PHY131H1F Fall 2011
Jason Harlow's Archive page

The official web page for PHY131H1F Fall 2011 was on https://portal.utoronto.ca/.  The course was team-taught by me, David Harrison and Pierre Savaria, and the Practicals were organized and run by Kausik Das.  Below I post my contributions to the course for archive purposes [last updated July 3, 2012].  For the work of Professors Harrison, Savaria and Das, please contact them directly.

Text: Knight cover “Physics for Scientists and Engineers” 2nd Edition (©2008) by Randall Knight.

Course Outline (14 page PDF)

Test 2 (Version 1) - Nov. 22, 2011

Solutions to Test 2

Class Schedule (Harlow lectures only)
Class
 Date
 Topics
 Files, Links
14
 Oct. 31, 2011
  • Conservation of Energy
  • Kinetic Energy
  • Gravitational Potential Energy
 PowerPoint Slides
Tablet Notes
Rolling Balls Animation
Skier Animation
15
 Nov. 2, 2011
  • Stable and Unstable Equilibrium
  • Hooke’s Law
  • Elastic Potential Energy
  • Energy in Collisions
  • Elastic, Inelastic Collisions
 PowerPoint Slides
Tablet Notes
Domino Chain Reaction
16
 Nov. 9, 2011
  • Work and Force
  • Work and Potential Energy
  • The Work-Kinetic Energy Theorem
  • Thermal Energy
  • Power
 PowerPoint Slides
Tablet Notes
17
 Nov. 14, 2011
  • Rotational Motion, Rotational Kinematics
  • Newton’s 2nd Law of Rotation
  • Torque
  • Moment of Inertia
  • Centre of Mass
 PowerPoint Slides
Tablet Notes
18
 Nov. 16, 2011
  • Gravitational Torque
  • Rolling without slipping
  • Rotational Kinetic Energy
  • Static Equilibrium
 PowerPoint Slides
Tablet Notes
19
 Nov. 21, 2011
  • Angular Velocity Vector
  • Angular Momentum
  • Review
 PowerPoint Slides
Tablet Notes
20
 Nov. 23, 2011
  • Oscillations, Repeating Motion
  • Simple Harmonic Motion
  • Oscillations follow a sine or cosine function
 PowerPoint Slides
Tablet Notes
SHM shadow of circular motion animation
21
 Nov. 28, 2011
  • Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
  • Hanging Springs
  • The Pendulum
  • Damped Oscillations
  • Driven Oscillations; Resonance
 PowerPoint Slides
Tablet Notes
Video showing resonance
22
 Nov. 30, 2011
  • Fluids
  • Pressure
  • Pascal’s Law
  • Gauge Pressure
  • Suction
 PowerPoint Slides
Tablet Notes
23
 Dec. 5, 2011
  • Buoyancy
  • Archimedes Principle
  • Fluid Dynamics
  • Bernoulli’s Principle
 PowerPoint Slides
Tablet Notes
24
 Dec. 7, 2011
  • Course Review
 PowerPoint Slides

Suggested End-of-chapter Conceptual Questions  and  Answers
Suggested End-of-chapter Problems