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PRECALCULUS AND PHYSICS

Instructor: M Gadea Office: Sem 2 B3121 Phone: x6548 gadeam@evergreen.edu "Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought" Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Textbook: Cutnell and Johnson, Physics, Sixth edition, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-15183-1
Lectures: Tuesday, 1:00 p.m. and Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. Lecture Hall 5 Workshops: Tuesday 2:30 p.m. Labs: Friday, Week 5, 7 and 9 Exams: tuesdays week 4 and 9, quizzes any day REVIEW FOR THE FINAL EXAM
TENTATIVE SPRING SCHEDULE (Please, check weekly)

WEEK	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	FRIDAY
1	Electric Forces and electric field Ch 18.1-18.5 ANSWER WORKSHOP WEEK 1	Electric Forces and electric field Ch 18.6-18.11 HOMEWORK WEEK1
2	Electric potential energy Ch 19.1-19.3 ANSWER WORKSHOP WEEK 2	Electric potential energy Ch 19.4-19.7 HOMEWORK WEEK 2
3	Electromotive force and current Ch 20.1-20.4 ANSWER WORKSHOP WEEK 3	Electromotive force and current, Ohm's law, resistance Ch 20.1-20.4
4	ANSWER Midterm exam	Series wiring Ch 20.6 HOMEWORK WEEK 4
5	Parallel wiring Ch 20.7-20.9	Kirchhoff's rules Ch 20.10 HOMEWORK WEEK 5	Lab 1: ELECTROCHEMISTRY
6	Other circuits Ch 20.11-20.15	Rotational Dynamics Ch 9.1-9.2 HOMEWORK WEEK 6
7	Rotational Dynamics Ch 9.3-9.4, 9.6 WORKSHOP WEEK 7	Rotational Dynamics Ch 9.3-9.4, 9.6 HOMEWORK WEEK 7	Lab 2: Electric fields
8	Fluids Ch 11.1-11.5 WORKSHOP WEEK 8	Fluids Ch 11.6-11.12	SCIENCE CARNIVAL
9	Final exam	Biology lecture	NO LAB
10	TBA	TBA	Lab Clean-up

LINKS OF INTEREST

World year of physics
TI manuals (graphing calculators)
Graph paper (rectangular and polar coordinates, log and semi-log paper, etc)
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Matter and minerals (Calculus) 2005-2006