Phys 2102
Fall 2009

General Physics for Technical Students
Introduction to Electricity, Magnetism and Optics

From the "Theater of Electricity", in the Museum of Science, Boston, MA.

Section 6:  T Th 4:40-6pm,  119 Nicholson Instructor: Gabriela González Office: Nicholson 271-C Phone: 578-0468 Email: gonzalez@lsu.edu Office Hours: T 1:30-3pm, and by appt

At the LIGO Livingston Observatory

• Schedule, and lecture slides.
• Homework in www.webassign.net/student.html .
  
• Syllabus
• 2102 website (all sections)

• Quizzes: Quiz1, Quiz 2, Quiz3, Quiz 4, Quiz 5
• Third exam on Thu Nov 19, 6pm.: 119 Nicholson (same room as class)
• Grades: 
•  Hwk 1-8, 
• Quizzes 1-5, 
• Grades as of 10/30, calculated with Exams 1 and 2: Score = (5*(Ex1+EX2)/2+HWK*QZ/9)/6, and using the grades scale in the syllabus.
  There are four columns labelled "A",'B","C" and "D": this is the number of points you need in Exams 3 and the Final Exam, out of 300 points available (100 in Exam 3 and 200 in Final Exam). If the number if larger than 300, it unfortunately means you cannot reach the minimum score that guarantees that grade.
• Midterm grades were calculated as follows: (5*Ex1+HwkAvg*QuizAvg/10)/6, using the grade scale in the syllabus.

• Old 2102 tests (use at your own risk! not necessarily similar to this semester's exams.)
• Videotaped MIT course lectures on electricity and magnetism
• How similarities between electric dipole fields and cell division inspired the discovery of one of the successful cancer drugs, cisplatin.
• Some applets to visualize electric force fields.
• Physics Central, from the American Physical Society.
• How stuff works: a lot of stuff uses what we learn in this course!