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 19–22 | Introduction, vectors and math review | Chp 1: §1–7 | |
Mon Jan 25 @ 5:00 pm | ![]() ![]() | |||
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 | |
Fri Feb 12 6:00–8:00 pm | COMMON EXAM I | Chapters 1–3 | ||
4. | Feb 8–12 | Newton's laws of motion | Chp 4: §1–8 | |
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 | |
Fri Mar 12 6:00–8:00 pm | COMMON EXAM II | Chapters 4–6 | ||
8. | Mar 8–12 | Conservative forces, energy and conservation of energy | Chp 7: §1–3 | |
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 | |
Fri Apr 9 6:00–8:00 pm | COMMON EXAM III | Chapters 7–9 | ||
12. | Apr 5–9 | Conservation of angular momentum; static equilibrium | Chp 10: §3; Chp 12: §1–3 | |
13. | Apr 12–16 | Gravity, satellite motion and Kepler's Laws | Chp 11: §1–4 | |
Fri Apr 23 6:00–9:00 pm | COMMON COMPREHENSIVE EXAM | Chapters 1–12 | ||
14. | Apr 19–23 | Contingency and/or review | ||
15. | Apr 26–29 | Simple harmonic motion, pendula | Chp 14: §1–6 |