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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 | Presenters |
| Week 1 | ||
| 1/23 | Introduction | No Presentation |
| 1/25 | Units and Velocity | No Presentation |
| 1/27 | Working with Vectors: A Review | No Presentation |
| Week 2 | ||
| 1/30 | Position, Velocity, and Acceleration | Model Presentation by Instructor |
| 2/1 | Motion with Constant Acceleration | Baddour, Vipond |
| 2/3 | Falling Motion | Katz, Soto |
| Week 3 | ||
| 2/6 | Motion in Two and Three Dimensions | Brastow, Cook |
| 2/8 | Projectile Motion | Bragg, Grace, Triano |
| 2/10 | Forces and Newton's First Law | DiMarco, Neely, Routledge |
| Week 4 | ||
| 2/13 | Newton's Second Law | Doucette, Warrener, Yao |
| 2/15 | Applying the Second Law | Bragg, Leonard, Young |
| 2/17 | Newton's Third Law | Branam, Katz, Orellana |
| Week 5 | ||
| 2/20 | Circular motion | Baddour, Harmon, Koffman |
| 2/22 | Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation | Fehr, Rogers, Warrener |
| 2/24 | Mid-Term Exam I (No Presentation) | |
| Week 6 | ||
| 2/27 | Work and Kinetic Energy | Cox, De La Torre, Graf |
| 3/1 | Potential Energy: An Introduction | Cinicola, DiMarco, Neely |
| 3/3 | Potential Energy: Applications | Fehr, Woodberry, Yao |
| Week 7 | ||
| 3/6 | Energy problems | Mendez, Sharp, Willet |
| 3/8 | Conservative Forces and Potential Energy | Branam, Mkhitarian, Routledge |
| 3/10 | Gravitational Potential Energy | Brastow, Orellana, Vipond |
| Week 8 | ||
| 3/13 | Spring Break (No Class Meeting) | |
| 3/15 | Spring Break (No Class Meeting) | |
| 3/17 | Spring Break (No Class Meeting) | |
| Week 9 | ||
| 3/20 | Power | Gardner, Mestiashvili, Whalen |
| 3/22 | Momentum | Harmon, Koffman, Luo |
| 3/24 | Momentum Conservation and Collisions | Barbour, Low |
| Week 10 | ||
| 3/27 | Elastic and Inelastic Collisions | Cook, Sharp, Yao |
| 3/29 | Center of Mass | Engime, Grace, Leonard |
| 3/31 | Introduction to Rotation | Binder, Cox |
| Week 11 | ||
| 4/3 | Rotational Kinematics | Graf, Triano |
| 4/5 | Energy of Rotation and Moments of Inertia | Moshier, Ono |
| 4/7 | Mid-Term Exam II (No Presentation) | |
| Week 12 | ||
| 4/10 | Evaluating Moments of Inertia | Willet, Woodberry |
| 4/12 | Torque | Gardner, Low, Mestiashvili |
| 4/14 | Angular Dynamics Problems | No Presentation |
| Week 13 | ||
| 4/17 | Angular Momentum | Moshier, Whalen |
| 4/19 | Vector Torque and Angular Momentum | Binder, Mkhitarian |
| 4/21 | Simple Harmonic Motion, Part I | Ono, Weimann |
| Week 14 | ||
| 4/24 | Simple Harmonic Motion, Part II | Doucette, Rogers |
| 4/26 | Wave Properties, Part I | Cocoran, Luo |
| 4/28 | Wave properties, Part II | Cinicola, Soto |
| Week 15 | ||
| 5/1 | Waves: Energy and Intensity | Barbour, De La Torre |
| 5/3 | Superposition and Interference | Cocoran, Engime |
| 5/5 | Standing Waves | Mendez, Weimann |
| Final Exam | ||
| TBA | Final Exam (Date and Time TBA) | |