SYLLABUS

Advanced Physics I (AP-C) --PH405

NCSSM, Trimester I, 2008-2009

* = shortened week

Week

Dates

AP Topics

Lab or Test

Text

*1 8/19-8/22 Simple Harmonic Motion Pendulum Ch. 16
2 8/25-8/29 One Dimensional Kinematics, Derivatives Pendulum (cont'd), Numerical Differentiation Ch. 2
*3 9/2-9/5 Vectors and Vector Operations Air Drag Ch. 3
4 9/8-9/12 Motion in 2 and 3 dimensions Video Analysis Ch. 4
5 9/15-9/19 Newton's Laws I short test
(Ch. 2-4, 16)
Ch. 5
6 9/22-9/26 Newton's Laws II long test
(Ch. 3-5)
Ch. 6
*7 9/30-10/3 Fluid Statics & Dynamics,
Kinetic Energy and Work, Integrals
Numerical Modeling of Air Drag Ch. 15
8 10/6-10/10 Kinetic Energy;
Spring & Gravitaitonal Energy
Euler's Method, Numerical Integration Ch. 7, 8
9 10/13-10/17 Conservation Energy
test (Ch. 6 - 8)
Ch. 8
10 10/20-10/24 Systems of Particles TBA
Ch. 9
*11 10/28-10/31 Impulse and Momentum, Collisions I Elastic Collisions Ch. 10
Trimester I Final Examinations (11/4 - 11/7)