Instructor: Andrew Lange
Office at Caltech: 61 West Bridge
Mail Stop: 59-33
Telephone: (626) 395 6887
Email:ael@astro.caltech.edu
Secretary: Helen Ticehurst
110 East Bridge
Phone: (626) 395 4633
helen@alice.caltech.edu
PHYSICS 2a PROBLEM SETS ARE DUE
IN BY 5 PM ON WEDNESDAYS.....
COURSE SCHEDULE HAS SHIFTED BY
A LECTURE !!!
This changes the homework problem
sets. See new schedule.....
Textbook:
Fizz 2a: Energy, Entropy and Waves by David L. Goodstein
Recommended: Thermodynamics by Enrico Fermi
Vibrations and Waves by A.P. French
Assignments:
Homework will be due in the Wednesday recitation. It will
be accepted up to one week late for ½ credit. The work must
be your own, not copied from others or the blackboard in recitation.
You are encouraged to work the problems with others and to seek out additional
help if you find that useful but the write-up must be all yours.
You should be able to reproduce any solution you hand in without help from
anyone else. Homework assignments are given in the Course Schedule above.
Quizzes:
A quiz will be due on alternate Tuesdays throughout the term
(10/12, 10/26, 11/9, 11/23).
The quizzes will be available at 3 PM on the preceding Friday and can
be picked up in 110 East Bridge. The quizzes must be worked without
collaboration with others.
Exams:
There will be a final exam covering the entire term. There
will be no midterm exam.
Grading:
Your grade for the course will be determined by your performance
on the final exam (50%), quizzes (30%), and homework combined with your
attendance and performance in recitation class and general level of effort
(20%).
Ombudspeople:
Each house should select an ombudsperson. Students should
inform them of complaints about the course or make suggestions about how
to improve the course. This is the best way to transmit your views
of the course to the instructors. The Ph2 instructors will have lunch
with the ombudspeople once in the middle of the term (10/26).
CLASS TIME AND PLACE: 11 AM until noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays, East Bridge Lecture Hall
First day of class: September 28, 2004
Last day:
December 3, 2004
OFFICE HOURS
Section 1
Anura Abeyesinghe Mon 4:30-5:30 PM
453 Lauritsen
Section 2
Katalin Grubits Mon 6-7 PM
307 Kellogg
Section 3
Mingshr Liu
Mon 7-8 PM
307 Kellogg
Section 4
Jennifer Kile
Mon 8-9 PM
417 Lauritsen
Section 5
Chris Lee
Tues 8-9 PM
469 Lauritsen
Section 6
Matt Matuszewski Tues 9-10 PM
307 Kellogg
Section 7
Hok (Wilfred) Lee Tues 3-4 PM
307 Kellogg
PROBLEM SET SOLUTIONS
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