Announcements/deadlines
May 11, 2008
Due to an emergency, not everyone has taken exam III yet. Solutions, not proof-read. A typo fixed May 13. djvu version if you can't print.
May 2, 2008
Sample exam III.
April 8, 2008
Exam II Additional problems (PDF) or (djvu). Note the due date/time. They will not be accepted 5 minutes late! These are worth 16 points in total! Exam II Solutions (not proofed).Exam I solutions, not proofed. Notify me of any typos.
April 3, 2008
I will be off-campus on Thursday, and therefore there will be no lecture or discussion. George will administer the exam as usual. Use this time to study!.
March 28, 2008
Sample exam II or pdf. Your exam will cover Biot-Savart, Ampere, Lorentz Force laws and NOT dielectric materials (which we have skipped). I will post an update on Sunday. And here it is. This is a good representative of your exam, except for the last problem. We will not get to AC circuits this week. There will be a review on Monday 11:00-12:00 in the lab/lecture/disc room.
March 28, 2008
Solutions to all exercises are now online, up through P.184.
March 11, 2008
For those of you interested in relativity, or in how the Biot-Savart law of magnetism can be gotten from Coulomb's law plus relativity, this material (pdf), (djvu) was until recently covered in the course. Here there be penguins. Lots of penguins.
February 15, 2008
I had an idea once that would give NHL hockey some class and respectability. It involved Velcro, pulsed electromagnets, and a magnetized puck. Of course no one listened to me. HST had some ideas that would give baseball some class and respectability. A man ahead of his time too, and nobody listened to him either.
February 14, 2008
He's back, and just in time vor Valentine's day. Bad craziness at Owl Farm. Hunter S. Thompson's ESPN column is back for free.
February 13, 2008
Sample exam I (pdf), or (djvu).
February 7, 2008
Use your discretion; the COM-ARTS lots have been cleared, the interstate is completely cleared but icy near the MILW airport. There has been no announced cancellations as of 6:18 AM, however KR is a very rough ride if not impassable without 4-wheeel drive.
I will update this page right up until 8:00 AM.
February 6, 2008
"Due to a weather emergency, day classes only at this time have been cancelled for today, February 6th, 2008."
January 18, 2008
Perhaps the most appropriately named list that you will encounter today. We had paper wasps in the old outhouse, no problem, but those pepsis wasps were big enough to carry off your cat.
January 1, 2008
Students with a time-conflict between the 202 lab sections and a mathematics or organic lab course should contact me by email for a "permission to register for class with time conflict" waiver form.
January 1, 2008
It's time for the annual Darwin Awards, where strange as it may sound, evolution and physics come together.
December 31, 2007
Calculus review and lab book links have been updated and are active.
December 22, 2007
All course materials (lecture notes/readings, homework, solutions, lab book, practice tests) are available here, for free download. I suggest obtaining a copy of Halliday, Resnick and Walker, 4th edition or higher, to use as reference. If you chose not to incur that expense, the Physics Major's room 230 GRNQ has a small library of texts and references used in our courses, you can consult the text there.
Not all course materials are available now, only the material on waves and the labbook can be downloaded as of today, but that is more than enough for you to get a head-start with.
December 16, 2007
Website activation.