Physics 142: Foundations of Physics
Westminster College
Spring 2014
Homework| Due | Reading | Problems | Posted |
| Due | Reading | Problems | Posted |
| Jan. 13 | Jan. 13 | ||
| Jan. 15 | Chapter 18 | Jan. 13 | |
| Jan. 17 | Conceptual Questions: 18.1, 18.10 Problems and Exercises: 18.3-and if this happens in 3 seconds how many Amperes were flowing?, 18.5, 18.16, 18.18, 18.20 | Jan. 13 | |
| Jan. 20 | MLK Day. | ||
| Jan. 22 | Chapter 19.1-19.4 | Jan. 21 | |
| Jan. 24 | Chapter 19.5-19.7 | Problems and Exercises: 18.31,18.42, 18.62, and the following:
Using the game we used in class make a crude ink-jet printer. Use the puck as your ink and the goal is the paper. You may find it useful to consider Figs. 18.55 and 18.57 to get started. Take a photo of your printer with your phone and turn that in with a description of your reasoning. | Jan. 21 |
| Jan. 27 | Chapter 20.1-20.5 | Conceptual Questions:
19.4, 19.11 Problems: 19.6, 19.15, 19.19 | Jan. 24 |
| Jan. 29 | Chapter 20.6-20.7, 21.1-21.4 |
Problems: 19.37, 19.58.
Revised | Jan. 24 |
| Jan. 31 | Chapter 21.3 |
Conceptual Questions:
20.2, 20.6 Problems: 19.44, 19.55, 20.2, 20.24, 20.50, 20.63 Revised | Jan. 24 |
| Feb. 3 | Chapter 21.6 | Feb. 4 | |
| Feb. 5 | Chapter 22 | Feb. 4 | |
| Feb. 7 | Chapter 22 |
Conceptual Questions:
20.19 Problems: 20.76, 20.85, 21.6, 21.10, 21.23, 21.27, 21.40, 21.63, and 21.74. | Feb. 4 |
| Feb 10 | Chapter 22 | ||
| Feb 12 | Review | ||
| Feb 14 | Exam 1 | ||
| Feb 17 | Chapter 23.1-23.5 | Feb. 14 | |
| Feb 19 | Chapter 23.6-23.10 | Problems: 22.1, 22.4, 22.12, 22.15, 22.20, 22.43, 22.58, and 22.64 | Feb. 14 |
| Feb 21 | Chapter 23.11-23.12 | Conceptual 23.3, 23.12,
23.14 Problems: 23.4, 23.19 and 23.34 | Feb. 14 |
| Feb 24 | Chapter 23 examples | 23.41, 23.44, 23.62, and 23.64
Revised | Feb. 14 |
| Feb 26 | Chapter 24.1-24.4 | Conceptual: 23.24 Problems: 23.69, 23.76, 23.87, 23.88, 23.100 | Feb. 24 |
| Feb 28 | Conceptual: 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.10 Problems: 24.6 and 24.10 | Feb. 24 | |
| Mar 3 | Chapter 25.1-25.4 | Conceptual: 24.16, 24.20 Problems: 24.21, 24.26, and 24.33 | Feb. 2 |
| Mar 5 | 25.2, 25.7 | ||
| Mar 7 | |||
| Mar 10-14 | Spring Break | ||
| Mar 17 | 25.3, 25.6 | ||
| Mar 19 | 25.3, 25.4, 25.5, part of 25.6 about power of a lens | ||
| Mar 21 | Exam 2, Chapters 22-24 | ||
| Mar 24 | 26.1-26.3 | Conceptual Questions: 25.5, 25.13 Problems: 25.1, 25.6, 25.12, | Mar. 21 |
| Mar 26 | 26.4-26.6 | Conceptual Questions: 25.15, 25.18 Problems: 25.42, 25.40-solve using ray tracing and thin lens equation, 25.50, 25.55, | Mar. 21 |
| Mar 28 | 27.1-27.3 | Conceptual Questions: 25.23, 25.24 Problems: 25.59, 25.23, 25.29, 25.39 | Mar. 21 |
| Mar 31 | 27.4-27.8 | Conceptual Questions: 26.5, 26.10, 26.14 Problems: 26.1, 26.2, 26.16, 26.26 | Mar. 28 |
| Apr. 2 | 28.1-28.3 | Conceptual Questions: 27.2, 27.3, 27.8, 27.11 Problems: 27.8 | Mar. 28 |
| Apr. 4 | 28.5-28.6 | Mar. 28 | |
| Apr. 7 | Catch-up | ||
| Apr. 9 | 29.1-29.3 | Apr. 8 | |
| Apr. 11 | 29.4-29.6 | Conceptual Questions: 27.33, 28.4 Problems: 27.19, 27.29, 27.30, 27.45, 27.67-find maximum distance (for all visible light), problem has typo, 27.89 | Apr. 8 |
| Apr. 14 | 30.1-30.2 | Conceptual Questions: 28.16 Problems: 28.4 and find the space-time separation between the two events both from the point of view of the Kaon and from the point of view of an observer in the lab frame, 28.43, 28.44, 28.64 and 28.67. | Apr. 8 |
| Apr. 16 | 30.3-30.4 | Conceptual Questions: 29.7, 29.11,
29.15 Problems: 29.5, 29.15, 29.26, 29.49 | Apr. 14 |
| Apr. 22 | Exam 3, Chapters 25-28 | ||
| Apr. 23 | 30.5-30.6 | Conceptual Questions: 29.23, 29.24, 30.6, 30.9,
30.22 Problems: 29.66, 29.80, 29.86 | Apr. 14 |
| Apr. 25 | 31.1-31.4 | problems 30. 4, 30.24, 30.30, and extra credit 30.54. | Apr. 23 |
| Apr. 28 | 31.5-31.7 | ||
| Apr. 30 | URAC | ||
| May 2 | Review | Concept Questions: 31.2, 31.5, 31.9, 31.11, 31.24 Problems 31.35, 31.37, 31.44 | Apr. 29 |
| May 8 | Final Exam 3-5:30pm |