Winter
2002
Instructor: Aurel
Bulgac
E-mail: bulgac@phys.washington.edu
Class:
MTuThF, 2:30-3:20, PAB A102
Office:
PAB B478
Phone:
(206)685-2988
Office Hours: TuTh
1:30-2:20 pm, PAB Study Center AM018 and by appointment.
TA:
Joel Allred
E-mail: jallred@u.washington.edu
Office:
PAB B325
Phone:
(206)616-1505
Office Hours: M
10:30-11:30 , Tu 11:30 am-12:30, W 3:00-5:00, Th 3:30-5:00, F 11:30-1:30
PAB Study Center AM018
Course web page:
http://faculty.washington.edu/bulgac/114W02/welcome.html
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Textbook:
Douglas C. Giancoli, Physics, 5th Edition, Prentice Hall.
You might find the following link of interest and helpful:
http://cw.prenhall.com/giancoli/
Homework assigment:
You must have a computer account for email and work. Your
homework will be
done on the web using a system called Tycho, developed
at the University of
Illinois. Thus system is still under developemt
and so far it has been greatly
appreciated by the students using it. There are essentially
two things we will use:
homework and gradebook.
In the homework portion, every week several problems will
be posted for you to
solve. As you will discover immediately, there are two
types of problems:
a) Standard Homework Problems have a numerical
answer. You will get
immediate feedback as to whether the answer supplied
is correct or not. In many
problems, you can ask for pre-programmed help. Full credit
is given (if done
before the deadline) for the correct answer, independent
of how many submissions
were needed to obtain it. b) Interactive Examples
are often somewhat more
difficult problems (level 2 or 3 of Giancoli's text).
Help in these problems usually
comes in the form of more questions. The hope of the
writers is that solution of
these problems will lead to better conceptual understanding
rather than just
equation manipulation.
In addition I shall assign a number of problems from the
end of each chapter in
the textbook, see the syllabus below. These additional
problems will not be graded
however. Each week I shall provide solutions to the end
of the chapter problems
assigned as well as to the rest of the problems in the
corresponding section. The
solutions would be accessible as links in the syllabus.
Many students in the past
have found these solutions extremely helpful in gaining
a deeper understanding
of the material presented in class and in the textbook.
Click on the link http://tychosrv.phys.washington.edu/courses/phys114/winter02/
to login into the Tycho sytem and do your graded homework.
Follow the
instructions on the login page. Your homework, exam and
final grades will be
posted using the Tycho system as well. The sudent database
is updated daily
during the first week of the quarter daily and every
two days during the second
week. If you experience difficulties login into the Tycho
system please write to
Deborah Mercer
dmercer@phys.washington.edu.
Some 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.
Exams: EXAMS MAY NOT BE TAKEN LATE
THERE WILL BE NO MAKEUPS. If
for some reason you miss one of the midterms,
the one you missed will be your
low grade. Please arrange your
vacation schedule so you take the
final exam at the proper time.
There will be three one-hour mid
term exams and one final exam. Each hourly
exam (from 2:30 pm to 3:20 pm sharp)
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, no xerox copies or any
other copies of any kind. In addition you will only
be allowed to have a calculator,
an eraser, a #2 pencil and a pen. Scratch paper
will be provided. Do not
forget to bring a bubble sheet (Standard Answer Sheet).
You can get them at the Hub, By
George and other places around the campus.
The final exam will be over all
the material covered during the quarter. The
problems on the exams will be very
similar to the homework or end of the chapter
problems.
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,
and
0.7 will be the lowest passing grade.
Homework will count for 10 % of
the grade. Each hourly exam will also count for
22.5 % of the grade, while the
final two-hour exam will count for 45 % 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.
General remarks
This physics course provides the basis for all applications of physics,
and future physics,
biophysics, and chemical physics courses or topics you may have
to or be willing to explore.
Please feel free to ask questions in class, to ask for a revision
of some material "in different
words", and to use the office hours for a "smaller group" discussion
of particular topics. It
is very important that you keep up your reading and advance through
the homework
problems as the course progresses. It is almost impossible to get
a good grade without
working a fair number of homework problems.
The Physics Department runs a Study Center where assistance with
course work is available
for many hours Monday through Friday. There are a number of computers
in this room as
well where you can access the internet. The Study Center is
located in this building,
downstairs from the Foucault pendulum. In the Study Center there
are tables assigned to
different courses. Depending on the time of the day, there may be
one, two, or three Teaching
Assistants working through the tables answering questions.
At some times there will be
additional faculty assistance. Sign your name to the list on the
wall when you want individual
assistance, and as soon as a TA is available she/he will call your
name. Some
students have found useful to form "groups" who work homeworks together.
Tentative Syllabus
| Dates | Topics | Chapter-Section | Homework Assignment
not graded, solutions as links |
| (chapter #.problem #) | |||
| January 7-11 | Kinematics | Ch. 1, 2 | 1.3, 1.21, 2.2, 2.8, 2.9, 2.12, 2.14, 2.19, 2.20, 2.23, 2.24, 2.27, 2.29, 2.30, 2.41 |
| January 14-18 | Kinematics | Ch. 2, 3 | 3.1, 3.2, 3.8, 3.10, 3.11, 3.12, 3.20, 3.21, 3.26, 3.32, 3.45, 3.36, 3.51, 3.66 |
| January 21 Holiday | Martin Luther King Day | ||
| January 22-25 | Dynamics | Ch. 4 | 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 4.12, 4.18, 4.21, 4.23, 4.24 4.28, 4.30, 4.31, 4.32, 4.37 |
| January 28-31 | Dynamics | Ch. 4 | 4.44, 4.45, 4.47, 4.49, 4.52, 4.56, 4.69, 4.72, 4.74, 4.77, 4.78, 4. 79, 4.80, 4.81 |
| February 1, Friday | Exam # 1 | Chapters 1-3
Average
- 5.98
NB Six students did not mark their exam version and I have arbitrarily asigned Version A in order to grade their exam. |
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| February 4-8 | Circular motion and Gravitation | Ch. 5 | 5.7, 5.8, 5.11, 5.12, 5.17, 5.18, 5.19, 5.30, 5.35, 5.41, 5.43, 5.44, 5.45, 5.53 |
| February 11-14 | Work and Energy | Ch. 6 | 6.1, 6.4, 6.5, 6.7, 6.8, 6.10, 6.13, 6.20, 6.21, 6.22, 6.23, 6.24, 6.25, 6.27, 6.30, 6.31, 6.32, 6.33 |
| February 15, Friday | Exam # 2 | Chapters 4-5 | |
| February 18 Holiday | Presidents Day | ||
| February 19-22 | Energy conservation | Ch. 6 | 6.36, 6.37, 6.39, 6.40, 6.43, 6.47, 6.49, 6.51, 6.53, 6.54, 6.58, 6.68, 6.69, 6.84 |
| February 25-March 1 | Momentum | Ch. 7 | 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.7, 7.11, 7.16, 7.21, 7.23, 7.25, 7.32, 7.33, 7.57, 7.62, 7.74 |
| March 4,5, 8 | Rotational Motion | Ch. 8 | 8.11, 8.15, 8.16, 8.19, 8.24, 8.26, 8.31, 8.33, 8.36, 8.40, 8.41, 8.42, 8.62, 8.74 |
| March 7, Thursday | Exam # 3 | Chapters 6-7 |
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| March 11-15 | Rotational motion and tentatively | Ch. 8 | |
| Equilibrium or Vibrations | Ch. 9 or Ch. 11 | ||
| Tuesday, March 19
2:30 - 4:20 pm |
Final Exam | Chapters 1 - 8
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