2025 - 2026 Fall Semester

PHYS 131 - Course Description Details

CH: Chapter, Sect: Sections

Week

Dates

Topics covered      

1

29 September

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3 October

CH 1 Measurement  

CH 2 Motion Along a Straight Line

Laboratory 0: Measurements

(Sect-1,3,5,7,9,11)

2

6 – 10 October

CH 3 Vectors

Laboratory 0: Measurements

(Sect-2,4,6,8,10,12)

3

13 – 17 October

CH 4 Motion in Two and Three Dimensions

QUIZ 1(CH 1-2)

Laboratory 1: Motion with constant velocity (Sect-1,3,5,7,9,11)

4

20 – 24 October

CH 5 Force and Motion I

QUIZ 2(CH 3-4)

Laboratory 1: Motion with constant velocity (Sect-2,4,6,8,10,12)

5

27 – 31 October

CH 5 Force and Motion I

CH 6 Force and Motion II

Laboratory 2: Horizontally Projectile Motion(Sect-3,9,11)

Sect-1,5 on October 31, 11:20 - 13:10 and 13:20 - 15:10

Sect-7 on November 7, 13:20 - 15:10(Next week)

6

3 – 7 November

CH 6 Force and Motion II

QUIZ 3(CH 5)

Laboratory 2: Horizontally Projectile Motion

(Sect-2,4,6,8,10,12)

7

10 – 14 November

CH 7  Kinetic Energy and Work

 

QUIZ 4(CH 6)

Laboratory 3: Atwood’s Machine

(Sect-1,3,5,7,9,11)

8

17 – 21 November

CH 8  Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy

Midterm Exam (CH 1-7)

November 21, 2025 Friday 13:30

Laboratory 3: Atwood’s Machine

(Sect-2,4,6,8,10,12)

9

24 - 28 November

CH 9 Centre of Mass and Linear Momentum

 

QUIZ 5(CH 7)

Laboratory 4: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions (Sect-1,3,5,7,9,11)

10

 

1 – 5 December

 

CH 9 Centre of Mass and Linear Momentum

CH 10 Rotation

QUIZ 6(CH 8)

Laboratory 4: Elastic and Inelastic Collisions (Sect-2,4,6,8,10,12)

11

8 – 12 December

CH 10 Rotation

QUIZ 7(CH 9)

Laboratory 5: Rotational Motion  

(Sect-1,3,5,7,9,11)

12

15 – 19 December

CH11 Rolling,Torque,and Angular Momentum

QUIZ 8(CH 10)

Laboratory 5: Rotational Motion  

(Sect-2,4,6,8,10,12)

13

22 – 26 December

CH11 Rolling,Torque,and Angular Momentum

CH 15 Oscillations

QUIZ 9(CH 11)

Make-up Exam(Midterm)

December 26, 2025 Friday 13:30

MAKE UP 

(all sections)

14

29 December

2 January

CH 15 Oscillations

CH16 Waves

QUIZ 10

(CH 15-16)

 

MAKE UP 

(all sections)

 

5 - 18 January

Final Examination : January 7, 2026 Wednesday 10:00

 

 

Make-up Examination(Final): January 19, 2026 Monday 15:00

 

 

Resit Examination: (For Students Who Have Enrolled In 2015 and Before, and Have a Term-Based Curriculum)