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Lecturer : | Prof. Ben Kilminster |
Lectures ( PHY111.1 ): |
Thursday, 08:00 - 09:45 (Y16-G-15) Friday, 08:00 - 09:45 |
Exercise sessions ( PHY111.2 ): | Thursday, 13:00 - 14:45 (First : 24th September 2020) |
Formelsammlung Mittelschulphysik (PDF, 396 KB) is also useful for usage of basic formulas.
Exercises will be posted on OLAT here. Please register and log in immediately to see if you can access the course, If not, check that your UZH email is registered properly.
Exercises will be assigned every Wednesday, and will be due the following Wednesday at 18:00. Your teacher assistant (TA) will let you know how to submit your exercises. If you do not turn in your exercises by the deadline, you will not receive credit.
The first exercise sheet will be assigned on September 17th, and should be submitted to the TA on Feb. 23rd. The solutions to the first exercise sheet will be presented on Sept. 24th.
Your grade is based on the following assessments :
Attendance is expected and recorded for exercise sessions. The mid-term and final examination will be composed of questions similar to those presented in the lectures and the weekly exercises. To prepare for the exam, you should know how to do the derivations and exercises done in lecture, you should be able to solve any of your weekly exercises, and you should practice doing similar exercises from textbooks without assistance. Practice makes perfect. You can learn to be a good physicist ... if you want it !
The final exam schedule is located hier.
Mid-term exam : Thursday, 29. October 2020, 13:00-14:45 in assigned exercise session.
Final exam : Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 14:00-16:00, Hörsaal 30
Exams will be similar in style to the weekly exercises. A formula sheet with needed equations will be provided to you in the exams. Other needed formulas should be derived from these. The formula sheet will be sent to you at least a week before the exam to help you study. We will provide you with paper and a calculator if needed. The final exam will be printed in english and in german. The mid-term will be based on the first six lectures, and the first five written exercises.
Script | Modification date | Material |
PHY111-HS2020-Script-Finalv10 (PDF, 5 MB) | October 13, 2022 | Final script, v10 |
The following will be regularly updated with lecture notes and topics throughout the course.
Week | Material | Lecture notes | Additional resources |
Week 1 Sept. 17/18 |
Units, derivatives, position, velocity, acceleration, movement due to constant acceleration |
See Tipler, Demtröder. For help on derivatives, see MHP link above. |
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Week 2 Sept. 24/25 |
2-D motion, constant acceleration, circular motion Newton's three laws |
PHY111_HS2020-diagrams-forces (PDF, 235 KB) | |
Week 3 Oct. 1/2 |
Integrals, Work, dot products, potential energy, kinetic energy, energy conservation | ||
Week 4 Oct. 8/9 |
Power, elastic collisions, inelastic collisions, impulse, center-of-mass motion. Angular acceleration, velocity, motion. Torque, moment of inertia. | ||
Week 5 Oct. 15/16 |
rotations, torque, angular momentum, precession, kinetic energy of rotation, center of mass frame, rolling |
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Week 6 Oct. 22/23 |
rolling, rotational equilibrium, simple harmonic oscillators (springs, pendulum, etc.) | Small-angle-formula-proof (PDF, 2 MB) | |
Week 7 Oct. 29/30 |
simple harmonic oscillators, damped/driven oscillators, inertial & non-inertial reference frames, pseudo forces | ||
Week 8 Nov. 5/6 |
rotating reference frames, coriolis pseudoforce, centrifugal pseudoforce, fluids, pressure | ||
Week 9 Nov. 12/13 |
fluids, Bernoulli's equation, Venturi effect, centrifuge | ||
Week 10 Nov. 19/20 |
adhesive/cohesive forces, laminar flow, viscosity,
waves : wave propagation, standing waves |
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Week 11 Nov. 26/27 |
standing waves, sound waves, speed of sound in a fluid, interference, beats, wave intensity, wave energy density, etc. | Pressure-air-standing-sound-wave (GIF, 1 MB) | |
Week 12 Dec.3/4 |
Finishing waves. Doppler effect. Young's modulus in solids. Complex numbers, simple harmonics with complex functions. |
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Week 13 Dec. 10/11 |
fourier series / fourier analysis | Wave_group (GIF, 578 KB) | |
Week 14 Dec. 17/18 |
Review session |