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Physics 113
a physics survey course designed for science majors who are not majoring in physics or engineering. The topics of vectors, linear and multi-dimensional motion, work, energy, gravitation, simple harmonic motion, conservation of momentum and energy, constant acceleration motion, rotational motion, thermodynamics, and waves, will be covered at an introductory university level. Students are assumed to have some knowledge of calculus, though the techniques will be reviewed as they are used. No previous physics instruction is assumed.
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Surgeon General’s warning: No matter what you’re smoking, this is not your high school course.
Professor Steven Manly
B&L 203E
5-8473
http://hertz.pas.rochester.edu/class/P113_2002/
Name
University ( @mail … ) email address
favorite midnight snack
favorite novel
Why are you in this course?
See syllabus/info
writeup
Why are You here?
It is a requirement for my major.
I have to take the course to graduate.
I have to take the course to apply to med school.
Why is this a requirement for your major?
fluid flow, arteries, water fountains, commodes
mechanics of breathing, walking, running, flying, standing
golf
all sports: curve balls, spin in tennis, drag in swimming, etc.
Motors, gears, wheels, ambulances, bikes
buildings, doors, bridges, skeletons
Chemical bond modeling
planes, boats
gravity
Why do I think you are here?
Awareness and respect for physics in the real (your) world
Not on the list: To learn to be physicists.
To learn to solve problems.
To learn to solve problems.
“It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
- Albert Einstein, 1921, commenting on Thomas Edison’s opinion that a college education is useless.
Components of the course:
Lecture
Concepts, depth, association with the rest of life, other disciplines, systematic technique, gotchas, class issues, hints, some problem solving
Components of the course:
Lecture
Lab
Not as integrated as we would like. Part of your P113 grade. Must do all 5 labs to get a grade in P113.
Components of the course:
Lecture
Lab
Text More depth and associations, different approach, problems, not a substitute for lecture or doing problem sets
Components of the course:
Lecture
Lab
Text
Problem sets
Absolutely critical that you struggle with them and follow thru on particular personal questions/issues, taken up and graded for effort only
Components of the course:
Lecture
Lab
Text
Problem sets
Workshop
My way to help you help yourself!
Components of the course:
Lecture
Lab
Text
Problem sets
Workshop
Project
A fun break from the analytical.
Components of the course:
Lecture
Lab
Text
Problem sets
Workshop
Project
Exams
Evaluation:
E1 E2 E3 Final Lab PrSts Proj Cncpt mps
1 --- 16% 16% 30% 12% 12% 12% 2%2 16% --- 16% 30% 12% 12% 12% 2%3 16% 16% --- 30% 12% 12% 12% 2%4 15.5% 15.5% 15.5% 15.5% 12% 12% 12% 2%5 15.38% 15.38% 15.38% 28.77% 11.55% 11.54% --- 2%
Each scheme calculated, best average sets your place on the numerical curve
I place grade boundaries on numerical curve
… and if you don’t like that fact ...
Thou shall come to class. Thou shall read the text. Thou shall do the problem sets (the right way!).
Thou shall ask questions. Thou shall attend workshop. Thou shall participate in workshop. Thou shall strive to understand what is
behind the problems and what thou dost wrong on them.
Thou shall keep up with the class. Thou shall not CRAM for exams. Thou shall talk to ME the moment you
sense impending doom.
OR ELSE THOU SHALL GET SCREWED!
The 10 Commandments of P113:
The really, really important ones ...
Problem sets (the right way)
Workshop
Don’t cram
For those of you who like to pick and choose the commandments you follow ….
And the keys to POST-PHYSICS NIRVANA are
Status Success rate (B- or better) Significance
Frequent attendees (n=194) 85.6%
Infrequent attendees (n=107) 49.5%
Difference 36.0% 0.000 (p<0.01)
Status
Success rate (C- or better) Significance
Frequent attendees (n=194) 94.3%
Infrequent attendees (n=107) 64.5%
Difference 29.8% 0.000 (p<0.01)
Roth & Yoshinaka: analysis of P113 (1999) and P113 (2000) grade correlation with workshop attendance
More stuff:
Workshops and section signup
Problem sets and solutions
Office hours
E-mail list
Labs and lab section signup
First assignment: Concept map
EXAMPLE
Eat
flour
water
yeast
oven
pan
meas cup
recipe
teaspoon
ingredients
See handout.
Due at start of class on Thursday (Sept. 5)
ingredients
recipeTeaspoon, meas cup
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oven
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Yeast, water, flour
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Which are
Combine in
Cook in
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Teaspoon, meas cup
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oven
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According to
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Second assignment: Problem Set 1
Problem Set #1 (due September 12, 2002) - P113, Fall 2002
Estimation, sig. figures, unit conversion, straight line motion
Chapter 1: 2, 16, 18, 19, 28, 32, 45, 53
Chapter 2: 6, 10, 23, 28, 36, 48, 58, 71, 78
This is posted on the class website
