Department of Physics and Astronomy
Michigan State University
PHY231 Fall 1997

Lecture 2: August 27

Reading before class: C/J 1.1 - 1.3, 1.5, 1.6

Topics and Concepts

• Physical Quantities
  • exact
  • non-exact
• Units
• Dimensional analysis
• Scalars and Vectors

Equations

none

Demonstrations

• Balls
• Yard stick
• Vectors

Examples

• Finding the components of a vector (C/J example 7, page 17)

Lecture Exercises

• Physical Quantities

Handouts

Lecture exercise

Reading for next class: C/J 1.7 - 1.8

PHY 231

This document http://www.pa.msu.edu/courses/1997fall/PHY231/lect02.html was last updated on 20 August 1997 by Thomas Glasmacher.