CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FALL 1998
UNIVERSITY PHYSICS I PHY241/243
PROFESSOR: MIRON KAUFMAN, OFFICE: SI-116, TEL.687-2436
Email:
m.kaufman@popmail.csuohio.edu
LECTURE: TU, TH 10:00 - 11:50AM, SH-312.
LAB: TH 8:00-9:50AM or TH 2:00-3:50, SI-118.
OFFICE HOUR: TU, TH 1:00 -2:00PM,SI-116.
REQUIRED MATERIAL: HALLIDAY,RESNICK&WALKER FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS; LABORATORY MANUAL; diskette.


SUBJECT OF THE COURSE: MECHANICS
TENTATIVE SCHEDULE:
WEEK #1 UNITS, VECTORS CH. 1, 3
WEEK #2,3 KINEMATICS CH. 2, 4
WEEK #4,5 DINAMICS OF A SINGLE PARTICLE: Newton's Laws;CH. 5, 6
WEEK #6,7 ENERGY CH. 7, 8
WEEK #8,9 DINAMICS OF A SYSTEM OF PARTICLES CH. 9,10
WEEK #10 ROTATIONS CH.11,12
WEEK #11 GRAVITY: Kepler's Laws CH.14
WEEK #12 OSCILLATIONS CH.16
WEEK #13 WAVES CH.17
WEEK #14 SOUND CH.18
WEEK #15 THERMAL PHYSICS CH.19


LAST DAY TO DROP THE COURSE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23
NO CLASSES: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8
EXAM #1; CH.1, 2, 3, 4; TH, SEPTEMBER 24
EXAM #2; CH.5, 6, 7, 8; TH, OCTOBER 22
EXAM #3; CH.9, 10, 11, 12; TH, NOVEMBER 19
FINAL EXAM; COMPREHENSIVE; TH, DECEMBER 17 8:30AM-10:30AM
The final grade is a weighted average of:
LABORATORY 20%
EXAM #1 15%
EXAM #2 15%
EXAM #3 15%
FINAL Exam 25%
HOMEWORKS, QUIZZES 5%
COMPUTER PROJECT 5%


Homework
- HOMEWORK #1: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.3
3E, 10E, 19E, 21E, 27P, 32P, 47P, 48P, 49P, 50P, 51P, 53P, 55P, 58P.
DUE: TH, 9/3/1998
- HOMEWORK #2: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.2
12P, 21E, 24E, 26E, 27E, 30P, 31P, 39E, 42E, 60E, 61E, 67E, 70P, 72P, 81P, 83P, 85P, 87P.
DUE: TU, 9/8/1998
- HOMEWORK #3: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.4
9E, 11E, 12E, 17P, 22E, 37P, 43P, 44P, 46P, 56P, 57P, 61E, 65E, 66E, 67P.
DUE: TU, 9/15/1998
- HOMEWORK #4: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.5
2E, 14E, 21E, 26E, 33E, 40P, 43P, 44P, 48P, 50P, 51P, 55P, 58P, 63P, 64P, 71P, 74P.
DUE: TU, 9/22/1998
- HOMEWORK #5: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.6
2E, 3E, 11E, 14E, 22P, 25P, 26P, 28P, 32P, 33P, 34P, 36P, 48E, 58E, 65P.
DUE: TU, 10/6/1998
- HOMEWORK #6: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.7
2E, 8P, 10E, 11E, 17P, 27E, 28E, 30P, 32E, 37P, 41E, 47P.
DUE: TH, 10/8/1998
- HOMEWORK #7: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.8
3E, 4E, 5E, 6E, 9P, 10P, 12E, 13E, 14E, 15E, 20P, 23P, 25P, 33P, 35P, 36P, 39P, 41P, 45P, 46E, 60E, 75P, 76P.
DUE: TU, 10/13/1998
- HOMEWORK #8: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.9
1E, 3E, 20P, 21P, 23P, 25E, 27E, 35E, 36E, 39P, 40P, 46P.
DUE: TU, 10/20/1998
- HOMEWORK #9: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.10
2E, 4E, 9E, 21P, 23P, 33E, 34P, 44E, 45E, 55P, 62E, 66P, 67P, 69P, 70P.
DUE: TU, 10/27/1998
- HOMEWORK #10: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.11
3E, 5E, 7P, 15E, 20P, 25E, 27E, 30E, 32E, 52E, 53E, 58P, 61E, 62E, 71P, 73P, 74P, 76P, 82P, 86P, 87P.
DUE: TH, 11/5/1998
- HOMEWORK #11: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.12
2E, 4E, 8E, 11P, 12P, 14P, 28E, 29E, 31E, 36E, 45E, 59P, 61P, 69P.
DUE: TU, 11/10/1998
- HOMEWORK #12: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.14
17E, 21E, 26P, 37E, 44P, 48P, 49P, 53P, 55E, 56E.
DUE: TU, 11/17/1998
- HOMEWORK#13: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.16
2E, 3E, 11E, 12E, 16E, 17E, 20P, 23P, 30P, 40E, 41E, 45E, 47P, 48P, 58E, 59E, 61E, 86E, 89P.
DUE: TU, 11/24/1998
- HOMEWORK#14: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.17
4E, 7E, 11E, 12P, 16P, 17E, 22E, 23E, 53E, 54E, 58P, 62P.
DUE: TU, 12/1/1998
- HOMEWORK #15: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.18:
11P, 13E, 30E, 34E, 49E, 52E, 53P, 66E, 69E, 74P, 80P, 85P.
DUE: TH, 12/3/1998
- HOMEWORK #16: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.19:
3E, 14E, 23E, 30P, 31P, 35P, 50E, 55P, 56P, 59P, 62P, 76E.
DUE: TU, 12/10/1998
QUIZ SOLUTION
Part of the course is a group project in the computer lab. We will meet in RT1501 (Mathematics Dpt. Computer Lab) on:
We will learn to work with the state of the art software MathCad by solving Mechanics problems. You should save your work on the diskette. At the end of the project each student will give me the diskette with all the programs and a printout of the results.
Some of you have signed for the writing version of Physics I which is called PHY243. The writing is graded as pass or fail. If you pass, the grade is determined by exams, quizzes, homework, labs as explained above. If you fail the writing component then you fail the course. You will write three essays:
- Essay #1 about 1000 words, due TU, October 6
- Essay #2 about 500 words, due TU, October 27
- Essay #3 about 500 words, due TU, November 24




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