Course Outline
What is this course all about?

Brock calendar entry: Rotational and center-of-mass motion; work done by a variable force; electric and magnetic fields; electric potential and potential energy; magnetic induction; AC circuits and resonance; wave-particle duality; elements of modern physics. Use of computers for data acquisition; elements of computer programming; principles of scientic writing and communication

Pre-requisites: PHYS 1P21 and one of MATH 1P05, 1P01 or 1P97

Lectures

Instructor: G.Hester

Lectures: Location:TBA

Labs/Tutorials Location: TBA

Textbook

The textbook is University Physics by Moebs Ling and Sanny, published by OpenStax (Rice University). It consists of three on-line volumes:

and is available to download for free at http://cnx.org.

Academic Integrity
Sources of help
Grading Scheme
Component PHYS 1P94 Comments
homework 15% Weekly homework is assigned and graded through WeBWorK online testing system. Repeated attempts are possible, as the problems are randomly selected and modified. A mixture of qualitative and numerical problems.
weekly tests 35% 11-12 tests. The problems are similar to those practiced in WeBWorK, solved by hand on paper. Two lowest test grades (but not zeros for tests missed without a medical/compassionate excuse) are dropped from the average.
final exam 30% You must pass the final exam (50% or more) in order to pass the course.
laboratories 20% Completing all labs, and submitting all written lab reports are required to complete the lab component of the course.