Physics 109

Physics in the Arts

Fall 2001

Instructors

First name	Last name	Office	Phone	e-mail address	office hours
Willy	Haeberli	1506 Sterling Hall	262-0009	whaeberli@uwnuc0.physics.wisc.edu	2.25 PM Wednesday,1506 Sterling Hall 11.05 AM Thursday, 1506 Sterling Hall
Gelsomina "pupa"	De Stasio	3418 Sterling Hall	262-5829
Emre	Tepedelenlioglu	3522 Sterling Hall	262-7555	emre@cow.physics.wisc.edu	8.50 AM Monday, 3522 Sterling Hall 9.55 AM Monday, 3522 Sterling Hall
Evelina	Tsoncheva	2331 Sterling Hall	262-6274	tsonchev@skin1.chem.wisc.edu	1.15-3.15 PM Monday, 2331 Sterling Hall
Santhosh	Padmanabhan	3514 Sterling Hall	262-1164	scpadman@cae.wisc.edu	11.00 AM Monday, 3514 Sterling Hall 11.00 AM Friday, 3514 Sterling Hall

Homework: After October 31 / Before October 31

Lectures: After October 31 / Before October 31

Study Guide for Exam 2

Exams

Monday October 8
Monday November 5
Wednesday December 12
for the 12.05 PM class in Room 1300, Sterling Hall
for the 1.20 PM class in Room 125, Biochemistry Building

There will be no final exams and no make-up exams

Textbook

There is no required textbook for the course, although you may find it useful to read "The science of sight and sound" by V. Kandhadai, which can be purchased at the University Bookstore, and is on reserve in the Physics Library and in the Undergraduate Library.
The lab manual will be handed out free of charge during the first week of laboratories.
Students MUST buy a bound quadrille notebook (50 pages or less) and bring it to the first laboratory.
Lecture notes for the second part of the course (beginning October 31st) will be available for downloading from this web page.
You may find it useful to download and print them before class.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for Physics 109. Homework and lab work require that you can do simple calculations, including fractions and very elementary high school algebra. Some of you may be out of practice: don't panic!
We will help but do overcome your embarrassment and ask questions when you have trouble.

Homework

Homework will be assigned on Wednesday and is due before class the following Monday.
Turn in the homework problems even if you have only partial answers.
You can get help for us on your homework during the office hours listed above.

Labs

All labs meet in Room 2331 Sterling Hall. Come to the lab session to which you were assigned. Record lab notes in a bound quadrille notebook, which you will then leave on the shelves in the lab.
It is essential that you attend the labs regularly. Attendance will be taken. If you miss a lab, you may make up for it the same week or the following week (make arrangements with your TA).
Photography and Musical Instruments labs must be made up the same week.
Failure to attend labs results in the loss of 1/2 grade point per lab missed.

Grades and Exams

Grades are based on the 3 exams and the 12 labs. Exam questions will be closely patterned after assigned homework problems and lab work.
The evaluation of your lab work will be based on the effort you make in the lab, and will be strongly affected by lab attendance.
It is expected that you stay for the whole duration of each lab (2 hours).
You are encouraged to deviate from the written lab instructions if you have ideas of your own which you would like to follow.
Your TA will grade your lab notebook.

You cannot fail this course if you:
    * do conscientious lab work
    * take all the exams
    * make use of TAs office hours

Syllabus

Week	Class Date	Lab experiment
1	5-Sep	NO LAB
2	10-Sep	Loudspeakers, Microphones
	12-Sep
3	17-Sep	Oscilloscope, oscillator
	19-Sep
4	24-Sep	Harmonic Oscillator, resonance
	26-Sep
5	1-Oct	Strings
	3-Oct
6	8-Oct	Pipes
	10-Oct
7	15-Oct	Sound analysis
	17-Oct
8	22-Oct	Musical scales
	24-Oct
9	29-Oct	Musical Instruments
	31-Oct
10	5-Nov	Reflection, refraction, Lenses
	7-Nov
11	12-Nov	Photography I
	14-Nov
12	19-Nov	NO LAB (Thanksgiving)
	21-Nov
13	26-Nov	Photography II
	28-Nov
14	3-Dec	Additive color mixing
	5-Dec
15	10-Dec	NO LAB
	12-Dec