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