Physics 121 -- Mechanics -- Spring '00

Prof. S. Teitel: stte@pas.rochester.edu, 275-4039, B&L 455B

Examples and Worked Out Problems

publishers website | worked out problems | HW and exam solutions

Publisher's Website

The publisher of our text has a very nice accompanying website including many practice problems and exercises. You may access this website at: http://cw.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/giancoli3/.

Note: When using using the grading feature of this website to see how you have done on the practice problems, DO NOT have your results emailed to Prof. Teitel or to your TA. These problems are for your practice only -- of course if you have any questions about the correct solutions to any of these problems, feel free to discuss them with any of the course staff.

Note: The interactive "Physlet Problems" on this website will not work on Macintosh computers. See the information on the website for the minimun requirements for running physlets on a PC.

Worked Out Problems

The links below will take you to several example problems, with complete detailed solutions, for each topic. After viewing a problem, hit the "back" button of your browser to return to this page.

Chpt. 2 - Linear Motion: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Chpt. 3 - Vectors and Planar Motion: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Chpt. 4 - Newton's Laws I: 1, 2 (sorry, that's all!)
Chpt. 5 - Newton's Laws II: 1, 2, 3
Sample Midterm Exam I: 1, 2, 3, 4
(Note: This is last year's exam; last year we did not go as fast, so this exam does not cover all the material you are responsible for on this year's exam.)
Chpt. 6 - Gravitation: 1
Chpt. 7 - Work and Kinetic Energy: 1, 2, 3, 4
Chpt. 8 - Conservation of Energy: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chpt. 9 - Conservation of Momentum and Collisions: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Chpt. 10 - Rotation: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Sample Midterm Exam 2: 1, 2, 3, 4
(Note: This is last year's exam; last year we did not go as fast, so this exam does not cover all the material you are responsible for on this year's exam.)
Chpt. 10/11 - Rolling Motion & Angular Momentum: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Chpt. 12 - Static Equilibrium: 1
Chpt. 14 - Small Oscillations: 1
Sample Final Exam: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
(Note: This is last year's exam.)

Homework and Exam Solutions

The links below will take you to the solutions of the homework problem sets and exams. After viewing a problem, hit the "back" button of your browser to return to this page. Solutions for a problem are viewable only after the due date of the problem set.

Problem Set 01: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Problem Set 02: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, H1, H2
Problem Set 03: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, H1, H2
Problem Set 04: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, H1, H2
Problem Set 05: 1, 2, 3, 4
Midterm Exam 1: 1a, 1b, 2, 3, 4, exam statistics
Problem Set 06: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 H1, H2
Problem Set 07: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, H1, H2
Problem Set 08: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, H1, H2
Problem Set 09: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, H1, H2
Midterm Exam 2: 1, 2, 3, 4, exam statistics
Problem Set 10: 1, 2, 3, 4, H1, H2
Problem Set 11: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Final Exam: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

This page was last updated: Tue, Sep 26, 2000