Physics 210:Fall 2014

Syllabus :   Schedule : Full Syllabus


Announcements


Conversion of Units

Conversion of units

Conversion of Powers of Units

 

Vectors

VRML: Rotate a triangle for trig

Vector Addition

Vector Subtraction

Resolution of a vector into its components

Multiplication of a vector by a scalar

Vector dot product

Animation: projection of a vector onto a coordinate system

A vector java applet from uky

Additional vector notes : P  and a spreadsheet

 

1-D Motion
Average Velocity
Constant Acceleration 1

Constant Acceleration 2
A spreadsheet for 1-D motion

Animation: 1d uniform acceleration
Animation: 2 balls in a reduced gravitational field

  Animation: Gallileo's Demonstration (01,02)
Newton's Cannon
Everything Falls with the same acceleration

 

2-D Motion

2-D motion spreadsheet

Antartic Rescue Drop

45 Degrees gives the maximum range

2-D translational motion along perpendicular coordinates

Ball and cart in a (reduced) gravitaitonal field

Monkey Shoot

Station Train Vendor Ant

At the Intergalactic Dairy Bar

 

Newton's Laws

Free Body Diagram construction & use

Animation: Atwood's Machine

Animation: Mass on a plane, mass hanging over the side

Animation: Spooky inclined plane

Atwood's Machine gif animation

Inclined Plane #2: and the analysis : W : P
 

 

Uniform Circular Motion

Spinning Ball

Animated Gif showing derivation of centripetal acceleration

Cylinders01

 

Momentum

Notes regarding conversation of translational momentum 210 :  P

 Newton's demonstration java applet
animation: successive collisions between smaller masses

Glancing Collision between two objects of equal mass

Completely Inelastic Collisions (01, 02)

Completely Elastic Collisions (01, 02)

 

Non Uniform Circular Motion and Torque

VRML: Right Handed Coordinate System

Right Hand Rule #1 :VRML3 VRML 2

Right Hand Rule #2 for Torque : VRML

Direction of Torque: Positive : VRML   : Negative : VRML

 Moments of Inertia (external from Science World)

Common Moments of Inertia

Non-uniform circular motion

SHO for a cylinder

Almost Stable

Rotational Kinetic Energy Derivation

Roll Without Slip

Right Hand Rule #2

Precession of a Bicycle Wheel

Precession of a Bicycle Wheel 03 Spooky version: VRML

 

Simple Harmonic Oscillation

Vibrating Mass animation

Cosine as a projection

Simple Harmonic Oscillation of a short chain

Physical Pendulum : VRML

SHO for a ring on a peg

SHO plotter spreadsheet


Bobbing Float

SHO for a cylinder

SHO for a simple pendulum : VRML

 Multiple (out of phase, 100% coherent) : VRML

 Multiple (out of phase, partially coherent) : VRML

 

Waves and Pulses

An animation of Gaussian traveling pulses

Transverse Pulse on a Slinky : VRML

Longitudinal Pulse on a Slinky : VRML

Collision between two transverse pulses on a slinky : VRML

Collision between two longitudinal pulses on a slinky

Harmonic Traveling Wave on an Infinite String : VRML

Spooky Harmonic Traveling Waves on a String

Spooky Harmonic Traveling Waves on a String 02

Excel spreadsheet showing the calculations and plots for the traveling pulses

An animation showing the formation of standing waves

Excel spreadsheet showing the calculations for the standing wave animation

Encore animation of formation of standing waves

Formation of second mode with fixed Boundary Conditions

Colliding Gaussians showing simulation of free boundary conditions

Spreading Gaussian Pulse on a Rope

>Free Boundary Conditions 01and 04

Fixed Boundary Condition 01

Pulse as seen by co moving observer

Piston Pushing Air

Beat Formation (01,02) Spreadsheets for Beats (01,02)

What a Beat sounds like

Doppler Shift for a car andThe Chromatics

Fourier Synthesis for Sound Java Applet(External to Lyon College)

What does a sonic boom look like?

Thrust SSC [ Not Linked: movie : cnn report : sonic boom ]

 

Thermodynamics

Joule's Experiment

Carnot Cycle Animation

Spreadsheet for Carnot Cycle

Spreadsheets:Isovolumeric Isothermal

Gas Molecules In A Cylinder 01

Gas Molecules In A Cylinder 02

Gas Molecules In A Cylinder 01: Running backwards : Kaon Particles

Diatomic Molecules in a Cylinder and Denser : VRML

 

Worksheet Number
 Date

 W: August 20
ws01
 F: August 22
ws02 M: August 25
ws03
 W: August 27
ws04 : UQ01
 F: August 29
ws05
 M: September 01
ws5a
 W: September 03
ws06 : UQ02
 F: September 05
ws07 M: September 08
Untest #1 W: September 10
Test #1 (covers ws01-ws07) F: September 12
ws08
M: September 15
ws09
 W: September 17
ws10 : UQ03
 F: September 19
ws11 M: September 22
ws12 W: September 24
ws13 : UQ04
 F: September 26
ws14 M: September 29
ws15 W: October 01
ws16 F: October 03
Untest #2 M: October 06
Test #2: (covers ws08-ws16) W: October 08
Fall Break October 09-October 12
ws17 M: October 13
ws18 W: October 15
ws19 : UQ05
F: October 17
ws20 M: October 20
ws21 W: October 22
ws22 : UQ06
F: October 24
ws23 M: October 27
ws24 W: October 29
ws25 : UQ07
 F: October 31

M: November 03
Untest #3 W: November 05
Test #3 (covers ws17-ws25) F: November 07
ws27 M: November 10
ws28 W: November 12
ws29 : UQ08
F: November 14
ws30 M: November 17
ws30 (continued)
 W: November 19
Untest #4
 F: November 21
Test #4 (covers ws27 - ws30) M: November 24
Thanksgiving Holiday November 26 - 30
*ws26 M: December 01
*ws31 W: December 03
Course Review
 F: December 05
  Final Exams
Monday December 8: 08:00 - 10:00