Important Course
Information:
- Class meets Monday/Wednesday/Friday 8:30 - 9:20 in Watanabe
Hall room 112
- Instructor: Gary Varner
Office: WAT 333 Laboratory: WAT 214
- e-mail: varner#phys.hawaii.edu, varner#hawaii.edu
- Office Hours: Mon, Wed, Fri 9:30 - 10:00am, Wed/Fri 1 -
1:30pm WAT 214 (or
other
times
by
arrangement)
- Course WWW page: http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~varner/PHYS272-Spr10/physics272.html
- Student
Learning Objectives for this course are detailed here
- Lecture archive available -- as long as in general people coming
to class
- In order to complete the online homework, you must register for a Mastering Physics account
- iClicker debugging
-- what to try, if
your
clicker
is
not
responding
- For
homework/quiz
turn-ins,
use
your
Roster
ID # (last 4 digits of your student ID)
- Tutoring help available in
WAT421 at these times
-
- Online part
of Assignment
XIII [last!!]
(VARNERPHYS272) in Mastering
Physics due Monday, May 3rd,
2010
- Turn in 33.28, 33.42, 33.46 and 33.58
for
grading -- due Monday, May
3rd,
2010
Prerequisite: Math 242.
Calculus
is
used
in
this
course.
Text: University Physics II by Young and Freedman, 12th Edition
Computers:
A computer account with access to World-Wide-Web is
required
for the Mastering Physics Exercises
Roughly half the homework will be done using the mastering physics
system, the other half to be turned in for grading.
Grading: Problems 20%, Midterms 35%, Mini-quizzes 5%, In-class 5%,
Final 35%
There are two midterm exams (notecard and calculator), six short
mini-quizzes (closed book, ~10 minutes), and in-class participation.
To learn physics you must do the
homework.
- Final
Exam: Friday May 14, 2010, 7:30 - 9:30 a.m.
- Lecture 1
(11-JAN-2010)
- Lecture 2
(13-JAN-2010)
- Lecture 3
(15-JAN-2010)
- Lecture 4
(20-JAN-2010)
- Lecture 5
(22-JAN-2010)
- Lecture 6
(25-JAN-2010)
- Lecture 7 [Hints for HW#2]
(27-JAN-2010)
- Completion of Lecture
7 Lecture
8 [Hints for
HW#3]
(29-JAN-2010)
- Lecture 9
(1-FEB-2010)
- Lecture 10
(3-FEB-2010)
- Lecture 11
(5-FEB-2010)
- Lecture 12
(8-FEB-2010)
- Lecture 13
(10-FEB-2010)
- Lecture 14
(12-FEB-2010)
- MT1 Review
(17-FEB-2010)
- Practice Midterm 1
- Lecture 15
(22-FEB-2010)
- Lecture 16
(24-FEB-2010)
- Problem
Practice Session (26-FEB-2010)
- Lecture 17
(1-MAR-2010)
- Lecture 18
(3-MAR-2010)
- Lecture 19
(5-MAR-2010) [will change enumeration to match Course schedule from
this
lecture]
- Lecture 22
(8-MAR-2010) [changed enumeration to match Course schedule]
- Lecture 23
(10-MAR-2010)
- Lecture 24
(12-MAR-2010)
- Lecture 25
(15-MAR-2010)
- Lecture 26
(17-MAR-2010)
- Lecture 27
(19-MAR-2010)
- Practice Midterm 2
- Lecture 28
(7-APR-2010)
- Lecture 29
(9-APR-2010)
- Lecture 30
(12-APR-2010)
- Lecture 31
(14-APR-2010)
- Lecture 32
(16-APR-2010)
- Lecture 33
(19-APR-2010)
- Lecture 34
(21-APR-2010)
- Lecture 35
(23-APR-2010)
- Lecture 36
(26-APR-2010)
- Lecture 37 37b (28-APR-2010)
- Lecture 38
(30-APR-2010)
- Lecture 39
(3-MAY-2010)
- Practice
Final Exam [PDF]
- Practice Final Review
(5-MAY-2010)