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Instructor Contact Information

J.D. Mendez

Email:  mendezja@iupuc.edu

Office Phone:  (812) 348-7332

Office room number: CC160a

Class room number and time:

Recitation/Tests - Mondays 9:00 - 10:30, AMCE 131

Labs - Wednesdays 9:00 - 10:30, AMCE 157

Email or Canvas messages are preferred. Feel free to message me anytime but keep in mind that just because you are awake at midnight doesn't mean I am.

 

Course Description:

This course is intended for students not majoring in physics or engineering but needing a one-year course in physics as a requirement for their major program.  The course is part of a two-semester sequence whose contents may be offered in other sequences or combinations.  Core topics include:  kinematics, dynamics, work and energy, momentum, fluids, and simple harmonic motion.

 

Grading Criteria

Three exams                                                           30%

Labs                                                                             30%

Homework                                                               30%

Quizzes                                                                      10%

 

Grading Scale

            98 – 100%        A+

            93 – 97.9%       A

            90 – 92.9%       A-

            87 – 89.9%       B+

            83 – 86.9%       B

            80 – 82.9%       B-

            77 – 79.9%       C+

            73 – 76.9%       C

            70 – 72.9%       C-

            67 – 69.9%       D+

            63 – 66.9%       D

            60 – 62.9%       D-

            0 – 59.9%         F

Lab

We will have 10 labs and 1 makeup lab on Wednesdays from 9:00 - 10:30. The labs will be put online in the files section at least 1 week before the lab date.

September 2 - The Basics of Measurement (Chapter 1)

September 9 - Newton's Second Law of Motion (Chapter 2)

September 16 - Things are moving! (Chapter 2)

September 23 - Things are moving again! (Chapter 2)

September 30 - Static and Kinetic Friction (Chapter 5)

October 7 - Work and Energy (Chapter 7)

October 14 - Elastic and Inelastic Collisions (Chapter 8)

October 21 - Archimedes' Principle (Chapter 11)

October 28 - Specific Heat (Chapter 14)

November 4 - Simple Harmonic Motion (Chapter 16)

November 11 - Makeup Lab

 

Important Dates

Test 1 – September 21
Test 2 – October 19
Test 3 – November 16

No surprise here but this semester is going to be weird. We are going to have three in-person tests but we can't meet in person after Thanksgiving. So instead of a final, we are going to have several small quizzes about the last material. The IUPUC Division of Science make up policy can be found here.

 

Technology Support

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Technology Accessibility Information

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Student Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

  1. Predict the future trajectory of an object in two dimensions with uniform acceleration.
  2. Analyze a physical situation with multiple constant forces acting on a point mass using Newtonian mechanics.
  3. Analyze a physical situation using concepts of work and energy.
  4. Analyze static and dynamic extended systems using the concepts of torque and angular acceleration.

Laboratory Course Objectives: At the conclusion of the laboratory component of this course, the student should be able to:

  1. Analyze real-world experimental data, including appropriate use of units and significant figures.
  2. Relate the results of experimental data to the physical concepts discussed in the lecture portion of the class.

Course Content:

  • Vectors and Scalars
  • Newton’s Laws
  • Statics and Dynamics
  • Translational Kinematics
  • Rotational Kinematics
  • Rotational Dynamics
  • Work and Energy
  • Momentum
  • Gravitation
  • Simple Harmonic Motion
  • Fluids
  • Laws of Thermodynamics
  • Heat Engines
  • Kinetic Theory
  • Entropy

Textbook:

Great news: your textbook for this class is available for free online!
College Physics from OpenStax, ISBN 1-947172-01-8

You have several options to obtain this book:

You can use whichever formats you want. Web view is recommended -- the responsive design works seamlessly on any device.

 

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