PHYS 111 - Mechanics

 
Semester: Fall 2006
Instructor: Ceyhun Bulutay
Office: Room 220  Phone: 2511
Office Hours: By e-mail appointment
Course Schedule:
Wednesday 8:40 - 10:30 Room SAZ 18
Friday 10:40 - 12:30 Room SAZ 18
Recitation Hour:
Tuesday 17:40 - 18:40 Room SAZ-18
Exams & Grading (Tentative): 2 Midterms (20% each)
1st Midterm Date: 18 Oct. 2006 (Wed.), 9:00, SAZ-18
2nd Midterm Date: 1 Dec. 2006 (Fri.), 10:40, SAZ-18
Final Exam (25%)
Final Exam Date: 26 Dec. 2006 (Tue.), 9:30, B204
HW+Quiz (15%)
  Lab (20%) (a minimum of 60/100 is required to pass the course)
Make-up Exam Policy:
As it is vulnerable to abuse, it has been difficult to identify a genuine make-up examinee. Make-up exam will be after the final exam date, and will be in oral.
The individual is expected to have reached a guru-level comprehension by then.
Textbook:
D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and K. S. Krane,"Physics", Vol. 1, 5th Edition (Wiley, 2002)

Weekly Calendar

Week Subject
#1 Sep. 13 Measurement and Motion in 1D
#2 Sep. 20 Force and Newton's Law
#3 Sep. 27 Motion in 2D and 3D
#4 Oct. 4 Applications of Newton's Law
#5 Oct. 11 Momentum
#6 Oct. 18 Midterm-1 & Systems of Particles
#7 Oct. 25 Bayram and Systems of Particles (Cont'd)
#8 Nov. 1 Rotational Kinematics
#9 Nov. 8 Rotational Dynamics
#10 Nov. 15 Angular Momentum
#11 Nov. 22 Work and Kinetic Energy
#12 Nov. 29 Potential Energy & Midterm-2
#13 Dec. 6 Potential Energy (Cont'd)
#14 Dec. 13 Conservation of Energy & Fluid Mechanics
#15 Dec. 20 Fluid Mechanics (Cont'd)