DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS Fall 2008 Physics 1A September 26, 2008 General Physics – Mechanics (Lecture) Web page (Wp): http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/fall2008/physics1a/ INSTRUCTOR: 1A(b) Professor José Onuchic [email protected] Office: 7226 Urey Hall Office Hours: posted on Web page (Wp) Phone: 534-7067 COURSE COORDINATOR: Patti Hey, 118 Urey Hall Addition, 822-1468, [email protected] 1A TEACHING ASSISTANT: 1A(a) Trevor Stavropoulos, office hours posted on Wp [email protected] 1A(b) Michael Erickstad, office hours posted on Wp [email protected] 1A(c) Daniel Imbach, office hours posted on Wp [email protected] CLASS SCHEDULE: Lectures: 1A(a) MWF 8:00 – 8:50 AM WLH 2001 1A(b) MWF 9:00 – 9:50 AM WLH 2001 1A(c) MWF 10:00 – 10:50 AM WLH 2001 Quizzes: Fri., Oct. 10th Fri., Oct. 24th Fri., Nov. 7th Fri., Nov. 21st Problem Sessions: Th (Start Oct. 9 th) Place and Time - posted on Web page Labs: Once a week for 10 weeks starting weekly the week of September 29th. Note that the lab is a completely separate course, with other instructor and teaching assistants. Information can be found in the Physics 1 Series Labs Web Page. Final Exam: 1A(a) Mon., Dec. 8, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., location TBA 1A(b) Wed., Dec. 10, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., location TBA 1A(c) Fri., Dec.12, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., location TBA Final Examination: The final examination will cover all of the material of the course. Please check your final exam schedule and inform the instructor of any conflicts within the first two weeks of the quarter. TEXT: Serway and Faughn, College Physics, 7th Edition, Vol. 1, Thomson/Brooks/Cole PREREQUISITES: Math 10A, concurrent in 10B or 20A. Trigonometry, vectors, and calculus will be used in lectures, problem sets and exams.Academic Dishonesty: Please read “UC Policy on Integrity of Scholarship” in the UCSD General Catalog. COURSE FORMAT: Physics 1 A-B-C is a lecture course covering mechanics, electricity and magnetism, waves and modern physics. This sequence is not suitable for students majoring in Physics, MAE, ECE or CSE. Other majors should check with their departments for the appropriate sequence. Physics 1A deals with Newtonian mechanics. The course schedule follows. A laboratory meeting each week will give hands-on experience of the physical concepts dealt with in the course. Concurrent enrollment in the 1A lab is required. Lab information can be found at: http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/fall2008/. In addition, lab instructor Dr. Michael Anderson will be spending about 10 minutes discussing lab details during the first 1A course lecture on September 26. Homework Assignments: Problem sets are assigned as selections from each text chapter. Solutions will be available on the course web site. The problems will be worked in detail during the problem session. The homework will not be graded, but exam problems may resemble homework that is assigned. Quizzes: Problem quizzes will be given beginning the 2nd week (Oct. 10th, Oct. 24th, Nov. 7th, and Nov. 21st). Your lowest quiz score will be dropped. There will be no make-up quizzes. You must purchase your own scantron form for quizzes (No. X101864-PAR). They are available at the Bookstore and the general store co-op for $0.15 each. You will need a No. 2 pencil to fill in the scantron. At the first quiz you will be assigned a quiz code number. This number is yours for the rest of the quarter. You have to put your proper quiz code number on every quiz and the final. When results of exams are posted on-line, they will be listed by quiz code number. Help Is Available: Problem sessions will be held on Thursday evening, starting on Oct. 9th. At these sessions, problems will be worked out and the weekly lectures gone over. Attendance is voluntary, but students are encouraged to use these meetings to help master course material and prepare for quizzes. Individual assistance is available during office hours. The Physics Dept. tutorial center (location 2102 Mayer Hall) is also open Sunday-Thursday from 3-8 p.m. Grading Policy: Quizzes 60% (Determined by your top three quiz scores) Final Exam 40% Add/Drop: Use WebReg to add/change/drop, drop from waitlists. See Sharmila Poddar (534-3290; <[email protected]>) in the Physics Department, Student Affairs Office, Urey Hall Addition, Room 115, if you have any problems with WebReg. If you need advice, see the TA or the instructor, but they do not sign any cards. Add/Drop Deadlines: Add Friday, October 10th Drop without ‘W’ on transcript Friday, October 24thDrop with ‘W’ on transcript Monday, December 1stPHYSICS 1A TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE Week Date Topics Lecture 0 Sep. 26 F Introduction, Units 1A 1 Sep. 29 Oct. 1 Oct. 3 M W F Introduction, Units 1D Motion with Constant Acceleration Free fall under gravity 1B 2A 2B 2 Oct. 6 Oct. 8 Oct. 10 M W F Vector, 2D Motion Relative Velocity/ Projectile Motion Quiz 1 (Ch 1,2, & 3) 3A 3B 3 Oct. 13 Oct. 15 Oct. 17 M W F Force, Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws Applications of Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws Newton’s 3rd Law 4A 4B 4C 4 Oct. 20 Oct. 22 Oct. 24 M W F Newton’s Laws and the Universe Work, Kinetic Energy; Work Energy Theorem Quiz 2 (Ch 4) 4D 5A 5 Oct. 27 Oct. 29 Oct. 31 M W F Potential Energy, Conservative Forces Conservation of Energy Momentum and Impulse 5B 5C 6A 6 Nov. 3 Nov. 5 Nov. 7 M W F Conservation of momentum Collisions Quiz 3 (Ch 5) 6B 6C 7 Nov. 10 Nov. 12 Nov. 14 M W F Rotational Motion Gravity Orbital Motion 7A 7B 7C 8 Nov. 17 Nov. 19 Nov. 21 M W F Torque and Equilibrium Moment of Inertia Quiz 4 (Ch 6 & 7) 8A 8B 9 Nov. 24 Nov. 26 Nov. 28 M W F Center of Gravity States of Matter THANSGIVING HOLIDAY 8C 9A 10 Dec. 1 Ded. 3 Dec. 5 M W F Archimedes Principle Fluids in Motion; Bernoulli’s Eqn. Class Review 9B