Structure of the course

This book is adapted from the College physics by OpenStax for the PHY231c course in MSU. Each chapter presents concepts and problem solving techniques to be worked weekly.

Every week students should read the assigned chapter and work on the homework assignment in LONCAPA. 3 times in the semester there will be special homework sets with problems similar to those that will be in the exam to be submitted via gradescope.

The schedule of the course follows the structure below

Week 1   Introduction: The Nature of Science and Physics

Week 2  Kinematics

Week 3  Two-Dimensional Kinematics

Week 4  Dynamics: Force and Newton’s Laws of Motion  and Applications: Friction, Drag, and Elasticity

Week 5  Uniform Circular Motion and Gravitation

Week 6  Work, Energy, and Energy Resources

Week 7  Linear Momentum and Collisions

Week 8  Statics and Torque

Week 9 Fall break and Rotational Motion and Angular Momentum

Week 10  Fluid Statics

Week 11  Fluid Dynamics and Its Biological and Medical Applications

Week 12  Temperature, Kinetic Theory, and the Gas Laws

Week 13  Heat and Heat Transfer Methods

Week 14  Thermodynamics

Week 15  Oscillatory Motion and Waves and Physics of Hearing