Introductory Mechanics
Summer 2016
WARNING: DO NOT USE.
THIS MATERIAL IS FROM A PREVIOUS SEMESTER FOR HISTORICAL INFORMATION
ONLY.
Satisfies a Level I
Pure & Applied Science Pillar (when taken with PHYS 1105 lab course) and a
Quantitative Reasoning Proficiency & Experience of the University
Curriculum.
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.
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Lecture: M-F, 11:00am-12:50 am, 158 Fondren Science Building
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Office Hours: Daily 9:30-10:30 am, 207 Fondren Science
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Teaching Assistant (Maddy):
Daily 3-4 p.m., 152 Fondren Science
Math Fitness Test Example
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Syllabus
· Quizzes
Submit quiz responses HERE
before 10:30 am of due date.
Muddy Point Examples:
Not
thoughtful: I
don’t understand acceleration.
Thoughtful:
I am not sure in what cases I can use eq (2-2)
for velocity
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Ideal solution layout
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Final exam
practice questions
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ADDITIONAL
PHYSICS OPPORTUNITIES
· Society of Physics Students.
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Undergraduate Physics Research
at SMU
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Physics Degree
Programs
INTERESTING MECHANICS 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
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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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Kepler’s
1st law,
Kepler’s 2nd
Law
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Dark Matter melodrama.
Galaxy rotation
violates Kepler’s 3rd law.
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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