Physics 101 Information

The topics covered include particle kinematics and dynamics; conservation of energy and linear momentum; rotational kinematics; rigid body dynamics; conservation of angular momentum; simple harmonic motion; the static and dynamics of fluids.

"Fundamentals of Physics", by Halliday, Resnick and Walker, Fifth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc (1997).

The course material will be presented in lectures (3 hrs. per week). Problem solving techniques will be shown in recitations (1 hr. per week). The understanding of concepts learned in the lectures will be strengthened by laboratory work (3 hrs. per week). Lab sessions will start during the second week of the semester. Solutions to the homework problems will be posted on the Physics 101 notice board according to the posted schedule. Office hours (OH) of the instructors may better be utilized for clarifying the course material and developing problem solving skills on a regular basis. Please see the master list of OH for identifying the instructor who is available at a particular time.

Attendance in lectures, recitations and labs is compulsory. It will be enforced and evaluated according to the current university regulations. A DN grade shall be given to the student who has 3 absences in labs or 12 unexcused absences in (lectures + recitations) or the combination of both. Student who has valid excuse for his absence must present officially authorized document to his instructor no later than one week following his resumption to the classes. Only those students who have less than 6 absences in the whole semester shall be promoted to upper grade if they reach the borderline between two grades (for example F to D or B to B+ etc.).

The class score shall be derived from a combination of homework (5%) and quizzes/class test (15%). The quizzes and class test will be of problem solving type. Each section shall have the same average (12 out of 20) in order to ensure fairness in grading.

The lab score shall be derived from a combination of lab reports/quizzes, and lab final exam. Each section shall have the same average (14 out of 20).

All exams will be of multiple choice type. A sheet of important formulae (not definitions) will be provided in all exams in order to discourage blind memorization.

Student who has missed an exam with valid excuse must present officially authorized document to the course coordinator within 3 days after the exam for a make-up. If not, the score for that exam will be zero. Personal excuses are not welcomed.

Week

Date

Topics

Chapter

Sections

Homework

31 Jan.

03 Feb.

Units, Changing units

Length, time, mass

1-D motion, Displacement, Velocity

1-D motion with constant acceleration, Free falls.

1-3

4-6

1-4

5-8

8, 21, 37

10, 19, 28, 87

10 Feb.

Vectors and scalars.

Adding & Multiplying Vectors

Review ( ch 1-3)

1-4

5-7

24, 47, 53

Wednesday – 14 Feb. 2001 - Last day for dropping courses without permanent record

17 Feb.

2 & 3D motion with constant acceleration.

Projectile motion.

Uniform circular motion; Relative velocity.

1-3

4-6

7-9

9, 15, 27, 63, 83

24 Feb.

Newton's first and second laws.

Newton's third law, Applications

Id al-Adha vacation (28 Feb. – 11 March 2001)

1-5

6-8

28, 48, 58

12 Mar.

Friction

Circular Motion

1-2

26, 37, 58

Saturday – 17 Mar. 2001 – First Major Exam (Chapters 1 – 6) 7:00 – 9:00 PM

17 Mar.

Review (ch 1 – 6)

Kinetic energy & Work

Work done by Weight, Spring

1-3

4-6

17, 28, 37, 45

24 Mar.

Power.

Potential energy.

Conservation of energy.

1-4

5-7

10, 24, 44, 81

Wednesday – 28 Mar. 2001 - Last day for dropping courses with grade of "W"

31 Mar.

02 Apr.

Center of mass

Linear momentum and its conservation

Review ( ch 7-9)

1-3

4-6

5, 17, 31, 43

07 Apr.

Collisions in 1-D

Collisions in 2-D

Rotational motion.

1-3

4-6

1-4

21, 28, 43, 69

6, 56, 63, 83

14 Apr.

Torque

Work and rotational kinetic energy

Rolling

5-8

9,10

1-3

11, 23,40, 65

Wednesday – 18 Apr. 2001 - Last day for withdrawal from all courses with grade of "W"

21 Apr.

Angular momentum & torque

Conservation of angular momentum

Equilibrium

4-6

5-8

1-3

20, 32, 40

28 Apr.

02 May

Elasticity

Review (ch 10-13)

Review (ch 7-13)

4-6

Wednesday – 02 May 2001 – Second Major Exam (Chapters 7 – 13) 7:00 – 9:00 PM

05 May

Newton’s law of Gravitation

Gravitational potential energy.

Kepler's laws, Satellites

1-3

4-6

7,8

32, 43, 80

12 May

Fluids

Archemedes principle

Fluid dynamics, Bernoulli's equation.

1-4

5-8

9,10

20, 40, 55, 73

19 May

23,26

Oscillations

Energy in SHM

Review (ch 1 – 16)

1-3

4-7

16, 45, 59