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There are exercises due Monday as well as
problems due on Wednesday.
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Also, read carefully the first sections in
chapter 6- there are many great examples in these sections.
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Policy clarification- any exercises that are
to be done at home and turned in will be considered late if they are not
complete at the beginning of class.
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We will be "splitting" the labs next week.
If you have lab in room 117, you will perform the "Newton's Second Law"
experiment. If you have lab in room 119 you will perform the "Newton's
Second Law Applied to Two Bodies" Experiment. The following week
we'll switch experiments.
Today-
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Examine the Hyatt Regency
incident
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Discuss Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
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Dependent on mass of objects
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Depends inversely proportionally on the square
of the distance
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Look at the simplification for near the surface
of the earth
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Look (briefly!) at Einstein's theory of general
relativity and curved space-time
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