When and where: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-11, room 2 LeConte
Format: two 1.5 hr lectures per week (student participation strongly encouraged), weekly homework, discussion section, labs
Instructor: Associate Professor Dmitry Budker
Professor's Office hour: Tu, 1-2, 273 Birge
GSI: Chih-Hao Li
GSI's Office hours: Mo, 3-4 and W, 12-1 in or in the hallway outside room 219 Birge
Discussions (led by C.-H. Li): Tu, 4-5 in room 31 Evans and W, 1-2 in room 425 Latimer
Labs: see Physics 7A schedule (labs will not be led by either the H7A Instructor or the GSI)
Midterm was on Thursday, Oct. 9 Please bring blue books
will be on Friday, Dec. 12, 9:30-11 in room 2 LeConte. Please bring blue books
Synopsis and goals of the course:
The course will provide an introduction to physics for natural
scientists and engineers, and will cover a more-or-less standard range
of topics, including:
Required text: Daniel Kleppner and Robert J. Kolenkow Introduction to Mechanics. McGraw Hill ; Boston, 1973.
Recommended texts:
Grading policy: the final grade will be based on the following weighting: Homework - 50%; Midterm - 20%; Final - 20%, Labs - 10%. It will be required that all components of the course are successfully completed in order to get an "A" (i.e., no "A" without completing labs, for example).
Invaluable resource: questions on organizational aspects of the course may be directed to Ms. Claudia Trujillo of Physics Student Services.
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Midterm was on Thursday, Oct. 9. Students were asked to please bring blue books; books/computers/calculators were not allowed; one-page (two-sided) "cheat-sheets" were allowed and encouraged
Chih-Hao Li's midterm solutions: part 1, part 2, part 3
will be on Friday, Dec. 12, 9:30-11 in room 2 LeConte. Please bring blue books
Acknowledgment and Disclaimer: This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF).
