Reading due Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 8:30 a.m
Read Reese Chapter 4.0 - 4.12 and answer Reading Questions 3 on the Web.
Homework due Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. Homework should be turned in during class or placed in the box outside of the professor's office (Nielsen 343) by 4:00 p.m.
Chapter 3:
Problems: 34, 57, 60, 65
Chapter 4:
Questions: 15, 33
Problems: 6, 9, 21, 28, 39, 45, 55, 62, 75
Problem A: This problem must be solved using the Context-Rich Problem Solutions Outline. Please print a copy of the worksheet from the web and use a copy to solve each problem.
Problem A : You have a summer job with an insurance company and have
been asked to help with
the investigation of a tragic accident. When you visit the scene,
you see a road running straight
down a hill which has a slope of 10 degrees to the horizontal.
At the bottom of the hill, the road
goes horizontally for a very short distance becoming a parking
lot overlooking a cliff. The cliff has
a vertical drop of 400 feet to the horizontal ground below
where a car is wrecked 30 feet from the
base of the cliff. The only witness claims that the car was parked
on the hill, he can't remember
exactly where, and the car just began coasting down the road. He
did not hear an engine so he
thinks that the driver was drunk and passed out knocking off
his emergency brake. He remembers
that the car took about 3 seconds to get down the hill.
After looking pensive, your boss tells you
to calculate the car's average acceleration coming down the hill
based on the statement of the
witness and the other facts in the case. She reminds you to be
careful to write down all of your
assumptions so she can evaluate the applicability of the calculation
to this situation. Obviously she
suspects foul play. What do you tell your boss? Do you call the
homicide division?
Exam 1 will be held in class on Friday, September 19, 2008. It will cover material from Chapters 1 through 4. I will try to let you start five minutes early.