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Spring 2025 – Physics 141 Course Schedule
Dates Topics Readings, HW, and Labs Quizzes and Exams Week 1
Jan 13–Jan 17
Units and measurement Students should read/review chapter 1 on their own Vectors
- magnitude and direction
- components
- addition
- unit vectors
Reading: Open Stax 1.1-1.7, 2.1-2.
HW 0 - Due Friday 1/ 17
No lab.
No quiz.
Week 2
Jan 21–Jan 24*
Vectors
- vector products Motion in 1 dimension
- displacement, velocity, and acceleration
Reading: Open Stax 2.4, 3.1-3.
HW 1 - Due Tuesday 1/ 21
Lab 1: Introduction to measurement and analysis.
Quiz 1: Week 1 material
Week 3
Jan 27–Jan 31
Motion in 1D (cont)
- motion with constant acceleration
- freely falling bodies Motion in 2D and 3D
- position, velocity, and acceleration vectors
Reading: Open Stax 3.4-3.6, 4.1-4.
HW 2 - Due Monday 1/ 27
Lab 2: 1D kinematics.
Quiz 2: Week 2 material
Week 4
Feb 3–Feb 7
Motion in 2D and 3D (cont)
- projectile motion
- circular motion
- parallel and perpendicular components
Reading: Open Stax 4.3-4.
HW 3 - Due Monday 2/ 3
Lab 3: Vector addition (force table).
Quiz 3: Week 3 material
Week 5
Feb 10–Feb 14
Newton’s laws of motion
- forces and interactions
- mass and weight
- Newton’s 1st, 2nd, and 3rd laws
Reading: Open Stax 5.1-5.
HW 4 - Due Monday 2/ 10
Lab 4: Projectile motion (SEL2108).
Quiz 4: Week 4 material
Week 6
Feb 17–Feb 21
Newton’s laws of motion (cont)
- free-body diagrams Applying Newton’s laws
- statics and dynamics of particles
Reading: Open Stax 5.7, 6.
HW 5 - Due Monday 2/ 17
Lab 5: Forces and motion.
Quiz 5: Week 5 material
Week 7
Feb 24–Feb 28
Applying Newton’s laws (cont)
- frictional forces
- circular motion
Reading: Open Stax 6.2-6.
HW 6 - Due Monday 2/ 24
No lab.
No quiz.
Exam 1 Weeks 1- Thursday, 2/ 27 6-8 PM
Week 8
Mar 3–Mar 7
Work and kinetic energy
- work and kinetic energy
- work with varying forces
- power
Reading: Open Stax 7.1-7.
HW 7 - Due Monday 3/ 3
No lab.
Quiz 6: Week 7 material
Week 9
Mar 10–Mar 14
Potential energy and energy conservation
- gravitational and elastic potential energy
- conservative and non-conservative forces
- force and potential energy
Reading: Open Stax 8.1-8.
HW 8 - Due Monday 3/ 10
Lab 6: Work and energy.
Quiz 7: Week 8 material
Week 10
Mar 17–Mar 21
Momentum, impulse, and collisions
- momentum and impulse
- conservation of momentum
- elastic and inelastic collisions
Reading: Open Stax 9.1-9.
HW 9 - Due Monday 3/ 17
Lab 7: Collisions (SEL2108).
Quiz 8: Week 9 material
Mar 24–Mar 28 Spring Break Week 11
Mar 31–Apr 4
Rotation of rigid bodies
- angular position, velocity, and acceleration
- rotation with constant angular acceleration
- angular and linear quantities
- rotational kinetic energy
- moment of inertia and parallel-axis theorem
Reading: Open Stax 10.1-10.
HW 10 - Due Monday 3/ 31
No lab.
No quiz.
Exam 2 Weeks 7- Thursday, 4/ 3 6-8 PM
Week 12
Apr 7–Apr 11
Rotational dynamics
- torque
- Newton’s 2nd law for rotation
- angular work and power
- rolling without slipping
Reading: Open Stax 10.6-10.8, 11.
HW 11 - Due Monday 4/ 7
Lab 8: Rotational inertia.
Quiz 9: Week 11 material
Week 13
Apr 14–Apr 18
Rotational dynamics (cont)
- angular momentum and conservation Static equilibrium
- conditions for equilibrium
- center of gravity
- rigid-body problems
Reading: Open Stax 11.2-11.3, 12.1-12.
HW 12 - Due Monday 4/ 14
Lab 9: Rotational inelastic collisions.
Quiz 10: Week 12 material
Week 14
Apr 21–Apr 25
Gravitation
- universal gravitation
- gravitational potential energy
- motion of satellits
- Kepler’s laws
Reading: Open Stax 13.1-13.
HW 13 - Due Monday 4/ 21
Lab 10: Rotational elastic collisions (SEL2108).
Quiz 11: Week 13 material
Week 15
Apr 28–May 2
Periodic motion
- oscillations
- simple harmonic motion
- energy in SHM
- simple and physical pendula
Reading: Open Stax 15.1-15.
HW 14 - Due Monday 4/ 28 HW 15 - Due Friday 5/ 2
No lab.
Quiz 12: Week 14 material
Week 16
May 5–May 9
FINAL EXAM WEEK Exam 3 Weeks 11- Wednesday, 5/ 7 6-8 PM
- January 20: MLK Jr. Day (no classes).
