Teaching:

• Physical Sciences 303: Introduction to Mechanics and Heat, Fall 2007
• Physics 303K: Engineering Physics I Honors, Spring 2004
• Physics 103M: Engineering Physics Laboratory I, Fall 2003

• Graduate Student Instructor Program: ASPECTS (Advancing Students' Professional Excellence with Certificates in Teaching Series)
  • I am taking the "Teaching Through Writing" series.

Physics 303K  

Engineering Physics I Honors

Discussion Sections - Spring 2004

Logistics

TA: Matt Thrasher

Section Times:

• Unique #56585      Thursday 6-7 pm      RLM 7.104

• Unique #56590      Thursday 7-8 pm      RLM 7.104

Office hours in RLM 14.316: 

• Tuesday 10-11 am 

• Tuesday 4-5 pm

• Thursday 10-11 am

• Thursday 8-9 pm

Sections are required.  Section attendance will account for 5% of your final grade.  Attendance will be taken via weekly worksheets.

Course-wide Midterm Exams will be held Wednesday nights 7-9pm in WEL 2.224 on 

• Feb 18 covering chapters 1-6

• Mar 10 covering chapters 6-9

• Apr 7 covering chapters 10-12

• May 5 covering chapters 13-18.

The final exam is comprehensive and will be on Saturday morning, May 15 from 9 am - 12pm.

Handouts

Resources

The course-wide schedule, Interactive Quiz Library, formulae sheets, and Homework Service can be found at http://www.ph.utexas.edu/courses.html

Discussion boards are available at Blackboard.

Useful introductory textbooks include:

• Course textbook: Resnick, Halliday, and Krane, Physics, 5th ed. (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), 2 vol set.

• Very good advanced lectures: Feynman, Leighton, Sands, Feynman Lectures on Physics (Benjamin Cummings, 1989) 3 vol. set

• Good Math Reference: Riley, Hobson, Bence.  Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering. (Cambridge).

• A fun book to build your intuition and observation skills: Walker, Jearl.  The Flying Circus of Physics with Answers. (John Wiley & Sons, 1977)

• Giancoli, Douglas Physics: Principles with Applications, Interactive web site at Prentice Hall (1995).
• Serway, Raymond, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 4th ed. (Saunders, 1996)
• Tipler, Paul A., Physics for Scientists and Engineers, , 4th ed. (Worth Publishers, NY 1999). Web Site.

Useful physics websites with Java Applet Collections (list courtesy of Prof. Coker):

• http://lectureonline.cl.msu.edu/~mmp/applist/applets.htm

• http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/

• http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/

• http://www.chem.uci.edu/education/undergrad_pgm/applets/

• http://physics.uwstout.edu/physapplets/

• http://www.physics.uoguelph.ca/applets/Intro_physics/kisalev/

• http://webphysics.davidson.edu/Applets/Retard/Retard.html

A set of advanced lecture notes by Howard Georgi:  http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~phys16/lectures/ 

Physics 103M

Engineering Physics Laboratory 1

General Information

TA: Matt Thrasher

Lab times: T 10-12 and TH 10-12 in RLM 8.316

Office hours: W 5-6 in RLM 9.222, F 11-12 at coaching tables

Coaching Table Hours: RLM 5th floor M 11-12, T 2-4, W 11-12, F 11-12

The main course website is http://www.ph.utexas.edu/~phy103m/.

Grades are available through Blackboard.

Handouts and Assignments

First Lab Meeting -- 9/9 and 9/11

• Syllabus (pdf)

• Statement of Philosophy (not available online)

• Assignment: The two graphs are due at the beginning of class.  Follow the procedure on pg 22 in your lab manual.

Second Lab Meeting -- 9/16 and 9/18 -- Lab 1: Random Motions

• Assignment: First lab report.

• Homework, due 9/23 and 9/25, respectively.

Third Lab Meeting -- 9/23 and 9/25 -- Lab 2 Uniformly Accelerated Motion

• Handed back: Graded graphs from computer tutorial.

• Quiz #1 given.

• Due: First lab report and Homework #1.

• Assignment: Second lab report.

Fourth Lab Meeting -- 9/30 and 10/2 -- Lab 3 Force and Potential Energy

• Handout #0: Lab Report In General Should Include

• Handout #1: Lab Report #1 Grading and Comments Legend

• Handed back: Lab Report #1, Homework #1, Quiz #1

• Quiz #2 given.

• Due: Second Lab Report

• Assignment for 10/7 and 10/9: Thrid Lab Report

Fifth Lab Meeting --10/7 and 10/9 -- Lab 4 Day 1 Collisions in One Dimension

• Handout #2: Lab Report #2 Grading and Comments Legend

• Handed back: Lab Report #2.

• Quiz #3 given.

• Due: Third Lab Report

• Assignment for 10/14 and 10/16: none.

• Sample Lab Report.  Note that the student has all the essentials plus more.  All I ask for is the essentials, outlined in the handout "Lab Report in General should Include."  The most commonly neglected parts of the lab (namely, the conclusion, sample calculations, and the proper graphs) are all present here. Note that this sample lab is not to be used as a template; do not conduct a 'replace his text with mine' type affair when making your report.  Rather, just see what the major components of the lab should be present and what they should look like.  Also, I apologize about the the text being a little fuzzy.  The pdf is a scan of a xerox of the original, but if you zoom in with Reader, the text is legible.

Sixth Lab Meeting --10/14 and 10/16 -- Lab 4 Day 2: Collisions in One Dimension

• Handout #3: Lab Report #3 Grading and Comments Legend

• Handed back: Lab Report #3: Force and Potential Energy

• Quiz #4 given.

• Due: nothing.

• Assignment for 10/21 and 10/25: Lab Report #4: Collisions in One Dimension. 

Seventh Lab Meeting --10/21 and 10/23 -- Lab 5: Motion Under A Central Force

• Handed back: nothing.

• Quiz #5 to be given.

• Due: Lab Report #4

• Assignment  for 10/28 and 10/30: Lab Report #5: Motion Under a Central Force.

Eighth Lab Meeting -- 10/28 and 10/30 -- Lab 6: Day 1: A Mechanical Oscillator

• Handout #4: Lab Report #4 Grading and Comments Legend

• Handed back: Quiz #5 and Lab Report #4

• Quiz #6 to be given

• Due: Lab Report #5: Motion Under a Central Force.

• Assignment for 11/4 and 11/6: none.

Ninth Lab Meeting -- 11/4 and 11/6 -- Lab 6: Day 2

• Hand out #5: Lab Report #5 Grading and Comments Legend

• Handed back: Quiz #6 and Lab Report #5.

• No Quiz.

• Due: nothing.

• Assignment for 11/11 and 11/13: Lab Report #6: A Mechanical Oscillator

Tenth Lab Meeting -- 11/11 and 11/13 -- Lab #7: Bernoulli's Principle

• Handed back: nothing.

• Quiz #7 to be given

• Due: Lab Report #6: A Mechanical Oscillator

• Assignment for 11/4 and 11/6: Lab Report #7 Bernoulli's Principle.

Eleventh Lab Meeting -- 11/18 and 11/20 -- Lab 8: Standing Waves on a String

• Hand out #6: Lab Report #6 Grading and Comments Legend

• Handed back: Quiz #7

• Quiz #8 to be given.  This is only attendance, because you will complete the course survey.

• Due: Lab Report #7: Bernoulli's Principle.

• Assignment for 11/25 and 11/27: Lab Report #8 Standing Waves on a String.  Since this is the last class meeting, you will turn in the lab report to my mailbox in RLM 14.216 by noon two weeks from the lab.  This is 12/2 (if you are in the Tuesday 10-12 class) or 12/4 (if you are in the Thursday 10-12 class).

Makeup Lab Meeting -- 12/2 and 12/4

• This period is to makeup any missed labs.  Before 11/27, email me with your name, lab time, which lab you want to make up, and why you are making it up.  Remember, a good reason for a make up is necessary.  If we have talked beforehand, just remind me of our conversation.

• Handout #7: Lab Report #7 Grading and Comments Legend

• Hand out #8:  Lab Report #8 Grading and Comments Legend

• Handed back: Lab Report #7.

• Due: Lab Report #8.

On 12/9 and 12/11,

I will be in my office in RLM 14.316 from 10-12 to hand back all remaining papers.  During this time, those who made up a lab should turn in their lab reports to me.