Physics 201 - College Physics
(Texas A&M University, Spring 2004)
Homepage for Sects. 513-516
Announcements (updated regularly)
Lectures
Tue+Thu 11:10am-12:25pm
Room: Heldenfels 107
(1st class: Tue Jan 20,
last class: Tue May 04
Spring Break:
March 15-19 )
Recitations LABS
Room:
Heldenfels 121
Heldenfels 220
Sect. 513: Wed,
12:40-01:30 pm
01:40-03:30pm
Sect. 514: Fri,
08:00-08:50 am
09:00-10:50am
Sect. 515: Thu,
02:20-03:10pm
03:20-05:10pm
Sect. 516: Fri,
10:20-11:10am
11:20-01:10pm
For the
Lab Schedule, click here
Course Instructor
Dr. Ralf Rapp
Office
: Cyclotron (Building 434) Room 211
Office-Hrs : Tue 2-3pm,
Wed 3-4pm, Thu 10-11am
Phone
: 845-1411 (ext. 226), home: 268-3164
E-mail
: rapp@comp.tamu.edu
Teaching Assistants
all TA's listed below are
either simultaneously responsible for Recitation and Lab
in the respective sections,
or listed separately. For questions on the Lab, Lab-reports
or homework/quizzes outside
the standard Lab and Recitation times, please schedule
an appointment via email.
Sect. 513
Der-Chyn
Jong
Office : ENPH
437
E-mail: djong@neo.tamu.edu
Sect. 514
Samuel
Gooding
Office : ENPH
423
E-mail: sdg5308@neo.tamu.edu
Sect. 515
Der-Chyn
Jong
Office : ENPH
437
E-mail: djong@neo.tamu.edu
Sect.
516
Ching-Ming
Chen (REC)
Mario Francisco Borunda (LAB)
Office
: ENPH 422
Office: tba
E-mail : cchen@physics.tamu.edu
E-mail: mborunda@physics.tamu.edu
Supplemental Instruction (Group Sessions)
The University provides free
Supplemental Instruction (SI) sessions to further
improve your study options.
The name of the SI leader assigned to PHY201 is
Domenic. His 50-minute sessions
are open to all PHY201 students. They are held in
BLOC 111
during the following evening hours:
Sun, 8:00-8:50pm
Mon, 9:00-9:50pm
Tue, 9:00-9:50pm
You are very much encouraged to take
advantage of this additional University
resource.
Personal Tutoring by International Graduate Students
The physics
department provides another learning resource by offering free
personal
tutoring
sessions with an international physics graduate student (GANT).
For our PHYS 201 course,
the names and email addresses of the GANT's are:
Yunfeng Li (Rapp),
lyfxun@physics.tamu.edu
Feng Xie (Kocharovsky), fxie@physics.tamu.edu
Each GANT will
attend the lectures indicated in the parentheses, and solve the
complete homework
assignments. Therefore, they will be well-prepared to help
you with
any class-material related question. Be aware that these GANTs are
not native
english speakers, but they are eager to improve in this respect, also by
the tutoring.
They are available for individual appointments with you for up to 9 hrs
per week,
Monday through Friday during daytime (i.e., before 8pm) in Held
211.
To schedule
an appointment, contact any of the above GANTs at least
one day
(preferably
somewhat more) in advance by email.
Again,
you are very much encouraged to make use of this opportunity. I recommend
that you
try out the tutoring soon to see whether it could improve your PHYS 201
skills.
Make sure not to miss out on something useful!
Required Material
1.)
TEXTBOOK:
The course will be based on the book
Physics, 6. Edition, by Cutnell and Johnson
2.)
LAB MANUAL:
PHY201
Lab Manual (published by Hayden-McNeil)
3.)
optional:
Student
Solutions Manual; Student Study Guide
Scope
The course will cover the basic concepts
and applications of Newtonian Mechanics,
Thermodynamics and Waves+Sound,
corresponding to chapters 1-17 in the textbook.
Course Grade
The total course grade is decomposed as follows:
Exams
The exams are closed
book, and are held in the classroom (HELD107) during standard
lecture times
(except for the Final); you should only bring a pen and pocket calculator,
capable of evaluating
trigonometric functions (sin, cos, tan) and logarithms.
Formula sheets
will be provided. Special review sessions held by the course instructor
on an evening
ca. 2-3 days before each exam, see announcements on top of page.
For files of
old exams, see http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/ford/p201.html
.
SCHEDULE:
Intermediate
I: Tue, February 17, in class (Held 107, 11:10am-12:25pm),
material covered: Chap 1-5
Intermediate II:
Tue, March 23, in class (Held 107, 11:10am-12:25pm),
material covered: Chap 6-10
Intermediate III:
Tue, April 20, in class (Held 107, 11:10am-12:25pm),
material covered: Chap 11-15
FINAL:
Friday, May 07 (Held 107, 03:00-05:00pm)
material covered corresponds to the entire semester
Notes on Lectures
Attendance
in the lectures , as well as taking notes of the material presented, is
mandatory. Furthermore,
you are responsible for all announcements made
in class (including
information on review sessions, etc.).
The material
discussed in the lectures, together with the homework problems,
esssentially
defines the scope of the exams. Formula sheets to be used in the exams
are handed out
in the lectures at the time the material is started to be discussed
(this will allow
you to get acquainted with the notation well ahead of the exam).
Notes on Homework and Recitation
For the weekly assignment of homework
problems drawn from the texbook, cf. the
main Syllabus here.
Cooperative work and discussions are
encouraged, but every one of you should
generate his/her individual solution
set. Questions can be addressed to your course
or recitation instructor, who will
be happy to help you (preferably during office hours).
Recitation attendance is mandatory;
each
week, a quiz will be given and graded,
which will determine your recitation
grade (the semester-average on your quizzes
makes up 5% of your total course grade).
Notes on Laboratory Experiments
Lab attendance is
mandatory.
It follows the recitation session of your section each
week in which an experiment
is scheduled.
Your Lab-instructor
(who is usually the same person as the recitation instructor)
will advice you
on when (typically no more than one week after the experiment)
and where to hand
in the Lab reports which are based on the data you take.
In certain weeks
there are no formal Labs scheduled, but this extra time will be used
by the recitation
instructor to provide additional exam preparation or discussion
of the solutions
after an exam.
Information
on policies on missed labs can be found at
http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/ford/lab.html
.
Other Notes
To pass the course ,you will have to keep up with the material of the course
by attending the lectures (besides the recitation and Lab) and thoroughly
work
through the weekly homework problems (which, in addition, is the best preparation
for the recitation quizzes). Otherwise, pile-up of not understood material
is likely to
lead to a failing grade.
It is impossible to get a passing grade without hard work in this course.
Any type of cheating (copying homework , lab reports, during exams,
etc.) is
strictly prohibited and seriously penalized.
If you have a physical, psychiatric, medical or learning disability that
may impact
on your ability to carry out assigned course work, you may want to contact
the
staff in the Office of Support Services for Students with Disabilities
(SSD) in the
Department of Student Life. SSD will review your concerns and determine,
with
you, what accomodations are necessary and appropriate. All information
and
documentation concerning disability is kept confidential. For more information
on this, see http://studentlife.tamu.edu/ssd/
, or call (979) 845-3111
Despite
all the above regulations and rules (which are needed for a fair assessment
of your grades), we hope that you will enjoy this course, and that you
will achieve
knowledge that will both be helpful in your further career and provide
deeper
insights into daily-life encounters with physics!
If you have any questions or concerns, do not hesitate to contact your
course/
recitation instructors who shall be glad to help you!