Physics 240:Fall 2016

Syllabus Schedule


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


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 :  P

 

 

Uniform Circular Motion

Spinning Ball

Animated Gif showing derivation of centripetal acceleration

Calculus notes regarding uniform circular motion

Cylinders01

 

Momentum

Notes regarding conversation of translational momentum 240 :  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

SHO energy considerations and phase

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  ; CNN report :[ Not Linked: movie :  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
Class Initialization
W: August 17
 L00 : ws01
F: August 19
ws02 M: August 22
ws03
W: August 24
 L01 : ws04 : UQ01
F: August 26
ws05
M: August 29
ws5a
W: August 31
 L02 : ws06 : UQ02
F: September 02
ws07 M: September 05
Untest #1 W: September 07
L03 : Test #1
F: September 09
ws08
M: September 12
ws09
W: September 14
 L04 : ws10 : UQ03
F: September 16
ws11 M: September 19
ws12 W: September 21
 L05 : ws13 : UQ04
F: September 23
ws14 M: September 26
ws15 W: September 28
L06 : ws16 : UQ05
F: September 30
ws17
M: October 03
Untest #2 W: October 05
L07 : Test #2
F: October 07
ws18 M: October 10
ws19
W: October 12
Fall Break October 13 - 14
ws20
M: October 17
Service Day
W: October 19
L08 : ws21 : UQ06
F: October 21
ws22 M: October 24
ws23 W: October 26
L09 : ws24 : UQ07
F: October 28
ws25 M: October 31
Untest #3
W: November 02
Test #3
F: November 04
ws27 M: November 07
ws28 W: November 09
L10 : ws29 : UQ08
F: November 11
ws30 M: November 14
ws30 (continued)
W: November 16
LTBA : Untest #4
F: November 18
Test #4
M: November 21
Thanksgiving Holiday November 23 - 27
*ws26 M: November 28
*ws31 W: November 30
Course Review
F: December 02
 Final Exams
Phy240: Monday Dec 5 10:30 - 12:30