PHY 2130 -
GENERAL PHYSICS
Semester: Winter 2004
Welcome to PHY 2130 (General Physics I). Here you'll find all
the information you need about this course. Below is some general info;
my lecture notes can be found at the bottom of this page.
Lecturer
Prof. Alexey A. Petrov ,
Room 260 Physics Building,
Phone: 313-577-2739, or 313-577-2720 (for messages)
e-mail: apetrov@physics.wayne.edu
, Web:
http://www.physics.wayne.edu/~apetrov/
Office Hours:
Monday 5:00-6:00 PM, at Oakland center
Tuesday 2:00-3:00 PM, on main campus, Physics Research Building, Room
260,
or by appointment.
Course Information:
Laboratory:
The laboratory is a separate part of the course, with its own grades
and procedures. These will be covered by your lab instructor. The
experiments provide tangible demonstration and reinforcement
of the ideas presented during the lectures. In addition, the laboratory
is meant to show the importance of experiments in science. Your
laboratory Manual is to be purchased separately at the University
Bookstore. For further details please inquire with Dr. Scott Payson at
313-577-3280.
Academic Dishonesty:
If you are willing to put forth the effor
t, you should have no problem earning a respectable grade. Cheating and
other forms of dishonesty will not be tolerated. Anyone found
cheating on any activity will receive a zero for that part of their
grade and suffer the possibility of receiving a failing grade for
the course.
Students with disabilities:
If you have a physical or mental impairment that may interfere with
your ability to successfully complete the requirements of this course,
please contact the Education Accessibility Services (EAS) in
Room 583 of the Student Center Building to discuss appropriate
accommodations on a confidential basis. EAS can also be reached by
phone at 313-577-1851.
Lecture Notes
Here you can find my lecture notes (as MS PowerPoint presentation files
or Adobe Acrobat PDF files). Normally, these notes will appear here in
the afternoon of the next day after the lecture. You need to have
Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your
computer. See note at the bottom of this page.
Lecture 1 [January 12] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 2 [January 26] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Web-based visualizations for lecture
2:
[position vs. time] [velocity
vs. time]
[acceleration vs.time] (Microsoft Explorer or Netscape 4.x)
Movies for lecture 2: [position-time]
[acceleration and velocity]
Lecture 3 [February 2] (
PowerPoint file
(.ppt) or Adobe
Acrobat file (.pdf) )
Web-based visualizations for lecture 3: [cannon
problem] [battleship
problem] (Microsoft Explorer or Netscape 4.x)
Lecture 4 [February 9] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Web-based visualizations for lecture 4: [connected
bodies problem] [friction
and inclined surface problem] (Microsoft Explorer or Netscape 4.x)
Lecture 5 [February 16] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe
Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Web-based visualizations for lecture 5: [ping-pong
ball] [billiard
balls] (Microsoft Explorer or Netscape 4.x)
Lecture 6 [February 23] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 7 [March 1] ( PowerPoint
file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf)
)
Lecture 8 [March 8] ( PowerPoint
file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf)
)
Lecture 9 [March 22] ( PowerPoint
file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf)
)
Lecture 10 [March 29] (
PowerPoint
file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf)
)
Lecture 11 [April 5] (
PowerPoint
file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf)
)
Web-based visualizations for lecture
11:
[simple harmonic motion] (Microsoft Explorer or Netscape 4.x)
Lecture 12 [April 12] (
PowerPoint
file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf)
)
Web-based visualizations for
lecture 12:
[resonance] [beating
waves] (Microsoft Explorer or Netscape 4.x)
Lecture 13 [April 19] (
PowerPoint
file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf)
)
Web-based visualizations for lecture
13:
[optics bench] (Microsoft Explorer or Netscape 4.x)
Lecture 14 [April 26] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Additional material:
Here you can find additional material (as MS Word documents or Adobe
Acrobat PDF files) that could be useful for you.
Webassign
Info: [info]
Last Year's (sample) Exams:
[Exam 1]
[Answers] [Exam 2]
[Answers] [Exam 3]
[Answers] [Final Exam]
Exams:
[Exam 1 answers] [Exam 2 answers]
Class
performance:
[Class performance midsemester]
Homework solutions by assignment: [1.doc]
[1.pdf]
[2.doc]
[2.pdf]
[3.doc]
[3.pdf]
[5.doc]
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[12.doc]
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[14.doc]
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[15.doc]
[15.pdf]
NOTE:
In order to view lectures on-line
(not only for this but also for many other courses) you have to
have either Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on
your computer. While Microsoft PowerPoint is commercially-available
software, Adobe Acrobat Reader is available free of charge (most of the
computer systems come with Acrobat Reader already installed).
In case that Adobe Acrobat Reader is not installed on your system, you
can download it (free of charge) from the following web address:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Please contact
your system administrator if you have problems installing this software.
Web-based visualaizations are based on
PhysLet technology (interactive Java applications). You need to have
Java enabled on your computer. At this time, PhysLets can only be
viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer. These problems were developed
at Sir Wilfred
Grenfell College and are based on Physlets developed by Davidson
College .
Movies are copyryright of Brooks Cole Publishing (a division of Thomson
Learning).