Physics 2C Spring 2013

• Instructor: Prof. Frank Wuerthwein
  • Office Hours: Wednesday 6-7pm at 5515 Mayer Hall
• TA: Brian Shotwell
  • Office Hours: Friday 11am-noon 4514 Mayer Hall
• Lectures:
  • M/W/F 4-4:50pm Peter 110 (given by Prof.)
  • Thursday 5-5:50pm Solis 107 (given mostly by Prof.)
  • roughly one quiz per week during regular lecture time. See syllabus handout below for details.
• Discussion Sections (given by TA)
  • Wednesday 5-5:50pm Peter 110
• Weekly Quiz prep:
  • Thursday 7-8:50pm WLH 2005
• Final Exam: Thursday, June 13th 3-5:50pm, Peter 110
  • Things you need for the final exam:
    • scantron
    • pencil
    • calculator (unless you want to calculate everything in your head)
    • 2 pages of cheat sheet
    • ID card required
    • The exam will have 20 questions, i.e. twice the number of questions than a typical quiz, and will cover any material from the quarter, except for the lecture on gravitational waves. Gravitational waves are not part of the material required for the final exam.

Course Handouts

• Course syllabus includes schedule, grading scheme, and various other details.
• Suggested Homework Problems

Lectures

• lecture 1
• lecture 2
• lecture 3
• lecture 4
• lecture 5
• lecture 6
• lecture 7
• lecture 8
• lecture 9
• lecture 10
• lecture 11
• lecture 12
• lecture 13
• lecture 14
• lecture 15
• lecture 16
• lecture 17
• lecture 18
• lecture 19
• lecture 20
• lecture 21
• lecture 22
• lecture 23
• lecture 24
• lecture 25
• lecture 26
• lecture 27
• lecture 29
• lecture 30

Quizzes and Grades

• Red scantron X-101864-PAR-L
• Scantron Guidelines (read carefully!)

• Practice problems for Quiz 1
• Quiz1a Answers - AADCCA(AorC)BAC
• Quiz 1 Results. The average for quiz 1 was 82.3% (St.Dev. 14.5%). According to the absolute grading scale, this is an A. This is considered a very high average, and this is unlikely to continue for future quizzes. Note that, because two answers were accepted for one of the problems, this average is higher than what it would have been by 5%.
• Practice problems for Quiz 2
• Solution to Problem P21.45
• Quiz2d Answers - ACACBBBBCB
• Quiz 2 Results. The average for quiz 2 was 64.0% (St.Dev. 17.6%).
• Practice problems for Quiz 3
• Quiz3b Answers - BA(B)CCDACEB. Question #3 was not counted since the topic was not supposed to be covered by quiz 3.
• Quiz 3 Results. The average for quiz 3 was 70.5% (St.Dev. 17.5%).
• Practice problems for Quiz 4
• Quiz4b Answers - CAEEDCACDC
• Quiz 4 Results. The average for quiz 4 was 59.5% (St.Dev. 19.5%).
• Practice problems for Quiz 5
• Quiz5a Answers - BBCDBBBCEA
• Quiz 5 Results. The average for quiz 5 was 55.7% (St.Dev. 18.0%).
• Practice problems for Quiz 6
• Quiz6c Answers - (AorD)EDBDEDDDC. If you do the first problem correctly, you get 1.4 (the corner of the cube is the first thing you can see). If you only consider a 2D cross-section of the cube, you get 1.8. Because the book has this exact same problem (P35.15), with the incorrect answer, both are accepted.
• Quiz 6 Results. The average for quiz 6 was 71.5% (St.Dev. 19.8%).
• Practice problems for Quiz 7
• Quiz7a Answers - DCCCCECEAA
• Quiz 7 Results. The average for quiz 7 was 67.4% (St.Dev. 20.7%).
• Practice problems for Quiz 8
• Quiz8d Answers - CAAAAEDDCB
• Quiz 8 Results. The average for quiz 8 was 65.9% (St.Dev. 21.0%).
• Practice Final
• Solutions to Practice Final
• FinalExamC Answers - CBDDE ABDAA DACDC EDEDB. Previously, the answer for #13 said "A," but the answer is indeed "C."
• Final Exam Results. The average for the Final Exam was 74.6% (St.Dev. 18.0%).
• Final letter grades after everything is added up.

-- FkW - 2013/03/31