GENERAL COLLEGE PHYSICS HOME PAGE
Prof. Walter L. Wimbush
I. Syllabus
A. Fall 201 Summer 201
Spring 201
B.202
Spring 202
Textbook web Page: Physics , 2nd ed, Giambattista, Richardson, Richardson McGraw Hill
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/giancoli/
<> A. 201: Chapter
1,2,3: Chapter
4,5,6 Chpter
7,8,9 Chapter 10
Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15
Homework
Solutions: can be found on BlackBoard
A web page with tutorial worked out solution for several problems includes audio: http://www.usask.ca/physics/physics111/
I am placing A CD-ROM
textbook in the library which will give tutorial help..It is
very good
and is easy to use.
Core concepts in College
Physics by Saunders (it comes with
three CD)
II. Sample Exams for
the final exam look at #4 and #5 vibrations, waves, sound,
heat,
thermodynamics
1: metric system, motion, projectiles power
point Lectures:
2: Newton's
Laws,
Circular
motion,
Work
& Energy
3: Momentum,
Rotational Motion, Torques & Equilibrium
4: Fluids,
Vibrations
&
Waves,
Sound
5: Heat,
Thermodynamics
201
Lab Procedures: sample of lab data:
Newton's Law
Sample
Formal Lab report
B. 202:
Summer 202
Lecture:
1. stat electricity
2. electric
Potential 3. Ohm's Law 4. Magnetism
optics
6.
wave
optics
7. special
theory
relativity 8. intro
to quantum
Nuclear
Lecture
9.
atoms
and molecules 10. nuclear
part I 11. nuclear
part II
202 Lab Procedures:
Homework: Chapt
16: 7, 11,12,
18,19,
25,
26, 28, 34,36,40,
41,
51,
58
Chapt
20 Chapt
24
Chapt
28
Chapt 17:
2, 8, 11,
16, 22,
22c, 25,
28, 37, 44, 59
Chapt
21 Chapt
25
Chapt
29
Chapt 18: 3, 13,19,
9, 29, 41
Chapt
22 Chapt
26
Chapt
30
Chapt 19: 1, 7,
17, 20,
29, 34,
Chapt
23
Chapt
27
Chapt 31
Relativity calculation pages from lecture
Sample Questions for Final Exam
1: Static
Electricity,
Electric
Potential
&
Capacitors
2: Electric
Current
&
Resistor
Circuits,
3: Magnets, induced
voltages, Alternating Current, Electromagnetic waves
link to
levitating
frogs etc..
4: Mirrors
&
Lenses,
wave
optics,
optical instruments
5: Relativity,
Intro.
to Quantum, Atomic, Molecules and
Solids,
Radioactivity, Fission, Fusion
III. Lab Report
SIMULATIONS
USED FOR EXPERIMENTS USING INTERNET
IV. Links to the Web (neat
simulations
and interesting information)
link to web page illustrating wave behaviour : superposition, doppler
effect, tocoma narrows
bridge falling down
Electromagnetic Wave
longitudinal
& transverse waves
doppler effect
Polarization of light
holography