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Course Information
College Physics I Text: OpenStax College Physics with Concept
Tutor
Physics 211 Office hours: 3:00 4:00 MR & 4:00 5:00 T
Test: 4 tests, first on Monday, Sept. 12
Graeme Dewar Quizzes: in Concept Tutor, Blackboard, and in-
Rm 228 Witmer Hall class
Final exam: Wednesday, Dec.14 at 8:00 am
Weights see Syllabus on Blackboard
Math prerequisite: Math 103
Laboratory: Required, incomplete failure

ALL INFORMATION IS ON
BLACKBOARD
Test & Exam info
Go through MyUND link
Logon same as for other UND systems

Course Goals
Gain a deep understanding of kinematics
and dynamics using basic mathmatics
Get a sense of how science works
Learn elements of critical thought using
examples from physics
Develop analytic and quantitative thinking
skills
See statement on E.S. goals on Blackboard
re: thinking and reasoning, especially
quantitative reasoning

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Survival Guide
Take notes in class (perhaps on ppts)
Read the relevant sections of the text
Do the homework (word problems) in a
notebook separate from your lecture notes
Do the quizzes well before the deadline
Do the pre-labs before coming to the lab!

Some Donts Flunk-out machines through the ages

Dont skip doing the homework

Dont party too much
Dont spend time on flunk-out machines
Dont rely on Google to find quiz answers!
Dont spend money on a Chegg account

Princeton Review
Rankings And Lists

Students Study the Least: UND # 2 in 2012

Students in physics courses were too

busy to take the survey!

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Why should a biologist study physics? COLLEGE PHYSICS

Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: THE NATURE OF SCIENCE AND PHYSICS

Physics SI units
the study of the universe, from the sub-atomic (basic to Physics 211)
scale to the full size of the universe
a science based on experiment (measurement)
meter (m): unit of length
fundamental units:
Mass: kilogram (SI), slug (English) kilogram (kg): unit of mass
Length: meter (SI), foot (English)
Time: second (SI and English) second (s): unit of time
Current (E&M): Ampere (SI)
Kelvin (K): unit of temperature

The Meter
In 1792 the meter was defined to be one ten-millionth of the
Old meter
A distance from the north pole to the equator.
Earth
AB
1 m
C 107
For practical reasons the meter was later defined as the
Equator B distance between two fine lines on a standard meter bar
made of platinum-iridium.
Since 1983 the meter is defined as the length traveled by
light in vacuum during the time interval of 1/299792458 of
a second. The reason why this definition was adapted was
that the measurement of time had become extremely precise.
The speed of light is defined to be 299 792 458 m/s.

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FIGURE 1.19
MASS

Units
SI kilogram, kg
Defined in terms of a kilogram, based on a specific cylinder kept
at the International Bureau of Standards

The meter is now defined to be the distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 of a second
in a vacuum. Distance traveled is speed multiplied by time.

Standard kilogram Standard second

1
1 second
24 60 60
of the time it takes the Earth
to complete a full rotation
about its axis.

In 1967 the second was

redefined as the time
required for
9,192,631,770 of the
vibrations of a cesium
atom.

Evolution of SI Current Standards

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New Standards Coming in 2018 The units for length, mass, and time (as well
as a few others), are regarded as base SI
units.

These units are used in combination to

define additional units for other important
physical quantities such as force and
energy.

Number Notation
When writing out numbers with many digits,
spacing in groups of three should be used.
No commas
Standard international notation
Examples:
25 100
5.123 456 789 12