PHYSICS 122D, Winter 1999

INSTRUCTORS

Office
in PAB

Phone

e-mail

Office Hours

Prof. Aurel Bulgac
(Lectures)

B478

685-2988

bulgac@phys.washington.edu

Study Center
M 11:30 -12:20
and
by appointment

Prof. L.C. McDermott
Prof. Peter Shaffer
(Tutorials)

C208

685-2046

by appointment

Prof. Joseph Rothberg
(Laboratory, Phys 132)

B207

543-2989

rothberg@phys.washington.edu

by appointment

Mr. Chris Kautz
(Head TA)

kautz@u.washington.edu

by appointment

LECTURES

MWF, 12:30 - 1:20 pm, A118 Physics Astronomy Building (PAB)

TUTORIALS

Attendance is mandatory; locations and times of individual sections are listed in the Time Schedule. You MUST be present at the first tutorial meeting or you may be DROPPED from the course. If you are not yet enrolled, go to any tutorial section that is associated with your lecture section. If there is space, you can do the first tutorial and get into the section; if not, try another section.

LABORATORY
Physics 132

You MUST take the lab course Physics 132 simultaneously with this course. You MUST be present at the first laboratory meeting or you will be dropped from this course. If you are not yet enrolled, go to any lab section. If there is space, you can do the first experiment and get into the lab; if not, try another section.

TEXTS

Resnick, Halliday & Krane, Physics, 4th ed. Volumes 1 & 2

McDermott, Shaffer,et. al., Tutorials in Introductory Physics, Preliminary Edition

LAB MANUAL

The lab manual is printed by ASUW Publishing in the Student Activities Building (the HUB). You should purchase the lab manual during the first week of classes.

STUDY
CENTER

Teaching assistants and some faculty will be available for consultation in the Physics Study Center located in Room AM018. To reach the Physics Study Center, go down the stairs that circle around the Foucault pendulum and proceed toward the end of the hall. The Study Center is staffed from approximately 9:30 am to 4:30 pm on weekdays. 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. 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. There are several computers in the STUDY CENTER for student use. Students using these computers for physics classwork have priority over those using e-mail or internet for other purposes.

PRETESTS

There will be weekly short pretests, usually at the beginning of lecture on Mondays. These are intended to start you thinking about the concepts that will be addressed in tutorial later in the week. Pretests will NOT BE GRADED or handed back. Completion of these tests will, however, be a factor in determining your final grade.

HOMEWORK

1) Homework problems from the textbook will be assigned each week in lecture. They will be collected the following week in tutorial. You must indicate your name and correct section number (eg. 122DB) on your paper if you wish to receive credit. Solutions will be made available on the course web page after the homework from all students has been collected. Note however, that the homework is not due, if the week on which is due is an exam week.

One problem from each assignment will be graded in detail. Please show your work in sufficient detail, write down the formulas using the appropriate symbols, draw the diagrams, if that is the case, and mind the physical units as well. For the other problems you will get credit irrespective of whether the answer you provide is correct or not, simply for attempting to solve them.

The solutions will be posted on the web usually each Thursday after 2 pm, when the last batch of students are supposed to have turned in their homework. No homework will be accpeted after that time.

Since apparently there is no way (at least I have no idea how) to have Greek letters in html, the corresponding symbols will appear as eps for epsilon and so forth.

2) Tutorial homework will be assigned and collected in the tutorial sessions. One section of each assignment will be graded in detai.

3) There may be computer projects, assigned either in lecture or tutorial. Computers are available in the Physics Study Center from approximately 8:30 a.m.-5:20 p.m. each day.

EXAMS

There will be three one-hour midterms and one two-hour final exam. Each exam will be based on material emphasized in the lectures, tutorials and laboratory. The midterm exams will cover the material from the two or three weeks prior to the week of the exam but may include earlier material as well. The final examination will be comprehensive. All exams will be closed book with one sheet of notes allowed. The lowest midterm score for each student will be dropped. A grade of 0.0 will be assigned to students who do not take the final examination or miss two midterms. There will be NO make-up exams.

REGRADES

If you believe that the points on the examination were incorrectly totaled or if there is a gross error in the grading, you may return an exam for regrading. To do so, you must resubmit the examination at the beginning of the lecture following the one in which the exams are returned. You must attach a brief note to the front of the exam explaining the possible error in the original grading. Do not make any changes or marks on the original examination. Portions of each examination are photocopied and will be checked. You should be aware that any request for a regrade may result in a regrading of the entire exam. Therefore your total score may decrease.

COURSE GRADE

You will receive the same grade for Physics 122 and Physics 132. The two courses are components of a single integrated course that consists of lecture, tutorial, and laboratory. Your final course grade will be calculated with the following weighting: 70% for the two best hours exams and the final exam, 10% for lecture homework, 10% for the tutorial homework, and 10% for the laboratory grade. Requirements for successful completion of the laboratory course are described in the lab manual. Failure to meet these requirements can result in subtraction of 0.5 from your grade or in a grade of 0.0 for both Physics 122 and Physics 132.
If you find it necessary to withdraw from the course, you must drop both Physics 122 and Physics 132 or you will receive a 0.0 for the course in which you are still enrolled.