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Physics 1301

Introduction

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Physics 1301 Syllabus

Edgar A. Bering, III
Science & Research I, Room 530D
Phone: 743-3543
e-mail: eabering@uh.edu
Office Hours: MW 12:00-1:00
Personal Home Page: http://www.uh.edu/~ebering/index.html
Course Home Page: http://www.uh.edu/~ebering/1301/ber1301.html

This course will cover chapters 1 through 15 in Physics, 1st edition, James S. Walker, Prentice Hall publishers. The pace will be frenetic; we will cover on average slightly more than one chapter per week. There will be three hour exams on Friday evenings at 5:30: one at the end of chapter 05 on Feb. 28, one at the end of chapter 09 on Mar. 28, and one at the end of the course on Apr. 28. The final will be comprehensive. It will be held Wed., May 7, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Each exam will emphasize testing your problem solving skills. No calculators will be allowed n any test or examination. Slide rules or a small book of logarithm tables in English will be permitted.

Homework is assigned below and will be collected each Monday as listed below. At least two of the problems from each chapter will be graded on a scale of 0 to 10. Solutions will be posted below on the course home page. A penalty of 20% of the maximum possible score will be assessed for homework turned in late. Under normal circumstances, students will not be permitted more than 2 late homework papers. Late homework must be turned in directly to me, not buried in a subsequent submission stack. Late homework will not be accepted after the solutions are posted or the next assignment is due, whichever comes first. The homework that is due the day before any hour test will not be accepted late under any circumstances. The homework assignments are listed below:

Due Date	Chapters	Problems
Jan. 27	01, 02	01-	12	14	16	21	28	38;	02-	06	22
Feb. 03	02, 03	02-	26	38	42	56	70;	03-	10	18	26
Feb. 10	03, 04	03-	27	36	44	50;	04-	06	16	22	34
Feb. 17	04, 05	04-	44	54	66;	05-	06	14	24	26	36
Feb. 24	05, 06	05-	42	56;	06-	08	12	24	32	38	48
Mar. 10	06, 07	06-	80;	07-	08	18	22	30	44	56	66
Mar. 17	08, 09	08-	02	10	20	32	40	65	68;	09-	06
Mar. 24	09, 10	09-	12	18	28	40	52	68;	10-	10	22
Mar. 31	10, 11	10-	36	48	56	68	78;	11-	06	14	30
Apr. 07	11, 12	11-	37	44	54	64	72;	12-	08	20	31
Apr. 14	12, 13	12-	32	48	70;	13-	06	14	24	32	40
Apr. 21	13, 14	13-	54	74;	14-	06	12	18	24	46	54
Apr. 28	14, 15	14-	64	72;	15-	22	30	40	56	71	82

Recommended Additional Problems and Exercises

The list of required homework problems should NOT be taken to represent the entirety of the problem solving that you should be doing in studying this material. The size of the homework assignments is determined by the grading budget not by pedagogical considerations. Ideally, you should do every exercise at the back of each chapter. Practically, this may not be possible for many of you. As a minimum target, you should try to do at least 24 exercises in addition to the required homework each week. The exact choice is up to you. For those who may some guidance in this choice, a list of recommendations is posted here.

Provided that a grader is assigned, the formula used to compute your numeric grade is the following:

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Note that each quiz is equally weighted, that the quizzes constitute 45 percent of your final grade, that the final is 35 percent, and that you can gain 20 points by doing all of the homework correctly. That's usually more than the difference between a C and an A.