Physics 115 Spring 2018 Schedule

Wk Lec # Date Day HmWk Quiz Pages Description
  I. Physics of Sound and Waves - Ken Menningen
    15-Jan Mon       Martin Luther King Day
  22-Jan Mon Lab 1: Measurement, significant figures, and units
  1 23-Jan Tue 54-55 Intro to course, oscillations I (T, f, A)
1 2 25-Jan Thu 52-57 Oscillations II (phase, force, sine and cosine)
  3 26-Jan Fri     41,60-62 Oscillations III (period formulas and energy)
  29-Jan Mon Lab 2: Oscilloscope
  4 30-Jan Tue blank↓ 65,90-96 Resonance, waves and oscillations
2 5 1-Feb Thu homework 1 Quiz 68,90,110-117 Wave properties
  6 2-Feb Fri     90-91,98-99 Wave nature of sound [screencast lecture]
  5-Feb Mon Lab 3: Resonance
  7 6-Feb Tue blank↓ 90-95,117-118 Sound propagation, interference and beats
3 8 8-Feb Thu homework 2 Quiz 76-78 Standing waves on a string
  9 9-Feb Fri     125-126 Standing waves in an air column
  12-Feb Mon Lab 4: Waves on a string
  10 13-Feb Tue blank↓ 125-126 Standing waves III
4 11 15-Feb Thu homework 3 Quiz 70 Fourier synthesis
  12 16-Feb Fri   blank→ In-class catch up and review
  19-Feb Mon Lab 5: Waves in an air column
    20-Feb Tue     Study Guide Exam I: homework 1 - 3
5 13 22-Feb Thu 68-75 Fourier analysis
  14 23-Feb Fri     119-122 Doppler effect I
  26-Feb Mon Lab 6: Fourier analysis
  15 27-Feb Tue blank↓ In-class Doppler effect II
6 16 1-Mar Thu homework 4 Quiz 98-101 Decibels I
  17 2-Mar Fri     132-135, 145 Decibels II  [screencast lecture]
  5-Mar Mon Lab 7: Speed of sound
  18 6-Mar Tue blank↓ 134-144, 224 Decibels III
7 19 8-Mar Thu homework 5 Quiz 100-101,108-109 Attenuation, reflection
  20 9-Mar Fri     110-114 Reverberation, refraction [screencast lecture]
  12-Mar Mon Lab: optional group study time
  21 13-Mar Tue 116 Diffraction
  blank↓ blank↓  
8 22 15-Mar Thu homework 6 Quiz In-class Review
    16-Mar Fri     Study Guide Exam II: homework 4 - 6
  II. Human Speech, Perception, and Acoustics - Rachel Craig
  19-Mar Mon Review and introduction to unit II
  23 20-Mar Tue 150-164 Impedance, resonance, filters
9 24 22-Mar Thu Figures depicting
  25 23-Mar Fri     211-233 Psychoacoustics
    26-Mar Mon Spring Break
  2-Apr Mon Lab 8: Psychoacoustics (headphones needed)
  26 3-Apr Tue Harmony, Dissonance, and the Critical Band Hearing anatomy and physiology
10 27 5-Apr Thu Acoustics of hearing
  28 6-Apr Fri       Distortion and critical bands
  9-Apr Mon Lab 9: Critical bands and dissonance (headphones needed)
  29 10-Apr Tue D2L: The Phonatory System Speech production
11 30 12-Apr Thu Speech acoustics
  31 13-Apr Fri     Speech acoustics
  16-Apr Mon Lab 10: Speech Acoustics
11 32 17-Apr Tue 165-177 Hearing; inner ear and noise
  19-Apr Thu D2L: Yost chapter Review
  33 20-Apr Fri       Exam III
  23-Apr Mon Lab 11: Decibels and sound level measurement
  34 24-Apr Tue Room acoustics
13 35 26-Apr Thu Acoustics of public spaces
  36 27-Apr Fri       Digital signal processing
  30-Apr Mon Lab 13:
  37 1-May Tue Digital signal processing
14 38 3-May Thu Acoustics of organ pipes
  39 4-May Fri       Acoustics of musical instruments
  7-May Mon Lab 14:
  40 8-May Tue Ultrasound; acoustics in medical settings
15 41 10-May Thu  
  42 11-May Fri        
16   17-May Thu       Final Exam: 2:45pm  (a portion is comprehensive)