ENGINEERING PHYSICS

Instructor: Turker Topcu 

Lectures: Parker Hall 249

MWF between 11:00-11:50 am

Labs:
Room assignments will be posted on the bulletin board outside Parker Hall 103
Mon 2:00-4:30 pm (Sec. 007) | 6:00-8:50 pm (Sec. 008)
Tue 12:30-3:20 pm (Sec. 009) | 3:30-6:20 pm (Sec. 010)

Announcements

• Your final exam marks have been posted on the Blackboard system along with your cumulative letter grades. If you have any questions about your grade or would like to see your paper, you need to come and see me before Friday, Dec. 9. (12/07)
• The final exam for the semester is on Monday, Dec. 5. It will cover everything we covered in class this semester. The exam will start at 12:00 at noon and the formal duration of the exam is 2.5 hours. It will have a multiple choice part as well as questions for which you will need to show your work, so don’t forget to bring in a scan sheet. See the announcements for the previous tests for instructions on how to fill in the scan sheet if you need to. Again, I strongly suggest that you fill it in before coming to the exam to conserve time. (11/14)
• The last midterm of the semester is coming up. It will be on Monday, Nov. 28. It will cover everything from Chapter 10 onward, meaning everything which we will be done with in class by the Friday before Thanksgiving, Nov. 18. As usual, it will have 10 questions, 8 of which are multiple choice, and 2 regular problems for which you will have to show your work. Don’t forget to bring in a scan sheet for the multiple choice part. See the announcement for the previous test for instructions on how to fill in the scan sheet. Again, I strongly suggest that you fill it in before coming to the exam to save yourself time. (11/14)
  

This is first of a set of two courses designed for Engineering students. We will cover material essential to mechanics. The course is calculus based and the student is assumed to have sufficient mathematical background covering basic calculus, trigonometry, algebra etc. The student is responsible for reading the course syllabus, which includes all the necessary information regarding the exams, homeworks, labs, and procedures.

The syllabus can be downloaded here: phys1600_syllabus.

For the labs: Remember to print out the lab manuals/sheets before coming to the lab. It is also very important that you read and understand the experiment so that you know what you need to do when you arrive at the lab. There will be no labs the first week of classes and the Labor Day week.

Lab manuals are located here.

Homework: Weekly homework assignments will be posted on the MasteringPhysicswebsite, which accompanies the text book. The student needs to create an account on this site in order to see and complete the assignments. After you create an account, you will need to register for this course, whose course ID is TOPCUPHYS1600. Once you log into your account, there are tutorials showing how to use the website.

Step by step instructions on how to set up a MasteringPhysics account can be seen here.
A shorter guide is here.

Below is the Fall 2011 schedule for the course and the labs/recitations. We will try to stick to it as much as possible. The are three main parts: Newton’s laws (Chap. 1-7), Conservation laws (Chap. 8-10), and Applications of Newton’s laws (Chap. 11-14).

IMPORTANT LINKS

• The course syllabus is located here: phys1600_syllabus.
• The lab manuals for the experiments and activities are located here.
• MasteringPhysics web site