January
18, 2006
None – No writing topic today
January
23, 2006
None – No writing topic today
January
25, 2006
None – No writing topic today
January
30, 2006
Assessment – Please assess your
performance in terms of reviewing/re-learning and connecting calculus to
complete your homework requirements for this.
How comfortable are you with such concepts as general differentiation,
chain-rule, product rule, general integration, and applying definite integrals.
February
1, 2006
Free-Writing – Recall two-dimensional
motion. What are the three coordinate
systems used for this type of motion and what are the governing equations used
to determine position, velocity, and acceleration.
February
6, 2006
Assessment – Please assess your
performance to date in this class in terms of attempting to complete homework
problems and utilizing all available resources.
February
8, 2006
Free-Writing – For dependent motion and
relative motion x, v, and a are often needed.
How do you do this and/or how does the calculation of these quantities
relate to previous material from the course?
February
13, 2006
February
15, 2006
Assessment – Please give an SII of how
well you prepared for today’s lecture by reading ahead, completing previous hw,
etc.
February
20, 2006
President’s
Day – no
class
February
22, 2006
Free-writing – How does the application
of Newton’s laws relate to the statics skills you developed last semester? How is it different or what extra skills do
you need to apply now to solve problems in dynamics?
February
27, 2006
None - Design Project Work
March
1, 206
March
6, 2006
Assessment – Please write an
assessment (using the SII format) of your learning process in this class. How are you learning the material and how
are you communicating that learning with the instructor?
March
8, 2006
Free-writing – Please write about the
relationship between work and energy.
Are there any differences between the material presented here and what
you were introduced to in physics? More
detail, different variable letters, etc.?
March
13, 2006
March
27, 2006
Assessment – Please assess (using the
SII format) your team progress, personal level of contribution, and amount of
learning gained from your participation in the semester design project.
March
29, 2006
Reading
Quiz #3
April
3, 2006
Free-writing
– In
relative general plane motion a useful method is to use two sets of axes, one
fixed and one rotating within the fixed axis.
To the best of your ability, explain how this works. You may refer to the equations describing
the motion and/or draw a diagram and/or give an example to help you.
April
5, 2006
None – continue with previous
work
May
1, 2006
Free-writing – how has rigid body motion
been incorporated into your analyses for the design project this semester? How much has it helped you learn the
material?