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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Jan 19–22 | Introduction, vectors and math review | Chp 1: §1–7 | |
| Mon Jan 25 @ 5:00 pm |  Deadline to add or drop a course | |||
| 2. | Jan 25–29 | Motion along a straight line | Chp 2: §1–4 | |
| 3. | Feb 1–5 | Motion in 2 and 3 dimensions | Chp 3: §1–3 | |
| 4. | Feb 8–12 | Newton's laws of motion | Chp 4: §1–8 | |
| Fri Feb 12 6:00–8:00 pm | COMMON EXAM I | Chapters 1–3 | ||
| 5. | Feb 15–19 |  | ||
| 6. | Feb 22–26 | Further application of Newton's laws | Chp 5: §1–3, 5 | |
| 7. | Mar 1–5 | Work, kinetic energy and the work-energy theorem | Chp 6: §1–4 | |
| 8. | Mar 8–12 | Conservative forces, energy and conservation of energy | Chp 7: §1–3 | |
| Fri Mar 12 6:00–8:00 pm | COMMON EXAM II | Chapters 4–6 | ||
| 9. | Mar 15–19 | Centre of mass, (conservation of) momentum and collisions | Chp 8: §1–4 | |
| Mar 19–21 | Spring "Break" | |||
| 10. | Mar 22–26 | Rotation of rigid bodies; moments of inertia | Chp 9: §1–3 | |
| 11. | Mar 29–Apr 2 | Newton's 2nd law for rotation; torque and angular momentum | Chp 9: §4–6; Chp 10: §1–2 | |
| 12. | Apr 5–9 | Conservation of angular momentum; static equilibrium | Chp 10: §3; Chp 12: §1–3 | |
| Fri Apr 9 6:00–8:00 pm | COMMON EXAM III | Chapters 7–9 | ||
| 13. | Apr 12–16 | Gravity, satellite motion and Kepler's Laws | Chp 11: §1–4 | |
| 14. | Apr 19–23 | Contingency and/or review | ||
| Fri Apr 23 6:00–9:00 pm | COMMON COMPREHENSIVE EXAM | Chapters 1–12 | ||
| 15. | Apr 26–29 | Simple harmonic motion, pendula (optional) | Chp 14: §1–6 | |
