Contents

1. Top
2. Contents
3. Introduction
4. Questions?
5. Syllabus
6. Recommended Additional Problems
7. Grading Policy
8. Homework Solutions
9. Hour Tests
10. Endgame
11. More Course Material
12. Student Activity

Physics 1322

Introduction

This Page will grow during the course of the semester. I plan to post homework solutions, the hour test questions and solutions after the tests are given and other related materials as they become available.

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Physics 1322 Syllabus

Edgar A. Bering, III
Science & Research I, Room 530D
Phone: 713-743-3543
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/1322/ber1322.html

This course will cover chapters 17 through 32 and 34 through 38 in Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd Edition by Fishbane, Gasiorowicz, and Thornton, Pearson Prentice Hall publishers. We will cover on average 1.5 chapters per week. Hour Exams will be given on Fridays, 5:30 to 7:00 pm in a room TBA. There will be three hour exams: one at the end of chapter 22 on Feb. 25, one at the end of chapter 29 on Apr. 01, and one at the end of the course on Apr. 29. The final will be comprehensive and will be given on Friday, May 6, 11-2. Each exam will focus on testing your problem solving skills.

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:

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:

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.

Grading Policy

A copy of the instruction memo that I give to the grader is posted here.

Homework Solutions

Homework 1, January 31

Homework 2, February 07

Homework 3, February 14

Homework 4, February 21

Homework 5, February 28

Homework 6, March 07

Homework 7, March 21

Homework 8, March 28

Homework 9, April 04

Homework 10, April 11

Homework 11, April 18

Homework 12, April 25

Homework 13, May 02

Hour Tests

Each link will show both solutions and the grade distribution

Spring, 2000

Hour Test 1, Spring 2000

Hour Test 2, Spring 2000

Hour Test 3, Spring 2000

Spring, 2002

Hour Test 1, Spring 2002

Hour Test 2, Spring 2002

Hour Test 3, Spring 2002

Spring, 2003

Hour Test 1, Spring 2003

Hour Test 2, Spring 2003

Hour Test 3, Spring 2003

Fall, 2003

Hour Test 1, Fall 2003

Hour Test 2, Fall 2003

Hour Test 3, Fall 2003

Spring, 2004

Hour Test 1, Spring 2004

Hour Test 2, Spring 2004

Hour Test 3, Spring 2004

Spring, 2005

Hour Test 1, Spring 2005

Hour Test 2, Spring 2005

Hour Test 3, Spring 2005

Endgame

Final Exam, Spring 2000

Final Exam, Spring 2002

Final Exam, Spring 2003

Final Exam, Fall 2003

Final Exam, Spring 2004

Final Exam, Spring 2005

Homework Histogram

Total Score Histogram

More Course Material

will appear here when available.

Physics Resources on the Web

Lecture Outline Slides

Student Activity

So far, there have been students who have accessed this material.

Right now, all you can do is return to Prof. Bering's Personal Home Page: