Recommended Additional Exercises
Grading Policy
Homework 1
Homework 2
Homework 3
Homework 4
Homework 5
Homework 6
Homework 7
Homework 8
Homework 9
Homework 10
Homework 11
Homework 12
Homework 13
Fall 2000 Hour Test 1
Fall 2000 Hour Test 2
Fall 2000 Hour Test 3
Fall 2001 Hour Test 1
Fall 2001 Hour Test 2
Fall 2001 Hour Test 3
Fall 2002 Hour Test 1
Fall 2002 Hour Test 2
Fall 2002 Hour Test 3
Spring 2018 Hour Test 3
Spring 2019 Hour Test 1
Spring 2019 Hour Test 2
Spring 2019 Hour Test 3
Fall 2000 Final Examination
Fall 2001 Final Examination
Fall 2002 Final Examination
Total Homework Score
Total Score
Physics Resources
Lecture Slides

University of Houston

Physics 3309: Modern Physics

 

Contents

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

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. In particular, watch this space for special announcements regarding schedule changes, etc

Physics 3309 Syllabus

Edgar A. Bering, III
Science & Research I, Room 530D
Phone: 743-3543
e-mail: eabering@uh.edu
Office Hours: TuTh 13:00-14:00; otherwise by appointment
Personal Home Page: http://nsm1.uh.edu/ebering/
Course Home Page: http://nsm1.uh.edu/ebering/3309/ber3309.html
Course on Vcomm: http://vcomm.uh.edu/r7tsyciiyyr/

PHYS 3309, Sec. 10263, TuTh 16:00 - 17:30 pm, SR1 606                                               

This course will cover chapters 1 through 12 in Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, 5th edition, by Marion and Thornton, Saunders College Publishing . There will be three hour exams: one at the end of chapter 2 on Feb. 14, one at the end of chapter 7 on Mar. 21 and one at the end of the course on April 25. The final will be held 17:00-20:00 on Thursday, May 09, and will be comprehensive. No calculators or notes will be permitted during any examination; paper will be provided, so you only need to bring with you to each exam a pencil and an eraser. Each exam will focus on testing your problem solving skills.

Required homework will be assigned once each week and will be collected almost every Tuesday. Each problem will be graded on a scale of 0 to 10. Solutions will be posted below on the course home page. A penalty of 15 points 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. 22 1 1- 03 07 09 13 19 22 23 25    
Jan. 29 1, 2 1- 31 33 37; 02- 01 05 09 13 17  
Feb. 05 2 2- 21 22 25 29 31 33 37 39    
Feb. 12 2, 3 2- 43 47 49 55; 3- 01 07 11 13  
Feb. 19 3, 4 3- 19 21 27 29 33 39 41; 4- 03  
Feb. 26 4, 5 4- 07 11 13 19 23; 5- 03 07 09  
Mar. 05 5, 6, 7 5- 13 15 19; 6- 03 07 11; 7- 03 07
Mar. 19 7, 8 7- 09 15 17 23 27 29 33; 8- 03  
Mar. 26 8 8- 07 11 14 17 23 27 31 35    
Apr. 02 8, 9 8- 37 41; 9- 03 05 09 13 19 21  
Apr. 09 9, 10 9- 25 31 33 39 45 49; 10- 01 07  
Apr. 16 10, 11 10- 09 13; 11- 03 07 09 15 17 23  
Apr. 23 11, 12 11- 27 29; 12- 01 07 09 17 19 23  

 

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.

The formula used to compute your numeric grade is based on 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. Homework solutions, exam solutions and curves will only be distributed via posting to the course Web site. I have not yet decided how much to weight the essay questions

Grading Policy

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

Student Handbook Boilerplate

At this point in a fully compliant official syllabus, I am nominally required to include a lengthy swath of material cut and pasted from The Student Handbook. These items include the Academic Honesty, Diversity/Equal Opportunity, and other similar policies, including a message about the availability of counselling. I am not going to include any of this because all of it is available in The Student Handbook, a document you should own and read cover-to-cover. I will make two comments along this line.

First, I support and intend to enforce the Academic Honesty Policy. In particular, you may collaborate on the recommended supplemental problems, but you may not collaborate at all on the required homework. That must be solely your work.

Second, please ask for help as soon as you think you might need it. I am not only referring to help on this course. There is support available to reduce the impact of any stressors that are standing in the way of your academic success. ASK.


Homework Solutions

These will be posted after they have been handed in

Homework 1, Jan. 22

Homework 2, Jan. 29

Homework 3, Feb. 05

Homework 4, Feb. 12

Homework 5, Feb. 19

Homework 6, Feb. 26

Homework 7, Mar. 05

Homework 8, Mar. 19

Homework 9, Mar. 26

Homework 10, Apr. 02

Homework 11, Apr. 09

Homework 12, Apr. 16

Homework 13, Apr. 23

Hour Tests

Each link will show both solutions and the grade distribution

Fall, 2000

Hour Test 1

Hour Test 2

Hour Test 3

Fall, 2001

Hour Test 1

Hour Test 2

Hour Test 3

Fall, 2002

Hour Test 1

Hour Test 2

Hour Test 3

Spring, 2018

Hour Test 1

Hour Test 2

Hour Test 3

Spring, 2019

Hour Test 1

Hour Test 2

Hour Test 3

 


Endgame

Final Exam, Fall, 2000

Final Exam, Fall, 2001

Final Exam, Fall, 2002

Final Exam, Spring, 2018

Homework Histogram

Total Score Histogram



More Course Material

will appear here when available.

Physics Resources on the Web

Lecture Outline Slides