Instructor : Doug Singleton
Office Hours : MW 1230-1330 TR 1300-1500
Class Hours : MWF 1110-1200
Room : McLane 162
Phone} : 278-2523
E-mail : das3y@maxwell.phys.csufresno.edu
Text : Conceptual Physics , 8th Edition, Paul Hewitt
Exam 1 Sept. 25 ; covers Chapters 1-4
Exam 2 Oct. 26; covers Chapters 5-9
Exam 3 Nov. 30 ; covers Chapters 10, 14-17
Make-Up Exams If you know that you cannot take an exam on the scheduled date, you may arrange a make-up before the scheduled date if you let me know at least a week ahead of time so that I have time to write up a make-up exam. Make-up exams will normally be given on the Friday of the week after the exam which was missed. If you do miss an exam for an unexpected emergency this will be your drop exam. If you unexpectedly miss more than one exam you'll have one exam dropped and get a zero for the others.
Final Exam A final exam will be given on Dec. 14 from 1100 to 1300 in McLane 162 . It will cover all the material in the course and count for 30 % of your grade. You must take the final exam.
Grading Each of the three exam scores are worth 250 points each. I will drop your lowest exam score so there will be a total of 500 points from the exams. The lab will be worth a total of 150 points. The homework will be worth a total of 50 points. The Final Exam is worth 300 points. Your letter grade at the end of the semester is determined as follows :
A = 900 - 1000
B = 770 - 899
C = 640 - 769
D = 500 - 639
F = 0 - 499
Lecture To get the most out of the lecture you should do the assigned reading before the lecture. I may occasionally pose questions at the beginning of the lecture about the reading. The intent of the lectures is to highlight the most important points from the material in the text. You shouldn't have to take extensive notes since most of the material I'm going over should be in the text. However, I'll emphasize the points that I think are most important and it may be worth your while to make notes of these for testing purposes. Also I'll try to illustrate as many of the theoretical discussions with actually demonstrations that : (a) work and (b) help to illustrate the point. Finally ask questions as soon as something is unclear. Chances are if you don't understand something that there are other who also don't.
Homework The homework will come mostly from the back of the appropriate chapter in the text. The assignments will be given out on Friday and turned in on Friday. No late homeworks will be accepted. I'll check the homework to see that you've made a neat attempt at the problems. The detailed solutions will be posted on Friday after I've collected the homework. Although the homework only counts 50 points it will be worth your while to make a good and individual attempt at it since some of the homework problems may show up on the tests and final.
Lab During the weekly two-hour lab session in MCL 264 you'll do the the described activities and record your observations in the Lab manual. The lab instructor will sign off your lab manual when you have completed the lab.
Attendance You are responsible for all announcements and material given in class, even if it is not in the textbook.
The solutions to :
The All Grades by your SSN
The Test and Final Exam Grades by your SSN