CLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY FALL 1997
PHYSICS A PHY231/234
PROFESSOR: MIRON KAUFMAN, OFFICE: SI-116, TEL.687-2436
Email:
m.kaufman@popmail.csuohio.edu
LECTURE: TU, TH 10:00 - 11:50AM, SR-152.
LAB: TH 12:00-1:50PM or TH 2:00-3:50, SI-118.
OFFICE HOUR: TU, TH 1:30 -2:30PM,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
LAST DAY TO DROP THE COURSE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31
NO CLASSES: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11; THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27
EXAM #1; CH.1, 2, 3, 4; TU, OCTOBER 14
EXAM #2; CH.5, 6, 7, 8; TH, NOVEMBER 13
FINAL EXAM; COMPREHENSIVE; TH, DECEMBER 11 8:30AM-10:30AM
The final grade is a weighted average of:
LABORATORY 20%
EXAM #1 20%
EXAM #2 20%
FINAL Exam 25%
HOMEWORKS, QUIZZES 10%
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, 9/25/1997
- 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, 9/30/1997
- HOMEWORK #3: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.4
9E, 11E, 12E, 17P, 22E, 37P, 43P, 44P, 46P, 56P, 57P, 61E, 65E, 66E, 67P.
DUE: TU, 10/7/1997
- 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: TH, 10/16/97
- HOMEWORK #5: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.6
2E, 3E, 11E, 14E, 22P, 25P, 26P, 28P, 32P, 33P, 34P, 36P, 48E, 58E, 65P.
DUE: TH, 10/23/97
- HOMEWORK #6: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.7
2E, 8P, 10E, 11E, 17P, 27E, 28E, 30P, 32E, 37P, 41E, 47P.
DUE: TU, 10/28/97
- 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, 11/4/97
- HOMEWORK #8: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.9
1E, 3E, 20P, 21P, 23P, 25E, 27E, 35E, 36E, 39P, 40P, 46P.
DUE: TU, 11/18/97
- HOMEWORK #9: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.10
2E, 4E, 9E, 21P, 23P, 33E, 34P, 44E, 45E, 55P, 62E, 66P, 67P, 69P, 70P.
DUE: TH, 11/20/97
- 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: TU, 11/25/97
- HOMEWORK #11: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.12
2E, 4E, 8E, 11P, 12P, 14P, 28E, 29E, 31E, 36E, 45E, 59P, 61P, 69P.
DUE: TU, 12/2/97
- HOMEWORK #12: Halliday, Resnick, Walker Ch.14
17E, 21E, 26P, 37E, 44P, 48P, 49P, 53P, 55E, 56E.
DUE: TH, 12/4/97
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 A which is called PHY234. 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 TH, October 16
- Essay #2 about 500 words, due TH, October 30
- Essay #3 about 500 words, due TH, November 20
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