Spring 2009 Physics 1A General Physics – Mechanics (Lecture) Web page: http://1a.ucsd.edu/ INSTRUCTOR: Prof. Avi Yagil [email protected] Office: 5512 Mayer Hall Addition Office Hour: Monday 11:00-12:00pm Phone: 858 534 9504 1A TEACHING ASSISTANT: Agnieszka Cieplak [email protected] Office: 2702 Mayer Hall Addition Office Hour: Wed 11:00-12:00 COURSE COORDINATOR: Patti Hey, 118 Urey Hall Addition, 822-1468, [email protected] CLASS SCHEDULE: Lectures: MWF 08:00 – 08:50 AM WLH 2001 Quizzes: Apr 17, May 1, May 15, May 29 Problem Sessions: Th 1700 – 1850 Ledden Aud. 216 Final Exam: Friday, June 12, 8:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m., 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. 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. Tentative 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/spring2009/ NOTE: THIS IS A SEPARATE COURSE!!!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 3rd week (Apr 17, May 1, May 15, May 29). 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 numbers. 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, April 10 Drop without ‘W’ on transcript Friday, April 24 Drop with ‘W’ on transcript Friday, May 29 Help Is Available: Problem sessions will be held on TBA evening. 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 2702 Mayer Hall Addition) is also open Sunday-Thursday from 3-8 p.m. Academic Dishonesty: Please read “UC Policy on Integrity of Scholarship” in the UCSD General Catalog.PHYSICS 1A TENTATIVE COURSE SCHEDULE Week Date Topics Lecture 1 Mar 30 Apr 1 Apr 3 M W F Logistics, Introduction Units, estimation, Dimensional Analysis 1D Motion with Constant Acceleration 1A 1B 2A 2 Apr 6 Apr 8 Apr 10 M W F Free fall under gravity Vectors, 2D Motion Relative Velocity/ Projectile Motion 2B 3A 3B 3 Apr 13 Apr 15 Apr 17 M W F Force, Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws Applications of Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws Quiz 1 (Ch 1, 2 & 3) 4A 4B 4 Apr 20 Apr 22 Apr 24 M W F Newton’s 3rd Law Applications of Newton’s Laws and ILD Work, Kinetic Energy; Work Energy Theorem 4C 4D 5A 5 Apr 27 Apr 29 May 1 M W F Potential Energy, Conservative Forces Conservation of Energy Quiz 2 (Ch 4) 5B 5C 6 May 4 May 6 May 8 M W F Momentum and Impulse Conservation of momentum Collisions 6A 6B 6C 7 May 11 May 13 May 15 M W F Rotational Motion Gravity Quiz 3 (Ch 5 & 6) 7A 7B 8 May 18 May 20 May 22 M W F Orbital Motion Torque and Equilibrium Moment of Inertia 7C 8A 8B 9 May 25 May 27 May 29 M W F Memorial Day Holiday Center of Gravity Quiz 4 (Ch 7 & 8) 8C 10 Jun 1 Jun 3 Jun 5 M W F States of Matter; Archimedes Principle Fluids in Motion; Bernoulli’s Eqn. Class Review 9A