Physics 143 Fall 2007
Old Announcements

Here for the record...

• 08/27/07: Welcome to Physics 143!
• 08/27/07: New and prospective physics majors should be aware that the American Physical Society offers free trial membership to students.
• 08/31/07: My usual office hours are Sundays, 3-5 pm, but this Sunday (Sept 2) they will be 1-3 pm.
• 09/19/07: The first quiz is next Wednesday. Here's some info about it:
  • A practice quiz is posted. This will give you some idea of what kind of questions to expect. Solutions will be posted next week.
  • I will do a review on Monday covering WUN2K.
  • You will be allowed a "cheat sheet": one piece of paper with anything you want hand-written on one side of it. It's a good review exercise to write this! You must hand this cheat sheet in with your quiz. You won't be given any constants on the quiz, so you should write what you think you might need on your sheet.
  • Calculators are allowed, but you may not use special functions like graphing, programming, etc., i.e. they may only be used for simple computation (which is all you should need them for).
• 09/20/07: I will be away (in Japan) from Wed Sept 26 morning until Sun Sept 30 evening. As a result:
  • On Wed Sept 26, your quiz will be proctored by Kristine Callan.
  • On Fri Sept 28, you will have a guest lecturer, Prof. Oh.
  • My office hours on Sun, Sept 30 are canceled; however I will have some extra office hours the day before your quiz, Tue 10-11:30 am.
  • The homework originally due on Oct 1 is also canceled, since not enough new material will be covered to justify a new assignment.
  I should be email contact most of the time I am away, when I am not on a plane.
• 09/25/07: IMPORTANT: tomorrow's quiz will be in the lab rooms downstairs, due to audio interference from the classroom next door. Please try to come a bit early.
• 10/17/07: I will be away next week, from Oct 20 morning to Oct 27 evening.
  • During class time of this week I have arranged tours of research labs in the department, which I hope you will enjoy: please see the syllabus for information on where you should show up on each day.
  • Please note that your homework 7 will be based on these tours. If you cannot attend, please contact me.
  • Because I'll be away this Sunday and won't have office hours, you have an extension on homework 6 until Oct 29. Homework 7 is due the same day. Please don't wait until then to start homework 6, though; it's a relatively long one.
  • I will have regular office hours on October 28.
  • I will be intermittently in email contact during the time I'm away.
• 11/01/07: my office hours this Sunday, Nov 4, will be 1-3 pm.
• 11/01/07: I will also have extra office hours on Monday, Nov 5, from 3-5 pm.
• 11/01/07: The second quiz is next Wednesday. It will be similar in style to the first.
  • A practice quiz is posted. Solutions will be posted next week.
  • I will do a review on Monday covering WUN2K.
  • You will be allowed a "cheat sheet": one piece of paper with anything you want hand-written on one side of it. It's a good review exercise to write this! You must hand this cheat sheet in with your quiz. You won't be given any constants on the quiz, so you should write what you think you might need on your sheet.
  • Calculators are allowed, but you may not use special functions like graphing, programming, etc., i.e. they may only be used for simple computation (which is all you should need them for).
  • There shouldn't be any audio interference this time, so please come to the regular classroom.
• 11/01/07: I will be away (in Japan) from Tue Nov 6 morning until Sun Nov 11 evening. As a result:
  • On Wed Nov 7, your quiz will be proctored by Kristine Callan.
  • On Fri Nov 9, your lecture will be given by Prof. Chandrasekharan.
  • My office hours on Sun, Nov 11 are canceled; however I will have some extra office hours on Monday (please see above).
  • Homework will be due as normal, although the assignment due Nov 12 will be a relatively short one.
  I should be email contact most of the time I am away, when I am not on a plane.
• 11/13/07: I have to be away one more time, on Sunday, November 18, and Monday November 19. As a result:
  • I will have office hours Friday, November 16, 2-4 pm instead of Sunday.
  • So as not to get behind in material, I am scheduling special replacement lectures during your lab periods in the week following the Thanksgiving break. These will be during the first 50 minutes of your lab (it will be the same lecture on Wed and Thu, repeated for each section). We will meet in the lab.
  • On November 19 you will have a special lecture on cosmology and the cosmic microwave background by visitor Dr. Laura Cayon. This is a currently exciting topic of research.
  • Since I won't be in town on Monday, nor will be around for pre-homework-due-date help on Sunday, you can hand your homework in (to Yang's mailbox in the physics office) any time up to 4 pm on Tuesday, November 20. I will be around on Tuesday morning for last minute questions.