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nmarkworth@sfasu.edu |
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Office Hours 468-3001 |
Summer I 2004 Room S-322F |
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Purpose: |
This is a survey course that will familiarize the student with concepts of waves, sound, light, and mechanics. The major aim will be to give each student an appreciation and understanding of the physical universe. A conceptual rather than a mathematical point of view is emphasized. |
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Materials: |
The text is Conceptual Physics, ninth edition by Paul G. Hewitt The readings indicated in the Course Outline correspond to chapters from this text and should be read prior to discussion of the material in class. PHY 101L, the Physics Laboratory is a corequisite and a new edition of the lab manual is available in the bookstore. |
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EMAIL: |
It is vital that you have an email
account for this course. We will be using the email facility available
through WebCT.
This is a closed email system (only WebCT
traffic), so that the class email will be separate from any other email
accounts you may have. Please print
important email and keep the messages in a class folder. |
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Exams: |
There will be four major exams, each covering a limited amount of lecture and text material. The dates of these exams are listed in the course outline below. Each student must provide a SCANTRON form number 882-ES in order to take each exam. The last exam will not be comprehensive. No make-up exams will be given except by EXCUSED absence. The second and final exams will contain special sections devoted to questions pertaining to the lab. See the lab syllabus for details. |
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Homework: |
Students may improve exam score in two ways. Review questions will be assigned for each section of the course. Exam scores can be improved up to 10% through these assignments. Secondly, attendance will be taken occasionally, which can earn a total of five additional percentage points per exam. |
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Grading: |
Each major exam will be graded on a 100-point scale. No grade curving is done on any grade in this course. The lecture and lab grades will be combined and the same grade will be recorded for both lecture and lab. All exams (including the final) are weighted equally, and the lecture portion of the course accounts for 75% of the total grade. Fifty percent of the lab grade comes from the extra questions contained in exams two and four. |
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Points: |
Exams (150 pts each) |
600 points |
720 - 800 points - A |
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Lab Quizzes (50pts each) |
100 points |
640 - 719 points - B |
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Laboratory |
100 points |
560 - 639 points - C |
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480 - 559 points - D |
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0 - 479 points - F |
This syllabus and other
course materials can be made available in other
formats. This course meets certain objectives
of the ExCET/TEKS. A copy of the objectives and
course correlations is available in the ExCET
Advisor's office.
F-1 Visa Holders
There are important federal regulations pertaining to distance education
activity for F-1 Visa holders. All students with an F-1 Visa should
follow the instructions at the following link to make sure they are in
compliance. http://www.oit.sfasu.edu/disted/facsup/f1visa.html
Physics 101.01
Course Outline
Summer I, 2004
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Chapter |
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Vibrations and Waves |
19 |
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Sound |
20 |
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Musical Sounds |
21 |
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Exam 1 |
Jun 9 |
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Properties of Light |
26 |
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Light Emission |
30 |
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Color |
27 |
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Reflection and Refraction |
28 |
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Light Waves |
29 |
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Exam 2 |
Jun 17 |
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2 |
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Linear Motion |
3 |
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4 |
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5 |
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Momentum |
6 |
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Exam 3 |
Jun 28 |
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Energy |
7 |
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Rotational Motion |
8 |
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Gravity |
9 |
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Projectile and Satellite Motion |
10 |
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Exam 4 |
Jul 7 |
