Mechanics & Heat (5)
UM-StL Evening Physics 111 - Fall '99
New, Answer
What?, Local Pages, External Links, More Books, OverView, HomeWork,
What's New?
- A short note on: How "hot" works!
- Some equations of constant acceleration that work at any speed.
- Version of the handout
on modeling workshop using 1 foot gate separations.
- Update: Find some Fall 2000 web-construction on
the UM-StL BlackBoard site by using
your gateway ID/password.
- Welcome to the Fall 1999 semester.
- Links to our Winter 2000
microscopy courses, with wide application, taught by
industry experts.
- Possible answers for exam four are now posted (p1,2,3,4,5).
- Color draft of the information physics supplement in PDF form for Adobe's free
Acrobat
Reader.
- Additional homework due Monday 29Nov99 from the
supplement: End-Of-Section 3 and 8...
- ...plus derive ?-marks from here
for "Work to keep frost on a 6-pack" and
"Reversible flame heating".
- Practice questions for
the multiple-choice component of the 2nd in-class exam.
- Chapters 10 and 11 solutions are available across from
the Benton Hall 5 elevator.
- Series of multiple-choice questions due by midnight of
the {2nd,
4th}
Sunday in September.
- Series of multiple-choice questions due by midnight of
the {2nd,
4th}
Sunday in October.
- Series of multiple-choice questions due by midnight of
the {2nd,
4th} Sunday in November.
- Check out notes
from the summer 1999 crackerbarrel in San Antonio on
upgrading content for intro physics courses.
- Check out the page on our weekend electron
microscope course next semester. An in-week course on
biological
electron microscopy will be offered as well.
- Is it possible to describe recent insights underlying
statistical physics simply? Send your thoughts on one
attempt at this to pfraundorf@umsl.edu.
- We are hosting an
interpretive cartooning festival, and are looking for
both interpretations of existing puzzlers, and new
puzzlers to illustrate!
- A 0th-Law with
teeth from class, and some fun
with information physics.
- This course does not yet have a university-wizarded
webpage
and discussion
area. If you would like to see one, let me know.
- Comparing energies: Does food,
gasoline, or electricity buy more for less?
- A Java (JDK1.1) applet
for solving anyspeed constant acceleration problems.
- Ask in the department to see if they are offering a free
tutoring service for Phys 111/2 students in the Physics
Dept Reading Room, Benton 516, sponsored by the Center
for Academic Development.
- A weekly evaluation survey form for this class can be
found here.
Use it!
- Three abstracts
for the Winter 1998 AAPT Conference.
- Anyspeed acceleration - teaching only what's right in
Newtonian physics: Text,
Figs.1,2,3,4,x.
Questions this course might help you answer...
- How to determine the earth's diameter from a seashore
sunset?
- Where to run in order to catch the next fly ball coming
your way.
- What length to adjust the cord so that a bungee-jumper
doesn't fall too far.
- Why cats falling from skyscrapers may be hurt more if the
fall is too short?
- How much "arc" to put on the next jump shot you
shoot.
- When to try breaking a board with your hand, and when
not.
- Are bean soup cans faster than boullion cans when rolling
downhill?
- Why was 1.4km of the Nimitz Freeway most damaged in the
1989 quake?
- How many push-ups are in an m&m (plain, not peanut)?
- Why to give trailer-pulling drivers room, when they start
to weave.
- How to rest in a vertical fissure when climbing rocks.
- Are information in bits, & work in joules, related to
temperature, and how?
- Why scorpions locate their prey so easily in the dark?
- How to warm the air in an igloo, without increasing the
air's total energy?
Some local resources of possible interest:
- For our first in-class exam on Wed 15 Sept 1999, here's
one sample w/o (p.1,2,3,4) and one w/ solutions (p.1,2,3,4).
- For our second in-class exam on Mon 11 Oct 1999, here's a
sample exam (p1,2,3,4).
- For our third in-class exam on Wed 10 Nov 1999, here's an
example 3rd exam (p1,2,3,4).
- For our fourth exam tentatively on Mon 6 Dec 1999, here
are sample exams w/o (p1,2,3,4) and w/ solutions (p1,2,3,4).
- A previous final exam, p.1,2,3,4,5.
- Other exam samples may be found on reserve at the
library.
- A survey
of unidirectional constant acceleration problems (for any
and all speeds).
- Excerpts
from an any-speed primer.
- Does making a hotdog require 50 nanoseconds of life's
power stream?
- Start relativity with the
metric equation instead of Lorentz transforms!.
- Is statistical physics a dead subject, or is there another
paradigm change afoot?
- Browser-interactive solver
for constant acceleration problems.
- Try focussing
a high-res electron microscope image on-line!
- A question involving relativistic
acceleration which contains what you need to solve
it.
- deBroglie's electrons
and some interesting TEM facts.
- What other resources might help you? E-mail suggestions
to pfraundorf@umsl.edu.
- At UM-StLouis see also:
a1toc,
cme, i-fzx,
phys&astr,
programs,
stei-lab,
& wuzzlers.
- Some current and previous courses: p111,
p112,
p231,
p325,
p341,
p400.
- Cite/Link: http://newton.umsl.edu/~philf/p111f97s.html
- This release dated 24 Aug 1999
(Copyright by Phil
Fraundorf 1988-1999)
A few of the many resources elsewhere on the web:
Some Suggested Supplementary Reading
Symbols: Make sure that you know the Greek alphabet and
special Mathematical Symbols, which will be constantly used in
this course. Consult the back cover of the textbook.
MathReview: There is a very useful collection of
trigonometry, and differential and integral calculus formulae in
the back of the text for quick reference and review (Appendix B).
Make sure that you know this material!
...on the subject matter of this course...
- Galileo Galilei - Dialog Concerning the Two Chief
World Systems (1632, translated by Stillman Drake, UC
Press, 1962)
- Newton's Principia (in the 1600's sometime).
- Halliday, Resnick & Walker - Fundamentals of
Physics - 4th Edition or later with
"puzzlers" (John Wiley & Sons)
- Roman Vinokur - The science of the jump shot:
Kinematics on the basketball court, Quantum
(Jan/Feb 1993) 46-50.
- McBeath et. al. - How baseball outfielders determine
where to run to catch fly balls, Science 268
(28 April 1995) 569-573.
- Larry Gonick & Art Huffman, The Cartoon Guide to
Physics (HarperPerennial, NY, 199_).
- Larry Gonick & Woollcott Smith, The Cartoon Guide
to Statistics (HarperPerennial, NY, 1993).
...on subjects of related but more general interest...
- Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 2nd
edition (U. of Chicago Press, Chicago IL, 1970)
- Jearl Walker - The Flying Circus of Physics (Wiley
1977)
- Joel A. Barker, The Business of Paradigms (ILI
Press, Lake Elmo MN, 1985)
- Richard P. Feynman - "Surely You're Joking, Mr.
Feynman!" (Bantam 1986)
- Richard P. Feynman - "QED: The Strange
Theory of Light and Matter" (Princeton University
Press, 1985)
- K. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation (Anchor
Doubleday, New York NY, 1986)
- Stephen W. Hawking - A Brief History of Time
- Jearl Walker, Flying Circus of Physics (John Wiley
& Sons, 1975)
- Michio Kaku, HyperSpace (Oxford University Press,
1994)
- James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science (Penguin
Books, 1987)
- Stuart Kauffman, At Home in the Universe (Oxford
University Press, 1995)
- Charlene Spretnak, The Resurgence of the Real -
Body, Nature and Place in a Hypermodern World (Perseus,
1997).
- Kip S. Thorne, Black Holes & Time Warps (W. W.
Norton & Co., 1994)
- Mark Slouka, War of the Worlds (BasicBooks, 1995)
- Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (Oxford
University Press, 1976)
Overview
Assumed Background:
Prerequisite: Math 80: Analytic Geom & Calc I (5)
or Math 101: Survey of Calc (4)
Recommended: Physics 1: Foundations I (4) or Chem 12:
Intro II (5)
Specifics:
Prof: Phil Fraundorf (pfraundorf@umsl.edu)
516-5933; Molecular Building 202 (office)
Office Hours: after class and by appointment
Text: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Fourth
Edition by Raymond A. Serway (Saunders College Publishing,
Philadelphia PA 1995)
Lectures: Section E0A: MW 5:30- 6:45pm Room B116
Discussion Sections: Section EA1: MW 5:00- 5:25pm Room
B116
Lab Sections: Section E01: M 6:55-8:45pm Room B331
Approximate Distribution for Grade:
(1) Collected HomeWork / Quizzes - 10%
(2) Laboratory - 20%
(3) Four 1-Hour Exams - 50%
(3) Comprehensive Final Exam - 20% Drops: The
University regulations regarding drops will be strictly
enforced.
Homework/Labs Schedule
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