Teaching
Summer 2015
- Course Description:
- Rotational dynamics and angular momentum; equilibrium and elasticity; periodic motion including LRC electrical circuits; gravitation; fluid mechanics; temperature; thermal expansion; heat and the first law of thermodynamics; heat conduction; kinetic theory of gases; entropy and the second law; heat engines.
- Textbooks:
- Revisions by Young, Freedman and Ford (orginal series written by Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky), University Physics with Modern Physics, 13th edition.
Fall 2014
- Course Description:
- Classical mechanics, kinematics, vectors, Newton's laws, work and energy, conservation laws.
- Textbooks:
- Daniel Kleppner and Robert Kolenkow, An Introduction to Mechanics, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press.
- Robert Resnick, David Halliday, Kenneth S. Krane, Physics, Volume 1, Fifth Edition, John Wiley & Sons.
- Course Description:
- Electric charge and electric field, Gauss's law, electric potential, capacitance and dielectrics, current, resistance, electromotive force, DC circuits.
- Textbooks:
- Edward M. Purcell and David J. Morin, Electricity and Magnetism, Third Edition, Cambridge University Press.
