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Physics Module
Week

Lecture slides+pre-recorded lectures

Handouts, reading materials
Lab
Lab Data
Homework
Answers to homework Useful Links
Background Materials

Syllabus

 

Uncertainties, errors and their propagation

 

A link for math relations and more

 

A publication that is based, in part, on this class which includes chapters on density, pressure, buoyancy, and heat/temperature

Website with links to movies of these hands-on activities (many of which you will do in class)

  Rubric on data analysis  

NIST pages on constants, units and uncertainty;

 

Nasa's unit converstion guide

 

orders of magnitude

 

Videos of basic concepts in physics and biology

1/27/2020

Physics, units & continuum mechanics [PDF]

recorded Lectures from 2015: Lecture 1a, Lecture 1b

Course mechanics, statistics and physics [PDF]

 

Measurement uncertainty with no-slip [PDF]

Quiz 1 [PDF]

Data from groups - sinking speeds [xlsx]

rod data [xlsx]

Homework 1[PDF, doc]

 

 

+Read next week's readings.

 

 

Answers to homework 1 [PDF]

Worked up data [xlsx]

 

Continuum mechanics;

Fluid mechanics;

 

 

 

2/3/2020

Volume, density, mass and static pressure [PDF]

recorded Lectures from 2015: Lecture 2

Volume, density, mass and static pressure. [PDF]

 

Pressure lab [PDF]

Quiz 2 [PDF]

 

 

Homework 2 [PDF, doc]

 

+Read next week's readings.

Answer to homework 2 [PDF]

Pascal's principle;

 

Hydrostatic pressure;

 

Calculus-based pressure calculation

2/10/2020

Buoyancy and Bernoulli's principle [PDF]

recorded Lectures from 2015: Lecture 3

Buoyancy and Bernoulli's principle [PDF]

Buoyancy lab [PDF]

Quiz 3 [PDF]

 

Homework 3 [PDF, doc]

+Read next week's readings.

Answer to homework 3 [PDF]  
2/17/2020

No class

President's day

 

 

 
2/24/2020

Heat and temperature [PDF]

recorded Lectures from 2015: Lecture 4

Temperature and heat transfer [PDF]

Temperature and heat lab [PDF]

Quiz 4[PDF]

 

Homework 4 [PDF, doc]

+Read next week's readings.

Answer to homework 4 [PDF]

Properties of water;

 

More properties

 

3/2/2020

Reynold's number and swimming

[PDF]

recorded Lectures from 2015: Lecture 5

Re and swimming [PDF]

Reynolds Lab [PDF]

Quiz 5 [PDF]

 

 

Homework 5 [PDF, doc]

Study for final exam on this module

Answer to homework 5 [PDF]

Purcell (1977)-swimming at low Reynolds number

 

Padisak et al. (2003)-settling

3/9/2020

Final exam

7-9am

Little 120

 

 

Review session5-6pm 3/8/20

Coe room at the Memorial U.

Lab on light and sound [PDF]

Quiz 6 [PDF]

 

 

Exams with answers: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

Exams without answers: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020

 

 

Name Quiz 1 Quiz2 Quiz3 Quiz4 Quiz5 Quiz6 Total
Narwhal 34 40 33 37 38 32 214
Sea Stars 34 40 38 37 33 33 217
Mola Mola 36 38 38 38 33 34 217
Shark Bait 36 35 36 38 34 34 213
The Horshoe Crab 40 40 38 36 38 32 224
Real Isopod Hours 33 38 37 40 34 31 213
Lighting Whelks 38 40 37 40 36 38 129
Lil' Senastian 38 37 40 35 34 40 224
The Killer Krew 37 40 32 27 32 36 204
We are the reef 40 40 40 40 40 38 238
SS Nemo 38 40 40 40 34 40 232
Kobe 32 35 40 36 26 36 205
THE PHISH 38 40 38 34 36 38 224
The Octopals 36 38 32 31 38 30 205
Crazy Cuttlefish 35 38 29 40 27 32 201
Squid Squad 38 38 36 40 36 38 226
Patrick Stars 36 40 40 40 40 38 234
Lab Mamba 31 38 32 34 31 33 199
The Krusty Krabs 38 40 40 32 37 33 220