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11:00-11:50am Lecture 01. Introduction: what physics is about, precision, significant figures, prefixes, units, dimensional analysis, approximations, order of magnitude. Ch 1

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 02. Motion in 1D: Position, displacement, velocity, speed, instantaneous acceleration, motion with constant acceleration, free fall. Ch 3.1-3.6

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 03. Motion in 2D in 3D: Projectile motion and vector notation. Ch 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, review 2.1-2.3

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 04. Relative motion: reference frame, coordinate transformation in moving frames. Ch 4.5, skip 4.4 (uniform circular motion)

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 05. Forces and Newton's laws: 1st, 2nd laws, and 3rd law; force and acceleration; mass and weight. Ch 5.1-5.5.

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 06. Free body diagram, common forces; Applications of Newton's laws: solving problems. Ch 5.6-5.7, 6.1

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 07. Applications of Newton's laws: solving more problems, normal force, friction force. Ch 6.1, 6.2

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 08. Tricky friction (sometimes it is smaller), pulleys and tension, drag force. Ch 6.1, 6.2, 6.4

23:59 HW 2 is due

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 09. Uniform circular motion, centripetal force. Ch 4.4, 6.3

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 10. Work and kinetic energy, power. Ch 7.1-7.4

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 11. Potential energy, conservative forces. Ch 8.1-8.2

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 12. Conservation of energy, energy sources, stability condition. Ch 8.3-8.5

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 13. Gravitation: Newton's law of gravitation; Gravitation Near Earth. Ch 13.1, 13.2

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 14. Gravitation potential energy, satellites law. 3rd Kepler's law Ch 13.3, 13.4

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 15. Kepler's laws; Tidal forces. Ch 13.5, 13.6

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 16. Linear momentum and impulse, conservation of linear momentum and collisions. Ch 9.1-9.4

23:59 HW 4 is due

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 17. 1D collision demos. Ch 9.4

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 18. Collisions in multiple dimensions. Center of mass. Ch 9.5-9.6

23:59 HW 5 is due

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 19. Fixed axis rotation. Ch 10.1-10.3

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 20. Moment of inertia and rotational kinetic energy. Ch 10.4-10.5

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 21. Torque, Newton's 2nd law for rotation. Ch 10.6-10.7, skipping work and power for rotation Ch 10.8

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 22. Angular momentum, torque to change of angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum. Ch 11.2-11.3

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 23. Conservation of momentum, precession and gyroscope 11.3-11.4

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Last Day to Withdraw

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 24. Static equilibrium. Ch 12.1-12.2

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 25. Static equilibrium (continued). Ch 12.1-12.2

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 26. Stress, strain. Elasticity and plasticity. Ch 12.3-12.4

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 27. Fluids mechanics: fluids, density, pressure. Ch 14.1-14.2

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 28. Fluids: Pascal's and Archimedes's principles, buoyancy. Ch 14.3

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 29. Fluids: Archimedes's principles and buoyancy. Ch 14.4

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 30. Fluids: Bernoulli's equation. Ch 14.5-14.6

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 31. Extra topics: resistive forces, viscosity and drag (video)

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 32. Oscillations: harmonic motion. Ch 15.1

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 33. Oscillations: comparing oscillators, pendulums 15.3-15.4

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 34. Oscillations: energy of harmonic motion, damped oscillations Ch 15.2, 15.5

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 35. Oscillations damped and forced. Ch 15.6, Traveling pulses and wave equation. Ch 16.1-16.3

23:59 HW 10 is due

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 36. Waves, Wave energy, Interference and standing waves. Ch 16.4-16.6

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11:00-11:50am Lecture 37. Sound, speed of sound and Doppler effect. Ch 17.1-17.7

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