Final grades have been assigned.

It was nice to know you all. Have a good rest of the summer ...

Exam3 Grades

By midnight tonight i'll put the final grades in MasteringPhysics (or email each of you personally). The average is 77. If you want to take look at your exams, come to my office tomorrow in 1006 Bevill between 9-11 am or between 5-6pm.

Exam 3 at 4pm today in Lectue room (227 Galilei)

See you all.

Last summer's final

http://faculty.mint.ua.edu/~pleclair/ph102/Exams/Sum_2010/

More on Exam 3.

Couple of things about exam three:

In consultation with Dr. Leclair we have made exam 3 open notes also. So you can bring your class notebook along with your book. Also any other srcibbled up notes...

Check Dr. Leclair blog for details...

http://ph102.blogspot.com/2011/08/tentative-exam-3-coverage.html

Last Homework.

A short homework has been assigned from the Modern Physics part, Chapter 28 and 29. Six problems, due Wednesday afternoon, before exam 3.
Please attend the class today and tomorrow.

Problems with mastering physics.

It seems that the mastering physics website is not working for a few hours. Homework 7 has been extended by a day (I haven't extended it yet as i cannot access the site). Its now due Monday midnight.

About Exam 3

1) Chapter 26 (Interference and Diffraction) will not be included in Exam3, but there are few problems from this chapter in homework 7. Also , Chapter 30, on nuclear physics will not be covered.

2) The exam will be open book. Bring your book and any scribbled up piece of paper that you might want.

Homework 7 posted

Problems from chapter 24-26

Homework six posted

Problems from Chapter 22 (AC circuits) and 23 (EM waves). Due thursday midnight. Tentatively there would be two more homeworks coming up (Sunday and next wednesday).

Homework 5 posted

Nine problems. Due Sunday Midnight.

Lab 5 - Transistors

Please print out the pages in the following link:


http://faculty.mint.ua.edu/~pleclair/ph102/Labs/transistors/transistors_lab.pdf

Lab 4 Today - Series and Parallel Resistances

Please bring the following instruction sheet to the lab:

http://faculty.mint.ua.edu/~pleclair/ph102/Labs/dc_circuits/circuits_lab.pdf

Homework 4 posted

All problems from Chapter 20: Magnetic Force and Magnetic Fields . Due Thursday Midnight. I dont want to post a homework due Friday Midnight :-)

Home 3 now due Tuesday

Midnight again..it was Monday before

Homework 3 is posted

Due Monday midnight. Seven problems, all from chapter 19, which we finished yesterday.

Lab 2

Please bring the handouts to the lab as mentioned here

Also check out comments as posted by Dr. Leclair

About Exam 1

Dr. LeClair has posted comments on Exam 1

Same format will be followed for both sections.

More Lab stuff

All Lab related stuff can be found in Dr. Leclair's Ph102 site

Lab 1 instructions

Please print out these two documents before you come to Lab

Homework 2 posted.

Due date - Wednesday midnight. Day before Exam 1. 12 problems in all. 5 from Chapter 17 and 7 from Chapter 18.

Homework and Exam 1

Couple of things about Homework 1:

1) Problem 27.35 does not count anymore. Its deleted from the list. So there are 12 homework problems. My apologies!!

2) I would like to discuss Homework problem #4 in detail : the one that deals with space-time diagrams. I haven't talked about it in the class, so would explain it.

About exam 1 and Homework 2:

Exam will be on Chapter 17 and 18 at the usual lab session, next thursday. So next homework will be due Wednesday midnight . I shall post them Saturday or Sunday evening.

Simulation of Electric field lines

Nice Java applet lets you simulate electric field and equipotential lines from various point charges.

The Wimshurst Machine

We did a demo of Wimshursrt machine today in our lecture class.

Two kinds of electric charge

Positive and Negative

This is before atomic theory, so nobody understood then what charge was.

TED Talk on CERN collider

Since we've been through relativity, this TED talk gives a good perspective of what could happen in the experimental Lab when you move particles at high velocity

Brian Cox on CERN supercollider

Einstein's 1905 paper on special relativity

On the electrodynamics of moving bodies

Nice youtube videos on Relativity

a) Time Dilation
b) Simulteneity

Class and Exam Schedule

Go to this link: Summer Course II - Phy102

Lecture 1 and 2 -Relativity

In continuation with the theme of classical mechanics (PHY101), we shall learn how our general notion of space, time and motion (Newtonian Physics) fails at very very high speeds. This realm is called relativistic mechanics and culminated in the theory of special relativity, introduced by Einstein in 1905. Fundamental concepts necessary to understand the laws of relativity shall be explained in details with simple examples, and paradoxes.

Welcome!

All updates and additional materials on the course shall be posted here. So check it out once every often!