| Date | Events | Topics
(presented on dates shown) |
who presents what | |
| August 23 |
Organizational meeting |
Assignment of topics for next classes |
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| September 02 |
Labor Day Holiday |
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| August 31 |
15 minute presentations 01 |
Mechanics I |
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ALL:1. preliminary topic |
submission |
ALL | |
| statics |
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| kinematics | ||||
| motion |
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| conservation of energy | wk |
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| conservation of momentum | ||||
| uniform circular motion | am |
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| Newton's laws | ||||
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September 07 |
15 minute
presentations 02 |
Mechanics II |
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| ALL: 2. Revised prelim topic | submission | ALL | ||
| Torque and Equilibrium | am |
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| Rolling Motion | ||||
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gravity | |||
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non-uniform circular motion |
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simple harmonic oscillation |
wk |
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conservation of angular momentum |
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| rigid body rotational motion | ||||
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September 14 |
15 minute
presentations 03 |
Waves |
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ALL: 3. Revised prelim topic |
submission | ALL
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| traveling pulses | ||||
| standing waves | wk |
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| transverse waves on strings | am |
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| sound | ||||
| TEM waves | ||||
| longitudinal waves | ||||
| energy and power transmission by waves | ||||
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| September 21 |
15 minute presentations 04 |
Thermodynamics | ||
| ALL: 4. Formal Topics | Submission for approval | ALL | ||
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calorimetry
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| linear expansion | am |
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| ideal gas | wk |
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| internal energy | ||||
| entropy | ||||
| adiabatic ideal gas | ||||
| Carnot Cycle and heat engines | ||||
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September 28 |
15 minute
presentations 05 |
Electrostatics
* |
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| ALL: 5. Formal Progress | Submission: Update 01 | ALL | ||
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Coulomb's law | |||
| Electric dipole | ||||
| Gauss's
Law |
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| Electrostatic field |
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| Electrostatic Potential | wk |
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| Capacitance and energy density | am |
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| Resistance and current | ||||
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October 5 |
15 minute
presentations 06 |
Magnetism * |
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ALL: 6. Formal Progress |
Submission: Update 02 | ALL | ||
| Ampere's law | wk |
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| TEM waves |
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| Solenoid | ||||
| magnetization | ||||
| Inductance and energy density | am |
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| Displacement current | ||||
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October 12 |
15 minute
presentations 07 |
Optics * |
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ALL: 7. Formal Progress |
Submission: Update 03 | ALL | ||
| Snell's Law | am |
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| images formed with thin lenses | ||||
| images formed with spherical mirrors | ||||
| dispersion and prisms | wk |
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| polarization and Brewster's angle | ||||
| interference of light waves | ||||
| October
19 |
15 minute presentations 08 | Misc.
Physics Topics I (Student Selected) |
wk, am |
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| ALL: 8. Formal Progress | Submission: Update 04 | ALL | ||
| October
26 |
15
minute presentations 09 |
Misc. Physics Topics II (Student Selected) |
am, wk |
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| ALL: 9. Formal Progress | Submission: Update 05 | ALL |
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| November
02 |
15
minute presentations 10 |
Misc.
Physics Topics III (Student Selected) |
wk,am |
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| ALL: Rough Draft Due | Submission: Rough Draft Due | ALL |
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| November 09 |
25 minute presentation | 1 student presentations All final presentations due this day |
wk ALL |
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| November 16 |
25 minute
presentation |
1 student
presentations |
am |
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