Instructor: Professor Douglass
Schumacher.
Office: 1106F Smith Laboratory.
Phone: 292-7035.
E-mail: dws@mps.ohio-state.edu.
Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3:00.
Text (required): Fundamentals of Physics Extended, Halliday, Resnick & Walker, Sixth Edition (Wiley).
Laboratory Manual (required): Laboratory manual: Physics 133, Alan VanHeuvelen (Hayden-McNeil).
Grade: There are 640 possible points divided into six components: Laboratory (100), Homework (40), Quizzes (100), Midterm I (100), Midterm II (100), and Final Exam (200).
Laboratory: The first lab begins the week of September 29. The labs are listed in the Assignment Sheet and Class Schedule and you need to bring the lab write-up from your lab manual for each week. There are six labs, but the lowest score is dropped.
Homework: The weekly assignments are listed on the next page and they are due on Tuesday of the week after they are listed. (There will be some exceptions to this rule at the end of the quarter.)
Quizzes: There are five quizzes, each about ten minutes in duration. The lowest scoring one is dropped. A calculator is required and no notes are allowed.
Exams: A single 8 ½” x 11” page of notes is allowed for each midterm. You may use both sides and there are no restrictions on content. Two such pages are allowed for the final. A calculator is required.
Missed Quizzes, Exams, or Labs: There are no make-up quizzes or exams. Missed quizzes and exams may be excused and missed labs may be made up while the apparatus remains in the lab -- but only with the permission of Dr. Adelson (phone 292-2067; e-mail adelson@mps.ohio-state.edu; room 1036A, Smith Laboratory). Present documentation to him to verify that your absence was unavoidable.
Study Aids
Free tutoring is available in the tutor room (room 1011A, Smith Lab). A schedule of tutor room hours will be posted on the tutor room door shortly after class starts.
The class web site containing “Answer Clues” to the homework problems, homework and exam solutions and other helpful material is at the URL: www.physics.ohio-state.edu/~dws/class/133/133.html
Optional review sessions before each Midterm
and the Final will be held on:
Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 - 8:18 PM
in 1153 Smith Laboratory. (Note: this reflects
updated information.)
Tuesday, November 4, 6:00 - 7:48 PM in
100 Independence Hall.
Sunday,
December 7, 2:30 - 4:30 PM in in 1153 Smith Laboratory.
Office hours are on Mondays and Wednesdays from 1:30 to 3:00 and by appointment.