This is what I plan to cover during the course. Generally, we will try to cover a chapter and half a week for the majority of the semester. At the end, we will need to speed things up and will do so by skipping some sections. The schedule posted is subject to revision and is NOT SET IN STONE. Any changes, particularly to the exam dates will be made only reluctantly and with plenty of notice to you the student. It will also be communicated through this page. Please note that a planning a trip during the semester does not constitute a valid excuse for missing an exam. Sometimes things, like hurricanes, happen and a significant change to the schedule will need to be made. Again if a change is needed it will be thoroughly discussed in class beforehand.  

The final exam schedule is listed on panthersoft. Please check there for the official date, time and place. 

Chapter 1: Models, Measurements, and Vectors. Idealized models, standards and units, unit consistency and conversions, precision and significant figures, vectors, vector addition and components

• Chapter 2: Motion Along a Straight Line. Displacement, average and instantaneous velocity and acceleration, motion with constant acceleration, proportional reasoning and freely falling bodies
• Chapter 3: Motion in 2 or 3 Dimension. Velocity and acceleration in a plane, projectile motion, and uniform circular motion
• Chapter 4: Newton’s Laws of Motion. Force, Newton’s first, second and third laws, mass and weight and introduce the free-body diagrams
• Chapter 5: Applications of Newton’s Laws. Equilibrium of a particle, application of Newton’s second law, contact forces and friction, elastic forces and the four forces of nature
• Chapter 6: Work and Kinetic Energy. Work, work and kinetic energy, the work done by a varying force and power
• Chapter 7: Potential Energy and Energy Conservation.  Gravitational and elastic energy as potential energy, conservation of energy, conservative and non-conservative forces and energy diagrams
• Chapter 8: Momentum. Momentum and impulse, conservation of momentum, inelastic collisions, elastic collision, impulse center of mass
• Chapter 9: Rotation of Rigid Bodies. Angular velocity and acceleration, rotations with constant angular acceleration, relationship between linear and angular acceleration, kinetic energy of rotation, moment of inertia and parallel axis theorem
• Chapter 10: Dynamics of Rotational Motion. Torque, torque and angular acceleration, work and power in rotational motion, angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum
• Chapter 11: Equilibrium and Elasticity. Conditions of equilibrium, center of gravity, rigid-body equilibrium problems, stress, strain and elastic deformation
• Chapter 12: Fluid Mechanics. Density, pressure in a fluid, Archimedes principle and buoyancy, fluid dynamics and Bernoulli’s equation
• Chapter 13: Gravitation. Newton’s Law of gravitation, weight, gravitational potential energy, satellite motion, Kepler’s Laws and the motion of planets, spherical mass distributions
• Chapter 14: Periodic Motion. Oscillations, Simple Harmonic Motion, energy in SHM, simple and not so simple pendulum, damped and forced oscillations.
• Chapter 15: Mechanical Waves. Mechanical waves, periodic mechanical waves, wave speed, reflections and superposition, standing waves, and normal modes of a string
• Chapter 16: Sound and Hearing. Sound waves, speed of sound waves, sound intensity, standing waves and normal modes, resonance and interference of sound waves
• Chapter 17: Temperature and Heat. Temperature, heat and thermal equilibrium, temperature scales, thermal expansion, quantity of heat, phase changes, calorimetry and heat transfer
• Chapter 18: Thermal Properties of Matter. The equation of state, molecular properties of matter, the kinetic-molecular model of an ideal gas, heat capacities, molecular speeds and phases of matter.
• Chapter 19: The 1st Law of Thermodynamics. Thermodynamic Systems, work done during volume changes, internal energy and the 1st Law of Thermodynamics, energy, heat capacities and adiabatic processes in an ideal gas
• Chapter 20: The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Directions of thermodynamic processes, heat engines and internal-combustion engines, refrigerators, The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, the Carnot Cycle, entropy