Physics 201 -- College Physics I

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Click on the links provided in this page to access other pages with information about this course:

THE LINKS:

• The lecturer's home page.
• Course policies.
• Recitation and Lab sections.
• The course schedule.
• Preview of this week's laboratory.
• LAB MANUAL (pdf file -- requires Adobe Acrobat)
• A page of physics-related links.
• Lecture transparencies
  1. 1/12/98 - Units
  2. 1/14/98 - Vectors
  3. 1/21/98 - 1-D Kinematics
  4. 1/26/98 - Free Fall
  5. 1/28/98 - Graphing Motion
  6. 2/02/98 - 2-D Kinematics
  7. 2/04/98 - Projectile Motion
  8. 2/09/98 - Newton's Laws
  9. 2/11/98 - Mass and Weight
  10. 2/16/98 - Equilibrium and Friction
  11. 2/18/98 - Applications of Newtonian Mechanics
  12. 2/23/98 - Uniform Circular Motion
  13. 2/25/98 - Satellite Motion
  14. 3/02/98 - Work and Kinetic Energy
  15. 3/04/98 - Conservation of Energy
  16. 3/16/98 - Impulse and Momentum
  17. 3/18/98 - Conservation of Momentum
  18. 3/23/98 - Angular Motion of Rigid Bodies
  19. 3/25/98 - Static Equilibrium of Rigid Bodies
  20. 3/30/98 - Rotational Dynamics
  21. 4/01/98 - Hooke's Law and SHM
  22. 4/06/98 - Static Fluids
  23. 4/08/98 - Fluid Dynamics
  24. 4/13/98 - Temperature, Thermal Expansion
  25. 4/15/98 - Heat, Phase Changes
  26. 4/20/98 - Heat Transfer
  27. 4/22/98 - Ideal Gases
  28. 4/27/98 - Heat Engines
  29. 4/29/98 - Entropy and the 2nd Law of Thermo.
• Exams Keys and Miscellaneous Information
  • Answers to Practice Exam 1 - Feb. 1998
  • Explanations of most commonly missed items on Exam #1
  • Answers to Practice Exam 2 - March 2, 1998
  • Explanations of most commonly missed items on Exam #2
  • Answers to Practice Exam 3 - April 8, 1998
  • Explanations of most commonly missed items on Exam #3
  • Process for assigning letter grades in Physics 201
  • Answers to Practice Exam 4 - April 27, 1998