| Description: An introductory course for students enrolled in the engineering curriculum. Weekly lecture with demonstrations and a weekly recitation. Bi-weekly exams evaluate the students progress in learning the central concepts of the course which include: Quantitative description of particle motion, vector manipulation and multiplication, Newton's Laws of Motion, forces, friction, uniform circular motion, work and energy, momentum, conservation laws, rational kinematics. Typical text: Halliday & Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics. |