Instructor, Spring 2007: Michael Fowler, UVa e-mail mf1i, Room 307, Physics.
Phone (434) 924-6579
Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30 – 4:00 and by appointment.
Problem Sessions: Mon 1:00 – 1:50, Phys 218; Tues 12:30 – 1:20, Phys 205.
TA: Paul
Fishbane
Exams: Midterms: February 21, April 4. Final Exam: Monday, May 7, 2005 2:00-5:00 pm.
Homeworks:
Homework #1: questions 1, 2, 3, 4, due Jan 24.
Homework #2: questions
5, 7, 9, 10, 14, 15, due Jan
31.
Homework #3: questions 16, 19, 22, 23, 29, 30. due Feb 7.
Homework #4: questions 2, 5, 6, 10, 13, 16 from Fluids file, due Feb 14.
Homework #5: questions 7, 11, 14, 17, 18 on Fluids, due Feb 21.
Midterm I Review Sheets!: Gravity (PDF); Fluids (PDF).
Previous Midterms for Practice: 2005 (PDF) 2006 (PDF)
Homework #6: Complex Exercises, due
Wed Feb 28. (PDF)
Homework #7: due Wed March 14: do the first 5 problems in the Oscillator Homework Problem Set.
Homework #8: due Wednesday March 21:
7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 from Oscillator Set (link above).
Homework #9 due Wednesday March 28: 16, 17 from Oscillator Homework, PDF; 1 to 6 from Waves
Homework, PDF.
Homework #10: this will not be collected,
but is essential practice for Midterm II: Fluids Problems 23, 24; Waves Problem 7,
and work through: Previous Midterms II: 2005 (PDF) 2006 (PDF)
Midterm II Review: read the Essentials sheets, note I’ve added to the Fluids one: Fluids PDF, Oscillations PDF, Waves PDF.
Homework
#11: due Wednesday April 11 PDF
Homework #12: due Wednesday April
18: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 from Heat Homework Problems (PDF).
Homework #13: due Wednesday April
25: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 from Heat
Homework Problems (link above)
Final Review:
Read all the Essentials sheets, including Heat
Essentials PDF. Practice using last year’s Final PDF.
(Homeworks are due
at the beginning of class on Wednesdays. Late homework will be penalized 10% per day or part of day.)
Grading: Homeworks total 25%, two midterms each 15%, final 35%, inclass 10%.
What is this course?
Physics 152 is the second semester of a long-established four-semester
Introductory Physics course intended for prospective physics majors at
The first semester (Physics 151) covers Newtonian Mechanics, except that
Gravity has been replaced by Special Relativity, so Gravity begins 152.
A unifying theme of the rest of the course is applying
I have covered some topics at a
slightly higher mathematical level than that in the standard textbooks, since
this is our most in-depth introductory sequence. This meant teaching the
necessary mathematics to some extent: for example, using complex numbers in
solving differential equations. I also use history to examine how concepts
evolved – the hope being that this will lead to a better grasp of the
concepts.
Lectures on Oscillations and Waves
Lectures on Heat and Thermodynamics
My other courses on the Web:
Physics
109 Galileo and Einstein