Syllabus for Physics 152 Spring 2007

(subject to minor adjustments)

Lecture Date Topic

Topic 1: Gravity

1 1/17 Newton’s Law of Gravitation

2 1/19 Kepler’s Laws

3 1/22 The Gravitational Field

4 1/24 Gravitational Potential Energy

5 1/26 Elliptic Orbits

6 1/29 Tidal Forces. General Relativity

Topic 2: Fluids

7 1/31 Hydrostatics, Archimedes’ Principle

8 2/2 Boyle’s Law, the Law of Atmospheres

9 2/5 Bernoulli’s Equation

10 2/7 Viscosity

11 2/9 Dimensional Analysis

12 2/12 Stokes’ Law

13 2/14 Reynold’s Number, Turbulence

Topic 3: Oscillations

14 2/16 Simple Harmonic Motion

15 2/19 Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion

Midterm 1: 2/21 Lectures 1-13

16 2/23 Damped Oscillations

17 2/26 Driven Oscillations and Resonance

Topic 4: Waves

18 2/28 Simple Wave Motion

19 3/2 The Wave Equation

20 3/12 Periodic Waves

21 3/14 Sound Waves, Intensity

22 3/16 Superposition, 2 Source Diffraction

23 3/19 Beats, Standing Sound Waves

24 3/21 Waves Encountering Barriers

25 3/23 The Doppler Effect

Topic 5: Heat

26 3/26 Thermometers, Zeroth Law

27 3/28 Calorimetry, Latent Heat

28 3/30 The nature of Heat: Carnot, Rumford

29 4/2 Joule and the Conservation of Energy

Midterm 2: 4/4 Lectures 14-28

30 4/6 Kinetic Theory of Gases

31 4/9 Maxwell Distribution, Equipartition

32 4/11 PV Diagram for an Ideal Gas

33 4/13 Heat Capacities of Gases and Solids

34 4/16 Adiabatic Compression of a Gas

Topic 6: Second Law of Thermodynamics

35 4/18 The Carnot Cycle, Efficiency

36 4/20 Real Engines, Refrigerators

37 4/23 Irreversibility and Disorder

38 4/25 Entropy

39 4/27 Brownian Motion

40 4/30 Catch up, Review