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 Syllabus
Instructor –Dr. Lili Cui
Email: lili@umbc.edu

Office: Physics 321 Cui ≈ Tree

Office Hours:
Mon 11-11:50 am, Tue 11-11:50 am, and Wed 2-3pm
in the Physics Tutoring Center (PHYS 226A)
or by appointment
Visiting my office hour is the BEST way of contact!

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 Blackboard Course: PHYS111 – SP2019
•  All my teaching materials will be put in this website and you
will use the website to
–  Access course materials: syllabus, lectures note...
–  Check the course Announcements.
–  Check the Grades that you have earned in Gradebook.
–  Interact with peers and me using Discussion Board.

•  Reading quiz 1 is due at 9:30 am Wed 01/30

through Blackboard – Course Materials – Reading quizzes

•  Lab starts this week!! (today and tomorrow)

Prelab is due before your lab section in Blackboard
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 Required Materials
•  College Physics: A Strategic Approach (CMI)
by Knight, Jones, and Field, 4th ed


•  MasteringPhysics online homework (CMI)
–  HW#1 (and #0) is due at 11:59 pm Thursday 01/31


•  Clicker

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 Required Materials
•  A calculator

•  A clear and focused mind, good attitude, patience

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 Physics/Science?
“The whole of science is nothing more than a
refinement of everyday thinking.” – Albert Einstein

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 Where am I?

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 Position and Coordinate

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 PhET: The Moving Man

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 The man starts at x = -2 m and walks to along the x axis to x = -6 m.
He then turns around and walks back to x = 5 m. What is his
displacement?
A.  -6 m
B.  2 m
C.  5 m
D.  7 m
E.  13 m
F.  15 m
G.  17 m
H.  None of the above

What is the total distance traveled?

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 Does the odometer in a car measure distance or displacement?

How about the speedometer?

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 Average Velocity
•  Difference between driving on highway and local?

Δx
vavg =
Δ t x = x0 + vavg Δt


•  Average velocity
–  Sign (+ or -) indicates the direction (away from the origin or
towards the origin)
–  To the right and upward is considered as positive
–  SI unit: meter per second (m/s)
–  Alert: Difference between velocity and speed

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 At t = 12 s, Bob is at x = 25 m. At t = 17 s, he’s at x = 20 m.
a)  What’s his velocity?

b)  What’s his speed?

c)  What’s his speed in mph? 1 mile = 1609 m.

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 Draw x-t graph and v-t graph

t (s) x (m)
0 -4
1 -2
2 0
3 2
4 4
5 6
6 8
7 10

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 Here is a x-t graph that shows the position as a function of
time of two runners A and B.

a) Who is running faster?

A.  A
B.  B
C.  the same
D.  cannot tell

b) Who starts ahead?

c) What happens at t = 4 s?

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 Here is a x-t graph that shows the position as a function of
time of two runners A and B.

d) What is the v-t graph?




e) What if the v is negative?

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 Lab 1 – Introduction to Motion
Starts this week (today and tomorrow!)
Prelab is in Blackboard. Complete it before your scheduled lab section.
Lab is for doing, not thinking. True or False?

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 Figure below shows the position of
an object move along the x-axis.
a) Draw the particle’s velocity-
versus-time graph.

b) Does the particle have a turning

point or points? If so, at what time
or time?

Graphs are important!

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 A car travels in a straight line with an average velocity of 80 km/h
for 2.5 h and then with an average velocity of 40 km/h for 1.5 h.
What is the average velocity for the total trip?
A.  40 km/h
B.  50 km/h
C.  55 km/h
D.  60 km/h
E.  65 km/h
F.  70 km/h
G.  80 km/h
H.  None of the above

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 What needs to be done before Wednesday’s class?
A.  Complete lab 1 (prelab included)
B.  Read syllabus
C.  Check our Blackboard site
D.  Read relevant sections from ebook
E.  Finish Reading Quiz 1 in Blackboard
F.  Enroll clicker in Blackboard
G.  Enroll MasteringPhysics and start homework
H.  All of the above
I.  None of the above

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