Welcome to the course website for Physics 311, section 9.

Much of the content on this site, and from my course itself, comes from the University Physics IA course as taught by Prof. Michael Richmond at RIT a couple of years ago, as well as from material graciously supplied by Prof. Vern Lindberg and others.

.PDF of the course syllabus.


Exam dates :
Exam 1, Week 4 ...........................Tuesday, Jan 10th, 6-7pm
Exam 2, Week 7 ...........................Tuesday, Jan 31st, 6-7pm
Final Exam ............................... Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 6-8pm


Mastering Physics : Homework assigned online here. Course ID is in the emails and syllabus.

MyCourses : RIT primary resource.

• Week 1 : Introduction to course, estimations (Fermi problems), measurement and uncertainty, simplified error propagation, vectors in 2d.

• Week 2 : Continue 1-D Kinematics, Position, Velocity, Acceleration, Vertical Motion in 1-D

• Week 3: 2-D Motion, Curves, Uniform Circular Motion, Projectile Motion

• Week 4: Introduction to Forces, Newton’s Laws, Free-Body Diagrams, Introduction to Springs

• Week 5: Continue Newton’s 2nd Law

• Week 6: Continue Newton’s 2nd Law, Frictional Forces

• Week 7: Energy and Work, Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy

• Week 8: Conservation of Energy, Conservative and Nonconservative Forces

• Week 9: Impulse and Momentum, Collisions in 1-D, Collisions in 2-D, Center of Mass, Conservation of Momentum

• Week 10: Energy and Momentum, Ballistic Pendulum, Gravitation and Force of Gravity