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Physics 113

Physics 113. … is.

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Physics 113

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  1. Physics 113 … is a physics survey course designed for science majors who are not majoring in physics or engineering. The topics of vectors, linear and multi-dimensional motion, work, energy, gravitation, simple harmonic motion, conservation of momentum and energy, constant acceleration motion, rotational motion, thermodynamics, and waves, will be covered at an introductory university level. Students are assumed to have some knowledge of calculus, though the techniques will be reviewed as they are used. No previous physics instruction is assumed. Surgeon General’s warning: No matter what you’re smoking, this is not your high school course.

  2. Professor Steven Manly B&L 203E 5-8473 manly@pas.rochester.edu See syllabus/info writeup http://hertz.pas.rochester.edu/class/P113_2002/ Name University ( @mail … ) email address favorite midnight snack favorite novel Why are you in this course?

  3. Why are You here? It is a requirement for my major. I have to take the course to apply to med school. I have to take the course to graduate.

  4. Why is this a requirement for your major? fluid flow, arteries, water fountains, commodes mechanics of breathing, walking, running, flying, standing golf all sports: curve balls, spin in tennis, drag in swimming, etc. Motors, gears, wheels, ambulances, bikes buildings, doors, bridges, skeletons Chemical bond modeling planes, boats gravity

  5. Why do I think you are here? Awareness and respect for physics in the real (your) world To learn to solve problems. To learn to solve problems. Not on the list: To learn to be physicists.

  6. “It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.” - Albert Einstein, 1921, commenting on Thomas Edison’s opinion that a college education is useless.

  7. Lecture Components of the course: Concepts, depth, association with the rest of life, other disciplines, systematic technique, gotchas, class issues, hints, some problem solving

  8. Lecture Lab Components of the course: Not as integrated as we would like. Part of your P113 grade. Must do all 5 labs to get a grade in P113.

  9. Text Lecture Lab Components of the course: More depth and associations, different approach, problems, not a substitute for lecture or doing problem sets

  10. Problem sets Text Lecture Lab Components of the course: Absolutely critical that you struggle with them and follow thru on particular personal questions/issues, taken up and graded for effort only

  11. Problem sets Text Lecture Workshop Lab Components of the course: My way to help you help yourself!

  12. Problem sets Text Lecture Workshop Lab Project Components of the course: A fun break from the analytical.

  13. Problem sets Text Lecture Workshop Lab Exams Project Components of the course:

  14. Evaluation: E1 E2 E3 Final Lab PrSts Proj Cncpt mps 1 --- 16% 16% 30% 12% 12% 12% 2% 2 16% --- 16% 30% 12% 12% 12% 2% 3 16% 16% --- 30% 12% 12% 12% 2% 4 15.5% 15.5% 15.5% 15.5% 12% 12% 12% 2% 5 15.38% 15.38% 15.38% 28.77% 11.55% 11.54% --- 2% Each scheme calculated, best average sets your place on the numerical curve I place grade boundaries on numerical curve … and if you don’t like that fact ...

  15. The 10 Commandments of P113: • Thou shall come to class. • Thou shall read the text. • Thou shall do the problem sets (the right way!). • Thou shall ask questions. • Thou shall attend workshop. • Thou shall participate in workshop. • Thou shall strive to understand what is behind the problems and what thou dost wrong on them. • Thou shall keep up with the class. • Thou shall not CRAM for exams. • Thou shall talk to ME the moment you sense impending doom. OR ELSE THOU SHALL GET SCREWED!

  16. For those of you who like to pick and choose the commandments you follow …. The really, really important ones ... And the keys to POST-PHYSICS NIRVANA are Problem sets (the right way) Workshop Don’t cram

  17. Roth & Yoshinaka: analysis of P113 (1999) and P113 (2000) grade correlation with workshop attendance

  18. More stuff: Workshops and section signup Office hours Problem sets and solutions E-mail list Labs and lab section signup physlabs@pas.rochester.edu

  19. First assignment: Concept map Eat flour water yeast oven pan meas cup recipe teaspoon ingredients See handout. Due at start of class on Thursday (Sept. 5) EXAMPLE

  20. recipe Teaspoon, meas cup requires Measured using ingredients Which are Combine in Yeast, water, flour pan Cook in oven eat

  21. eat Teaspoon, meas cup Must combine Measured using recipe ingredients According to in pan Yeast, water, flour Cook in oven

  22. While sitting on flour pan eat on While making ingredients oven yeast contains water contains Teaspoon meas cup

  23. Second assignment: Problem Set 1 Problem Set #1 (due September 12, 2002) - P113, Fall 2002 Estimation, sig. figures, unit conversion, straight line motion Chapter 1: 2, 16, 18, 19, 28, 32, 45, 53 Chapter 2: 6, 10, 23, 28, 36, 48, 58, 71, 78 This is posted on the class website

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