Momentum and Energy

HW 1: Due on Friday, January 9

Familiarize yourself with Sections 7.1-7.3

Do pages 293-295 Problems 3, 17

Calculus Workbook do Exercise 7.1

HW 2: Due Tuesday, January 13

Read Sections 7.4,7.5 -- Conservation of Momentum, Collisions, and Impulse

Do: Chapter 7 Problems 55, 57, 67, 71, 73

HW 3: Due on Thursday, January 15

Section 6.1-- Work and dot products

Look over section 6.1, read pages 223-225, 229-231

Egg Drop initial sketches due.

For homework, determine the the amount of work that you do against gravity every time that you walk up the stairs (first floor to second floor) at the south end of the library building.

HW 4: Due on Tuesday, January 20

Look over sections 6.2, 6.3-- Mechanical energy: kinetic energy and gravitational potential energy

Do page 262 problems 23, 44, 64, 107

HW 5: Due on Thursday, January 22

Egg Drop Projects due (whoop whoop!!!)-- and that's no yolk!

HW 6: Due on Monday, January 25

Turn in Egg Drop Project Report.

HW 7: Due on Wednesday, January 27

Due Textbook Chapter 6, pages 263-266: problems 37, 47

HW 8: Due on Friday, January 29

Due Textbook Chapter 7 page 297 Problems 73, 74

HW 9: Due on Tuesday, February 3

An electron collides elastically with a hydrogen atom, which is initially at rest. The initial and final motions are along the same straight line. What fraction of the electron's initial kinetic energy is transferred to the hydrogen atom? The mass of the hydrogen atom is about 1840 times the mass of the electron.

HW 10: Due on Thursday, February 5

Take home exam due, Energy and Momentum