Who am I, where to find me, etc Name: Office: PHY 358 Lab: PHY 115 Phone: E-mail: Dr. Guenter Scholz x 32213 (Office) scholz@uwaterloo.ca Office hours: M, W : 2:30 4:00 Else Anytime, if I m in my office! What do I do at U.W. other than teach? I operate a Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and image materials down to the nano-scale (10 s of Å)
AGAIN: OFFICIAL OFFICE HOURS Room P358 in Physics building, 3 rd floor M, W 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm I teach M, W, F : 8:30, 10:30, 12:30
Basic Information about PHY 122 Official Text: University Physics by Young and Freedman 13 th ed; else, any 1 st year University text >>> I may provide complete notes on LEARN <<< Exams: 1 Midterm test on Saturday, FEB 28 th, 2015 Begin/End : 10:00 am - Noon. 1 Final exam - TBA >>> Any midterm conflicts must be adressed within the first week of classes Web Assignments: MasteringPhysics; 1 / week ~10 in total Sign-in Code is P122LEC1SCHOLZW15 or P122LEC2SCHOLZW15 Lec1 = 8:30 ; Lec2 = 10:30 make certain you chose the correct page Grading: Final Exam (F); Midterm Exam(M); Assignments (A); Quizz(Q) Best of ( 50%F + 30%M + 10%A + 10%Q ) ( 70%F + 10%M + 10%A + 10%Q ) or 100%F; Whatever gives YOU the best mark or
An Introduction Periodic Motion Oscillations Simple Harmonic Motion (SHM) Pendulums Damped and Forced SHM (for Interest) Mechanical Waves and Sound Waves Periodic Waves Transverse vs Longitudinal, Speeds Superposition Standing Waves Sound Waves (Beats, Resonance, Mach #) Electric Charge and Field Coulombs Law Electric Field of Point Charges Gaus s Law Charge and Flux, Integral notation Electric Potential and Energy Work, Voltage, Energy and Equipotentials DC Circuits: Capacitance, Resistance, EMF circuit analysis, Kirchhoff Laws Magnetic Fields PHY 122 Outline:
Assignments, Tutorials and Exams Info Weekly Assignments (disposed of at semester end) Assignments are on the Web and part of the textbook or access can be purchased separately. There are about 15 problems per assignment of varying difficulty. Assignments are posted on a Friday morning and due 10 days later on Monday at midnight. (you have 2 weekends) Midterm Test (disposed of at semester end) and Final Exam can include problems, multiple choice or conceptual questions Practice tests with solutions will be available on LEARN about 2 weeks prior to the Midterm Test and Final Exam Tutorials are one hour each and will be held in: RCH 112 -- M(15:30) RCH 110 F(2:30) PHY 235 -- T(8:30) and T(10:30) RCH 205 -- F(4:30) >> There are a total of 5 hours of tutorials scheduled for you << The Quizz is given during tutorial, but otherwise attendance is voluntary but highly recommended!
Basic Math you absolutely need to know Vectors Scalars and vectors, vector components, unit vectors Addition of vectors Product of 2 vectors (Dot and Vector products) Trigonometry sin, cos, tan and associated trigonometry laws Basic Calculus First and second order derivatives, Integrals note: use your math books or the web to review the information listed above. You could also prepare a Math formula sheet or buy one from the UW bookstore for quick reference.
How to succeed in my class? You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother. Albert Einstein Attend the Lectures - I do ALL the problems that you will encounter in an exam. There are NO suprises! Read the Notes and/or a Textbook this helps to clarify lecture material Work through the assignments Yourself to recognize any difficulties you may have Do not hesitate to ask for help discuss problems with your peers, the TA s or, of course, me! At first attempt the practice tests Yourself
Problem solving strategy Read the question (Make sure you understand the question and identify what information relevant to the problem is available or not available) Draw a diagram (A Free Body Diagram = all the forces acting ON an object in the problem) Define a coordinate system (Define positive and negative directions) Form a conceptual solution (Spend time to visualize and then choose a way of solving the problem) Apply the laws of physics (Write down only the mathematical formulas describing the physics laws relevant to the problem to be solved) Derive a complete solution (Math skills required some algebra, trigonometry and maybe calculus)
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