Thursday, February 9, 2012

Syllabus!

Tentative outline, recognizing that I hope to add a couple of classes devoted to flight and engines, et. al.:

1.31 Intro; SI units 1
2.2 SI units 2; Pseudoscience
2.7 Motion 1 - velocity
2.9 Motion 2 - acceleration
2.14 Gravitation
2.16 Force and Newton's Laws
2.21 Newton again
2.23 Gravitation again - Kepler's Laws, universal gravitation
2.28 Center of mass
3.1 Energy
3.6 Exam 1
3.8 Simple harmonic motion
3.13 Waves
3.15 Sound
3.27 More Sound
3.29 Doppler Effect
4.3 Light
4.5 Optics
4.10 More Optics
4.12 Exam 2
4.17 Interference, Diffraction and Holography
4.19 Electrical charge
4.24 Electrical circuits
4.26 Electricity and magnetism
5.1 Magnetism 2
5.3 Magnetism 3
5.8 Einstein!
5.10 Special theory of relativity
5.15 More relativity!

5.17 Final Exam

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