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Beginning of First Semester

Week 1: 9/6-9/9

Introduction to the class, including grading policy.
Science as a means of acquiring knowledge.
Science, non-science and pseudo-science.
Measurement and sig figs.
Review - week 1

Week 2: 9/12-9/16

Scalars & vectors. Speed, velocity and acceleration.
Reference frames. Intro to Special Relativity.
Time dilation, length contraction, mass increase.
Relativistic addition of velocities.
Review - week 2

Week 3: 9/19-9/23

Energy and fundamental forces.
First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics.
Relativistic energy.
The twin paradox. General relativity.
Facts, hypotheses and theories.
Review - week 3

Week 4: 9/26-9/30

Intro to classical mechanics.
The Kinematic Equations.
Displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration.
Intro to motion graphs.
Review - week 4

Week 5: 10/3-10/7

Motion graphs: d-t, v-t, and a-t.
Free-fall.
Review - week 5

Week 6: 10/10-10/14

Vectors: components, resultants, addition and multiplication.
Relative velocities in 2-D. Displacement problems.
2-D kinematic equations.
Review - week 6

Week 7: 10/17-10/21

Horizontal projectiles.
Non-horizontal projectiles.
Review - week 7

Week 8: 10/24-10/28

Projectiles with different initial and final heights.
Review - week 8

Week 9: 10/31-11/4

Newton's Laws of Motion.
Review - week 9

Beginning of Second Quarter

Week 10: 11/7-11/11

Free-body diagrams.
Apparent weight.
Terminal velocity.
Review - week 10

Week 11: 11/14-11/18

Static and kinetic friction coefficients. Motion problems, with friction.
Pulleys.
Review - week 11

Thanksgiving Break

Week 12: 11/28-12/2

Pulleys and slopes. Pulley problems.
Review - week 12

Week 13: 12/5-12/9

A lot of practice.
Fictitious forces.
Review - week 13

Week 14: 12/12-12/16

A history of astronomy, including mystical Greeks, scholarly Arabs, and the rise of heliocentrism.
Newton's theory of gravity.
Einstein's theory of gravity: General Relativity.
Review - week 14

Winter Break (12/19/2011-1/2/2012)

Week 15: 1/3-1/6

Starbirth & stardeath. Neutron stars and black holes.
Theories of cosmology.
Evidence for the Big Bang.
Possible fates of the universe. Dark energy.
Review - week 15

Week 16: 1/9-1/13

Energy, work and power.
Review - week 16

Week 17: 1/16-1/20

Work-Energy theorem
Conservative & non-conservative forces.
Total Mechanical Energy.
Efficiency.
Review - week 17

Week 18: 1/23-1/27

FINAL EXAMS

Beginning of Second Semester

Week 19: 1/30-2/3

Momentum and impulse.
Conservation of momentum.
Elastic and inelastic collisions, 1-D and 2-D.
Review - week 19

Week 20: 2/6-2/10

Torque.
Centripetal vs. centrifugal force.
Introduction to rotation: angular displacement, velocity and acceleration.
Review - week 20

Week 21: 2/13-2/16

Rotational kinematics problems.
The equation connecting linear and rotational.
Moment of inertia.
Review - week 21

President's Day Break

Week 22: 2/21-2/24

Introduction to materials. Solids and fluids.
Stress & strain. Elastic modulus.
The stress-strain equations. Hooke's Law.
Review - week 22

Week 23: 2/27-3/2

Simple harmonic motion, damped harmonic motion.
Review - week 23

Week 24: 3/5-3/9

Static fluid pressure. Buoyancy.
The continuity equation. Archimedes' Principle.
Bernoulli's Principle and Bernoulli's equation.
Review - week 24

Week 25: 3/12-3/16

Wave vocabulary: amplitude, frequency, period, wavelength.
The wave equation.
Review - week 25

Week 26: 3/19-3/23

The ear.
Objective and subjective properties of sound.
Natural frequency and resonance.
Calculating intensity level (in dB).
Review - week 26

Week 27: 3/26-3/28

Harmonics.
Wave interference and beats.
Chladni plates.
Review - week 27

Spring Break (4/2-4/6)

Beginning of Fourth Quarter

Week 28: 4/9-4/13

Musical instruments. Very basic music theory.
Charge, electric field and Coulomb's Law.
Review - week 28

Week 29: 4/16-4/20

Motors & generators. Three right-hand rules.
Magnetic field and magnetic force.
Review - week 29

Week 30: 4/23-4/27

Flux and Faraday's Law.
Induced current and Lenz's Law.
What is light?
The light spectrum: logarithmic and linear scale.
The Standard Model. Standard Model Powerpoint (950 KB).
Review - week 30

Week 31: 4/30-5/4

Refractive index. Snell's Law. Critical angle.
Converging lenses, diverging lenses and ray diagrams.
Optics of the eye. Bad vision.
Color mixing.
Review - week 31

Week 32: 5/7-5/11

Adding series & parallel resistors.
Ohm's Law. DC circuit analysis.
Review - week 32

Week 33: 5/14-5/18

AP TEST (Monday, 5/14)
Electrical power. More DC circuit analysis.
Review - week 33

Week 34: 5/21-5/25

Finish DC circuitry.
Very basic AC circuit analysis.
Review - week 34

Week 35: 5/29-6/1

Binary numbers. Hexadecimal numbers. Bits and bytes.
Semiconductors, diodes and transistors.
Logic gates and digital circuitry.

Week 36: 6/4-6/8

Inside personal computers.

Week 37: 6/11-6/14

FINAL EXAMS