The City College of New York
Department of Physics
Fall 2018
Physics 20700 – Sections CD, CD2, CD3, CD4, CD5
Registration codes: 26383, 26384, 26385, 26386, 26418
Lectures: Monday and Wednesday 12:00-1:40 PM,
Location: Lectures are in room MR3
Recitations: Every other week for two hours in either 409S (or 409N). See paragraph dealing with recitations below.
Prof. J. Gersten: Office: MR311C; Tel: 212-650-7314; e-mail: jgersten@ccny.cuny.edu
Required text: Vol. 1, Fundamentals of Physics (10th ed.) by Halliday, Resnick and Walker,
ISBN: 978-1118233764.
Required license: WileyPlus
Lab schedule: See details on last page. Labs are in room MR 409S.
Office hours: Mon. and Wed. 11:00-12:00 in room MR311C
Lectures:
# Day Date Reading Topics
1 M Aug. 27 1(1-7); 2(1-10) introduction, SI units, motion in one dimension,
time, displacement, velocity, speed, acceleration, free fall
2 W Aug. 29 3(1-8) vectors
3 W Sept. 5* 4(1-4) motion in two dimensions
4 W Sept. 12 4(5-9) projectile motion, circular motion, relative motion
5 M Sept. 17 5(1-6) Newton’s First Law, mass, Newton’s Second Law, free-body diagrams
6 M Sept. 24 5(7-9) Newton’s Third Law
7 W Sept. 26 6(1-5) static and kinetic friction, circular motion
8 M Oct. 1 7(1-9) work, kinetic energy, work-energy theorem,
work done by gravity, work done by springs, power, potential energy
9 W Oct. 3 Exam 1 (Chapters 1-5)
10 W Oct. 10 8(1-4) law of conservation of energy, driven systems
11 M Oct. 15 8(5-8) energy tables
12 W Oct. 17 9(1-6) center of mass, momentum, collisions, impulse
13 M Oct. 22 9(7-12) law of conservation of momentum
14 W Oct. 24 10(1-5) rotational motion, angular variables
15 M Oct. 29 10(6-10) rotational energy, torque, moment of inertia
16 W Oct. 31 Exam 2 (Chapters 6-9)
17 M Nov. 5 11(1-5) rolling, kinetic energy, torque, angular momentum
18 W Nov. 7 11(6-11) angular motion dynamics, conservation law
19 M Nov. 12 12(1-5) equilibrium of a rigid body, free body diagrams
20 W Nov. 14 13(1-8) gravity, potential energy, escape velocity satellite motion, planets, Kepler’s three laws
21 M Nov. 19 14(1-10) fluid statics, Archimede’s principle, buoyancy,
fluid dynamics, Bernoulli equation, (viscosity)
22 W Nov. 21 15(1-4) oscillations
23 M Nov. 26 15(4-7) simple harmonic motion, pendulum, circle analog
24 W Nov 28 Exam 3 (Chapters 10-13)
25 M Dec. 3 18(1-7) temperature, thermal expansion
26 W Dec. 5 18(8-11) heat, specific heat, heat and work, first law of thermodynamics, kinetic theory
27 M Dec. 10 19(1-5,8,11) ideal gases, internal energy, adiabatic processes
28 W Dec. 12 20(1-4) second law of thermodynamics, entropy
Fnal M Dec. 17 10:30-12:45 Final Exam (Chapters 1-15, 18-20)
* Thursday Schedule
Homework: Students are expected to complete at least 8 problems from each chapter
Chapter Problems
- 1, 5, 9, 12, 21, 23, 37, 46, 47, 53
- 28, 34, 41, 53, 54, 59, 73, 88, 89, 99
- Q6, 5, 9, 14, 15, 23, 28, 31, 41, 64
- 17, 23, 28, 30, 32, 80, 87, 104, 105, 111
- 13, 17, 34, 49, 54, 55, 57, 58, 67, 77
- 11, 23, 25, 42, 57, 59, 60, 78, 79, 82
- 1, 15, 17, 27, 46, 49, 62, 63, 65, 68
- 6, 9, 13, 16, 30, 55, 67, 69, 75, 91
- 13, 45, 48, 51, 52, 61, 64, 68, 75, 97
- 13, 28, 30, 41, 51, 53, 63, 71, 83, 91
- 12, 17, 25, 33, 37, 45, 47, 55, 58, 60
- 7, 17, 21, 24, 26, 34, 35, 58, 68, 73
- 4, 19, 28, 39, 41, 47, 50, 80, 82, 88
- 32, 37, 44, 53, 57, 61, 65, 73, 77, 85
- 11, 13, 14, 26, 33, 36, 51, 71, 85, 91
18 15, 24, 31, 45, 49, 50, 72, 77, 87, 89
19 3, 11, 16, 39, 44, 46, 47, 55, 62, 67
20 1, 17, 23, 29, 33, 39, 52, 72
Important Information for Physics 20700 CD, CD2, CD3, CD4, CD5 students:
Course Objectives: Students are expected to understand the basic physics involved in mechanics (the study of motion and its causes) and in thermodynamics (the study of heat and work) that is needed for science and engineering. The emphasis will be on analytical reasoning and problem-solving skills. A list of course objectives is given below.
Reading Assignment: The text material that will be covered in class each day is listed on the Class schedule. You should read the indicated sections in the textbook before coming to class. Note that we will cover one or two chapters of the text every week. Solutions of some illustrative examples will be presented in lecture. You can try them before coming to class!
Homework: Homework problems are taken from the textbook and selected problems will be submitted online using WileyPlus one week after the chapter is finished in lecture. Late homework receives at most 50% credit. See note on WileyPlus below.
Blackboard: Course materials will be posted on BLACKBOARD. They will be in the CONTENT folder. These include lecture notes, solutions to homework assignments, exams and solutions, and supplementary material.
Grades: Student performance will be based on the following components:
exams (3 midterms + final) 80%
homework assignments 10%
lab reports (7) 10%
Note that attendance will be taken at every class. Also, class participation is essential.
Exams: There will be three midterm exams (75 min.) and a final exam (135 min.) that counts the same as two midterm exams. No exam grades will be dropped and no make-ups will be given except in the case of documented illness or other emergency.
Labs: The Physics Department Lab manual is available on line at www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/physics/LabMan/. There are seven labs to be completed during the semester; see the schedule on the next page. Lab reports must be submitted at the beginning of the following lab period. Note that the grade of incomplete (INC) will be assigned for Physics 20700 if all seven lab reports have not been submitted by the required dates.
As detailed in your lab section, attendance and participation in all lab sessions and completion of associated lab reports is required to pass the course. Your grade in the lab sessions will comprise 10% of your grade for the course. In addition, material covered in the lab sessions may appear on the midterms and final.
In the case of repeating a physics course, lab grades are not carried over to subsequent semesters. If you repeat the class for any reason you are also required to repeat the labs. They are not considered a separate course as they are not listed as such in the CCNY bulletin.
Recitations: Each week there will be either a lab or a recitation. The lab TA will be responsible EVERY week to teach the lab alternating with the recitation at the time and in the same room that is scheduled for the lab. Intro labs/recitations begin the week of August 27. The lab/recitation for Intro Physics 207 are mandatory for students to attend. TAs are responsible for both lab and recitation for the assigned section: TAs will take attendance for recitations just as they do for the labs.
Extra help: Students can obtain extra help in this course by meeting with me either during my office hours in MR311C or at other mutually agreeable times. A math/physics tutoring lab can be found in MR418S. You are encouraged and expected to take advantage of all of these opportunities.
Effort required: Don’t underestimate the amount of effort required for you to succeed in this course. Many students, in particular those who have not taken a previous course in physics, will need to spend 5-10 hours per week, every week, studying physics and doing the assigned homework problems, in addition to the time spent in lecture, lab and recitation (6 hours per week).
Academic Integrity: Academic dishonesty is prohibited in the City University of New York and is punishable by penalties, including failing grades, suspension, and expulsion. For more details see http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/standards/upload/academicintegrity.pdf
Course objectives: After successfully completing this course, students should be able to:
1. Recognize and use SI units and be able to use vectors and their components.
2. Understand the relationships between position, velocity, acceleration and time in motion.
3. Understand the concepts of force and equilibrium and their relation to Newton’s laws of motion.
4. Understand and apply the concepts of work and energy, including kinetic and potential energy; understand and be able to use the principle of conservation of energy.
5. Understand and apply the concepts of momentum and impulse; understand and be able to use the principle of conservation of momentum.
6. Understand how to describe the rotation of physical objects; understand the concept of torque as applied to the equilibrium of objects.
7. Understand gravitational interactions and their relationship to satellite motion and Kepler’s laws.
8. Understand the phenomenon of simple harmonic motion.
9. Understand and apply the basic principles of fluid mechanics as applied to buoyancy and fluid flow.
10. Understand the properties of temperature and heat.
11. Understand and apply the first and second laws of thermodynamics involving work, heat and internal energy.
WileyPlus: We will be using WileyPlus for submitting homework. Use the promo code CNY01. The site can be accessed by using the following URL addresses:
Section URL
CD www.wileyplus.com/class/657621
CD2 www.wileyplus.com/class/ 657622
CD3 www.wileyplus.com/class/ 657623
CD4 www.wileyplus.com/class/ 657624
CD5 www.wileyplus.com/class/ 657628
CD6 www.wileyplus.com/class/ 657631
CD7 www.wileyplus.com/class/ 657636
CD8 www.wileyplus.com/class/ 657638
You should be able to purchase the WileyPlus license and loose-leaf binder at a reduced price by registering at these URL addresses.
Lab times and Instructors:
Phys 20700 CD M 10:00-11:50 AM Eskil Andersen eskil.andersen@gmail.com
Phys 20700 CD2 M 2:00-3:50 PM Divya Matta dmatta@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Phys 20700 CD3 Tu 10:00-11:50 AM Sara Abedi sabedi@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Phys 20700 CD4 Tu 2:00-3:50 PM Francesca Arese Lucini fareselucini@ccny.cuny.edu
Phys 20700 CD5 W 10:00-11:50 AM Rezlind Bushati rezlind_bushati@msn.com
Lab Experiments
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Expt. 1 Measurements
Expt. 2 Force tables/Vectors
Expt. 3 Measuring little g
Expt. 4 Centripetal force
Expt. 5 Linear momentum
Expt. 6 Simple harmonic oscillation
Expt. 7 Buoyancy
Each student must bring his/her own calculator, ruler and protractor when such is required. Each student must bring the printed experiment, graph paper and additional blank paper to each lab session. These are available at: http://www.ccny.cuny.edu/physics/20700labmanual.cfm. All lab reports must include the cover page provided during the lab session. |
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