| PHYS 111 - MECHANICS |
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| Semester: | Fall 2011 | |||
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| Instructor: | Cemal Yalabik | |||
| Office: | Room SA-228 | Phone 1316 | ||
| Office Hours: | Tuesdays | 15:40 - 16:30 catch me after class | Room SA-228 | |
| All other times | (if available - call 1316 to check) | Room EA-G11 | ||
| Assistant: | Basak Renklioglu | Phone: 2149 | Room SA-2?? | |
| Homework: | Policy | Assignments | ||
| Exams & Grading: | (You can prepare notes on a single sheet of paper to bring to the exam.) | |||
| First Exam | 15% | Nov. 2 | 18:00 - 20:00 (B-204) | |
| Second Exam | 20% | Dec. 10 | 14:00 - 16:00 (B-204) | |
| Final Exam | 30% | Jan. 11 | 9:00 - 11:00 (SA-Z01) | |
| Homework+Quizzes | 10% | |||
| Attendance + Participation etc. | 5% | |||
| Laboratory | 20% | minimum lab grade of 60 is necessary to pass the course! | ||
| Course Schedule: | ||||
| First meeting: Monday, Sept. 26, 15:40 - 17:30 in SA-Z18 | ||||
| Mondays | 15:40 - 17:30 | Room SA-Z18 | ||
| Tuesdays | 13:40 - 15:30 | Room SA-Z18 | ||
| Textbook: | ||||
| Physics by Resnick, Halliday and Krane | ||||
Homework for this week: There will be weekly homework assignments in this course. Homework is due on the Monday of the following week at 15:45, in class, before class starts.
You can view your grades through the Stars system.
| Week | Subject | Exam | Related Links | Measurement, Vectors (Chapter 1)1 Vectors and Kinematics (Chapter 2) Force and Newton's Laws (Chapter 3) | 1 Particle Dynamics (Chapters 4, 5) | 1 Application of Newton's Laws (Chapter 5) | 1 | 2 Momentum (Chapter 6) | #1 | 1 Holiday - No classes Systems of Particles (Chapter 7) Rotational Kinematics (Chapter 8) Rotational Dynamics (Chapter 9) Angular Momentum (Chapter 10) | #2 | 1 Work and Energy (Chapters 11, 12) Conservation of Energy (Chapters 12, 13) Oscillations (Chapter 17) | 1 | 2 | 3 Gravitation (Chapter 14) | 1 | |||||||||||
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