Lecture: Rm 1217 11:30am-12:50pm M/W
Lab: Rm 1200 1:00-2:20pm M/W
Instructor: Dr. Joseph Mills
No office – but I can usually arrange a meeting on M/W before or after class.
Telephone: 281-334-7905
email: joseph.mills@sjcd.edu or jmills4@uh.edu
web site: http://www.uh.edu/~jmills2/sjcd.html
Course Description: Phys 1401 which covers Mechanics, and Thermodynamics (Heat) is the first semester of a one year course in College Physics taken by pre-med, pre-dentistry, pre-optometry, and other allied health science majors.
College Algebra – Math 1314
College Trigonometry - Math 1316
Serway & Faughn, College Physics, 6th ed.
Edmonds, et al., Cioffari’s Experiments in College Physics, 10th ed.
1 Measurement
7 Acceleration of Gravity
2 Addition of Vectors
9 Newton’s 2nd Law
8 Friction
5 The Ballistic Pendulum
10 Uniform Circular Motion
- Rotational Motion
3 Equilibrium of a Rigid Body
13 Archimedes’ Principle
15 Coefficient of Linear Expansion
Exam 1 – 2 Feb 05 (W) – Ch 1-3
Exam 2 – 2 Mar 05 (W) – Ch 4-6
Exam 3 – 6 Apl 05 (W) – Ch 7-9
Exam 4 (final) – 4 May 05 12:30-2:20pm
Last Day to WITHDRAW with a W is Apl 11.
Final Exam will be May 4 12:30-2:20pm.
Class Attendance: Students are required to regularly attend all lecture and lab periods. At the point a student is absent for 8.33% of the contact hours for unexcused reasons, the student may be withdrawn from the course.
Lecture Grade = average of 4 exam grades
(final = 2x weight of others, lowest exam grade dropped)
Lab Grade = Average of Lab Report Grades (lowest lab dropped)
Final Grade = 80% Lecture Grade + 15% Lab grade + 5% problems+attendance.
Grading Scale: A: 90-100, B: 80-89.9, C: 70-79.9, D: 60-69.9, F: 0-59.9
Reserved Books in the
Library
Serway & Faughn, College Physics, 6th ed.
Edmonds, et al., Cioffari’s Experiments in College Physics, 10th ed.
Instructor’s Manual by Serway & Faughn
Study Guide & Student Solutions Manual by Serway & Faughn
Recommended Problems:
Ch 1: 7 9 14 18 21 22 25 39 40 41 48
Ch 2: 4 5 10 12 14 19 20 21 24 26 29 43 44 45 47 60
Ch 3: 1 2 4 8 10 13 17 20 22 24 25 26 32 35 37 41 47
Ch 4: 1 2 3 7 8 10 15 16 23 25 26 30 35 38 39 46 59
Ch 5: 1 4 9 10 15 16 19 20 23 27 30 31 33 37 49 51 62
Ch 6: 3 5 6 8 15 18 19 20 21 25 26 32 34 36 40 41 51
Ch 7: 1 4 5 9 10 12 14 16 19 20 21 26 29 33 35 37 42
Ch 8: 1 4 8 12 15 18 21 22 31 35 36 39 40 45 48 52
Ch 9: 1 2 4 7 13 17 18 19 22 26 27 33 38 40 42 46 71
Ch 10: 2 8 10 13 14 20 21 25 28 30 33 36 37 40 41 57
Ch 11: 1 2 7 9 12 18 20 24 25 29 33 34 40 41 45
Ch 12: 7 9 13 15 17 21 23 26 27 30 35 37 38 39 43 48
Makeup policy: No makeup exams will be given. If an exam is missed, that will be treated as the exam to be dropped. If a lab is missed it may be made up only in another scheduled lab doing the missed experiment.
Cheating: You may not use material in a test, quiz, or exam which is not allowed; turn in someone else’s work in completion of a test, lab report, or homework. Remove or copy an exam without Dr Mills’ permission; plagiarism; copying information from someone else’s test, lab report, or any graded homework. Cheating will be punished in accordance with College procedures.
Withdrawal: A student may withdraw from the course at any time prior to the withdrawal deadline specified in the SJCD academic calendar.
Final Exam: Wednesday May 4 12:30-2:20pm