Course Goals
- I want to help you improve your quantitative analytical
skills, problem solving skills, and mathematical confidence.
- I want you to learn several big physics ideas: conservation of
energy, momentum, and angular momentum, and Newton's laws, and be
able apply these ideas in quantitative and qualitative settings.
- I want you to gain experience working effectively and solving
problems in groups.
Basically the idea is to learn some physics and also to learn some of
the analytical and quantitative skills that physicists use. These
include:
- Developing a systematic, organized, and effective approach to
problem solving
- Becoming comfortable and confident making approximations and
estimations
- Mastering unit conversions and gaining familiarity with
dimensional analysis