Home page for General Physics 121-02

Fall 2009

Here is a copy of the course syllabus

Office Hours: Thursdays 10:30-12:00, Fridays 1:00-2:30, Workman 309.

Breaking News: Office hours for the week of Nov 16-20:

Thursday 10:30-12. No office hours on Friday.

No recitations for the week of Nov 23-25. We will have class on Nov 25.

Click here to see Stephen Colbert's report on the Large Hadron Collider (select "Big Bang Theory" video)

You can view/download pdf's for lectures in the following list:

• August 26, 2009 (Intro, course logistics) pdf file

• August 28, 2009 (Chap 2: 1-D kinematics) pdf file

• August 31, 2009 (Chap 2: 1-D kinematics) pdf file

• Sept 2, 2009 (Chap 2: examples of motion with constant acceleration) pdf file

• Sept 4, 2009 (Chap 3: vectors and 2-D motion) pdf file

• Sept 9, 2009 (Chap 3: examples of 2-D motion with constant acceleration) pdf file

• Sept 11, 2009 (Chap 4: Forces and motion) pdf file

• No class meeting Sept. 14

• Sept 21, 2009 (Chap 5: Applying Newton's Laws) pdf file

• Sept 23, 2009 (Chap 5: Applying Newton's Laws) pdf file

• Sept 25, 2009 (Chap 5: Applying Newton's Laws) pdf file

• Sept 28, 2009 (Chap 6: Work and Energy) pdf file

• Sept 30, 2009 (Chap 6: Work and Energy) pdf file

• Oct 2, 2009 (Chap 6: Work and Energy) pdf file

• Oct 7, 2009 (Chap 7: Potential Energy) pdf file

• Oct 9, 2009 (Chap 7: Conservation of Energy) pdf file

• Oct 12, 2009 (Chaps 7&9: Potential Energy Curves; Center of Mass) pdf file

• Oct 14, 2009 (Chap 9: Momentum, Impulse, Collisions) pdf file

• Oct 16, 2009 (Chap 9: Momentum, Impulse, Collisions) pdf file

• Oct 19, 2009 (Chap 10: Rotation) pdf file

• Oct 21, 2009 (Chap 10: Rotation) pdf file

• Oct 26, 2009 (Chap 10 & 11: Rotation and Angular Momentum) pdf file

• Oct 28, 2009 (Chap 11: Angular Momentum) pdf file

• Oct 30, 2009 (Chap 11: More angular mo) pdf file

• Nov 2, 2009 (Chap 8: Gravitation) pdf file

• Nov 4, 2009 (Chap 8: Gravitational Potential Energy) pdf file

• Nov 6, 2009 (Chap 8: Gravitational Potential Energy; Exam 2 review) pdf file

• Nov 11, 2009 (Test discussion; Chap 13: Simple Harmonic Motion) pdf file

• Nov 13, 2009 (Chap 13: Harmonic Motion) pdf file

• Nov 16, 2009 (Chap 13&14: Harmonic Motion and Waves) pdf file

• Nov 18, 2009 (Chap 14: Waves on a string) pdf file

• Nov 20, 2009 (Chap 14: More waves) pdf file