Thursday, July 1, 2010

Exam 1, and concept guides for this week's learning module.

The set of chapters we will cover for Exam next week is:
  1. Chapter 2: Basic concepts concerning position, velocity and acceleration. These are MUST UNDERSTAND concepts.
  2. Chapter 3: Sir Isaac Newton's three laws of motion. We will use these concepts every inch of the way this semester.
  3. Chapter 4: Two special kinds of accelerated paths, uniform circular motion and the path of a baseball heading for the outfield. These are the simplest applications of Newton's three laws.
  4. Chapter 5: Newton's great victory, the Law of Universal gravitation, a model of the scientific enterprise at full maturity.
The concept guides for the chapters 3-5 are now available in the Week 1 learning module, as promised. Plus, there are mini-quizzes that you can use for practice.

Remember to post questions in Discussions if the homework exercises throw you for a loop. You must crush Exam 1.