Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova

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Atmospheric Thermodynamics

Elementary Physics and Chemistry

Gerald R. North

Tatiana L. Erukhimova

Texas A & M University

SLATE award: 2008, 2009, 2011

2012 Distinguished Achievement University-Level Award in Teaching2009 AFS College-Level in Teaching2013 John E. Trott, Jr. Award in Student RecruitingSigma Xi’s Outstanding Science Communicator Award, 2014

Can you make a light bulb work with a battery and a wire?

“Minds of Our Own” by Dr. Matthew H. Schneps and Dr. Philip M. Sadler

Harvard-Smithsonian

Make your own MOTOR!

All you need is a battery, a nail, a small magnet, and a wire (foil works better)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homopolar_motor

Overview of Today’s Class

•Syllabus and Course requirements

•Tricks to survive

•Mechanics Review and Coulomb’s Law

Syllabus

Instructor Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova

Homepage http://faculty.physics.tamu.edu/etanya/P208/

Office: Mitchell Physics bldg (MPHY), Room 308

Phone: 845-5644 E-mail: etanya@tamu.edu

Class times: MWF: 9:10 am to 10:00 am Sections 521, 522, 525, 526

Location: MPHY 205

Office hours:Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:30pm – 3pm or by appointment

There will be recitation this week!For the lab:

Read Physics 208 WebAssign Instructions at http://people.physics.tamu.edu/etanya/P208/P208.htm

Textbook: “Don’t Panic: Volume II”, by William H. Bassichis, 5th Edition

Dedicated

students like it!

Clickers

We will use i>clickers for various kinds of assessment: pop quizzes, homework quizzes, in class discussion, etc. You will need to buy i>clicker and register it for this class at www.iclicker.com

Grade Policy

Exams 50% Lab 5%

Quizzes 5% Final 40%

You must pass both the lecture (3 midterm exams, final exam, homework) and laboratory parts of the coursein order to pass the course

Grade Policy (cont)

•If your grade on the Final Exam is higher than your lowest grade on one of the three exams during the semester, the grade on the Final will replace that one lowest exam grade in computing the course grade (it will only replace one grade in case of two exams having the same lowest grade). •The Final Exam grade cannot be used to replace an exam that has been missed without an University excused absence. The missed exam will count as a zero when computing your final grade.

Grade Policy (cont)

All Exams are

•Closed book

•No numbers! In general the problems will be formula solutions with variables

•Problems will be similar to those on homework and recitation

Homework

You’ll have weekly homework assignments

Every week you’ll have hw quiz with one problem from your assignment.

All quizzes will be given with i>clickers

Check my webpage for hw assignments

Example for Week 1 (Week Jan 19):

Week Jan 19 (due Jan 26): All Chapter 1 problems and exercises

“Due” means that I’ll give you a hw quiz on that day

Exam schedule

All mid-term exams will be from 7:00 to 9:30 pm

February 17             Exam I March 24             Exam II April 23               Exam III

Final             May 8

My Advice to You• Be proactive!! Get into it and have fun• Always watch the chapter outline video and read

the book before you come to class• Be serious about an old rule of thumb: you have to

study 2-3 hours a week outside the class per each credit hour

• Don’t miss classes (lectures, recitations, labs)• Solve all problems and exercises after each Chapter

in the book• Don’t fall into the “I understand the concepts but I

can’t do the problems” trap. It means you haven’t done enough of the problems in the chapters.

• Every year we have lots of students who really think they understand but fail during the exams. Don’t let this happen to you!

I make help sessions before each midterm exam and the final. Week in review on Mondays

However, these sessions cannot substitute for regular class attendance.  They are to give you a good guidance on how to prepare for the test and to succeed in problem solving.

Please check my webpage for help sessions schedule

Learning community:

Wednesday at 8 pm?

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From long view of the history of mankind – seen from, say, ten thousand years from now – there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell’s discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the samedecade.

Richard P. Feynman

Nobel Prize in Physics, 1965

1918-1988

Have a great day!

Hw: All Chapter 1 problems and exercisesReading: Chapter 1