Lecture notes for General Physics 1500 : Dr Loch

This course is a algebra based physics course, covering material on mechanics, thermodynamics and waves.

The class meets Mon, Wed, and Fri at 8am in Parker Hall 307, with the recitations on Mondays, and Labs on Wednesdays.

Here is the Syllabus for the course.

Here are all of the homework questions for the course.

The links below are to the power point lecture notes from the class. As we start each new section the new notes will be put on this web page.

Lecture notes for Chapters 1-4: Material for exam I

Section 1 power point and pdf files. This section involves background theory, 1-D and 2-D motion and Newton's laws.

Practice material for Class Test I

Here is the summary sheet for Class test 1.

Here are the solutions to Class test 1.

******* Here are the notes for the inclined plane lab for Wed 6th Feb: lab manual inclined plane. ********

Lecture notes for Chapters 5-8: Material for exam II

Section 2 power point and pdf files. This section involves energy, momentum, collision and rotational motion.

******* Here are the notes for the conservation of mechanical energy lab on Wed 13th Feb: lab manual conservation of mechanical energy. ********

Practice material for Class Test II

Here is the summary sheet for Class test 2.

Here are the solutions to the second class test.

Lecture notes for Chapters 9-12: Material for exam III

Section 3 power point and pdf files. This section involves the properties of solids and fluids, and the laws of thermodynamics.

Here are the solutions to the homework questions for chapter 9.

Here are the solutions to the homework questions for chapter 10.

Here are the solutions to the homework questions for chapter 11.

Here are the solutions to the homework questions for chapter 12.

Here is the summary sheet for Class test 3.

Here is the equation sheet that will be included with the exam paper as a pdf file.

Practice material for Class Test III

Here are the solutions to the third class test.

Lecture notes for Chapter 13:

Section 4 power point and pdf files. This chapter covers simple harmonic motion and waves.

Here is the equation and constants sheet that will be used on the final.