Spring 2001
Instructor:
Aurel Bulgac
E-mail:
bulgac@phys.washington.edu
Class:
MTuThF, 12:30-1:20, PAB A102
Office:
PAB B478
Phone:
(206)685-2988
Office Hours:
ThF 1:30-2:20 pm, PAB Study Center AM018 and by appointment.
TA:
Jonathan Jerke
E-mail:
jerke@u.washington.edu
Office:
PAB B229
Phone:
(206)543-6949
Office Hours:
W 1:30-2:20, Th 11:30-12:20, 2:30-3:20, 4:30:5:20, F 2:30-3:20,
4:30-5:20 PAB Study Center AM018.
TA:
Seth Van Liew
E-mail:
svl@u.washington.edu
Office:
PAB B243
Phone:
(206)685-2227
Office hourse: TTh 9:30 -
10:30, PAB B128
If you intend to take Physics 117 check this link.
Course web page: http://faculty.washington.edu/bulgac/114S01/welcome.html
Textbook: Giancoli, Physics, 5th Edition.You might find the following link of interest and helpful: http://cw.prenhall.com/giancoli/
Homework assignment: You must have a computer account for email and work. Your homework will be done on the web using a web site called http://www.webassign.net/student.html Many items of interest will be put on the web in pdf format. This requires your browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer) to have an Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin. If your browser does not have that plugin you can download it here . You will be given a handout in class with instructions on how to use WebAssign or you can click here for a copy. When the homework is announced (usually each Friday) it will appear in the syllabus below and at http://www.webassign.net/student.html and the solutions will be posted after the due date (usually a week later) in the syllabus below as links.
Note that if a homework assignment is listed on a given week, that means that it is assigned at the end of that week and that it is due the week after.
If you have received an incomplete or no grade in a previous quarter the homework grade will be the grade you received during that quarter. Please contact me if you have questions and in order to make sure that you receive proper credit for your homework.
Access to webassign will be available
in the afternoon on Friday, March 30 (maybe a little bit earlier).
Exams: EXAMS MAY NOT BE TAKEN LATE
There will be two one-hour mid term
exams and one final exam. Each exam will consist of multiple-choice questions
and these will be machine graded. No partial credit will be given. The
exams are closed book, but you will be permitted to have one 8 1/2"
x 11" sheet of notes to aid you and you will be provided with scratch paper
if needed. The sheet of notes has to be handwritten, no xerox copies or
any other copies of any kind. Do not forget to bring a number 2 pencil
and a bubble sheet (Standard Answer Sheet). Apparently you can get them
at the Hub, By George and other places around the campus. You are allowed
to bring a calculator but no notebooks.
The final exam will be over all
the material covered during the quarter.
Grading:
Grading will be done on a curve with the class average being about 2.7. This will vary depending on the performance of the class as a whole. Approximately 5-10% of the class will receive 4.0.
Homework will count for 25% of the grade. Each hourly exam will also count for 25% of the grade, while the final two-hour exam will count for 50% of the grade. Thus the final exam score will be treated as two exams.Your score on each exam will be normalized so that each exam, regardless of the number of questions or the difficulty of the exam, will count the same. This score will be converted to an exam grade point (2.3, 3.2, etc.). At the end of the quarter, your lowest exam grade will be dropped and your course grade will be the average of the remaining three exam grades and the homework grade.
The instructor reserves the right
to modify this grading procedure in any way as long as no student receives
a course grade lower than one calculated by the method described above.
Tentative Syllabus and Homework Assignments
