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Physics Department
Lafayette College
730 High St.
Easton, PA 18042
Phone: (610) 330-5207
Email: thomasbd@lafayette.edu
Contact Info
Physics at Lafayette
Other Resources
| Date | Topic | Reading | Homework |
| Week 1 | |||
| 1/22 | Introduction | 1.1-1.2 | |
| 1/24 | Units and Velocity | 1.3 - 1.6 | |
| 1/26 | Working with Vectors | 1.7 - 1.10 | HW 1 Due |
| Week 2 | |||
| 1/29 | Position, Velocity, and Acceleration | 2.1 - 2.3 | |
| 1/31 | Motion with Constant Acceleration | 2.4 | HW 2 Due |
| 2/2 | Falling Motion | 2.5 - 2.6 | |
| Week 3 | |||
| 2/5 | Motion in Two and Three Dimensions | 3.1 - 3.2 | |
| 2/7 | Projectile Motion | 3.3 | HW 3 Due |
| 2/9 | Forces and Newton's First Law | 4.1 - 4.2 | |
| Week 4 | |||
| 2/12 | Newton's Second Law | 4.3 - 4.4, 4.6 | |
| 2/14 | Applying the Second Law | 5.1 - 5.3, 6.3 | HW 4 Due |
| 2/16 | Newton's Third Law | 4.5 | |
| Week 5 | |||
| 2/19 | Circular motion | 3.4, 5.4 | |
| 2/21 | Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation | 13.1 - 13.2 | HW 5 Due |
| 2/23 | Mid-Term Exam I | ||
| Week 6 | |||
| 2/26 | Work and Kinetic Energy | 6.1 - 6.3 | |
| 2/28 | Potential Energy: An Introduction | 7.1 | HW 6 Due |
| 3/2 | Potential Energy: Applications | 7.1 | |
| Week 7 | |||
| 3/5 | Energy problems | 7.2 | |
| 3/7 | Conservative Forces and Potential Energy | 7.3 - 7.4 | HW 7 Due |
| 3/9 | Gravitational Potential Energy | 13.3 - 13.4 | |
| Week 8 | |||
| 3/12 | Spring Break (No Class Meeting) | ||
| 3/14 | Spring Break (No Class Meeting) | ||
| 3/16 | Spring Break (No Class Meeting) | ||
| Week 9 | |||
| 3/19 | Power | 6.4 | |
| 3/21 | Momentum | 8.1 - 8.2 | HW 8 Due |
| 3/23 | Momentum Conservation and Collisions | 8.3 | |
| Week 10 | |||
| 3/26 | Elastic and Inelastic Collisions | 8.4 | |
| 3/28 | Center of Mass | 8.5 - 8.6 | HW 9 Due |
| 3/30 | Mid-Term Exam II | ||
| Week 11 | |||
| 4/2 | Introduction to Rotation | 9.1 | |
| 4/4 | Rotational Kinematics | 9.2 - 9.3 | HW 10 Due |
| 4/6 | Energy of Rotation and Moments of Inertia | 9.4 | |
| Week 12 | |||
| 4/9 | Evaluating Moments of Inertia | 9.5 - 9.6 | |
| 4/11 | Torque | 10.1 - 10.2 | HW 11 Due |
| 4/13 | Angular Dynamics Problems | 10.3 | |
| Week 13 | |||
| 4/16 | Angular Momentum | 10.4 - 10.5 | |
| 4/18 | Vector Torque and Angular Momentum | 10.6 - 10.7 | HW 12 Due |
| 4/20 | Simple Harmonic Motion, Part I | 14.1 - 14.3 | |
| Week 14 | |||
| 4/23 | Simple Harmonic Motion, Part II | 14.4 - 14.6 | |
| 4/25 | Wave Properties, Part I | 15.1 - 15.2 | HW 13 Due |
| 4/27 | Mid-Term Exam III | ||
| Week 15 | |||
| 4/30 | Wave properties, Part II | 15.3 - 15.5 | |
| 5/2 | Superposition and Interference | 15.6 - 15.7 | HW 14 Due |
| 5/4 | Standing Waves | 15.7 - 15.8 | |
| Final Exam | |||
| TBA | Final Exam (Date and Time TBA) | ||