Mechanics: PHYS 204A

Text:  “Fundamentals of Physics Extended”, Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, Wiley, 2010


Topics include:

  1. Bullet Linear and circular motion

  2. Bullet Newton’s laws

  3. Bullet Work. Energy. Momentum

  4. Bullet Rotational dynamics. Equilibrium

  5. Bullet Gravitation

  6. Bullet Oscillations


Laboratory experiments organized by topic

  1. Bullet Motion. Free fall. Projectile motion.

  2. Bullet Newton’s second law. Friction. Centripetal force.

  3. Bullet Work and energy

  4. Bullet Impulse and momentum. Conservation laws.

  5. Bullet Ballistic pendulum

  6. Bullet Static equilibrium

  7. Bullet Simple oscillators


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Dr. Anna Petrova-Mayor

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