Welcome to Physics 1403!!

Class Web Page! There, you can find: 1. Posted (Word format): Syllabus, Help Resources, old exams (with solutions), old quizzes (with solutions) 2. Posted (Power Point format): Lectures 3. Important Class Announcements & Calendar Items! 4. Links to Web Pages for a tutor list & for the textbook 5. Other important items relating to this class. PLEASE!! Get into the habit of checking this page often!

Linked from the class Web Page is: The Announcement Page: This contains class announcements & major calendar items. Please check it often! If you are curious about me, you might also check out My Web page at:

Physics Distribution List! It is important that I have your correct (preferred) address!! I will use the distribution list to make important class announcements!!! Please check your DAILY!!! PLEASE tell me if you change your address!

Math Pre-Requisites for this course Math is the Language of Physics!! But, this is NOT a math course!! I’ll not have time to teach math to you! I must assume that you know it!! The primary difficulties with the course are often math-related!! Pre-Requisites: Math 1320: Algebra AND Math 1321: Trigonometry Or: Math 1550: Pre-Calculus Or: Equivalent courses somewhere else! Take advantage of the: Math Review in Appendix B!

Physics 1403 Laboratory/Recitation This Lab/Recitation is a required co-requisite! IF you drop the lecture you MUST drop the lab also! (Exceptions?? Ask in the Physics Office, Room 101!!) ATTENTION! Labs start Tomorrow, Wednesday, July 8!! NOTE: Students should purchase a lab manual before their first lab meeting. COME to lab PREPARED to start!!

Where to Go for Help?? See the syllabus, which covers this! Or See Me!!! Room 18. During office hours or not (I’m usually not rigid about these). Or call me on the phone. Or me! I respond to !!! See your Lab TA!!! There will be office hours for this person. A portion of each 3 hour lab meeting will be for problem solving (recitation) so bring homework problems to lab & ask your TA about them. Get a tutor!!! The Department of Physics Office (Room 101) has an approved list.

Your Fellow Students!!! An effective strategy is to work on homework & to study for quizzes & exams together in a group. This is how professionals work in the “real world”. The Internet!!! There are HUGE numbers of Physics Help Web sites! Using Google.com & typing in “Physics Help” gives about 54,700,000 hits!!!! I encourage you to try out some. The Class Web Page! Where to Go for Help??

Bottom Line on Help IF YOU NEED HELP, TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE MANY HELP RESOURCES AVAILABLE!! If you need help & don’t use these resources, only YOU are to blame!

To Succeed in this Course See the document: “How to succeed in Physics by Really Trying” READ the book, which cost you many $$$! It’s most effective to read the material BEFORE I lecture over it. WORK the assigned homework problems!! Before looking at the solutions. Copying the solutions will NOT teach you physics. WORK extra problems!

COME TO CLASS! There is a correlation between attendance & grades! Also, skipping means that you are WASTING the tuition & fees that you (or someone) paid! With tuition & fees for a full-time student, each class meeting costs about $57! Each time you skip, you are throwing away $57!! After a while this adds up! My lectures may not be entertaining or brilliant, but I do expose you to the material. ATTENDANCE!!! THE WEEKEND DOESN’T BEGIN ON FRIDAY which IS A REGULAR CLASS DAY!!! To Succeed in this Course