Heat and Mechanics Activity Schedule

PHY 172: Mechanics/Heat
Students continue investigations into mechanics with an extensive treatment of rotating systems and rigid bodies, including solving problems which use angular momentum, torque, center of mass and moment of inertia concepts. They will spend the majority of the semester exploring simple harmonic oscillators, wave motion, fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and gravitation. Students' awareness of physics in everyday life will continue to expand.
Three two-hour lab/lecture sessions or two three-hour lab/lecture sessions per week. A tutorial session is available and strongly recommended.
4 credit hours
Jamestown spring Prerequisite: PHY 171;
Corequisite: MAT 172;
Eligibility: ENG 153.

Sessions: I , II , III , IV , V , VI , VII , VIII , IX , X , XI , XII , XIII , XIV , XV , XVI , XVII , XVIII , XIX , XX , XXI , XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XL, XLI, XLII, XLIII, XLIV, XLV

Session Activity
I Chapter 11: Angular Variables - Introduction
II Problem Solving - ALPS Kits
Moment of inertia - take data on moment of inertia of a disk
III Finish moment of inertia of disk. Formal Report (1)
Problem solving
IV Moment of inertia and conservation of energy and paralle axis theorem
V More problem solving
VI Chapter 12: Torques - teeter-totter lab
VII Torques - problem solving
Chapter 3: Vector Cross Product
VIII Exam on Chapter 11
View Video on Angular Momentum
IX Conservation of angular momentum (demos)
More on torques
X Chapter 13: Statics
XI More on problem solving
XII Young's Modulus
Formal Lab Report (2)
XIII Exam: Chapters 12 and 13
XIV Begin Chapter 19: Measuring Temperature - Zeroth Law
XV Thermal Expansion Lab and Calorimetry Lab - Chapter 20
XVI Thermal Expansion Lab and Calorimetry Lab continued
XVII First Law and Problem Solving
XVIII: Kinetic Theory and Problem Solving - Chapter 20
XIX Mechanical Universe Tapes - Thermodynamic Processes
Start Neewton's Law of Cooling
XX Newton's Law of Cooling Lab - Formal Report (3)
XXI Heat Capacities and Thermodynamic Processes
XXII Chapter 22: Entropy and the Second Law - Mechanical Universe Tapes - Heat Engines - Stirling Engine
XXIII Carnot Cycle and Efficiency
Heat Pumps
XXIV Problem Solving
XXV: Exam: Chapters 19-22
XXVI: Begin Chapter 14: Oscillations
XXVII Simple harmonic motion - MBL
Formal Lab Report (4)
XXVIII: finish SHM Lab - Problem Solving
XXIX: Problem solving and Simple Pendulum Lab
XXX Problem Solving
Torsion pendulum lab
XXXI: Chapter 15: Gravitation
XXXII Energy - Kepler's Laws - Orbit of Mars
Exam: Chapter 14
XXXIII Problem solving - Chapter 15
XXXIV: Chapter 17: Waves - Speed of a wave - superposition principle = Fourier analysis
XXXV Standing waves on a string
Formal Lab Report (4)
XXXVI Sound waves - MBL - Chapter 18
XXXVII Resonance tubes - chladni plates
XXXVIII Problem solving
XXXIX Intensity level and loudness
Doppler shift
XL Problem solving
Chapter 16: Fluids - Archimedes Principle
XLI: Exam: Chapter 15, 17, 18
XLII Pressure and Bernonulli's Principle
XLIII Fluids - problem solving and review
XLIV Review
XLV Comprehensive Final Exam

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