Weekly schedule
Below is roughly the schedule of the material in PHYS 206. Your instructor may go a little faster or slower depending on, among other things, your feedback. The sections listed are the only ones from which material will be tested on the exams; if a section isn't listed, you are not required to learn it. All sections of PHYS 206 will have common exams with each one covering chapters in the textbook as listed below.
Week | Date | Topic | Sections in text | |
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1. | Jan 15–19 | Introduction; Units, physical quantities and vectors | Chp 1: §1–10 | |
Mon Jan 22 @ 5:00 pm | Deadline to add or drop a course | |||
2. | Jan 22–26 | Motion along a straight line | Chp 2: §1–6 | |
3. | Jan 29–Feb 2 | Motion in 2 and 3 dimensions | Chp 3: §1–5 | |
4. | Feb 5–9 | Newton's laws of motion | Chp 4: §1–6 | |
5. | Feb 12–16 | Applying Newton's laws | Chp 5: §1–4 5 | |
Mon Feb 12 7:30–9:30 pm | COMMON EXAM I | Chapters 1–3 | ||
6. | Feb 19–23 | Work and kinetic energy | Chp 6: §1–4 | |
7. | Feb 26–Mar 1 | Potential energy and energy conservation | Chp 7: §1–5 | |
8. | Mar 4–8 | Momentum, impulse and collisions | Chp 8: §1–5 6 | |
Mar 11–15 | Spring "Break" | |||
9. | Mar 18–22 | Rotation of rigid bodies | Chp 9: §1–5 6 | |
10. | Mar 25–29 | Dynamics of rotational motion | Chp 10: §1–6 7 | |
Mon Mar 25 7:30–9:30 pm | COMMON EXAM II | Chapters 4–7 | ||
11. | Apr 1–5 | Equilibrium | Chp 11: §1–3 4,5 | |
12. | Apr 8–12 | Gravitation | Chp 13: §1–5 6–8 | |
13. | Apr 15–19 | Periodic motion | Chp 14: §1–6 7,8 | |
Tue Apr 16 @ 5:00 pm | Deadline to Q-drop with no penalty | |||
Mon Apr 15 7:30–9:30 pm | COMMON EXAM III | Chapters 8–11 | ||
14. | Apr 22–26 | Contingency and/or review | ||
Fri Apr 26 5:00–7:00 pm | COMMON COMPREHENSIVE EXAM | Chapters 1–11, 13, 14 |