Physics 203 Schedule Summer 2008

Wk Lec # Date Day Act Homework Chptr Description
  1 16-Jun Mon 1 Introduction, units, conversion
  2 16-Jun Mon 2 Velocity and acceleration
1 18-Jun Wed no class - travel
  17-Jun Tue no class - travel
  17-Jun Tue No lab
  18-Jun Wed no class - travel
  18-Jun Wed no class - travel
  3 19-Jun Thu Quiz Chapter 1 2 online activity: Graphing motion
    19-Jun Thu       Virtual lab - acceleration of gravity
  4 23-Jun Mon 2 Freefall and other applications
  5 23-Jun Mon 3 Vectors
  23-Jun Mon discussion
2 6 24-Jun Tue Quiz Chapter 2 4 More on vectors, intro to projectiles
  24-Jun Tue Lab 2: Newton's 2nd law
  7 25-Jun Wed 4 Projectile motion
  8 25-Jun Wed 5 Newton's first two laws
  25-Jun Wed discussion
  9 26-Jun Thu Quiz Chapters 3-4 5 Newton's second law and free body diagrams
    26-Jun Thu       No Lab - Exam I 6:3 pm  Chs. 1-4
  10 30-Jun Mon 6 Newton's third law and applications
  11 30-Jun Mon Quiz Chapters 5-6 6 Circular motion
  30-Jun Mon discussion
3 12 1-Jul Tue 12 Universal Law of Gravitation
  1-Jul Tue Lab 5: Motion in a circle
  13 2-Jul Wed 12 Orbital motion and Kepler's law
  14 2-Jul Wed Quiz Chapter 12 7 Definition of work
  2-Jul Wed discussion
  15 3-Jul Thu 8 Gravitational potential energy, mechanical energy
    3-Jul Thu       Lab 3: Conservation of energy
  16 7-Jul Mon 8 Conservation of mechanical energy, power
  17 7-Jul Mon Quiz Chapters 7-8 9 Momentum and its conservation, impulse
  7-Jul Mon discussion
4 18 8-Jul Tue 9 Elastic and inelastic collisions
  8-Jul Tue Lab 4: Car collisions and crumple zones
  19 9-Jul Wed 10 The center of mass, angular kinematics
  20 9-Jul Wed Quiz Chapter 9 10 Rolling motion, torque
  9-Jul Wed discussion
  21 10-Jul Thu 11 Torque & Newton's second law, kinetic energy
    10-Jul Thu       No Lab - Exam II 6:3pm  Chs. 5-9
  22 14-Jul Mon 11 Angular momentum and its conservation
  23 14-Jul Mon Quiz Chapter 10 11 Static equilibrium
  14-Jul Mon discussion
5 24 15-Jul Tue 17 Stability, stress, strain, and elasticity
  15-Jul Tue Lab 6: Building structures and the body
  25 16-Jul Wed 15 Density, pressure in static fluids, Pascal's principle
  26 16-Jul Wed Quiz Chapter 11 15 Archimede's principle
  16-Jul Wed discussion
  27 17-Jul Thu 15 Continuity equation, Bernoulli's equation
    17-Jul Thu       Lab 7: Fluid dynamics and the Bernoulli equation
  28 21-Jul Mon 15 Viscosity and fluid flow
  29 21-Jul Mon Quiz Chapter 15 13 Simple harmonic motion
  21-Jul Mon discussion
6 30 22-Jul Tue 14 Wave motion
  22-Jul Tue Lab 8: Stringed instruments
  31 23-Jul Wed 14 Wave behavior
  32 23-Jul Wed Quiz Chapters 13-14a 14 Sound waves, sound intensity
  23-Jul Wed discussion
  33 24-Jul Thu 14 Harmonics, beats, Doppler effect
    24-Jul Thu       No Lab - Exam III 6:3 pm  Chs. 10-14a
  34 28-Jul Mon 16 Temperature, thermal expansion, ideal gas law
  35 28-Jul Mon Quiz Chapter 14b 17 Kinetic theory
  28-Jul Mon discussion
7 36 29-Jul Tue 17 Kinetic theory, vapor pressure, weather, heat
  29-Jul Tue Lab 9: Vibrations and sound waves
  37 30-Jul Wed Quiz Chapter 16-17a 17 Specific heat, latent heat
  38 30-Jul Wed 17 Latent heat, heat transfer
  30-Jul Wed discussion
  39 31-Jul Thu 18 First law of thermodynamics
    31-Jul Thu       Lab 1: Measurement of specific heat
  40 4-Aug Mon Quiz Chapters 17b-18a 18 Heat engines
  41 4-Aug Mon 18 Carnot cycle, refrigerators
  4-Aug Mon discussion
8 5-Aug Tue 18 Second law of thermodynamics, entropy
  42 5-Aug Tue Makeup Lab
  43 6-Aug Wed Quiz Chapter 18b Quiz and course evaluations
    8-Aug Fri       FINAL EXAM:  Chapters 14b-18, comprehensive  8:00 AM