Physics 3309

University of Houston

Introduction

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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

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.