Physics 105
Instructor: John S.
Colton
Email address: "john" plus underscore plus "colton" at "byu" dot "edu".
Semester: Fall 2008
Office hours: Wed 3-4 pm, in the Tutorial Lab
Office: N335 ESC, available by appointment
Problem solving sessions: Fri 3-4 pm in 455 MARB; also Mon 1-2 pm in 455 MARB
T.A./grader: Becca Fluckiger
Her email address: "physics105colton" plus "at" plus "gmail.com". This is NOT
Dr. Colton's address. Don't send stuff to him here!
Office hours: Wed 12-2 pm, in the Tutorial Lab
Announcements
- 23 Dec 08 - final exam solutions
posted below
- 20 Dec 08
- 5 points added to everyone's final exam; grade boundaries set (see email)
-
11 Dec 08 - Here is the first
page of this year's final exam, so you can see what formulas are given:
final exam - page 1.pdf
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10 Dec 08 - Locations for final exam
review set: Thurs 7-9 pm in W111 Benson; Fri 1-3 pm in C215 ESC.
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9 Dec 08 -
Rate the Tutorial Lab TAs
link added
- 1 Dec 08 - Solutions to this year's exam 4
posted below
- 25 Nov 08 - Last year's final has
been posted below, with solutions.
- 17 Nov 08 - A couple weeks' worth
of demo videos were posted below
- 14 Nov 08 - Evening exam TA review session
scheduled for Exam 4: Thursday 7-9 pm, room C215 ESC
- 27 Oct 08 - Special evening exam
review session planned for Thursday 7-9 pm, room C215 ESC. (Session to be led by
two Tutorial lab TAs.)
- 23 Oct
08 - As a result of the mid-semester voting, my Friday office hours will be
converted to a problem solving session, to be held in 455 MARB
- 21 Oct
08 - Here's the
mid-semester
survey data
- 14 Oct 08 - Dr Colton's Friday office hours changed to 3-4 pm
(they had been 4-5 pm)
- 8 Oct 08 - I fixed some errors in sample exam 2
- 2
Oct 08 - 8 students still aren't getting credit for clicker quizzes.
-
2 Oct 08 - Last year's exam 2 (and solutions) posted below.
- 25 Sep 08 - By
the way, 8 students still aren't getting credit for their clicker quizzes. Make
sure you're not one of the 8!
- 25 Sep 08 - All Friday homework due-dates now
moved to Saturday! The only exception is that all late homework, as well as the
retries for HW22, continues to be due on Fri Dec 19.
- 23 Sep 08 - As a
reminder, turn in your free body diagrams for HW 5 and beyond in the boxes
labeled "105 Colton" near N357 ESC
-
23 Sep 08 - Exam 1 solutions posted to website, see down near the bottom
- 18
Sep 08 - Cool videos (and a still shot) of the ping pong ball demo posted below
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17 Sep 08 - TA's email address added to top of page
- 17 Sep 08 - Link to
private tutors Google group added below. Several tutors now available!
- 15 Sep
08 - HW 2 and HW 3 solutions also posted. They are in the glass cases near N361
ESC.
- 12 Sep 08 - Various demo videos posted below
- 11 Sep 08 - Last year's
Exam 1 posted below
- 11 Sep 08 - HW 1 solutions posted in hallway of Eyring
building (outside of Tutorial Lab)
- 11 Sep 08 - Problem Solving Help Session
permanently scheduled for room 455 MARB (M 1-2 pm)
Textbook
The textbook for the class is College Physics, by
Serway & Faughn (5
th,
6th,
7th
editions) or by Serway & Vuille (8th
edition). Only volume 1 is needed for
Physics 105; but volume 2 is used in Physics 106, so if you’re planning to
take that course too it may be cheaper to get a book with both volumes
combined. Feel free to obtain an inexpensive used copy.
Syllabus and Course
Packet
Physics 105 syllabus - Fall 08.pdf
The syllabus will be available in the bookstore for purchase ($2.30). Or, if
you prefer you can print out your own copy. Or just use this electronic
version.
→ 21 Aug 08 - Mistake discovered! The
earlier version of the syllabus (the one the bookstore has) says on pg 2
that classes are MWF. Don't believe it! Classes are T Th, as you expected
when you signed up for this class. (Sorry about that.)
→ 2 Sep 08 Colton office hours changed
due to a conflict on Wednesday. The office hours are now Wed 3-4 pm and Fri
4-5 pm.
Warm-Up Exercises
Class Notes
Videos of Demos
- As advertised, I will be posting videos for many of the demos. These
are high-res video files in avi format, encoded via divx. If your computer has
problems playing the file, you can try downloading this
free divx player. The down side
to the high resolution
is that the file size is large. If the large file size is a problem for anyone, let
me know and I'll see if I can downsize the video quality.
- Sep 9:
milk-drop demo (110 MB)
-
Sep 11: rolling cart with spring-loaded ball (sorry--the video didn't turn out)
| falling monkey demo (67 MB)
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Sep 18:
ping pong ball cannon (65 MB).
A still shot
of the single frame where you can see the ball emerging (jpg) (90KB)
- Sep
23: ball in cup (55 MB) |
tablecloth (17 MB) |
pen and hoop (26 MB) | thrown pen from
rotating chair (sorry, the video didn't turn out; chair was rotating too
quickly)
- Sep 25: static vs kinetic
friction (68 MB)
- Sep 30: pendulum
narrowly missing Dr Colton on the upswing (76 MB)
- Oct 2:
falling weight powering lightbulb (88
MB)
- Oct 9: Collision1: small hits
small, Velcro (24 MB) | Collision2:
small hits big, Velcro (21 MB) |
"Explosion" (20 MB) | Collision3 (didn't turn out) |
Collision4: small hits small, elastic
(3 MB) | Balls knocking over block
(11 MB) | Newton's Cradle (30 MB) |
"Velocity amplifier" (6 MB)
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Oct 14: CO2 rocket (35 MB);
rocket from a second angle (11 MB) |
thrown foam object (didn't turn out; camera couldn't focus)
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Oct 21: torque depends on distance from pivot
(26 MB) | various balanced objects
(59 MB)
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Oct 23: spinning rod (37 MB) |
RACES: hoop vs sphere (30 MB),
big disk vs little disk
(7 MB), hoop vs. disk (45 MB),
big sphere vs little
sphere (17 MB), big hoop vs
little hoop (13 MB)
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Oct 28: Hoberman sphere (35 MB) |
figure-skater chair (16 MB) |
strange briefcase (64 MB) |
"precession" of bike wheel (53 MB) |
rotating person (single wheel)
(68 MB) | non-rotating person
(double wheel) (54 MB)
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Nov 4: force vs pressure
(35 MB) | bed of nails (94 MB) |
collapsing can (49 MB) |
Magdeburg hemispheres
(100 MB)
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Nov 6: weight in water (25
MB) | red fluid Bernoulli (46 MB) |
ping pong curving (didn't turn out; focusing problems) |
blowing on paper (10 MB) |
suspended ball &
bottle (57 MB) | ball in
funnel (33 MB) | chimney effect
(46 MB)
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Nov 11: thermal
expansion thermometer (47 MB) |
ring and ball (50 MB) |
helium balloon in liquid
nitrogen (40 MB) | air
balloon in LN (58 MB) | rubber nail
(41 MB) | lead bell (35 MB)
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Nov 13: lighting match with
radiation (54 MB) | a "light mill"
(47 MB)
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Nov 20: adiabatic compression
(64 MB) | freeze spray (28 MB) |
Stirling engine (57 MB)
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Dec 2: spring vs
circular motion (53 MB) | long
slinky (24 MB) | waves
passing through each other (19 MB)
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Dec 4: sound in a vacuum (36
MB) | singing rod (24 MB) |
Joy to the World (66 MB)
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Dec 9: waves produced by a jigsaw (72
MB) | sound waves seen via flames (61
MB)
Homework
Scores and Grade
Class Identification Numbers
Quiz Transmitter IDs
Tutorial Lab Info
Discussion Forum
(Google Groups)
This year's exam
solutions
Old Exams
- Old 105 final.doc - This
is the final exam from last year, without reformatting. Read the
introductory note highlighted in yellow. Your final will be a bit
different (mostly due to the "no calculators" rule), but this will still
provide a good gauge of where you're at relative to where you need to
be.
- Old 105 final
- solutions.doc - Work out the bare exam before looking at the
solutions!
- Old 105 exam 4.doc.
This is exam 4 from last year, reformatted slightly. FYI the average was
a 63. I'll try to make this year's exam a little easier.
- Old 105
exam 4 - solutions. doc. Work out the bare exam before looking at
the solutions!
- Old 105 exam 3.doc.
This is exam 3 from last year, reformatted slightly. Note: I will
try to make this year's exam 3 a little easier than last year's.
- Old 105
exam 3 - solutions. doc. As always, please work
out the bare exam before looking at the solutions.
- Old 105 exam 2.doc.
This is the exam I gave last year, reformatted slightly. Note: I will
try to make this year's exam 2 just a little easier than last year's.
Another note: problem 21 is not something that I emphasized at all this
year. Note: an earlier version
had some minor problems with answer ranges and the like, mainly because
I didn't do answer ranges the same way last year. Also, problems 18-20
had some more serious errors. Hopefully all problems now fixed.
- Old 105
exam 2 - solutions. doc. As before, I strongly encourage you to work
out the bare exam first on your own, and only then download these
solutions to see how you did.
- Old 105 exam 1.doc.
This is the exam I gave last year, just reformatted a little to make it
match the format I plan to use this year. WARNING: this exam had a
higher average score than I like, so I will probably make the exam this
year a little bit harder.
- Old 105
exam 1 - solutions.doc. I strongly encourage you to work out
the bare exam first, on your own, and only then download these solutions
to see how you did.
The old "If you are new"
section (for historical interest?)
- If you have added the class late, you've got some catching up to do! Proceed
as follows:
→ Get a "class ID number" using the link below. You will use the CID in all your
assignments.
→ Read the syllabus, available either below (pdf file) or from the bookstore.
Also, the HW problems are found in the syllabus.
→ Get a copy of the textbook (see textbook info, below). If you can't get one
soon, use one of the copies available in the Tutorial Lab (see Tutorial Lab info
below).
→ Do the past reading assignments as marked on pg 1 of the syllabus, and in the
future, do the reading assignments for each lecture.
→ For each (future) lecture, answer the warm-up quiz for the lecture (see
below). Those quizzes are due by 8 am the day of the lecture.
→ Get an "i-clicker" at the bookstore if you don't already have one. Bring your
clicker to each class.
→ Register your clicker (see below) so that you get credit for in-class clicker
quizzes.
→ Get your individualized homework data numbers which you will plug into the HW
problems in your syllabus, using the link below.
→ Start working HW problems! You can get credit for late assignments, so work
the HW sets you have missed, in addition to the ones coming up. Read much more
about our online HW system, in the syllabus.
→ Submit your HW answers via the online system using the link below. Again, read
how to do this in the HW section of the syllabus. Learn how to re-submit any
problems that you get wrong. Talk to other students to figure this out, if
necessary. HW sets are due Wednesdays and Fridays.
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