CCNY - PHYSICS FOR ARCHITECTS - PHYS 21900 - Fall 2019

Sections:

Instructor:

• Prof. James Hedberg
• Marshak Science 423A
• jhedberg@ccny.cuny.edu

Course Web Page: https://hedberg.ccnysites.cuny.edu/PHYS219/

Class times:

• M/W 9:30 - 11:35, NAC 4/115

Office Hours:

• Wednesdays 12:00-2:00, MR 423A

Required Textbook:

Other Materials:

• A scientific calculator

Course Description

A one-semester course for students of Architecture. Translational and rotational equilibrium. Newton's laws of motion and vibrations. Work, energy and power. Fluids and temperature. Heat and energy transfer. Prereq.: completion of all mathematics requirements through trigonometry or be eligible for MATH 20500. 3 lect., 2 rec. hr./wk.; 4 cr.

Grading

Exams: There will be 4 quizzes, 1 midterm, 1 project, and 1 cumulative final exam. Homework will be assigned approximately every week.

• Quizzes: 20%
• Midterm: 20%
• Final: 30%
• Project: 20%
• Homework: 10%

Exam Policies

The midterms will be given during class times. There will be no make up midterms given. The final exam will be cumulative covering material from the entire semester. No internet enabled devices can be used during the exams. Your exam score will be a 0 if you are found to be using any communication devices or unauthorized assistance.

Homework

Homework will be assigned nearly every week. This will be turned in electronically via the course web page, here: https://hedberg.ccnysites.cuny.edu/olhw/. Late homework submissions will receive no credit. No exceptions.

Instructions will be presented in class.

Project

The goal of the project is to analyze something from your daily lives using the tools of physics.

The form will be a short paper to be turned in by the due date. Somewhere between 1 and 3 pages will suffice.

It will be assessed (out of 10) using the following criteria:

• 5 points: Correct physics!
• 3 points: Plots/figures
• 2 points: Writing

Academic Integrity

The university has a published policy on academic integrity that may be found at: http://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/la/Academic_Integrity_Policy.pdf Ignorance of this policy is no excuse. A student who cheats or plagiarizes may incur academic and disciplinary penalties, including failing grades, suspensions, or expulsion.

Policies specific for this course and some clarifications regarding what constitutes unacceptable academic dishonesty: For homework, you may work with classmates but you will be required to submit your own homework. Posting HW questions verbatim (word for word) to online homework helping sites or forums (Chegg, Yahoo answers for example) in the hopes of having someone else provide you with a solution is considered unacceptable behavior. If a student is caught posting HW or exam question anywhere, an academic integrity violation will be submitted and the student will receive an F for the course. On exams, use of non-approved electronic devices, or other test-aids is considered academic dishonesty. (A non-graphing, scientific calculator is the only approved device.)

Attendance Policy

Students are expected to attend every class session of each course in which they are enrolled and to be on time. The professor has the right to drop the student from the course for excessive absences. For this course, two weeks of unexcused absences will constitute an excess of absences. When a student is dropped from the course due to excessive absences, the Registrar will enter the grade of WU.

Communication

To stay within the guidelines of FERPA, we will only reply to your official ccny or cuny mail. Please do not use your yahoo or gmail or other personal accounts to communicate regarding course activities. Also, be professional in your communications. Include your name, course number, and EMPLID if you expect administrative actions to be needed.

Disability Statement

In compliance with CCNY policy and equal access laws, appropriate academic accommodations are offered by the AccessAbility Center. Students who are registered with the AccessAbility office and are entitled to specific accommodations must arrange to have the Office notify the Professor in writing of their status at the beginning of the semester. If specific accommodations are required for a test, students must present the instructor with a form from the Accessibility Office at least one week prior to the test date in order to receive their accommodations.

Course Objectives:

After successfully completing this course, students should be able to

1. recognize and use SI units and be able to use vectors and their components.
2. understand the relationships between position, velocity, acceleration and time in the motion of physical objects;
3. understand the concepts of force and equilibrium and their relation to Newton’s laws of motion.
4. understand and use the concepts of work and energy, including kinetic and potential energy; understand and be able to use the principle of conservation of energy.
5. understand and use the concepts of momentum and impulse; understand and be able to use the principle of conservation of momentum.
6. understand how to describe the rotation of physical objects; understand the concept of torque as applied to the equilibrium of objects.
7. understand gravitational interactions and their relationship to satellite motion and Kepler's laws.
8. understand the phenomenon of simple harmonic motion.
9. understand and use the basic principles of fluid mechanics as applied to buoyancy and fluid flow.
10. understand the properties of temperature and heat.
11. understand and use the first and second laws of thermodynamics involving work, heat and internal energy.

Course Schedule