Course Webpage for PHYS-205A-002 (2023 Fall) at SIU--Carbondale

Course Webpage for
PHYS 205A-002: University Physics (2023 Fall)
School of Physics and Applied Physics, Southern Illinois University--Carbondale
Last updated: Dec 15, 2023. (This page is no more maintained.)

General information:
- Instructor: K. V. Shajesh (Office: Neckers 491, Tel.: +1-618-453-5212)
- Class meetings: MWF 2:00-2:50 PM, in Neckers 440.
- Office hours for instructor: MWF 3:00-4:00 PM; TWR 11:00 AM-12:00 PM.
- Syllabus for the course. The Provost Office has put together a Syllabus Attachment to assist the student. It lists and provides web links for many elements that are important for a student.
Resources:
- Assigned Textbook:
- Lectures
  - Lecture recordings from 2021 Spring as a YouTube Playlist
  - Formal Lecture Notes: This is not a substitute for a textbook.
- Quizzes and Homework
  - Equation Sheet: While working on homework you can use any reference, however, aim towards limiting your reference to the contents in the Equation Sheet.
  - Submission of Quizzes and Homework will use SIU MyCourses.
- Exams
  - Old Exams are available in Past course webpages: [2023S, 2022F, 2022S, 2021S, 2018S, 2017F, 2016F, 2015F, 2014F]
  - Equation Sheet
- Miscellaneous
  - Errata: List of errors spotted in videos and hand-written notes has been collected here.
  - Physics Help Desk Schedule. Contact Shannon Ketteman (mari.ketteman@siu.edu) at the Physics department office for updated information.
  - Tutorial: PHYS-206A serves as a Tutorial Session for PHYS-205A. Concurrent enrollment in PHYS-206A is recommended.
  - Grades will be posted on SIU MyCourses (password protected).

COURSE CONTENT: WEEKS 01-04

Mathematical concepts:
1. Units and dimensions: Conversion of units
2. Dimensional analysis
3. Significant digits
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 01
Quizzes: Q-0821 and Q-0823.
Examples in Chapter 1 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 1 of Textbook.
Powers of ten: A 1977 educational film describing the relative scale of the universe, by Charles and Ray Eames.
Motion in one dimension:
1. Time, position, velocity, acceleration
2. Graphical analysis of motion
3. Using concepts from calculus in analysis of motion
4. Motion with uniform velocity
5. Motion with uniform acceleration (free fall)
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 02
Quizzes: Q-0825, Q-0828, and Q-0830.
Examples in Chapter 2 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 2 of Textbook.
Feathers and bowling ball drop (BBC Video)
Vector algebra:
1. Vectors and scalars
2. Magnitude and direction of a vector
3. Rectangular components of a vector
4. Addition and subtraction of vectors
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 03
Quizzes: Q-0901 and Q-0906.
Examples in Chapter 3 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 3 of Textbook.
What is a vector? by David Huynh (YouTube video, TED-Ed)
Motion in two dimensions:
1. Projectile motion
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 04A
Quizzes: Q-0908, Q-0911, and Q-0913.
Examples in Sections 4.1 to 4.4 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 4 of Textbook.
Components of velocity in projectile motion (National Science Foundation, USA, YouTube video)
Monkey and hunter (National STEM Centre, UK, YouTube Video)
Galileo's ship experiment (YouTube Video)
Midterm Exam No. 01 and Solutions (September 18, Monday, in class).

COURSE CONTENT: WEEKS 04-08
Galilean relativity:
1. Relative velocity
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 04B
Quizzes: Q-0915.
Examples in Sections 4.6 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 4 (Section 4.6) of Textbook.
Frames of Reference: The richness and complexity of the seemingly simple idea of relativity is nicely captured in this 26 minute educational film, titled Frames of reference, released in 1960, starring Profs. Ivey and Hume, and produced by Richard Leacock.
Kinematics of circular motion:
1. Centripetal acceleration
2. Radial versus tangential acceleration
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 04C
Quizzes: Q-0920 and Q-0922.
Examples in Sections 4.4 and 4.5 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 4 (Sections 4.4 and 4.5) of Textbook.
Astronauts and G-forces (Canadian Space Agency, YouTube Video)
Gravitropism (European Space Agency, YouTube Video)
Newton's laws of motion:
1. Mass, force, acceleration, Newton's laws of motion
2. Gravitational force
3. Normal force
4. Tension force
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 05
Quizzes: Q-0925, Q-0927, Q-0929, and Q-1002.
Examples in Sections 5.1 to 5.7 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 5 (Sections 5.1 to 5.7) of Textbook.
Inertia (Arbor Scientific, YouTube Video)
Horse and cart (Samuel Clausen, YouTube Video, Illustration of Newton's third law of motion)
What does a spring scale measure? (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, YouTube Video, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
Water level during motion (Mr. Woodward, YouTube Video)
Helium balloon in motion (Imagination Station in Toledo, Ohio, YouTube Video)
Newton's laws of motion (continued)
1. Frictional force at an interface
2. Drag forces in a fluid
3. Forces during circular motion
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 06
Quizzes: Q-1004, Q-1006, Q-1009, and Q-1011.
Examples in Section 5.8 and Chapter 6 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 5 (Section 5.8) and Chapter 6 of Textbook.
Friction - Good or Bad? (Curiosity Show, YouTube Video)
Banking of roads (3RDFlix, YouTube Video)
Helium balloon in motion (Imagination Station in Toledo, Ohio, YouTube Video)
Low Reynolds number flows (by Sir Geoffrey Taylor, Cambridge University, Film Notes)
Midterm Exam No. 02 and Solutions (October 13, Friday, in class).

COURSE CONTENT: WEEKS 09-12
Energy
1. Scalar (dot) product
2. Work done by a force
3. Kinetic energy
4. Potential energy
5. Force exerted by a linear spring
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 07
Quizzes: Q-1016, Q-1018, Q-1020, and Q-1023.
Examples in Chapter 7 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 7 of Textbook.
Perpetual motion machine (TED-Ed, YouTube Video)
Aircraft catapult technology (Interesting Engineering, YouTube Video)
Potential energy diagram
1. Conservative force
2. Relation between force and potential energy for a conservative force
3. Stability analysis
4. Power
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 08
Quizzes: Q-1025 and Q-1027.
Examples in Chapter 8 of Textbook, and sections 7.8 and 7.9.
Problems at end of Chapter 7 and Chapter 8 of Textbook,
Inverted pendulum (Steve Mould, YouTube Video)
Linear momentum
1. Impluse
2. Linear momentum
3. Inelastic collisions
4. Elastic collisions
5. Center of mass
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 09
Quizzes: Q-1030, Q-1101, and Q-1103.
Examples in Chapter 9 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 9 of Textbook.
Midterm Exam No. 03 and Solutions (November 6, Monday, in class).

COURSE CONTENT: WEEKS 12-16
Rotational kinematics
1. Vector product
2. Rigid body, Translational versus rotational motion
3. Rotational displacement versus translational displacement
4. Rotational velocity, rotational acceleration
5. Tangential acceleration versus centripetal acceleration
6. Motion of a perfectly rolling wheel
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 10A
Quizzes: Q-1108 and Q-1110.
Examples in Chapter 10 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 10 of Textbook.
Rotational dynamics
1. Torque
2. Static equilibrium
3. Rotational inertia (moment of inertia)
4. Newton's law of rotational motion
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 10B
Quizzes: Q-1113, Q-1115, and Q-1117.
Examples in Chapter 10 of Textbook.
Problems at end of Chapter 10 of Textbook.
Rotational energy
1. Rotational kinetic energy
2. Rotational work
3. Rotational work-kinetic energy theorem
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Refer Homework No. 11 below.
Quizzes: Q-1127.
Examples in Chapter 10.7 and 10.8 of Textbook.
Angular momentum
1. Angular momentum
2. Conservation of angular momentum
3. Collisions
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 11
Quizzes: Q-1129.
Examples in Chapter 11 of Textbook.
Newton's law of gravitation
1. Gravitational field versus gravitational force
2. Gravitational potential versus gravitational potential energy
3. Kepler's laws of planetary motion
Resources:
Examples covered in classroom lectures.
Homework No. 12
Quizzes: Q-1201, Q-1204, and Q-1206.
Examples in Chapter 13 of Textbook.
(Preview of) Final Exam
Final Exam and Solutions
Final Exam (December 15, Friday, 2:45-4:45 PM, in class).

More information:

Evaluation:

Quizzes 10%

Homework 30%

Midterm Exams (3x15%) 45%

Final Exam 15%

Exam schedule:

Midterm Exam 1 --- September 18 (Monday, in class)

Midterm Exam 2 --- October 13 (Friday, in class)

Midterm Exam 3 --- November 6 (Monday, in class)

Final Exam --- December 15 (Friday, 2:45-4:45 PM, in Neckers 440)

Last updated on Dec 15, 2023 (and is no more maintained) by K. V. Shajesh (kvshajesh@gmail.com).

Midterm Exam 1	---	September 18 (Monday, in class)
Midterm Exam 2	---	October 13 (Friday, in class)
Midterm Exam 3	---	November 6 (Monday, in class)
Final Exam	---	December 15 (Friday, 2:45-4:45 PM, in Neckers 440)

Quizzes	10%
Homework	30%
Midterm Exams (3x15%)	45%
Final Exam	15%