PHYS 101 Summer A 2018 Course Schedule
| Date | Dues | Content from Textbook |
Topics with Video Links | Mastery Quiz | Know | Understand | Practice Problems |
| May 14 | Chapter 1 | Energy, Scientific Method, Feynman on Scientific Method, Scope of Physics, and Measurement. | MQ1 | Know1 | Und1 | PP1 | |
| May 15 | MQ1 | Chapter 2 |
Speed, Velocity, Acceleration, Graphing Motion:
Position VS. Time,
Velocity VS. Time, and
Kinematic Equations. |
MQ2 | Know2 | Und2 | PP2 |
| May 16 | Hwk1 | Chapter 3 | Acceleration due to gravity, Falling Objects: Aristotle VS. Galileo, Reaction Time, and Projectile Motion. Simulation in Projectile Motion. | MQ3 | Know3 | Und3 | PP3 |
| May 17 | MQ2, Hwk2 | Chapter 4 | History: Aristotle, Galileo, & Newton; Newton's Laws of motion, Mass VS. Weight, and Free-Body diagram. | MQ4 | Know4 | Und4 | PP4 |
| May 18 | Hwk3 | Chapter 5 | Circular Motion: Centripetal Force, Planetary Motion: Kepler's laws & Newton's law of universal gravitation. | MQ5 | Know5 | Und5 | PP5 |
| May 20 | Essay on Global Warming |
Essay on Global Warming [at least five pages (double-spaced)]. Use contents from this power surge video, PBS Global Warming video, pages 2-3 (chap 1), and the internet. Essay should cover the following areas: Causes, Evidences, Effects, Consequences, and our response to control it. List your references at the end. |
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| May 21 | Hwk4 | Chapter 6 | Work, Power, Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy: Gravitational & Elastic, Conservation of Energy, and Energy Transformations. Horsepower. | MQ6 | Know6 | Und6 | PP6 |
| May 22 | MQ3, Hwk5 | Chapter 7 | Momentum, Impulse, Conservation of Momentum, and Collisions. | MQ7 | Know7 | Und7 | PP7 |
| May 23 | MQ4, Hwk6 | Chapter 8 | Rotational Motion: Torque, Rotational Inertia, Center of Mass, Angular Momentum, & Conservation of Angular Momentum. | MQ8 | Know8 | Und8 | PP8 |
| May 24 | MQ5 | ||||||
| May 25 | Mid Term Exam | MID TERM EXAM, Chapters 1-5, 9AM-11:59 PM. | |||||
| May 26 | MQ6 | ||||||
| May 27 | Hwk7 | ||||||
| May 28 | MQ7, Hwk8 | Chapter 10 |
Temperature, Heat, Specific Heat, Calorimetry, Methods of heat transfer, Gas Laws, and Heat Engines. | MQ10 | Know10 | Und10 | PP10 |
| May 29 | MQ8, Hwk9 | Chapter 12 | Electric Charge, Conductors & Insulators, Coulomb's law, Electric field, and Electric potential. | MQ12 | Know12 | Und12 | PP12 |
| May 30 | MQ10, Hwk10 | Chapter 13 | Electric Current, Resistance, Ohm's law, Electric circuits: Series & Parallel, Electric power & energy, DC vs.AC, Household circuits, and Cost of Electricity. | MQ13 (avoid q3 & q4) | Know13 | Und13 | PP13 |
| May 31 | MQ12, MQ13 | ||||||
| June 1 | Final Exam | Comprehensive | FINAL EXAM (Chapters 1-8, 10, 12,13): 9AM-11:59 PM. |