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Lecture Date Topic Text sections
1 1/14 Newton’s Law of Gravitation 11.2, web
2 1/16 Kepler’s Laws 11.1
3 1/19 Gravitational Potential Energy 11.3
4 1/21 Gravitational Field of a Sphere 11.4, 5
5 1/23 Tidal Forces. General Relativity web
6 1/26 Hydrostatics, Archimedes’ Principle 13.3
7 1/28 Boyle’s Law, the Law of Atmospheres web notes
8 1/30 Bernoulli’s Equation web
9 2/2 Viscosity web
10 2/4 Dimensional Analysis web
11 2/6 Stokes’ Law web
12 2/9 Reynold’s Number, Turbulence web
13 2/11 Complex Numbers and Exponentials web
14 2/13 Simple Harmonic Motion 14.1
15 2/16 Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion 14.2, 3
16 2/20 Spreadsheet Treatment of Real Pendulum web
17 2/23 Damped Oscillations 14.4, web
18 2/25 Driven Oscillations and Resonance 14.5
19 2/27 Simple Wave Motion 15.1
20 3/1 The Wave Equation 15.1
21 3/3 Periodic Waves 15.2
22 3/5 Sound Waves, Intensity 15.3
23 3/15 Superposition, 2 Source Diffraction 16.1
24 3/17 Beats, Standing Sound Waves 16.1, 2
25 3/19 Waves Encountering Barriers 15.4
26 3/22 The Doppler Effect 15.5
27 3/26 Thermometers, Zeroth Law 17.1, 2, web
28 3/29 Calorimetry, Latent Heat 18.1, 2, web
29 3/31 The nature of Heat: Carnot, Rumford web
30 4/2 Joule and the Conservation of Energy 18.3, web
31 4/5 Kinetic Theory of Gases 17.5, web
32 4/7 Maxwell Distribution, Equipartition 17.5
33 4/9 PV Diagram for an Ideal Gas 18.4, 5
34 4/12 Heat Capacities of Gases and Solids 18.6, 7, 8
35 4/14 Adiabatic Compression of a Gas 18.9
36 4/16 The Carnot Cycle, Efficiency 19.4, web
37 4/19 Real Engines, Refrigerators 19.1, 2
38 4/21 Irreversibility and Disorder 19.6
39 4/23 Entropy 19.7
40 4/26 Catch up, Review