Fundamental
Physics I (Physics 113)
1. Instructors: Gregory Sun, Office S-3-116; Phone: (617)287-6432; Email:greg.sun@umb.edu
2. Registration: All students are required to register for the course.
3. Text:
Physics for Scientists and Engineers
by Wolfson and Pasachoff, 3rd Edition, Addison Wesley, 1999.
4. Labs:
If you need a laboratory course, you should be enrolled in Physics 181 separately.
5. Tutoring: Tutoring hours will be held on M. T. W. and Th. from
6. Problems: For each chapter of the text a list of problems are assigned for
pointing out the emphasized areas and providing working materials. The underlined problems are due on the
dates shown.
7. Examinations: There are three mid-term
examinations and one final
examination as shown on the schedule. Each of the mid-terms will only cover
materials in the preceding part of the course while the final covers the all
selected sections of the course. The examinations consist of problems and
questions similar to those in the assignments. You may bring a calculator to
exams. Each exam will be of closed book. You may, however, bring a 4x5 card on
which you can write anything you wish.
8. Hand calculators: You will need a hand calculator for problem solving throughout this
course. It need not be elaborate or expensive. But it should be a scientific
model, that is, it should have at minimum in addition to the arithmetic
operations, the trigonometric functions, natural logarithm, the exponential
function, as well as their inverse operations. It should also have statistical
function keys to help you with the laboratory work.
9. Mathematical preparation: The course runs very rapidly. For this reason
students should bring to the course an elementary but working knowledge of
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus.
10. Grades:
The final grade is computed as follows: 20%
for each mid-term, 20% for final,
and 20% for the homework.
Physics 113 -
Lecture Schedule
Summer 2003
Week Month Date Day Chapter Topics
1 May 26 Monday Holiday
27 Tuesday Chapter
2 Velocity and Acceleration
28 Wednesday Chapter 2 One
Dimensional Motion
29 Thursday Chapter
3 Vectors
2 June 2 Monday Chapter
4 Two Dimensional Motion
3 Tuesday Chapter 5 Dynamics
4 Wednesday Chapter 6 Law of
Motion
5 Thursday Exam # 1
3 June 9 Monday Chapter
6 Law of Motion - Friction
10 Tuesday Chapter
7 Work and Energy
11 Wednesday Chapter 8 Potential
Energy
12 Thursday Chapter
8 Conservation of Energy
19 Thursday Exam # 2
5 June 23 Monday Chapter
11 Inelastic Collisions
24 Tuesday Chapter
11 Elastic Collisions
25 Wednesday Chapter 12 Rotation
26 Thursday Chapter
12 Rotational Dynamics
6 June 30 Monday Chapter
14 Statics
July 1 Tuesday Chapter 14 Statics
2 Wednesday Chapter 15 Oscillation 3 Thursday Exam # 3
7 July 7 Monday Chapter
18 Archimede’s Principle
8 Tuesday Review
9 Wednesday Final exam
Physics 113 -
Homework Assignments
Summer 2003
(Underlined
problems are due on the dates shown)
Chapter 2
Sections 2.4 and 2.5 37,
44, 53, 54, 56, 58
Section 2.6 60,
61, 62, 67, 69, 70, 71
Paired 77, 79, 81
Supplementary 83,
85, 89, 92
Chapter 3
Section 3.3 13,
17, 19, 25
Section 3.4 29,
37
Paired 49,
53, 55
Supplementary 60, 62 Due
June 2
Chapter 4
Section 4.3 15,
16, 17, 21, 28, 34, 41
Section 4.4 47,
48
Paired 55,
63
Supplementary 70,
71
Chapter 5
Section 5.6 27,
29, 33
Section 5.7 36,
37, 40, 41, 42
Paired 55,
56, 57, 61, 62
Supplementary 64,
66
Chapter 6
Section 6.1 9,
10, 11, 12, 13
Section 6.2 15,
17, 19, 22 Due
June 9
Section 6.3 27,
32, 33, 35, 37
Section 6.4 39,
41, 42, 49, 51, 53, 57, 60
Paired 67,
68, 71, 72, 73
Chapter 7
Section 7.1 8
Section 7.2 15,
22
Section 7.3 23,
24, 26, 27
Paired 69,
71, 74, 75, 76
Supplementary 82
Chapter 8
Section 8.3 20,
24, 28, 32, 34, 35, 36
Section 8.6 50,
52, 59, 60
Paired 65,
68, 69, 70, 73
Supplementary 78,
84 Due
June 16
Chapter 10
Section 10.1 3,
5, 9, 11, 12, 18
Section 10.2 23,
25
Section 10.3 42,
43
Paired 45,
49
Supplementary 55,
56 Due
June 23
Chapter 11
Section 11.3 17,
18
Section 11.4 38,
39, 40
Paired 55,
57
Supplementary 65,
70, 71, 72
Chapter 12
Section 12.1 10,
14
Section 12.2 19,
21
Section 12.3 32,
35
Section 12.4 56,
60
Supplementary 69,
75 Due
June 30
Section 14.1 4,
7
Section 14.2 11
Section 14.3 25,
31, 33
Section 14.4 38,
39
Supplementary 41,
53 Due
July 7