Physics 113 - Fall 2006 - University of Rochester
General Physics I - Mechanics
News Important links Project Contact info Lectures Problem sets Solution sets Workshops
Photo credit: Andrew Davidhazy
We are done. Your grade information is in WebCT. The distribution on which the letter grade is based is at the BNA url below. Have a great holiday!
Ponder this:
"22,000 days. It's not a lot. It's all you got. 22,000 days."
- The Moody Blues , in Long Distance Voyager released in 1981
Our Hero!!
Sir Isaac Newton
Listen to the ballad of Sir Isaac Newton (found here). Our man Isaac invented much of what you will study in Physics 113. Before that he did backup vocals for Bon Jovi.
Workshop section schedule/rooms
Exam grades not as good as you would like? Try the Troubleshooting guide.
Manly's regrade and exam question policy
Exam 1 formula sheet (to be provided with exam)
Exam 2 formula sheet (to be provided with exam)
BNA distribution (best numerical average dist. used to determine the letter grade)
A few potentially useful links:
Julie's guide to solving multi-stage problems (prepared by a past award-winning TA to help her P113 workshop students)
All you need to know about the right-hand rule (from Syracuse physics)
The physics classroom (online tutorial on mechanics)
Fear of physics - another online site with visuals that can help you make sense of this crap
Bored? Check these out (trust me ... these are cool even if you aren't into physics):
FSU magnet lab powers of ten ... perspectives on size scales.
Steve Manly, Department of Physics and Astronomy
reach via email: steven.manly@rochester.edu
reach via phone: 585-275-8473
reach via feet: B&L 203E
Manly's office hours: Tuesday 2-4 or by appointment ... feel free to drop by without an appt. with the understanding that I might in the middle of something else and need to set up a better time to meet.
Workshop leaders:
Fall 2006 P113 Workshop leaders 
Back row (Left to Right): Xu Wang, Jonathan Widawsky, Nisha Puntambekar, Amrita Urdhwarashe, Andrew Mosher,
Front row (Left to Right): Brock Schmutzler, Jason Robin, Elizabeth Scherrer
Xu Wang (called wang-zhu ... or wang if you have trouble pronoucing zhu)
wangxu@pas.rochester.edu
Wangxu 's office hour: Wed. 2-3pm in B&L 304
Jonathan Widawsky
jwidawsk@mail.rochester.edu
Nisha Puntambekar
npuntamb@mail.rochester.edu
Amrita Urdhwareshe
amrita@pas.rochester.edu
Amrita's office hour: Mon. 2-3 pm in B&L 208B (to side of B&L 208)
Andrew Mosher
atmosher@pas.rochester.edu
Andrew's office hour: Wed. 7-8 pm in B&L 208B (to side of B&L 208)
Julie Langenbrunner
julie@pas.rochester.edu
Julie's office hour: Mon. 1-2 pm in B&L 478
Elizabeth Groves
egroves@pas.rochester.edu
Elizabeth's office hour: Mon. 1-2 pm in B&L 478
Jason Robin
jrobin@mail.rochester.edu
Elizabeth Scherrer
escherre@mail.rochester.edu
Laboratory:
email physlabs@pas.rochester.edu with question/issues
Also, you can find relevant information on the laboratory website.
Lect 1 - Sept. 5, 2006 - intro to course
Lect 2 - Sept. 7, 2006 - 1-d motion , shuttle flight 1-d motion example
Lect 3 - Sept. 8, 2006 - laboratory lecture on statistics
Lect 4 - Sept. 12, 2006 - constant acceleration in 1-d
Lect 5 - Sept. 14, 2006 - 1-d motion, intro to vectors
Lect 6 - Sept. 19, 2006 - more vectors, multi-dimensional motion
Lect 7 - Sept. 21, 2006 - circular motion, start of Newton's Laws
Lect 8 - Sept. 26, 2006 - Newton's Law problems
Lect 9 - Sept. 28, 2006 - More on Newton's Laws, friction (on streaming video)
Lect 10 - Oct. 3, 2006 - friction
Lect 11 - Oct. 10, 2006 - Work and energy
Lect 12 - Oct. 12, 2006 - Work and energy and springs , work-energy examples
Lect 13 - Oct. 17, 2006 - springs, potential energy
Lect 14 - Oct. 19, 2006 - potential energy, gravitation
Lect 15 - Oct. 24, 2006 - Momentum conservation, collisions
Lect 16 - Oct. 26, 2006 - center-of-mass coordinates
Lect 17 - Oct. 31, 2006 - cm coords, rotational kinematics
Lect 18 - Nov. 2, 2006 - rotational motion
Lect 19 - Nov. 7, 2006 - rotational motion continued
Lect 20 - Nov. 9, 2006 - rotational dynamics
Lect 21 - Nov. 14, 2006 - rotation and angular momentum
Lect 22 - Nov. 16, 2006 - angular momentum and precession
Lect 23 - Nov. 28, 2006 - equilibrium, fluid statics
Lect 24 - Nov. 30, 2006 - fluid statics and dynamics
Lect 25 - Dec. 5, 2006 - simple harmonic motion
typical P113 student at start of class in September
same student just after P113 exam after having worked hard doing all the problem sets and coming to closure with the solutions each week
same student walking out of P113 exam having not done the problem sets religiously
Problem set 1, due at end of lecture on Sept. 14, 2006
Problem set 2, due at end of lecture on Sept. 21, 2006
Problem set 3, due at end of lecture on Sept. 28, 2006
Problem set 4, due at the start of the exam on Oct. 5, 2006
Problem set 5, due at the end of lecture on Oct. 12, 2006
Problem set 6, due at the end of lecture on Oct. 19, 2006
Problem set 7, due at the end of lecture on Nov. 2, 2006
Problem set 8, due at the end of lecture on Nov. 9, 2006
Problem set 9, due at the end of lecture on Nov. 16, 2006
Problem set 10, due at the end of lecture on Nov. 30, 2006
Problem set 11, due at the end of lecture on Dec. 7, 2006
Workshop 1, for workshops starting Sept. 12, 2006
Workshop 2, for workshops starting Sept. 19, 2006
Workshop 3, for workshops starting Sept. 26, 2006
Workshop 4, for workshops starting Oct. 3, 2006
Workshop 5, for workshops starting Oct. 10, 2006
Workshop 6, for workshops starting Oct. 17, 2006
Workshop 7, for workshops starting Oct. 24, 2006
Workshop 8, for workshops starting Oct. 31, 2006
Workshop 9, for workshops starting Nov. 7, 2006
Workshop 10, for workshops starting Nov. 14, 2006
Workshop 11, for workshops starting Nov. 28, 2006
Workshop 12, for workshops starting Dec. 5, 2006