Fall 2023; Online version
Prof. Andrew W.
Steiner; South College room 103
Subject to change,
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TAs: Priyanka Das and Josiah Elliott
CRN: 53676
Physics 221 is a 4 credit-hour, introductory physics course with laboratories designed for asynchronous online delivery. Students do not attend formal lectures or lab sessions at fixed times, but they have to adhere to a strict course schedule.
| Online material | Textbook sections | Work to be completed | Due date |
| Introduction | |||
| Position and displacement | 2.1,2.2 | Assign. 1 | Aug. 31 |
| Speed, velocity, and acceleration | 2.3-2.8 | HW 1, Lab 1, Discussion 1 | Sep. 5 |
| Newton's 1st and 2nd Laws of Motion | 4.1,4.2 | Assign. 2 | Sep. 7 |
| Weight, Newton's 3rd law | 4.3,4.4 | HW 2, Lab 2, Discussion 2 | Sep. 11 |
| Projectile motion, Hooke's law | 3.1-3.5 | Assign. 3 | Sep. 14 |
| Friction, drag, circular motion | 5.1,5.2 | HW 3, Lab 3 (delayed until Sep. 21), Discusssion 3 | Sep. 18 |
| Work, kinetic, and potential energy | 7.1-7.3 | Assign. 4 | Sep. 21 |
| Conservation of energy, power | 7.4-7.8 | HW 4, Lab 4, Discussion 4 | Sep. 25 |
| Momentum and impulse | 8.1-8.2 | Assign. 5 | Sep. 28 |
| Conservation of momentum | 8.3-8.7 | HW 5, Lab 5, Discussion 5 | Oct. 2 |
| Rotational kinematics and dynamics | 10.1-10.3 | Assign. 6 | Oct. 5 |
| Fall break | Oct. 9-10 | ||
| Rotational energy and angular momentum | 10.4,10.5 | HW 6, Lab 6, Discssion 6 | Oct. 11 |
| Exam 1 | Oct. 16 | ||
| Static fluids, pressure, and buoyancy | 11.1-11.6 | Assign. 7 | Oct. 23 |
| Pumps, surface tension | 11.7-11.9 | HW 7, Lab 7, Discussion 7 | Oct. 27 |
| Fluid dynamics, ideal fluids | 12.1-12.3 | Assign. 8 | Oct. 30 |
| Fluid dynamics, viscous fluids | 12.4-12.6 | HW 8, Lab 8, Discussion 8 | Nov. 2 |
| Temperature and Heat | 13.1-13.3 | Assign. 9 | Nov. 6 |
| Thermal properties of matter | 14.1-14.7 | HW 9, Lab 9, Discussion 9 | Nov. 9 |
| The laws of thermodynamics | 15.1,15.2 | Assign. 10 | Nov. 13 |
| Devices, entropy | 15.3-15.7 | HW 10, Lab 10, Discussion 10 | Nov. 17 |
| Oscillations | 16.1-16.5 | Assign. 11 | Nov. 20 |
| Thanksgiving | Nov. 23-24 | ||
| Mechanical waves | 16.7-16.11 | HW 11, Lab 11, Discussion 11 | Nov. 27 |
| Sound waves | 17.1-17.3 | Assign. 12 | Nov. 30 |
| The Doppler effect | 17.4,17.5 | HW 12, Lab 12, Discussion 12 | Dec. 4 |
| Test 2 | Dec. 8 |
(preliminary)
| A | 90 and above |
| A- | 87 - 90 |
| B+ | 83 - 87 |
| B | 80 - 83 |
| B- | 77 - 80 |
| C+ | 73 - 77 |
| C | 70 - 73 |
| C- | 67 - 70 |
| D+ | 63 - 67 |
| D | 60 - 63 |
| F | below 60 |
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