PHYSICS 107 - 117 BASIC PHYSICS (MECHANICS)
| tuesday 15:40 | friday 13:40, 14:40 | classroom: SAZ-19 |
| tuesday 16:40 | classroom: SAZ-19 assistant: Miss Gönül Öykü Güngör |
laboratory work and schedules
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
textbook: Sears and Zemansky's College Physics, 9'th ed.
| Sep.09-Sep.11 | fundamental physical quantities,
unit consistency and conversions, dimensional analysis, scalar and vector quantities, addition and multiplication of vectors, Cartesian components of a vector |
| Sep.14-Sep.18 | motion in one dimension,
concepts of velocity and acceleration, average and instantaneous velocities, motion with constant acceleration, motion under gravity, relative velocity along a straight line, |
| Sep.21-Sep.25 | particle kinematics in two dimensions, velocity and acceleration in a plane, relative velocity in a plane |
| Sep.28-Oct.02 | fundamental forces of nature, projectile motion, uniform circular motion, |
| Oct.05-Oct.09 | Newton's laws of motion, concept of mass, free-body diagrams, applications of Newton's laws, |
| Oct.12-Oct.16 | applications of Newton's laws (cont..d), frictional forces between surfaces in contact |
| Oct.19-Oct.23 | frictional drag force,
motion in a viscous medium; forms of mechanical energy, concepts of work, power and kinetic energy, the work-energy theorem |
| Oct.26-Oct.30 | work done by a varying force,
conservative and non-conservative force fields, notion of potential energy, elastic potential energy of a spring, gravitational interaction between two particles and the corresponding potential energy, conservation of mechanical energy |
| Nov.02-Nov.06 | linear momentum and impulse, multiparticle systems; the centre of mass concept, centre of mass calculations |
| Nov.09-Nov.13 | conservation of linear momentum,
head-on elastic collisions, off-centre elastic collisions, inelastic collisions, collisions viewed in the "laboratory" and the "centre of mass" reference frames, rocket propulsion |
| Nov.16-Nov.20 |
angular velocity and angular acceleration, rotational kinematics, rotation with constant angular acceleration, kinetic energy of rotation |
| Nov.23-Nov.27 | dynamics of rotational motion: concepts of torque, moment of inertia and angular momentum |
| Nov.30-Dec.04 | moment of inertia calculations,
parallel and perpendicular axes theorems, energy and work in rotational motion |
| Dec.07-Dec.11 | conservation of angular momentum,
rigid body collisions statics: rigid-body equilibrium problems |
| Dec.14-Dec.18 | oscillations: the simple harmonic oscillator |
| Dec.21-Dec.24 | damped oscillations, the compound pendulum |
| first exam | second exam | third exam | final exam | laboratory work | other | |
| PHYS 107 | 15% | 15% | 15% | 25% | 20% | 10% |
| PHYS 117 | 20% | 20% | 20% | 30% | 10% |
| first exam | October 6 Tuesday @ 17:00 |
| second exam | November 3 Tuesday @ 17:00 |
| third exam | December 1 Tuesday @ 17:00 |
| final exam | -- -- |
| Calculators and cellular phones will not be allowed in the exams. |
| Needless to say, the students should mind the rules of academic honesty during the exams. |
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If the average of the three midterms is below 20%, or your average laboratory grade is below 60%, or your attendance rate is below 70%, you will not be admitted to the final exam and receive an FZ grade. |
SUPPLEMENTS
volume of a parallelepiped
the triple cross product Ax(BxC)
circular motion described in polar coordinates
rotation of coordinate axes
Isaac Newton
static equilibrium
