Physics 221 Calendar

Spring 2012

 

 

 

Sunday

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 

 

1/8

1/9

1/10

1/11

1/12

1/13

1/14

 

 

 

Syllabus

Sound and Music pretest

Sound and Music

Anatomy of a Wave

 

 

HW Due: Sound & Wave Basics

 

Generalizing Musical Instruments

 

 

 

 

 

Lab wk 1

 

 

Investigating How Music is Made

 

 

 

 

 

1/15

1/16

1/1 7

1/18

1/19

1/20

1/21

 

 

 

MLK – no school.

Speed of Sound

 

Quiz #1

HW 1

Doppler Effect ILD

 

Intensity & Intensity Level

 

 

 

 

 

Lab wk 2

 

 

Traveling Waves & Standing Waves

 

 

 

 

 

1/22

1/23

1/24

1/25

1/26

1/27

1/28

 

 

 

Equations of Motion

Animation of Cosine

Quiz #2

 

 

HW 2

Perception Activity

 

P & P, speech intelligibility

 

HW

 

 

Lab wk 3

 

 

Waves and Harmonics

 

 

 

 

 

1/29

1/30

1/31

2/1

2/2

2/3

2/4

 

 

 

Spectrum Analysis

Springs and Pendulums

 

HW 3

Conservation of Energy applied to Springs

 

Quiz #3

 

 

HW 4

 

 

Lab wk 4

 

 

Spring to Another World

Simple Harmonic Motion

 

 

 

 

 

2/5

2/6

2/7

2/8

2/9

2/10

2/11

 

 

 

 

Exam 1 takehome portion due

Exam 1 (Sound & Waves)

Light, Dark and Sight

 

Mirror Tutorial

 

 

Lab wk 5

 

 

Electromagnetic Waves

 

 

 

 

 

2/12

2/13

2/14

2/15

2/16

2/17

2/18

 

 

 

EM Waves

 

 

Reading HW/Tut HW

Refraction

Definition

activity

Speed of Light

 

Rainbows, Total Internal Reflection

Quiz #4

HW 5

 

 

Lab wk 6

 

 

Plane Mirrors, Reflection & Refraction

 

 

 

 

 

2/19

2/20

2/21

2/22

2/23

2/24

2/25

 

 

 

Intro

Spherical Mirrors

 

 

Spherical Mirrors

Lenses Intro

ILD

 

Quiz #5

 

 

 

HW 6

 

 

Lab wk 7

 

 

Spherical Mirrors

 

 

 

 

 

2/26

2/27

2/28

2/29

3/1

3/2

3/3

 

 

 

Lenses

 

 

Lenses and The Eye

 

 

The Eye / pin hole cameras

 

Quiz #6

 

 

HW 7

 

 

Lab wk 8

 

 

Spherical Lenses

 

 

 

 

 

3/4

3/5

3/6

3/7

3/8

3/9

3/10

 

 

 

Take home portion due

Review

 

 

 

Exam 2 (Optics)

Interference

 

No class

Quiz #7 Both the quiz and HW are due Friday 3/9

HW 8

 

 

Lab wk 9

 

 

Visual Acuity

 

 

 

 

 

3/11

3/12

3/13

3/14

3/15

3/16

3/17

 

 

 

Spring Break!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/18

3/19

3/20

3/21

3/22

3/23

3/24

 

 

 

Electrostatics and Electric Force

Clips

Online quiz (due 11:00 a.m.)

Electric Fields clips

Electrostatic Potential Tutorial

 

Quiz #8

HW #9

 

 

Lab wk 10

 

 

Electrostatics

 

 

 

 

 

3/25

3/26

3/27

3/28

3/29

3/30

3/31

 

 

 

Charging, PE, V, Capacitors

Clips

Group F, E, V, PE

 

 

Current, resistivity & power

HW #10

 

Finish Group F, E, V, PE

Quiz #9

HW #11

 

 

Lab wk 11

 

 

Electrocardiogram

 

 

 

 

 

4/1

4/2

4/3

4/4

4/5

4/6

4/7

 

 

 

Lightning and copy machines

 

 

Exam 3 (Electricity)

Circuits

 

Circuits Tutorial

 

 

Lab wk 12

 

 

Prelab – due before lab

Circuits

 

 

 

 

 

4/8

4/9

4/10

4/11

4/12

4/13

4/14

 

 

RC circuits

Finish Tutorial

Quiz #10

 

Tutorial HW due HW #12

Magnetism

 

Induction & Magnetic Forces

 

 

 

Lab wk 13

 

 

Magnetism and Induction

 

 

 

 

 

 

4/15

4/16

4/17

4/18

4/19

4/20

4/21

 

 

 

Quantum Physics

Quiz #11

 

 

HW #13

Quantum Physics

 

Quantum Physics

 

 

Research paper due

 

 

Lab wk 14

 

 

Transformers & Atomic Spectra

 

 

 

 

 

4/22

4/23

4/24

4/25

4/26

4/27

4/28

 

 

Nuclear Physics

Quiz #12

 

 

HW #14

Imaging Presentations

Imaging Presentations

 

Lab wk 15

Imaging Projects   

 

 

4/29

4/30

5/1

12/7

12/8

12/9

12/10

 

 

 

Review 4:00

SURVEY

Final 1:30 – 4:00