Physics I - Online Lecture Stream

Course homepage

http://profstewart.org/ph1/

Stream webpage

http://profstewart.org/ph1/online/

Teaching assistants

Evaluation

problems, exam

Syllabus

The syllabus is based on Open Yale Courses - Fundamentals of Physics I.

• Newton's Laws
  • Course Introduction and Newtonian Mechanics
  • Vectors in Multiple Dimensions
  • Newton's Laws of Motion
  • Newton's Laws (cont.) and Inclined Planes
• Conservation of Energy, Newtonian Gravity, Conservation of Momentum
  • Work-Energy Theorem and Law of Conservation of Energy
  • Law of Conservation of Energy in Higher Dimensions
  • Kepler's Laws
  • Dynamics of a Multiple-Body System and Law of Conservation of Momentum
• Rotation
  • Rotations, Part I: Dynamics of Rigid Bodies
  • Rotations, Part II: Parallel Axis Theorem
  • Torque
• Special Relativity
  • Introduction to Relativity
  • Lorentz Transformation
  • Introduction to the Four-Vector
  • Four-Vector in Relativity
• Simple Harmonic Motion, Waves, Fluids
  • The Taylor Series and Other Mathematical Concepts - Chapters 7 and 8
  • Simple Harmonic Motion
  • Simple Harmonic Motion (cont.) and Introduction to Waves
  • Waves
  • Fluid Dynamics and Statics and Bernoulli's Equation
• Thermodynamics
  • Thermodynamics
  • The Boltzmann Constant and First Law of Thermodynamics
  • The Second Law of Thermodynamics and Carnot's Engine
  • The Second Law of Thermodynamics (cont.) and Entropy

Problems

You may collaborate with up to two other students of similar ability and submit a single joint homework with the names of all collaborators on it.

It is recommended that you collaborate together to answer each question, submit your joint homework, and reattempt each question based on feedback from the teaching assistant, before finally consulting the answers available online. Your homework will be graded purely in terms of submission so there is no advantage in consulting the online answers before submitting your homework.

• Problem Set 1 - due 9/15
• Problem Set 2 - due 9/22
• Problem Set 3 - due 9/29
• Problem Set 4 - due 10/6
• Problem Set 5 - due 10/13
• Problem Set 6 - due 10/27
• Problem Set 7 - due 11/3
• Problem Set 8, questions 5 to 12 - due 11/10
• Problem Set 9 - due 11/17
• Problem Set 10 - due 11/24
• Problem Set 11 - due 12/1
• Problem Set 12 - due 12/8

Exam

Recommended links

• MIT Open Courseware - Physics I: Classical Mechanics - Fall 1999