Lecture 1: Introduction (PPT)

    1. Scope of the course
    2. Measurement, units, conversion, and dimensional analysis
    3. One-dimensional kinematics with constant acceleration

    Lecture Demos:

    • Faster than gravity
    • Inclined plane with flashers
    • Equal time, equal distance drop

    Lecture 2: Review I (PPT)

    1. Gravity
    2. Vectors
    3. Introduction to 2D and 3D kinematics
    4. Independence of x and y motion

    Lecture Demos:

      • Penny & feather in vacuum
      • Two steel marbles dropping to aluminum plates
      • Cart on track that shoots marble up in the air
      • Shoot the monkey

    Lecture 3: Review II (PPT)

    1. Inertial reference frames
    2. Relative motion
    3. Uniform circular motion
    4. Polar coordinates
    5. Centripetal acceleration

    Lecture Demos:

      • Cart on track, which is on a track
      • Bulldozer on moving board
      • Tetherball
      • Ice table and dry ice puck on the end of a string pivoted in the center

    Lecture 4: Newton's Laws (PPT)

    1. Newton's First Law
    2. Newton's Second Law
    3. Forces
    4. Newton's Third Law

    Lecture Demos:

      • Rotating aluminum plate and ice pucks
      • Monkey in cart
      • Table cloth & dishes
      • Leaky cup drop
      • Cart with fan
      • 2 skateboards & rope
      • Fire extinguisher cart

    Lecture 5: Physics Tools (PPT)

    1. Free body diagrams
    2. Ropes and springs
    3. Tension
    4. Pulleys and pegs
    5. Springs

    Lecture Demos:

      • 2 skateboards and rope
      • Horizontal springs
      • Spring and string thing
      • Scale on a skate with hanging weights

    Lecture 6: Example Problems (PPT)

    1. Example problems (surprise)

    Lecture Demos:

      • Cart w/ acclerometer
      • Inclined plane with cart
      • Tetherball
      • Spin bucket of yellow water
      • Hot-Wheel track with bump

    Lecture 7: Friction (PPT)

    1. Kinetic friction
    2. Static friction

    Lecture Demos:

      • Pull suitcase across floor with rope & scale
      • Adjustable ramp with various sliding blocks
      • Wheel

    Lecture 8: Multi-Bodied Systems (PPT)

    1. Drag forces
    2. Terminal velocity
    3. Atwood's machine
    4. Multi-bodied systems

    Lecture Demos:

      • Parachute falls from electromagnet
      • Atwood's machine
      • Air-track with glider and hanging mass
      • Circular ice-table with rotating puck and hanging mass

    Lecture 9: Work and Energy I (PPT)

    1. Work of a constant force
    2. Dot product
    3. Kinetic energy
    4. Work/Kinetic Energy Theorem
    5. Work of a sum of forces

    Lecture Demos:

      • Wilberforce pendulum
      • Come-back can
      • Hair dryer and cart
      • Work done by pushing on wall

    Lecture 10: Work and Energy II (PPT)

    1. Work done by gravity
    2. Work done by a variable force
    3. Work done by springs

    Lecture Demos:

      • Timing of 3 falling objects
      • Textbook lifting
      • Large horizontal spring attached to desk

    Lecture 11: Work and Energy III (PPT)

    1. Work done by a variable force in 3D
    2. Newton's gravitational force
    3. Conservative forces
    4. Potential Energy
    5. Conservation of energy
    6. Non-conservative forces

    Lecture Demos:

      • Bowling ball pendulum to nose
      • Galileo's pendulum
      • Air track glider and hanging mass

    Lecture 12: Work and Energy IV (PPT)

    1. Example problems
    2. Vertical springs
    3. Power

    Lecture Demos:

      • Spring-shot of dry-ice puck
      • Roll ball around loop-the-loop
      • Vertical springs with assorted weights
      • Climbing ladder

    Lecture 13: Work and Energy V (PPT)

    1. Potential Energy and Force
    2. Potential Energy Diagrams
    3. Equilibrium
    4. System of Particles
    5. Center of mass
    6. Linear Momentum

    Lecture Demos:

      • Balance cone
      • Balancing birds
      • Spin connected masses on ice table
      • Baton with masses on ends
      • Wine bottle and wood block
      • Leaning tower of Pisa
      • Double cone
      • Finding center of mass of some odd shapes
      • Three pronged object
      • Two forks and a matchstick
      • Throw rubber pork chop
      • Pendulum cart

    Lecture 14: Momentum and Collisions I (PPT)

    1. Conservation of momentum
    2. Inelastic collisions in 1D
    3. Inelastic collisions in 2D
    4. Explosions
    5. Ballistic pendulum

    Lecture Demos:

      • Two pucks pulled with same force along ice table, one is rotating
      • Inelastic collision on airtrack
      • Ballistic pendulum
      • Rocket bottle

    Lecture 15: Momentum and Collisions II (PPT)

    1. Elastic collisions in 1D
    2. Center of mass reference frame
    3. Energy in collisions

    Lecture Demos:

      • Elastic collision on airtrack
      • Collision balls
      • Movie showing CM reference frame in elastic collision
      • Drop basketball with small ball on top

    Lecture 16: Momentum and Collisions III (PPT)

    1. Elastic collisions in 1D
    2. Nuclear scattering
    3. Rutherford backscattering
    4. Impulse

    Lecture Demos:

      • Magnetic pucks colliding elastically on ice table
      • Golf ball bouncing off bowling ball (hanging from ceiling).
      • Egg in sheet
      • Ball-block collisions

    Lecture 17: Rotational Motion I (PPT)

    1. Rotational Kinematics
    2. Rotational kinetic energy
    3. Moment of Inertia
    4. Parallel axis theorem

    Lecture Demos:

      • Spin round blackboard mounted vertically
      • Inertia rods
      • Different shapes to look at

    Lecture 18: Rotational Motion II (PPT)

    1. Rolling
    2. Rotational dynamics
    3. Torque
    4. Cross products
    5. Work and rotational motion

    Lecture Demos:

      • Roll different objects down a ramp
      • Big wrench and stuck bolts
      • Big flywheel & pulley to demonstrate torque and angular acceleration

    Lecture 19: Rotational Motion III (PPT)

    1. More on rolling
    2. Sliding to rolling
    3. Atwood's machine with massive pulley

    Lecture Demos:

      • Flywheel with weight
      • Roll bowling ball on floor
      • Atwoods machine with massive pulley

    Lecture 20: Statics I (PPT)

    1. Torque due to gravity
    2. Statics

    Lecture Demos:

      • Hang odd shapes and show torque due to gravity
      • Static truck on inclined plane showing forces
      • Suspended static beam
      • Torque condition for equilibrium
      • Ladder leaning against the wall

    Lecture 21: Statics II (PPT)

    1. More statics
    2. Example problems

    Lecture Demos:

      • Stability of triangles versus squares
      • Tacoma narrows bridge video
      • Fridge on truck
      • Giant yo-yo in static equilibrium

    Lecture 22: Angular Momentum I (PPT)

    1. Angular momentum about a fixed axis
    2. Angular momentum of a freely moving particle

    Lecture Demos:

      • Rolling chain
      • Drop wheel rim onto rotating stool
      • Student on stool with weights
      • Drop medicine ball from rotating stool

    Lecture 23: Angular Momentum II (PPT)

    1. General angular momentum
    2. Gyroscopic Motion

    Lecture Demos:

      • Circular ice table
      • Student with spinning wheel on rotating stool
      • Precession of gyroscope using bike wheel
      • Precession of a gyroscope

    Lecture 24: Simple Harmonic Motion (PPT)

    1. Simple Harmonic Motion.
    2. SHM for vertical springs
    3. SHM for the simple pendulum
    4. SHM for the rod pendulum

    Lecture Demos:

      • Horizontal compression spring
      • AVI movie
      • Shadow of rotating and oscillating balls
      • Vertical springs with weights
      • Simple pendulum (bowling ball)
      • Physical pendulum vs. simple pendulum
      • Excell demo

    Lecture 25: Simple Harmonic Motion II (PPT)

    1. Initial conditions for SHM
    2. General physical pendulum.
    3. Torsion pendulums
    4. Energy in SHM

    Lecture Demos:

      • Physical (odd shaped) pendulum
      • Hoola-hoop pendulum
      • Big torsion pendulum

    Lecture 26(PPT)

    1. Conceptual discussion of wave motion
    2. Wave properties
    3. Mathematical description
    4. Waves on a string

    Lecture Demos:

      • Transverse wave on rope.
      • Longitudinal wave on slinky.
      • Stadium (classroom) waves.
      • AVI movies.
      • Weight hanging from ceiling on wire.

    Lecture 27(PPT)

    1. Wave power and intensity
    2. Superposition
    3. Wave interference

    Lecture Demos:

      • AVI movies.
      • Sound generator

    Lecture 28 (PPT)

    1. The wave equation
    2. Example wave problems

    Lecture Demos:

      • AVI movies.

    Review (PPT)

    • Lots of Review Problems

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