All instructors must cover the following sections from the approved textbook, Tipler’s Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 5th ed. These constitute the minimum course content.  Any or all additional sections in the textbook, or additional supplementary materials not covered in the textbook, may be added at the instructor’s discretion.

Section# Topic

Chapter 2: Motion in One Dimension
2.1 Displacement, Velocity, and Speed
2.2 Acceleration
2.3 Motion With Constant Acceleration
2.4 Integration

Chapter 3: Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
3.1 The Displacement Vector
3.2 General Properties of Vectors
3.3 Position, Velocity, and Acceleration
3.4 Projectile Motion
3.5 Circular Motion

Chapter 4: Newton’s Laws
4.1 Newton’s First Law: The Law of Inertia
4.2 Force, Mass, and Newton’s Second Law
4.3 The Force Due to Gravity: Weight
4.4 Newton’s Third Law
4.5 Forces in Nature
4.6 Problem Solving: Free-Body Diagrams
4.7 Problems With Two or More Objects

Chapter 5: Applications of Newton’s Laws
5.1 Friction
5.2 Circular Motion
5.3 Drag Forces

Chapter 6: Work and Energy
6.1 Work and Kinetic Energy
6.2 Work and Energy in Three Dimensions
6.3 Power
6.4 Potential Energy

Chapter 7: Conservation of Energy
7.1 The Conservation of Mechanical Energy
7.2 The Conservation of Energy
7.3 Mass and Energy

Chapter 8: Systems of Particles and Conservation of Momentum
8.1 The Center of Mass
8.2 Finding the Center of Mass by Integration
8.3 Motion of the Center of Mass
8.4 Conservation of Momentum
8.5 Kinetic Energy of a System
8.6 Collisions
8.7 The Center-of-Mass Reference Frame

Chapter 9: Rotation
9.1 Angular Velocity and Angular Acceleration
9.2 Torque, Moment of Inertia, and Newton’s Second Law for Rotation
9.3 Calculating the Moment of Inertia
9.4 Applications of Newton’s Second Law for Rotation
9.5 Rotational Kinetic Energy
9.6 Rolling Objects

Chapter 10: Conservation of Angular Momentum
10.1 The Vector Nature of Rotation
10.2 Torque and Angular Momentum
10.3 Conservation of Angular Momentum

Chapter 11: Gravity
11.1 Kepler’s Laws
11.2 Newton’s Law of Gravity
11.3 Gravitational Potential Energy
11.4 The Gravational Field

Chapter 12: Static Equilibrium and Elasticity
12.1 Conditions for Equilibrium
12.2 The Center of Gravity
12.3 Some Examples of Static Equilibrium
12.8 Stress and Strain

Chapter 13: Fluids
13.1 Density
13.2 Pressure in a Fluid
13.3 Buoyancy and Archimedes’ Principle
13.4 Fluids in Motion
Bernoulli’s Equation
(Omit Viscous Flow)

Chapter 14: Oscillations
14.1 Simple Harmonic Motion and Circular Motion
14.2 Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
14.3 Some Oscillating Systems
14.4 Damped Oscillations

Chapter 15: Wave Motion
15.1 Simple Wave Motion
15.2 Harmonic Waves
15.3 Waves in Three Dimensions
15.4 Waves Encountering Barriers
15.5 The Doppler Effect
(Omit Shock Waves)

Chapter 16: Superposition and Standing Waves
16.1 Superposition of Waves
16.2 Standing Waves
16.3 The Superposition of Standing Waves
16.4 Harmonic Analysis and Synthesis

Chapter 18: Temperature and the Kinetic Theory of Gases
18.1 Thermal Equilibrium and Temperature
18.2 The Celsius and Fahrenheit Temperature Scales
18.3 Gas Thermometers and the Absolute Temperature Scale
18.4 The Ideal-Gas Law

Chapter 19: Heat and the First Law of Thermodynamics
19.1 Heat Capacity and Specific Heat Calorimetry
19.2 Change of Phase and Latent Heat
19.3 Joule’s Experiment and the First Law of Thermodynamics
19.4 The Internal Energy of an Ideal Gas
19.5 Work and the PV Diagram for a Gas

Chapter 20: The Second Law of Thermodynamics
20.1 Heat Engines and the Second Law of Thermodynamics