Lecture Notes

The TEAL classroom includes the opportunity for students to use the Personal Response System (PRS). Questions are posed to the class to stimulate discussion and indicate how concepts are going over. Students "vote" on answers electronically and their answers are tallied.

SES # TOPICS LECTURE NOTES PRS
L1 Hour One
Introduction to TEAL

Hour Two
Pre-Test
(PDF) (PDF)
L2 Hour One
Kinematics: One Dimensional Motion, Velocity and Acceleration
(PDF) (PDF)
L3 Hour One
Experiment 1: Introducing Data Studio

One Dimensional Motion, Velocity and Acceleration

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 1: One Dimensional Motion
(PDF) (PDF - 1.0 MB)
L4 Hour One
Kinematics: Two Dimensional Motion, Velocity and Acceleration

Hour Two
Experiment 2: Projectile Motion
(PDF) (PDF)
L5 Hour One
Problem Solving Session 2: Projectile Motion
(PDF)  
L6 Hour One
Force, Mass, and Newton's Laws of Motion

Force Laws

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 3: Applying Newton's Laws of Motion
(PDF) (PDF)
L7 Hour One
Vectors in Physics

Newton's First Law: Principle of Relativity, Relative Inertial Frames, Tension

Hour Two
Experiment 3: Modeling Forces
(PDF - 1.3 MB) (PDF)
L8 Hour One
Problem Solving Session 4: Newton's Laws of Motion

Spring Forces, Tension
   
L9 Hour One
Circular Motion Kinematics: Uniform Circular Motion

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 5: Uniform Circular Motion
(PDF) (PDF)
L10 Hour One
Experiment 4: Circular Motion

Hour Two
Test Review
(PDF)  
L11 Hour One
Universal Law of Gravitation

Circular Planetary Orbits

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 5: Uniform Circular Motion, Universal Law of Gravitation

Circular Planetary Orbits
(PDF) (PDF)
L12 Hour One
The Lever Principle: Static Equilibrium and Torque

Hour Two
Experiment 5a: Static Equilibrium
(PDF) (PDF)
L13 Hour One
Problem Solving Session 6: Static Equilibrium and Torque
(PDF)  
L14 Hour One
The Concept of Energy

Work

Experiment 5b: Friction

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 7: Work and the Dot Product
(PDF) (PDF)
L15 Hour One
Problem Solving Session 8: Work Done by Friction and other Dissipative Forces

Motion with Dissipative Forces
(PDF)  
L16 Hour One
Potential Energy and Conservation of Mechanical Energy

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 9: Potential Energy
(PDF) (PDF)
L17 Hour One
Problem Solving Session 10: Energy Techniques

Hour Two
Experiment 6: Conservation of Energy
(PDF) (PDF)
L18 Hour One
Problem Solving Session 11: Conservation of Energy: Restoring Forces and Harmonic Motion
(PDF)  
L19 Hour One
Center of Mass, Momentum, Impulse and Newton's Second Law

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 12: Center of Mass, Momentum, Impulse and Newton's Second Law
(PDF)  
L20 Test Review (PDF)  
L21 Hour One
Conservation Laws: Momentum and Collision Theory

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 13: Conservation of Momentum
(PDF) (PDF)
L22 Hour One
Experiment 7: Collisions

Hour Two
Rigid Bodies Kinematics
(PDF)  
L23 Hour One
Problem Solving Session 14: Moment of Inertia and Rotational Energy
   
L24 Hour One
Torque, Rotational Dynamics

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 15: Rotational Dynamics, Simple Harmonic Motion: Physical Pendulum
(PDF)  
L25 Hour One
Experiment 8: Physical Pendulum

Hour Two
Conservation Laws: Angular Momentum
(PDF)  
L26 Hour One
Problem Solving Session 16: Angular Momentum
(PDF)  
L27 Hour One
Experiment 9: Angular Momentum

Hour Two
Planetary Motion
(PDF)  
L28 Hour One
Problem Solving Session 17: Rotation and Translation, Galactic Black Hole

Hour Two
Test Review
(PDF)  
L29 Hour One
Kinetic Theory

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 18: Ideal Gas Law
(PDF)  
L30 Hour One
Archimedes Principle

Hour Two
Archimedes Principle, PRS Contest
(PDF)  
L31 Hour One
First Law of Thermodynamics, Entropy, and Second Law of Thermodynamics

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 19: Thermodynamics
(PDF)  
L32 Hour One
Temperature, Heat, and Heat Capacity

Hour Two
Experiment 10: Energy Transformations: Mechanical Equivalent of Heat
(PDF - 1.3 MB)  
L33 Hour One
Problem Solving Session 20: First and Second Thermodynamics
   
L34 Hour One
Special Relativity: Space-Time, Causality and Simultaneity

Hour Two
Problem Solving Session 21: Special Relativity: Time Dilation and Length Contraction
(PDF)  
L35 Final Review (PDF - 1.5 MB)