News and Current Assignment

Class Web Site Moved!

To here, where you've obviously found it! Make a habit of checking this site regularly for news, assignments, access to current lecture notes and study aids, study hints (useful for exams and quizzes) and links to WebAssign.

Chapter 18 Homework

Has been assigned and is due Monday, September 10. I am at home but will repost the actual problems here when I get in (in case any early birds find this before I tell you about it in class).

Extra Credit Project

Don't Forget! Your final grade is promoted by 1/3 of a letter if you do an extra credit project! Your project selection must be approved as wimpy projects don't qualify.

• Build a piece of apparatus that uses or illustrates the physics learned in this course (telescope, Van De Graff generator, generator).
• Write a computer program that simulates or illustrates the physics learned in this course.
• Write a set of lecture notes for one or more chapters covered. This must be done using LaTeX with eps figures produced by xfig and must be accompanied by at least four "interactive problems". If the chapters you want to cover already have adequate notes prepared, you can do at least eight interactive problems instead.
• Write a term paper on an important piece of physics learned in the class and the men and women who developed it. Previous reports have been on Maxwell and Madame Curie, for example (or, if you prefer, on Maxwell's Equations and Magnetism).
• This list is not exclusive! If you have something not listed that you think would be a great (and deserving!) project, see me and we'll talk it over!