Course Progress (Fall 2000)
[Sections refer to those in Serway 2nd Ed.]
Sections Description Date(s) Addressed
1.1-10 Introduction and vectors (Read all sections.) Aug. 22, 24
2.1-2 Average and inst. velocity Aug. 25, 28
2.3-6 Acceleration and free fall Aug. 28, 29
3.1-2 2-D motion and motion in a plane Aug. 31
3.3 Projectile motion Sept. 1, 5
3.4-5 Uniform circular motion and radial accel. Sept. 5
4.1-3 Newton's 1st Law and inertial mass Sept. 7
4.4-5 Newton's 2nd Law and gravity Sept. 8
4.6-7 Newton's 3rd Law and apps of N's Laws Sept. 11
5.1-7 More applications (esp. 5.2 and 5.6, 7, but read all) Sept. 12
6.1-3 Work done by a force Sept. 12
6.4 Kinetic energy and work-energy theorum Sept. 14
6.5 Power Sept. 15
7.1-3 Potential energy and conservative forces Sept. 18, 19 Exam#1
7.4 Conservation of mechanical energy Sept. 21, 22
7.5-7 Conservation of energy; gravitation
7.8 Energy diagrams and stability of equilibrium Sept. 25
8.1-3 Linear momentum conservation, impulse and collisions Sept. 26
8.4-7 1-D and 2-D collisions Sept. 28, 29
10.1-8 Torque and angular momentum Sept. 29
10.9-11 Conservation of angular momentum Oct. 2, 3, 5
11.1-2 Universal gravitation and Kepler's laws Oct. 6, 9, 10
12.1-3 Simple harmonic motion and energetics Oct. 12, 13
12.4-6 Forced and damped oscillations Oct. 16, 17 Exam#2
13.1-3 Waves, wave characteristics and 1-D waves Oct. 19, 20
13.4-5 Traveling waves, superposition and interference Oct. 23, 24
13.7-8 Reflection, transmission and wave energy Oct. Oct. 26, 27
13.9 Doppler effect Oct. Oct. 27
14.1-2 Superposition of waves. Standing waves. Oct. 30
14.3 Waves on a string Oct. 31
14.5-6 Beats and complex waves Nov. 2, 3
27.1-2 Interference and Young's double slit expt. Nov. 3, 6, 7
27.3-4 Thin Film Interference Didn't do.
27.5-6 Diffraction and resolution Nov. 9, 10
27.7-8 Diffraction grating and x-ray diffraction Nov. 13
28.1 Black-body radiation and Planck theory
28.2 Photoelectric effect Nov. 14, Exam#3
28.3 Compton effect Nov. 16
28.4 Photons Nov. 17
28.5 Particle waves Nov. 20, Thanksgiving
11.5 Atomic Spectra and the Bohr Model Nov. 27, 28
28.6 Wave function and probability Nov. 30
28.7 Uncertainty principle Dec. 1
28.8 Interpretation of quantum mechanics Dec. 1
28.9 Particle in a box Dec. 5, 7
28.10 Schroedinger equation Dec. 4