Material Covered
This web page contains a listing of all the
reading, the labs, and the tutorials we will be doing this quarter.
Textbook
You should use Physics, 4t edition by Resnick, Halliday, and Krane
(Wiley). The university book store has the correct book in stock; plenty of
used and new books.
McDermott, Shaffer, et. al., Tutorials in Introductory Physics, First
Edition. Prentice Hall, Inc. 2002.
The 123 Lab manual (you can get it from the copy center in the
Communications building).
Lab & Tutorial
The lab and tutorial sections make up key components of this course. You
must be registered for both. If you have not, you will get a 0.0 for the
lecture.
Lab: Prof. Hamish Robertson (rghr@u.washington.edu)
Tutorial: Prof. P. Shaffer (uwttl123@u.washington.edu, shaffer@phys.washington.edu)
Pretests
There will be weekly short pretests, administered over the web. These are
intended to start you thinking about the concepts that will be addressed in
tutorial later in the week. Pretest questions will be posted in tutorial.
Pretests will not be graded. Completion of these tests will, however, be a
factor in determining your final grade. See the link at the top of these pages
to get to the pretest page.
Homework
There are two types of homework: computer graded and hand graded. All
homework will be assigned each Wednesday, and the computer graded homework
will be due the following Wednesday at 11pm. The hand graded homework is due
in class, the following Wednesday. In the case of the computer graded
homework, you have the option of turning it in at 9am on Thursday for 70%
credit. The handwritten homework can only be turned in in class. The
computer graded homework uses the Tycho system, which allows you to make as
many attempts as you like at getting the homework problems correct. Again,
see the homework link at the top of the page.
There will be three one-hour midterm exams and a two-hour final exam. The
exam will be comprised of material from the lecture, lab, and tutorial portions of
the course, with about 80% weighting on the lecture material. 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 exam will be
comprehensive, and include questions from all portions of the course. All
exams will be closed book with one double-sided 8.5" by 11" sheet of notes
allowed (the final will allow two). 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 exam or miss two midterms. There will be no make-up exams.
If you believe that there is an addition error on your examination or if
there is a serious error in the grading, you may return an exam for regrading.
To do so, you must resubmit the exam at the beginning of the lecture following
the one in which the exams are returned. You must attach a note to the front
of the exam explaining the possible error in the original grading (a form is
available on the web). Do not make any
changes or marks on the original exam. Portions of each exam are photocopied.
You should be aware that any request for a regrade may result in a
regrading of the entire question. Therefore your total score may decrease.
Clicker
We will have in class questions using the Orange Clickers (with the A, B, C,
D, and E). You can pick one up at the book store, borrow one from your friends
(as long as they aren't in our class too!). The clicker responses will factor
into your course grade. Overall they are worth 2% of the grade. You'll get 50%
for trying to answer, and 100% for getting the question right. I expect to ask
on average about 2 clicker questions each lecture. The questions won't start
counting until the second week of the course, however.
Course Grade
See the common grading policy page for how the course grade will be assigned.
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