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Mechanics (35 % of exam): (Beginning of school to Winter Break)
Booknotes: 9/17 HW#1: 9/17 HW#2:
9/23 On-line
Quiz: 9/20 ClassQuiz: 9/27
Booknotes: 9/30 HW#1: 9/30 HW#2: 10/7 On-line Quiz: 10/4
ClassQuiz: 10/11
Booknotes: 10/14 HW#1: 10/14 HW#2: 10/21 On-line Quiz: 10/18
ClassQuiz: 10/25
Booknotes: 10/28 HW#1: 10/28 HW#2: 11/4 On-line Quiz: 11/1 ClassQuiz: 11/8
Booknotes: 11/12 HW#1: 11/12 HW#2: 11/18 On-line Quiz: 11/15
ClassQuiz: 11/22
Booknotes: 11/25 HW#1: 11/25 HW#2: 12/9 On-line Quiz: 12/6
ClassQuiz: 12/13
A.
Fluid
Mechanics (9.2-9.4) NO QUIZ FOR THIS
SECTION. ONLY 1 HW.
Booknotes: 12/16 HW#1: 12/16
1. Hydrostatic pressure (9.2)
2. Buoyancy
(9.3)
3. Fluid flow continuity (9.4)
4. Bernoulli’s equation (9.4)
Electricity
and Magnetism (25% of exam) (After winter break until Spring Break)
A. Electrostatics (15.1-15.4 and 16.1)
Booknotes: 1/6 HW#1: 1/10 HW#2:
1/13 On-line Quiz: 1/10 ClassQuiz: 1/17
Please note that only booknotes are due after winter break. The 1st HW will be due that Friday. Enjoy your break!
1. Charge, field, and potential (15.1-15.2 and 16.1)
2. Coulomb's law and field and potential of point charges (15.3)
3. Fields and potentials of other charge distributions (15.4)
a. Planar
B. Conductors, capacitors, dielectrics (15.5 and 16.1-16.5)
Booknotes: 1/21 HW#1: 1/21 HW#2: 1/27 On-line Quiz: 1/24
ClassQuiz: Final Day
1. Electrostatics with conductors (15.5 and 16.1-16.2)
2. Capacitors (16.3 and 16.5)
a. Parallel
Plate (16.5)
C1. Electric circuits (17.1-17.4) ONLY 1 HW
Booknotes: 2/3 HW#1: 2/10 On-line Quiz: 2/7 ClassQuiz: 2/13
1. Current, resistance, power (17.1-17.4)
C2: Electric Circuits Continued
(chapter 18) ONLY 1 HW
Booknotes: 2/18 HW#1: 2/24 On-line Quiz: 2/21 ClassQuiz: 2/28
1. Steady-state direct current circuits with
batteries and resistors only (18.1)
2. Capacitors in circuits (18.3)
a.
Steady
state (18.3)
3. Kirchhoff’s Rules (but no multiloop circuit questions) (18.2)
D. Magnetostatics (19.1-19.3 and 19.4-19.5)
Booknotes: 3/3 HW#1: 3/3 HW#2: 3/10 On-line Quiz: 3/7
ClassQuiz: 3/14
1. Forces on moving charges in magnetic fields (19.1-19.3)
2. Forces on current-carrying wires in magnetic fields (19.4-19.5)
3. Fields of long current-carrying wires (19.5)
E. Electromagnetism (19.6-19.7 and 20.1-20.3) ONLY 1 HW
Booknotes: 3/17 HW#1: 3/24 On-line Quiz: 3/21 ClassQuiz: 3/28
1.
Electromagnetic induction (including Faraday's law and Lenz's law)
(19.6 & 20.3) and 19.7 Earth’s Magnetic Field
A. Wave motion
(including sound) ONLY 1 HW. Mini
quizzes after each cycle will add up to a total of 600 points(13.3-13.5,
14.2, 14.4 and 14.5)
Booknotes: 4/11 HW#1: 4/11 (notice the date is the Friday before Break)
1. Properties of traveling waves (speed in Media) (13.3-13.4, 14.2 and 14.4)
2. Properties of standing waves (Fundamentals and Harmonics)
(13.5)
3. Doppler effect (14.5)
4. Superposition (13.4)
B. Geometric optics
(22.1-22.5 and 23.1-23.4) ONLY 1 HW. NO QUIZ
Booknotes: 4/21 HW#1: 4/21
1. Reflection and refraction
(22.1-22.5)
2. Mirrors (23.1-23.2)
3. Lenses (23.3-23.4)
C. Physical optics
(24.1-24.5 and 20.4) ONLY 1 HW. NO QUIZ
Booknotes: 4/28 HW#1: 4/28
1. Interference and diffraction (Polorized Light – just the
basics) (24.1-24.4)
2. Dispersion of light and the electromagnetic spectrum (24.5 and
20.4)
Homework #1 (200 points): TBA – After we decide on after school/Saturday session
A. Temperature and heat (10.1-10.2 and 10.4 and 11.1-11.4)
1. Mechanical equivalent of heat (10.1-10.2 Temp/Heat & 11.1)
2. Specific and latent heat (including calorimetry) (11.2-11.3)
3.
Heat
transfer and thermal expansion (10.4
Thermal Ex. & 11.4 Heat trans.)
B. Kinetic theory and thermodynamics (10.3 and 10.5 and 12.1-12.5)
1. Ideal gases (10.3)
a.
Kinetic
model (10.5)
b.
Ideal
gas law (10.3)
2. Laws of thermodynamics (12.1-12.5)
c.
First
law (including processes on pV diagrams) (12.1-12.2)
d. Second law (including heat engines and Carnot Cycle) (12.3-12.5)
Atomic and Nuclear
Physics (10% of exam) (This will be
done after school/Saturday sessions just prior to the exam) NO QUIZ FOR THESE
TWO SECTIONS
A. Atomic physics
and quantum effects (27.2-27.4, 28.1-28.2)
1. Photons and
the photoelectric effect (27.2-27.3)
2. Atomic
Energy Levels (27.4)
3.
Wave-particle duality (28.1-28.2)
B. Nuclear physics
(30.1-30.4)
1. Nuclear reactions (including conservation of mass number and charge, and mass-energy equivalence) (30.1-30.4)