Physics 201
Lecture Notes

Lectures will be given in Room 2103 Chamberlin Hall at 1:20 pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.


 

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Lecture Date
Lecture Title
Supplements
Demos
01
22 Jan 2008
Measurement.pdf
rocketman
light-ns
balance
stopwatch
02
24 Jan 2008
1-d Motion.pdf
whatgoesup
air cart&computer
03
29 Jan 2008
Vectors.pdf
lead brick
incline w/ metronome
penny & feather
Gallileo ball drop
04
31 Jan 2008
2-d Motion.pdf
monkey, paratrooper, football

monkey & ranger

05
5 Feb 2008
Newton's Laws.pdf
pelican

ballistic cart
rotating ball &thread

06
7 Feb 2008
Free Body Diagrams.pdf
Atwood+
Atwood machine
07
12 Feb 2008
Friction and Drag.pdf
Free body examples
Atwood recap
incline plane friction
08
14 Feb 2008
Review
review probs

lead brick w/Newtonometer
cart moving w/friction

09
19 Feb 2008
Circular Motion.pdf
Circular Motion Examples
parachute
rotating ball &thread
banked curve
loop de loop
10
21 Feb 2008
Gravitation.pdf Lecture 9 Examples
Bucket and water
Cavendish experiment
11
26 Feb 2008
Work.pdf Lecture 10 Examples
Car & string on track
Pendulum w/ bowling pin
12
28 Feb 2008
Potential Energy.pdf

Pogo stick, ball on spring, car w/spring

13
4 Mar 2008
Cons. of Mech. Energy.pdf Lecture 12 Examples
Pendulum
Spring-loaded car on incline
Balls on shaped ramps
Roller coaster
14
6 Mar 2008
Conservation of Energy.pdf Lecture 13 Examples
Pendulum
Bowling Pin
15
11 Mar 2008
Review Review Examples Rollercoaster

16
13 Mar 2008
Momentum.pdf

Equal and Unequal Mass
Collision Balls
17
25 Mar 2008
Rockets & CM.pdf Lecture 15 Examples
Tennis Ball - Basketball
Alcohol Rocket
Fire ext. rocket
18
27 Mar 2008
Rotation.pdf Lecture 16 Example
Lego tightrope walker
Torque board
Variable inertia w/ mass & rope
19
1 Apr 2008
Torque.pdf Lecture 17 Example
Atwood machine
Torque board
Yo-yo
String on spool
20
3 Apr 2008
Statics.pdf Lecture 18 Examples
Big incline plane
Shortening can
Variable I w/ computer
21
8 Apr 2008
Solids.pdf Lecture 19 Examples
Mass on rod
Teeter totter
Ladder
"Up-hill" rolling object
22
10 Apr 2008
Angular Momentum.pdf Lecture 20 Examples
Ice skater
23
15 Apr 2008
Angular Momentum 2.pdf Lecture 21 Examples
Rotating variable I
Bicycle wheel
Train
Rotating platform / med. ball
24
17 Apr 2008
Gravity 2.pdf Lecture 22 Examples

25
22 Apr 2008
Review


26
24 Apr 2008
Fluids
Fluids.pdf
Lecture 23 Examples
Mercury barometer
Bed of nails
Young's Modulus
27
29 Apr 2008
Fluids 2
Fluids 2.pdf
Lecture 24 Examples
Bernoulli's Principle
Vacuum gun
Container w/ holes in side
28
1 May 2008
Oscillations
Oscillations.pdf

Pendulum period
29
6 May 2008
Oscillations 2
Oscillations2.pdf
Lecture 25 Examples
Physical & Coupled Pendula
 30  8 May 2008
 Review Lecture 26 Examples







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