Updated
07-13-2009
The hard
copies of Exam #3 will
be delivered at the classroom either on Tuesday or Wednesday (at the
latest)
On Thursday 16th, 2009 I will show up at the classroom in CH-250 by
11:30 a.m.
and resolve potential inaccuracies that may have occurred in the
grading of
Exam #3.
(Material not covered in PH-211 will be covered in PH-213)
PHYSICS-211
KINEMATICS,
DYNAMICS
and CONSERVATION LAWS
(Motion)
(Forces)
(Mechanical
Energy,
Linear and Angular Momentum)
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Summer-2009 06/22 -07/13
Dr. Andres La Rosa
Room CH
250
Office: SB2-Room 418 Ph:725-8397
MTWRF 11:45-14:05 PM
andres@pdx.edu
Office Hours: MTWRF 14:10-15:00
PM. (Right
outside the classroom)
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Syllabus:
Syllabus Summer-2009
Text:
Fundamentals of Physics, by
Halliday, Resnick and Walker,
8th Edition
Grading:
Exam-1 35% June 29th, 2009 Solution-key
Exam-2 35% July 6th,
2009 Solution key Statistics
Exam-3 35% July 13th, 2009 Solution key
Statistics
Previous exam: Sample
exam
Sample test (final exam)
Evaluation:
A
100-96, A-
95-91, B+
90-86, B
85-81, B- 80-76,
C+
75-71, C
70-66, C-
65-61.
Solutions
to the problems posted in the textbook
Hard copies of the solutions
to the problems (pertinent to the chapters covered in this course) will
be
available for check
out (2 hours) from the Reserve Room at the PSU
Library (circulation desk.)
Students who typically do well
in this
course:
Have active participation in class.
Ask
questions
during the lectures.
Solve a minimum of 20 question/problems of each chapter (from your
textbook
or the ones suggested in
the lecture notes.)
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L
E C
T U R E
N O T E S
Outline
Chapter-1
Measurements
Measurement
and significant figures
Leisure reading: About
metrology "The new improved Kelvin" By Nicola Jones, Nature 459, 903 (2009).
Practice problems from the textbook:
1, 5, 7, 19, 21, 43, 44.
KINEMATICS
Chapter-2 Motion
in one dimension
Special case: Motion
under constant acceleration
Practice problems
Practice problems from the textbook:
Questions:1-6. Problems: 6, 11, 13, 15, 18, 22, 26, 29, 37,
39, 45, 52, 53.
Chapter-3 Vectors
Note: We will not cover
"vector product" at this time. We will do it when dealing with
Chapter-11.
But we will cover the "scalar product".
Complement notes: Vectors
and transformation of coordinates
Advance
material: Tensors (This
section about tensors will NOT be included in the tests.)
Practice
problems
Practice problems from the textbook:
Questions:2-10.
Problems: 1, 8, 13, 20, 32, 45, 66, 67, 71.
Chapter-4 Motion
in two and three dimensions
Practice
problems
Practice problems from the textbook:
Questions:1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9,
10. Problems: 13, 26, 32, 38, 79, 90, 116, 118, 120.
DYNAMICS
Translational
motion and force
Chapter-5 Force and motion Newton's
Laws
Practice problems
Practice problems from the textbook:
Questions:1, 3, 4,5, 6,
8. Problems: 5, 13, 19, 21, 56, 60, 91, 99, 101.
Chapter-6 Force and motion Friction force
Practice problems on free body diagram
Uniform circular motion
Practice problems from the textbook:
Questions: 1, 2, 6,
7,. Problems: 3, 6, 9, 14, 20, 21, 23, 33, 65, 81.
KINETIC
ENERGY (K) and WORK (W)
Fundamental
theorem Kf
-Ki = Wdone by
all forces
Chapter-7 Kinetic energy and work (Case of
work done by constant forces)
Work
done by a position dependent force
(Case: one dimensional
motion)
Work in 3D motion
Practice
problems from the textbook:
Questions: 2, 3, 4,
5,
7, 8, 9, 10. Problems: 4, 6, 7, 9, 12, 15, 20, 23, 42,
54,57, 65.
CONSERVATION
LAWS
Conservation of
the "Mechanical Energy E"
(case for conservative forces)
Chapter-8 Mechanical-energy
and Potential-energy (Case of gravitational-force and
the spring-force.)
Force
and Potential-energy
Work
done by non-conservative forces (Failure of the conservation
of the mechanical energy)
Practice problems from the textbook:
Questions: 2, 3, 4, 5, 8.
Problems: 4, 7, 8, 22, 27, 29, 30, 36
Conservation of "Linear Momentum P"
Chapter-9 The
Linear Momentum and the Center of Mass
Elastic
and inelastic collisions
Practice
problems from the textbook:
Question: 1, 2, 3, 4,
7, 9, 10. Problems: 2, 3, 11,
15, 16, 18, 39, 40, 42, 52,
53, 58, 59, 66
Rotational motion and Torque
Chapter-10 Rotational
motion,
torque, and rotational kinetic energy
It includes the concept of "Vector product"
treated
in Chapter-3 of the textbook
Momentum
of inertia and conservation of the mechanical energy
Practice
problems from the textbook:
Question: 5, 6, 7, 8,
10. Problems: 2, 9, 30, 47, 48, 51, 54, 66 69.
Conservation of "Angular Momentum L"
Chapter-11 The Angular Momentum
Practice
problems from the textbook:
Question: 1, 5, 7,
10. Problems 1, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 27, 41, 66, 75
Equation
of motion for a rigid body
Chapter-12 Statics
equilibrium of a rigid body
Practice
problems from the textbook:
Question: 1, 2, 5, 9,
10. Problems 1, 5, 12, 13, 21, 22, 28, 30, 32.
FUNDAMENTAL
FORCES
Chapter-13 Gravitation Force
Practice
problems from the textbook:
Question: 1, 3, 5, 9.
Problems: 11, 13, 24.
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Video recording of Feynman
Lectures
Acknowledgment to PSU student Bret Myers
who has provided the
following interesting information.
"Photons
- Corpuscles of Light
"Fits of Reflection and
Transmission - Quantum Behaviour
"Electrons and their
Interactions.
http://vega.org.uk/video/subseries/8
"Chosen by the New Scientist -
best on-line videos 2007. A set of four
priceless archival video recordings from the University of Auckland
(New Zealand) of the
outstanding
Nobel prize-winning physicist Richard
Feynman - arguably the greatest science lecturer ever"
"The World From Another Point
Of View with Richard Feynman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgBtOVzHKI
"The pleasure of finding
things
out." http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8777381378502286852
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Practice
Vectors
Motion_in_one_dimension
Motion_in_two_dimensions
Problems Newton's
Laws
More on Newton's
Laws
Conserv_Mech_Energy More_on_Conserv_Mech_Energy
