General
Information/Warnings:
Exam
Schedule: TBA
Review Sessions for exams: TBA
Exam Information: There
are no calculators and no formula
sheets allowed on exams. I will do my best to prepare you
for the difficulties that may ensue from this. Keep in mind that
there shouldn't be anything too
difficult to calculate by hand, and feel free to round off calculations
to make them easier on exams (i.e. g = 10 m/s^2).
**Review session for the exam: Chapters 5-7 (NOTE: Chapter 8 is
not on this exam!)
Tuesday, September 27th, from 5:00 PM to ?:?? PM --
Room 2165 NPB
(Your exam is Monday, October 3th)
Week 5:
My sections meet September 27 & 29:
(I am away Sept. 28-30th, no
office hours this week, other TA's will cover the Sept. 29th classes)
Material
to be covered
- Kinetic
Energy (KE= mv2/2) (**)
- Work due to gravity ( W = mg (x)
cos (theta) ) (**)
- Work ( W = F (dot) x if F=const;
W = Integral [ F (dot) dx ] in general )
(**)
- Conservation of Energy ( KEf - KEi = W ) (**)
- Springs ( F = -kx, W = - kx2/2
) (**)
Week 4:
My sections meet September 20 & 22:
Material
to be covered
- Objects on an inclined plane
with and without friction (**)
- Cars moving around a banked
curve with and without friction (**)
- Drag force and terminal velocity
- Circular Motion: Fc =mac =
mv2/r, centripetal & centrifugal forces (**)
- Coefficients of friction &
systems in equilibrium (**)
Week 3:
My sections meet September 13 & 15:
Material
to be covered
- Review of tough questions from exam 1
- Forces: Breakdown into x- &
y-components (**)
- Tension in ropes/strings
(**)
- Addition and subtraction of
force vectors (**)
- Newton's Three Laws (when F=0,
a=0; F=ma; for every force, = and opposite force) (**)
- Frictional force = (mu)N, where the direction always
opposes motion (always opposes velocity) (**)
**Review
session for the exam: Chapters 1-4
Friday, September 9th, from 1:55 PM to 3:50 PM --
Room 2165 NPB
(Your exam is Monday, September 12th)
Week 2:
My sections meet September 6 & 8:
Material
to be covered
- Vectors: components, adding
& breakdown (**)
- Dot Products (**)
- Many-dimensional motion:
free-fall (**)
- Circular Motion: ac =
v2/r, |v| = constant (**)
- Many-dimensional motion:
projectile motion (**)
- (remember that vy = 0 at the turning point of an
object in flight)
Week 1:
My sections meet August 30 & September 1:
Material
to be covered
- Introduction to discussion section, introduction to who I am & how I can
help you
- Units: meters, kilograms, seconds; unit conversions
- One-dimensional motion:
acceleration, velocity, position (**)
- Acceleration due to gravity;
systems with constant acceleration (**)
- Vectors: direction and magnitude
(**)