Physics 151: Principles of Physics

Westminster College

Fall 2012

Homework

Due	Reading	Problems	Posted
Due	Reading	Problems	Posted
Aug. 28	Introduction and Chapter 1 (Pay special attention to 1.2, 1.4, and 1.9.)		Aug. 25
Aug. 29	Chapter 2		Aug. 25
Aug. 31		1.36, 1.52, 1.56, 1.57	Aug. 25
Sept. 3			Sept. 25
Sept. 5	Chapter 3.1-6	2.3, 2.11, 2.13 (Use the graph to find the distance traveled over the 16s interval shown, ignore parts a and b if they appear in your text), 2.19 (part c is challenging) and 2.27 (the electrons hitting the screen of an old style TV is what makes the picture visible).	Aug. 25
Sept. 7	Chapter 3.7-3.11	2.38, 2.55 and these problems	Aug. 31
Sept. 10	Chapter 4.1-4.6	3.1, 3.18	Aug. 31
Sept. 12	Chapter 4.7-4.8	3.59, 3.63 and these problems	Aug. 31
Sept. 14		4.2, 4.5, 4.7	Sept. 6
Sept. 17	Exam #1 today (Chapters 1-3)
Sept. 19	Chapter 5.1-5.3 Bring Laptop to class with computer modeling software vPython installed (see Lab website for details on where to find it.)	4.14, 4.19, 4.48	Sept. 6
Sept. 21	Chapter 5.4-5.7		Sept. 19
Sept. 24		5.2 and use this simulation to compare the effects of air resistance to your drag free calculation (the tape measure may be useful), 5.11, 5.12, 5.29	Sept. 21
Sept. 26	Chapter 6.1-6.4	5.40, 5.53, 5.62	Sept. 21
Sept. 28	Chapter 6.5-6.7	This problem, 6.5 and 6.19	Sept. 21
Oct. 1	Note shifted dates		Sept. 28
Oct. 3	Chapter 14.1-14.4	6.22, 6.25, and 6.37	Sept. 21
Oct. 4	Thursday Physics Lunch Talk "Electrically Tunable Partial Coalescence of Oppositely Charged Drops" by B.S. Hamlin, J.C. Creasey, and W.D. Ristenpart Presented by Dr. Caylor
Oct. 5	Calculating gravitational force with vPython (see email for document)	6.53, 6.69, and these problems	Sept. 28
Oct. 8	Constructing vPython simulation of satellite and earth.	6.21, this problem, 14.10, and 14.17. Report #1 due today	Oct. 5
Oct. 10	Review		Oct. 5
Oct. 11	Thursday Physics Lunch Talk "Rotation Rate of Rods in Turbulent Fluid Flow" by S. Parsa, E. Calzavarini, F. Toschi, and G. A. Voth Presented by Wesley LaQuaglia
Oct. 12	Exam #2 today (Chapters 4-6 and 14)
Oct. 15	Chapter 7.1-7.4		Oct. 5
Oct. 17	Chapter 7.5-7.7	7.11 and 7.18	Oct. 5
Oct. 18	Thursday Physics Lunch Talk Channelling Surface Plasmons by S. I Bozhevolnyi, V.S. Volkov, E. Devaux, J-Y Laluet, T.W. Ebbessen Presented by Andrew Wasil.
Oct. 19	Chapter 8.1-8.4	7.27, 7.78	Oct. 18
Oct. 22	Chapter 8.5-8.6	7.44, 7.54	Oct. 18
Oct. 24	Chapter9.1-9.5	8.2, 8.3, 8.9, and 8.12a	Oct. 23
Oct. 25	Thursday Physics Lunch Talk Near-Field Electromagnetic Theory for Thin Solar Cells by A. Niv, M. Gharghi, C. Gladden, O.D. Miller, and X. Zhang Presented by Doug Armstead.
Oct. 26	Chapter 9.6-9.10	8.27, 8.30, 9.2, 9.5, and 9.12	Oct. 23
Oct. 29	Fall Break
Oct. 30	10.1-10.5	9.14, 9.24 Tuesday is Monday	Oct. 23
Oct. 31		9.28 Note 9.28 was incorrectly posted as due on 10/30.
Nov. 1	Thursday Physics Lunch Talk Force-Free Gravitational Redshift: Proposed Gravitational Aharonov-Bohm Experiment by M. A. Hohensee, B. Estey, P. Hamilton, A. Zeilinger, and H. Muller. Presented by Andre Wehner.
Nov. 2	Chapter 10.5-10.7	10.3, 10.4, 10.18, and 10.27	Oct. 30
Nov. 5	Review	10.38, 10.49, 10.68 and this problem. Additionally 10.88 is optional.	Nov. 2
Nov. 8	Thursday Physics Lunch Talk Astronomy presentations, titles TBA.
Nov. 9	Exam #3 today
Nov. 12	Chapter 11.1-11.4 AND Chapter 12.3 (up to but not including Torque)		Nov. 9
Nov. 14	Chapter 11.5-11.6	11.3, 11.8, 11.27, 11.29	Nov. 9
Nov. 15	Thursday Physics Lunch Talk Astronomy presentations, titles TBA.
Nov. 16	Chapter 11.7-11.8	11.37, 11.38 (the idea is the same for a wind turbine), 11.77	Nov. 9
Nov. 19	Chapter 12.3-12.6 AND Chapter 11.9	11.46, 11.51, and 11.56 Report #2 due today	Nov. 9
Nov. 20	Chapter 13.1-13.5		Nov. 9
Nov. 21 & 23	Thanksgiving Break
Nov. 26	Chapter 15.1-15.11	12.18, 12.22 and 11.58, this problem	Nov. 9
Nov. 28	Chapter 19.1-19.8	13.9, 13.19, 13.25, 13.36, and 13.40	Nov. 27
Nov. 30	Chapter 19.9-19.11	15.10, 15.16, 15.17, 15.30, and 15.44	Nov. 27
Dec. 3	Exam 4 (Chapters 11-13)