Physics 240 Schedule Spring 2025

Wk Date Day HW Quiz Lec # Chptr Description
  20-Jan Mon         Martin Luther King Jr. Day
1 21-Jan Tue Discussion on homework Ch. 1
  22-Jan Wed 1 1-4 Intro to course, significant digits, unit conversion
  23-Jan Thu Lab01: Statistical Analysis
  24-Jan Fri     2 2-5 Displacement, velocity, acceleration
  27-Jan Mon     3 2-9 Motion diagrams, freefall
2 28-Jan Tue Discussion on homework Ch. 2
  29-Jan Wed 4 3-4 Vectors and their properties
  30-Jan Thu Lab02: Acceleration of Gravity
  31-Jan Fri     5 4-2 2-d motion with acceleration
  3-Feb Mon Chs. 1-2 Quiz 6 4-3 Projectiles I
3 4-Feb Tue Discussion on homework Chs. 3-4
  5-Feb Wed 7 4-5 Projectiles II, circular motion I
  6-Feb Thu Lab03: Graphical Analysis
  7-Feb Fri     8 5-5 Tangential acceleration, Newton's first law
  10-Feb Mon Chs. 3-4 Quiz 9 5-6 Newton's second law
4 11-Feb Tue Discussion on homework Ch. 5
  12-Feb Wed 10 5-8 Newton's third law
  13-Feb Thu Lab04: Newton's Second Law and Friction
  14-Feb Fri     11 6-2 Applications of Newton's laws
  17-Feb Mon Ch. 5 Quiz Catch up and review
5 18-Feb Tue Discussion on homework Ch. 6, exam
  19-Feb Wed 12 6-4 Circular motion II, resistive forces
  20-Feb Thu Study Guide   Exam I: Chapters 1-5
  21-Feb Fri     13 7-3 Work and the vector scalar product
  24-Feb Mon 14 7-5 Variable forces, types of work, kinetic energy
6 25-Feb Tue Discussion on homework Ch. 7
  26-Feb Wed 15 7-8 Potential energy
  27-Feb Thu Lab05: Conservation of Energy
  28-Feb Fri     16 8-1 Energy diagrams, nonisolated systems
  3-Mar Mon Ch. 6 Quiz 17 8-4 Conservation of energy, power
7 4-Mar Tue Discussion on homework Ch. 8
  5-Mar Wed 18 8-5 Nonconservative work
  6-Mar Thu Lab06: Centripetal force
  7-Mar Fri     19 9-3 Momentum and collisions I
  10-Mar Mon Chs. 7-8 Quiz 20 9-4 Collisions II
8 11-Mar Tue Discussion on homework Ch. 9
  12-Mar Wed 21 9-7 Center of mass, 2D collisions
  13-Mar Thu Lab07: Collisions
  14-Mar Fri     22 10-3 Kinematics of rotation
  17-Mar Mon         Spring Break
  24-Mar Mon Ch. 9 Quiz Catch up and review
  25-Mar Tue Exam review
9 26-Mar Wed 23 10-5 Newton's 2nd law for rotation
  27-Mar Thu Study Guide   Exam II: Chapters 6-9
  28-Mar Fri     24 10-8 Rotational energy
  31-Mar Mon 25 11-1 Rolling motion, the vector product
10 1-Apr Tue Discussion on homework Ch 10
  2-Apr Wed 26 11-3 Angular momentum, vector product
  3-Apr Thu Lab08: Rolling and Looping
  4-Apr Fri Ch. 10 Quiz 27 11-4 Conservation of angular momentum
  7-Apr Mon 28 12-3 Static equilibrium
11 8-Apr Tue Discussion on homework Chs. 11-12
  9-Apr Wed Ch. 11 Quiz 29 13-4 The laws of gravity and Kepler
  10-Apr Thu Lab09: Static Equilibrium
  11-Apr Fri     30 13-6 Energy and gravity
  14-Apr Mon Catch up and review
12 15-Apr Tue Discussion on homework Ch. 13
  16-Apr Wed 31 14-3 Pressure and static fluids
  17-Apr Thu Lab10: Fluid Dynamics and Bernoulli
  18-Apr Fri Chs. 12-13 Quiz 32 14-4 Archimedes's principle
  21-Apr Mon 33 14-7 Bernoulli's equation and fluid dynamics
  22-Apr Tue Discussion on homework Ch. 14
13 23-Apr Wed 34 15-2 Simple harmonic motion I
  24-Apr Thu Study Guide   Exam III: Chapters 10-13
  25-Apr Fri     35 15-5 Simple harmonic motion II
  28-Apr Mon Ch.14 Quiz 36 15-7 Damped and forced oscillations, resonance
14 29-Apr Tue Discussion on homework Ch. 15
  30-Apr Wed 37 16-4 Traveling waves, wave properties
  1-May Thu Lab11: Resonance and Modeling
  2-May Fri     38 16-8 Sound waves
  5-May Mon Ch. 15 Quiz 39 16-9 The Doppler effect
15 6-May Tue Discussion on homework Chs. 16-17
  7-May Wed 40 17-7 Wave interference, standing waves
  8-May Thu Lab12: Stringed Instruments
  9-May Fri Chs. 16-17 Quiz 41   Quiz and review
  14-May Wed Study Guide   Final Exam: 12:30pm, Chs 14-17 and cumulative