exams(3)
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360
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Final
Exam(1)
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180
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Class
Quizzes(30)
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100
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Homework
Assignments(12)
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180
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Laboratory
Reports(12)
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180
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Course
Total
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1000
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Final
Grade Assignments are
based on the percentage of course points earned according to the following
schedule:
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- 90% and above – A
- 80% and above – B
- 70% and above – C
- 60% and above – D
- below 60% – F
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Academic
Accommodations
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Kentucky Wesleyan College is committed to
providing access to programs and services for qualified students with
disabilities. If you are a student with a disability and require
accommodations to participate and complete requirements for this class, notify
the instructor immediately and contact Dr. Leah Hoover at the Office of
Disability Services for verification of eligibility and determination of
specific accommodations.
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Academic
Help
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Several
Kentucky Wesleyan offices can be helpful in aiding students.
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