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Course Instructors:

Stephen T. Thornton, Professor of Physics

Room 305, Physics Building, office telephone: 924-6808

Email address: stt@virginia.edu

Office Hours: to be announced
 
Karyn Traphagen
Room 312A, Physics Building, office telephone: 982-2231
Email address: klt3b@virginia.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 10-12 AM

 

Course Times:

Lecture: TTh, 1400-1515, Room 22, physics building

Lab: Wed, 1-4 p.m., Room 22, physics building.

The final exam is scheduled for Friday, May 4, 2001 in room 22, 2-5 p.m. You will be permitted to bring one regular sheet of paper with anything written on it that you choose.

 

Textbooks:Physical Science, A Unified Approach, by Jerry Schad (Brooks/Cole Publishing Co., 1996);
Physics 115 class manual, obtained at UVa bookstore.

Materials that will be needed:

Notebook with gridded paper. Examples will be given in class.

Metric ruler, no more than about 15 cm long.

Electronic calculator.

Students will be expected to work and study outside the classroom. Appropriate sections in the textbook should be read, and reading assignments in the lab manual will be assigned. Some homework problems will be given. We may also assign projects.

Course Objectives

Laboratory Journal

Course Philosophy

Exams

Grading

Syllabus and Homework

Course Rules and Regulations

Special Notes and Reviews

Race Day Pictures - 2001
 

Some of this course development was supported by the National Science Foundation. The primary course materials Powerful Ideas in Physical Science was also supported by the NSF.