SYLLABUS

Advanced Physics I (AP-C) --PH405

NCSSM, Trimester I, 2007-2008

* = shortened week

Week	Dates	AP Topics	Lab or Test	Text
*1	8/21-8/24	Simple Harmonic Motion	Pendulum	Ch. 16
2	8/27-8/31	One Dimensional Kinematics, Derivatives	Pendulum (cont'd), Numerical Differentiation	Ch. 2
*3	9/4-9/7	Vectors and Vector Operations	Air Drag	Ch. 3
4	9/10-9/14	Motion in 2 and 3 dimensions	Video Analysis	Ch. 4
5	9/17-9/21	Newton's Laws I	Atwood's Machine	Ch. 5
6	9/24-9/28	Newton's Laws II	Test (Ch. 2-4, 16)	Ch. 6
*7	10/2-10/5	Fluid Dynamics, Kinetic Energy and Work, Integrals	Euler's Method, Numerical Integration	Ch. 7
8	10/8-10/12	Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy	Numerical Modeling of Air Drag	Ch. 8
9	10/15-10/19	Energy Continued...	TBA	TBA
10	10/22-10/26	Systems of Particles	Test (Ch. 5-8)	Ch. 9
*11	10/30-11/2	Impulse and Momentum, Collisions I	Elastic Collisions	Ch. 10
12	11/5-11/9	Collisions II	Video Projects	None
Trimester I Final Examinations (11/12 - 11/15)