Physics 102, Spring Semester, 1999

Physics 102 –Spring 1999
Concepts of Physics II

Course Instructor:

Sergio Conetti, Professor of Physics

Room 217, High Energy Physics Building

Office telephone: (804)982-5371

Email address: conetti@virginia.edu

Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:15-13:15, Physics Building Room 206

Teaching Assistant: Jennifer Gannon

Email address: jlg5g@virginia.edu

Office Hours : Tuesday 10-11, Wednesday 3:30-4:30, room 220

Textbook: Physics: Concepts and Connections by Art Hobson

Final Exam:Wednesday May 12, 9-12 .

Syllabus
The syllabus is subject to periodic change , and students are responsible for keeping up with any changes.

Course Objectives

Course Rules and Regulations:
It is extremely important for students to be aware of these rules and regulations which may change throughout the course. Changes will be announced in class, and will be listed on this webpage. Students are responsible for keeping up with the Course Rules and Regulations as stated here.

Homework Assignments:
Every week homework problems will be assigned, and the solutions will be posted on the Web before the following Tuesday lecture. Homework will not be graded, but it will be good training for the (graded) in-class quizzes. The Course Instructor and Teaching Assistant are available to help you with your homework, however, before seeking help, you should attempt to solve the problems yourself or together with a fellow student, You are also encouraged to work out more of the problems found in the textbook, or at least to look at them, and to convince yourself whether or not you feel comfortable in solving them.

In-Class Quizzes:
Throughout the Course, and starting from the week of January 25, in-class quizzes will be given fifteen different times. The quizzes will be graded and will constitute 20% of the final grade, however, for each student, only the best 10 scores out of 15 will be used to compute the overall quiz score. Frequent Quizzer Bonus: the overall quiz score of students completing at least 12 or 14 quizzes will be increased by 1 or 2 points (out of 10) respectively.
Quiz 1
Quizzes 2 and 3
Quiz 4
Quiz 6
Quiz 7
Quiz 8 and 9
Quiz 10
Quiz 11
Quiz 12
Quiz 13

Hour/Midterm Exams:
There will be two midterm exams in this course, each lasting an entire class period, and each counting 20% of the final grade. The midterm exams will consist of multiple choice questions, similar to the ones periodically presented during the regular lectures.You can find some old test problems in the
102 Spring 98 web pages. Note neverthelss that the 98 course had a different textbok, therefore the covered material and the order are not the same as this year
Test 1
Test 2

Grading:
Final grades will be determined by the following distribution:

In-class quizzes	30%
2 midterm exams	40%
Final exam	30%
TOTAL	100%

Lecture Notes

Whenever necessary, this location will contain links to Lecture Notes containing material discussed in class but not found, or not sufficiently covered, in the Textbook.