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The reading assignments are based on the 6th edition.  There are a few changes in the 7th - see the footnotes below.

Month Day Lecture Topic Reading P. Phor. Phn. HW Due Labs Notes / Deadlines
Aug 31 Intro/Fluid Statics          
Sept 2 More Fluid Statics Syllabus, 14.0-14.4        
  4 Fluid Dynamics 14.5-14.7   #1    
               
    Labor Day - No Class Duties of Citizenshipa     #1 Start  
  9 Temperature 19.0-19.5   #2 Pressure Monday the 7th is a
  11 Heat 20.0-20.3   #3 #1 Due Holiday
               
  14 Work from Heat 20.4-20.6   #4 #2 Start  
  16 Heat Transfer 20.7   #5 Specific Heat  
  18 Ideal Gas 21.0-21.2, 21.41   #6 #2 Due  
               
  21 Maxwell-Boltzman Gas 21.3, 21.5-21.72   #7    
  23 Heat Engines 22.0-22.1, 22.5   #8    
  25 Engines 22.2-22.4   #9    
              RS Broadcast 26th
  28 Entropy 22.6-22.7   #10    
  30 What is Entropy? 22.8   #11    
Oct 2 Waves 16.0-16.2   #12    
              Gen. Conf. Oct 3-4
  5 Waves on a String 16.3-16.5 1 #13   Exam #1 Oct 5-7
  7 The Wave Equation 16.6 2.0-2.3 #14   Covers HW 1-12
  9 Reflection and Transmission   3.0-3.5 #15    
               
  12 Sound Waves 17.1-17.3 5 #16 #3 Start  
  14 Doppler Efct, Superposition 17.4, 18.1   #17 Dispersion  
  16 Standing Waves 18.2-18.3 4 #18 #3 Due  
               
  19 Resonance, Beats 18.4-18.5, 18.7   #19 #4,5 Start  
  21 Fourier Transforms   6.0-6.5 #20 Stand. Waves  
  23 More FT   6.6-6.7 #21 #4,5 Due  
               
  26 Music   7 #22 #6 Start Proposal Due
  28 Light, Reflection, Refraction 35.1-35.5   #23 Fourier Transforms  
  30 Huygen, Fermat, Dispersion 35.6-35.93   #24 #6 Due Exam #2 Oct 29-31
              Covers HW 13-23
Nov 2 Mirrors 36.1-36.2   #25    
  4 Lenses 36.3-36.4   #26    
  6 Aberrations, Imaging Devices 36.5-36.7   #27    
               
  9 More Devices 36.8-36.10   #28 #7  
  11 Wave Nature of Light 37.1-37.44   #29 Telescope  
  13 More on Light Waves 37.5-37.7   #30 #7 Due  
               
  16 Diffraction 38.1-38.2   #31 #8,9,10 Start Prog. Report Due
  18 More Diffraction 38.3-38.45   #32 Interferometer  
  20 Polarization 38.5-38.6   #33 Diffraction  
            Brewster's Angle  
  23 N-dimensional Waves   8 #34    
  24 Holography   9 #35 #8,9,10 Due Friday instruction on 24th
  25 Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Proclamationb        
  27 Break Nov 25-27 Proper Roll of Governmentc        
               
  30 Introduction to Relativity 39.0-39.3   #36 #116 Holography Exam #3 Dec 1-3
Dec 2 Special Relativity 39.4   #37   Covers HW 24-36
  4 Relativistic Transformations 39.5-39.7   #38    
               
  7 E=mc2 39.8-39.9   #39    
  9 General Relativity   11.0-11.3 #40   Project Due
  10  NOTE: even though this is a Thursday, HOMEWORK IS DUE!     #41    
               
  15 FINAL EXAM Tuesday   3:00 p.m. To 6:00 p.m.   FINAL EXAM

 

 

Footnotes:

1 - 21.4 does not discuss the specific heat of solids - so pay attention in class.

2 - 21.6 and 21.7 don't exist in the 7th edition.  Most of the material was combined into 21.5, but not the discussion of mean free path - so pay attention in class.

3 - 35.9 (Fermat's principle) doesn't exist in the 7th edition - pay attention in class.

4 - The material in 37.2-37.4 is rearranged, but everything is there except phasor addition.  But phasors are the same thing as complex exponentials, which we will have already covered with a reading in Physics Phor Phynatics.

5 - 38.4 does not discuss the resolving power of a diffraction grating.  I have placed a "handout" online, and we will discuss it in class as well.

6 - Lab 11 is a special lab.  It will be done in groups.  You will need to sign up for a time slot to do this lab.

a - http://www.edchange.org/multicultural/speeches/theodore_roosevelt_duties.html

b - http://millercenter.org/scripps/archive/speeches/detail/3447

c - http://www.laissez-fairerepublic.com/benson.htm

 

   

© Dallin S. Durfee 2004