Physics 111 Notes
Week #1
Here's a set of instructions for accessing the online homework: Mastering Physics.
Here's the course outline powerpoint.
There will be no lab on Thursday, January 9, 2025 (week #1).
The schedule for the lab as well as the individual experiments can be found on the laboratory webpage
Physics study center will start on Tuesday, January 14, 2025 in ISEC120 from 7pm - 10pm.
Quiz #1 will be on Friday, January 10, 2025 and will cover forces and force diagrams from Phy110, vectors, charge and electric force (Coulomb's law).
For all of the quizzes and exams you will be given a formula sheet. The formula sheet can be found here and on the exams page.
Week #2
Physics study center will start on Tuesday, January 14, 2025 in ISEC120 from 7pm - 10pm.
Lab #1 will be on Thursday, January 16, 2025. Please read the lab and complete both the pre-lab exercises (due at the beginning of the laboratory period) and complete the lab quiz (found on Nexus and that opens 24 hours before your lab section.)
Quiz #2 will be on Friday, January 17, 2025 and will cover constant electric fields and those involving point charges, the relation between electric field and electric force, the work-kinetic energy theorem and the motion of charges through constant electric fields.
Week #3
Lab #2 will be on Thursday, January 23, 2025. Please read the lab and complete both the pre-lab exercises (due at the beginning of the laboratory period) and complete the lab quiz (found on Nexus and that opens 24 hours before your lab section.)
Quiz #3 will be on Friday, January 24, 2025 and will cover capacitance, capacitors, the relationship between charge and voltage for a capacitor, charging and discharging capacitors (RC circuits), time constants and energy storage in capacitors.
Week #4
Lab #3 will be on Thursday, January 30, 2025. Please read the lab and complete both the pre-lab exercises (due at the beginning of the laboratory period) and complete the lab quiz (found on Nexus and that opens 24 hours before your lab section.)
Exam #1 will be on Friday, January 31, 2025 and will cover Ch. 20 (sections 20.1 - 20.5 on electric forces and fields due to point charges and constant electric fields for plates of charge), Ch. 21 (sections 21.1 - 21.8 electric potential for point charges, electric potential for plates, capacitance, energy stored in a capacitor), Ch. 22 (sections 22.1 - 22.2 & 22.4 - 22.6 electric current, Ohm's law and resistor circuits), and Ch. 23 (sections 23.1 - 23.7 Kirchhoff's rules, resistor only circuits, and RC circuits both charging and discharging). You may start the exam at 7:45am if you'd like. This start time is competely optional.
Week #5
There will be no lab on Thursday, February 6, 2025. Post lab #3 will be due in class on Friday, February 7, 2025.
Quiz #4 will be on Friday, February 7, 2025 and will cover electric forces and electric fields, magnetic fields, magnetic forces on charges, and circular and helical motion of charges in magnetic fields.
There will be no office hours on Sunday, February 8, 2025 due to the snow storm.
Week #6
Lab #4 will be on Thursday, February 13, 2025. Please read the lab and complete both the pre-lab exercises (due at the beginning of the laboratory period) and complete the lab quiz (found on Nexus and that opens 24 hours before your lab section.)
Quiz #5 will be on Friday, February 14, 2025 and will cover magnetic forces on wires and Faraday's law.
There will be no office hours on Sunday, February 16, 2025 due to the snow storm.
Week #7
There will be no lab on Thursday, February 20, 2025. Post lab #4 will be due in class on Friday, February 21, 2025.
Quiz #6 will be on Friday, February 21, 2025 and will cover light, intensity, radiation preesure, polarization, reflection and refraction.
Week #8
Presentation on The Eye (in ppt) or The Eye (in pdf).
Lab #5 will be on Thursday, February 27, 2025. Please read the lab and complete both the pre-lab exercises (due at the beginning of the laboratory period) and complete the lab quiz (found on Nexus and that opens 24 hours before your lab section.)
Exam #2 will be on Friday, February 28, 2025 and will cover Ch. 18 (sections 18.1 - 18.5, & 18.7), Ch. 19 (sections19.1 - 19.5), Ch. 24 (sections 24.1 - 24.6) and Ch. 25 (sections 25.1 - 25.7). Topics covered on the exam include magnetism and magnetic fields, magnetic forces on charges and currents in wires, magnetic fields from long straight wires, the Hall effect, Faradays law, the ray model of light, the laws of reflection and refraction, critical angles, intensity and polarization of light, converging and diverging lenses, compound lens systems, the thin lens equation, magnification, You may start the exam at 7:45am if you'd like. This start time is competely optional.
Week #9
Week #10
Presentation on Radioactive Dating (in ppt) or Radioactive Dating (in pdf).
Winter 2025 Final Exam Information:
Date and time: Monday, March 17, 2025 from 8:30am - 10:30am in Wold 128.
There will be 5 problems on the exam each worth 24 points. Each problem consists of three worked parts.
Each worked part is worth 8 points yielding 24 points for each problem.
The final exam is worth 120 points total.
Topics on the final:
1. Relativity, electric work, work-kinetic energy theorem, magnetic fields, magnetic forces and motion of charged particles in magnetic fields.
2. Light as a particle. Energy, momentum, frequency and wavelength of a photon. Nuclear decay and the radioactive decay law. Photoelectric and Compton effects.
3. Ohm's law and circuits. Resistors in series and parallel, resistor-capacitor circuits, discharging capacitors, magnetic fields from currents, electric current, electricfields, and electric potential.
4. Radioactive decay. Energy associated with decay particles, radioactive decay laws and radioactive dating.
5. Light as a wave. Reflection, refraction, critical angles in materials, lenses, thin lens equation, magnification, power of a lens.