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This document provides information about an introductory physics lecture on periodic motion. It includes: 1) Details about the instructor, class times and location, textbooks, and resources for help. 2) Information about grading which will include in-class clicker quizzes, homework, midterm exams, and a final exam. 3) An overview of the structure of the class which will cover mechanical waves, electromagnetic waves, special relativity, and quantum mechanics. Periodic motion is introduced which describes any repeating motion and can be characterized by amplitude, period, frequency, and angular frequency.

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Lecture 1

This document provides information about an introductory physics lecture on periodic motion. It includes: 1) Details about the instructor, class times and location, textbooks, and resources for help. 2) Information about grading which will include in-class clicker quizzes, homework, midterm exams, and a final exam. 3) An overview of the structure of the class which will cover mechanical waves, electromagnetic waves, special relativity, and quantum mechanics. Periodic motion is introduced which describes any repeating motion and can be characterized by amplitude, period, frequency, and angular frequency.

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Lecture 1

(Introduction to Class
& Periodic Motion)
Physics 2310-01 Spring 2020
Douglas Fields
Instructor Info
• Instructor : Prof. Douglas E. Fields
• Office Location : Room 3220, PAIS
• Phone : 239-8205
• Email : [email protected]
Instructor Info
• Instructor : Prof. Douglas E. Fields
• Office Location : Room 3220, PAIS
• Phone : 239-8205
• Email : [email protected]
General Class Info
• Class Web Page :
http://physics.unm.edu/Courses/Fields/Phys2310/index.htm
• Class Times : MWF 12:00 – 12:50pm
• Class Location : PAIS Room 1100
• Problems Class Times/Location:
– Mon. 2:00 - 2:50pm, PAIS Room 1100
– Wed. 1:00 - 1:50pm, PAIS Room 1100
– Fri. 11:00 - 11:50am PAIS Room 1100
• Textbook : Young and Friedman, University Physics,
14th Edition, Pierson, Addison, Wesley
• Optional, but very useful textbook for special relativity: Six
Ideas that Shaped Physics: Unit R
Other Help For Class
• Tutor Table: PAIS 1500 (to be confirmed)
• Tutors at CAPS: Zimmerman Library
• Office Hours : During, right before or right
after problem sessions, or arrange by email.
Society of Physics Students
• SPS is an undergraduate student group that
does outreach to the community,
attends/hosts conferences, and takes trips to
various sites, such as the VLA or Trinity Site.
• It's also an excellent way to meet other
physics/astrophysics students and professors!
• They have a nice room in PAIS, room 1414.
Grades
• In-class Clicker Quizzes = 10%;
• Homework = 10%;
• Midterm Exams (Best 3 of 4) = 50%,
• Final (or average of all 4 midterms) = 30%
• A+ = >97, 93 < A < 97, 90 < A- =< 93, etc.
• Passing = >73%
Clickers
• If you don’t already have one, you will need to
purchase an iClicker, OR get the Reef app to
use your phone (costs about the same).
• Every day I will ask in-class quizzes at the
beginning of class (and also throughout) which
you will answer via your clickers or phone app.
• These will count towards 10% of your grade,
and will be based on the reading assignment
and class material.
IClicker Registration
Registering Your iClicker
• You only need to register your clicker once, so if you used it last
semester (and registered it), then you don’t have to do this.

Use your name as it appears in banner.


For student ID, use your banner ID.

Clicker ID is on the back of your clicker.


Mastering Physics
• http://www.masteringphysics.com/
• The homework counts 10% towards your
grade, but you would be foolish to Google the
answers to get a good grade here but not
understand how to do it, as much of the
exams will be taken from it with changes.
Registering for MP
• Class ID is MPFIELDSSPRING2020
• For your student ID, use your banner ID.
Exams
• There will be four mid-term exams.
• I will use the average of the best three, so you
can miss one exam.
• I will not allow any make-up exams.
• The final exam is comprehensive.
• You can replace your final exam with the average
of all four mid-term exams, so in principle, you
can miss the final (but not the final and one
midterm!)
How to succeed in this class:
• Keep up with the syllabus.
• Read the content for the class before you attempt the
MasteringPhysics homework.
– Not just look at the pictures or memorize equations.
• DO NOT GOOGLE MasteringPhysics solutions!
– It might give you a better grade on the 10% that the
homework is worth, but you will NOT do well on the
exams worth 80%.
• If you have problems in MP, bring them to a problems
class.
• Attend problem sessions.
• The goal is for you to understand this physics!
Memorization
Memorization Memorization + selection
+ selection + simple + understanding
math + simple math

1) F=?*a 2) If the net force on a 3) What is the minimum


10kg object is 10N, what acceleration a cart must
A) a is its acceleration? maintain in order for a 1kg
B) b block on a vertical surface
C) q A) 1 m/s2 at the front of the cart to keep
D) m B) 10 apples from falling if the coefficient
E) Phillip C) 31 m/s2 of static friction between the
D) 4 V/s cart and the block is 0.4?
E) Jane

You should be here!


Doing Homework
120.00

100.00

80.00
Exam Grade

60.00
Series1

40.00
Googlers

20.00

0.00
0.00 20.00 40.00 60.00 80.00 100.00 120.00

Mastering Physics Homework Grade


Structure of Class
• This class covers three different (but related) subjects plus relativity:
– Mechanical waves
• Wave equation
• Solutions for finite boundary value
• Superposition
• Reflection and transmission at boundaries
• Introduction to Fourier transforms
– Electromagnetic waves
• Nature of waves (mostly plane waves)
• Wave propagation through matter and at interfaces (reflection and refraction)
• Geometric Optics (lenses and mirrors)
• Interference and diffraction
– Special Relativity
• Space-time diagrams
• Nature of time and simultaneity
• Four-vectors and energy-momentum
– Quantum Mechanics
• Particle-wave duality
• Confined potentials
• Tunneling
• Hydrogen atoms
• Electron spin
Review
• For this class, you will need to recall much of
what you have learned in the first two
semesters of calculus-based physics.
Periodic Motion
• Motion like:
– Swinging pendulum
– Sound vibrations
– Vibrations of atoms
– My pacing
• Any motion that is repeating (comes back to an original point
and follows the same path again)
• Can be characterized by:
– Amplitude of motion
– Period of motion
• Or, the frequency
• Or, the angular frequency (?)
One-dimensional Period Motion

• My Pacing
x
One Cycle
Amplitude

One period
Periodic Behavior

Belousov-Zhabotinsky reaction

What is the period of this periodic behavior?

How would you plot this?


Simple Harmonic Motion
Fspring = −kx Hooke’s Law – describes ideal spring force

ma = −kx
d 2x k
2
+ x=0
dt m
k
x ( t ) = A cos (t +  ) ,  =
m
Trigonometric Functions
• What are the cos and sin functions?
adjacent opposite
cos ( ) = , sin ( ) =
hypotenuse hypotenuse
Phase Angle
What if we want a sine function, but would like it to start at ¼ π instead of zero?

 1 
y = 1 sin  x −  
 4 

What if we want a sine function, but would like it to start at -¼ π instead of zero?
 1 
y = 1 sin  x +  
 4 

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