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   Instructor:

Lynn Knutson
Office:  5203 Chamberlin Hall
Phone:  262-3096
email:  knutson@physics.wisc.edu

Office Hours:  (in 5203 Chamberlin)


Monday -- 2:00 pm
Tuesday -- 8:50 am
Wednesday -- 12:05 pm

   Course Information:

GENERAL INFO:  Physics 104 is the second semester of a non-calculus introductory physics sequence.  We assume that students are familiar with the material covered in Physics 103.  The second semester course covers electricity, magnetism, light and optics plus topics in "modern physics".

LECTURES:  General lectures are held at 11:00 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  Quizzes will be given the lecture period from time to time and will normally cover material from the previous homework assignment.  The schedule of lecture topics and quizzes is given below.  

DISCUSSIONS:  Discussion sections meet every week on Thursday. Attendance at discussion is expected of all students, and role will be taken. The discussions will focus mainly on problem solving, and provide the opportunity for students to ask questions and participate.  

LABS:  Labs sections will meet every week except for the first week of the semester, and for occasional makeup weeks.  Students are required to complete all of the 10 scheduled labs.  Anyone who fails to complete any of the labs will have his/her course grade lowered by 1/4 grade point for each missed lab.  If you need to miss a lab, it is your responsibility to contact your TA to arrange for a makeup time.

HOMEWORK:  Homework assignments for each week will be given in the syllabus below.  Homework problems from lectures of the previous week will normally be collected on Wednesday at lecture time. Homework is due by 11:00am.  Homework will be checked and returned to you by your TA. The solutions will be posted on the web after the papers have been collected.

Students are permitted and encouraged to work together on homework assignments with the goal of learning from each other.  However, the homework paper you hand in must represent your own work.  Copying someone else's solution to submit as your own work is plagiarism.

   Required Materials:

TEXT:  College Physics, Volume 2, by Ray Serway and Jerry Faughn -- 7th Edition

LAB MANUAL:  Physics 104 Lab Manual 

LAB NOTEBOOK:  Some kind of bound or spiral notebook, preferably with quad ruled paper.

CALCULATOR:  Required for homework, lab and exams.

   Grading:

Final course grades will be determined as follows:
Three midterm exams  --- 100 points each

Final exam     --------- 150 points

Homework    ------------ 100 points

Quizzes    -------------  75 points

Lab        ------------- 100 points

Discussion  ------------  25 points

LAB GRADING:  We consider the labs to be an important part of the course, and expect students to use the lab periods as a means to learn firsthand about physics.  As long as you do the labs and work conscientionsly, you will get a good grade.  Furthermore, since most of you will do the work as expected, the spread in the lab grades will not be very large.  With all of this in mind, we adopted the following grading policy.  Your TA will give you a numerical grade, on the scale 0 to 10, for each lab.  Most students will be given a score of 8, with 9 or 7 possible for students who distinguish themselves in either a positive or negative way.  Scores lower than 7 are possible for people who do only part of the lab work.  In assigning the grades the TA's will consider a number of factors including questions you ask, understanding and insight you demonstrate, the accuracy of your results, the completeness and clarity of your lab notebook, and probably more.  The TA's will review your notebooks, but the subjective factors will also carry significant weight.

• Tony Barnes      302 310 311    abarnes1@wisc.edu
• Danny Dhokarh    301 312        dhokarh@wisc.edu
• Tyler Green      304 308 309    jtgreen@wisc.edu
• Ian Lewis        303 306 314    ilewis@wisc.edu
• Adam Tregre      305 307 313    tregre@hep.wisc.edu

Lab Schedule

 Consultation Room -- 2331 Chamberlin Hall
 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday
8:50
9:55		Adam	Ian
11:00		Lynn
12:05
1:20		Tyler
2:25	Tony	Tyler
3:30	Danny
4:35		Ian