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THIS MATERIAL IS FROM A PREVIOUS SEMESTER FOR HISTORICAL INFORMATION
ONLY.
LECTURER: Dr. Simon Dalley
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Contact:
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Phone (214)
768-2109
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Office 207
Fondren Science
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E-mail: <sdalley@physics.smu.edu>
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Text: Fundamentals of Physics, Vol 1, 10th
Edition (Wiley), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl
Walker ISBN 978-1-118-23072-5.
WileyPlus online system is not required, but you may use that
resource here.
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Lecture: MTWTF, 11:00am-12:50 pm, 158 Fondren Science Building
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Office Hours: 10:00 – 10:45 am each
day in 207 Fondren Science
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Syllabus (classes, homework & quizzes
due, etc.)
· Quizzes. Submit quiz answers HERE before 11 am on due date.
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Ideal homework solution
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Final exam
practice questions. Final exam
instructions.
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Disability Accommodations, Religious Observances,
Extracurricular Activities, Absence
LINKS
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Meet Galileo,
who founded Mechanics, and Newton,
who perfected it.
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Shoot
the monkey. Aiming straight at the monkey always hits (can you prove it?)
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View
Hubble telescope pictures of other
(spiral) galaxies performing circular motion; see also the effects of the
rapidly rotating Pulsar
Neutron star in the Crab Nebula.
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Non-Inertial
frames of reference give rise to fictitious forces, such as the Coriolis force
that governs large scale weather
patterns on Earth.
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Conservation
of Energy for the entire universe implies existence of Dark Energy (2011 Physics Nobel Prize)
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Check out
a crash test video of
how your
car absorbs the impulse of a collision.
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Follow the
collisions of elementary particles (protons, quarks, electrons,..) performed at the largest machines in the world, such as
the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron
Collider (LHC).
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Play with
an orbit
simulator to understand how “freely falling” objects can stay
above Earth’s surface.
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Dark Matter melodrama.
Evidence from galaxy rotation.
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(Disastrous)
resonant oscillation
of the Tacoma bridge
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Listen to sound
clips of varying intensity and frequency to determine your threshold of
hearing
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