Lectures and course responsibility:
Dr. Michael Briley
Office: HS 348, phone: 424-7104
E-mail: mike@maxwell.phys.uwosh.edu
Office hours: M/W/F 2:00-3:00, or by appointment (check my calendar)

Lab instructors:
Dr. Ramanathan Jambunathan, HS 349, phone 424-4430
Dr. Nadia Kaltcheva, HS 354, phone 7107
Dr. Dennis Rioux, HS 347, phone 424-4429

All Handouts from the course are available electronically:

The Syllabus (also in Adobe PDF format: here)
The Schedule of Tests and Lecture (also Online/Interactive and in PDF format)

Having Trouble with Math?

OK, it's not much, but I've written a Math Review which you can either browse or download as a PDF file.

Test #3: Monday, April 5 (this will remain here until Wednesday for those taking the test late)
The exam will cover the following material:

• Chapter 9: Sections 3 & 4
• Chapter 10: All
• Chapter 11: All, except 11.2.3, 11.4, and 11.5
• Chapter 12: All (except what was not covered on Friday - see notes)

There will be a review session Sunday night (4/4) from 6-7PM. Come to HS 348 to find out where (somewhere up on the 3rd floor of Halsey - I just don't know yet).
(The material for test #1 is located here)
(The material for test #2 is located here)

Lecture materials on-line (these will be made available as time permits).
Note: The slides have been converted into Powerpoint and PDF formats (the original Keynote source can be supplied if you're using a Mac and have the software). For Powerpoint, the movies/animations must be downloaded separately for Windows (as a self-extracting archive) and MacOS (as a .sit file). These animations will require Apple's free Quicktime package to play. Download them at your own risk - they can be large! The PDF versions do not include the animations.

• Lecture 17 (Mar. 22)
  • Lecture outline
  • Lecture notes
  • Lecture slides (Powerpoint or PDF)
  • Lecture animations (Windows or MacOS 9Mb)
• Lecture 18 (Mar. 24)
  • Lecture outline
  • Lecture notes
  • Lecture slides (Powerpoint or PDF)
  • Lecture animations (Windows or MacOS 1Mb)
• Lecture 19 (Mar. 26)
  • Lecture outline
  • Lecture notes
  • Lecture slides (Powerpoint or PDF)
  • Lecture animations (Windows or MacOS 6Mb)
• Lecture 20 (Mar. 29)
  • Lecture outline
  • Lecture notes
  • Lecture slides (Powerpoint or PDF)
  • Lecture animations (none)
• Lecture 21 (Mar. 31)
  • Lecture outline
  • Lecture notes
  • Lecture slides (Powerpoint or PDF)
  • Lecture animations (none)
• Lecture 22 (April 2)
  • Lecture outline
  • Lecture notes
  • Lecture slides (Powerpoint or PDF)
  • Lecture animations (Windows or MacOS 7Mb)

Important Concepts and Questions by students from the chapters:
These links contain brief outlines of some of the important ideas and concepts from each chapter. Also included are questions which people have asked about the material in the past. If you'd like to contribute a question, just sent it to mike@maxwell.phys.uwosh.edu.

Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12

Practice questions:
Here are a few practice questions for each chapter. They are actually questions from old tests. Note that they are not meant to be a study guide or in any way comprehensive!

Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12

From the Textbook Web Site:
As always, don't forget the web site for the text too. There you'll find vocabulary exercises, chapter objectives, other practice tests/quizzes, links to additional information, and much much more! Note that from this point on, the chapter numbers in the text's web site are 8 larger than ours, e.g. our Ch 8 = their Ch. 16. This is because we've skipped the 8 chapters on planets (which are covered in 82-103).

Check your grades:

The grades are here for the third test (and through the 6th quiz) - in less than 24 hours too! On Test #3, there were 2 problems the class had trouble with, and these have been turned into extra credit. We will try and talk about them after everyone has taken the exam (by Friday). The class average was 73, with two people getting scores of 100 and several in the 96-98 range.

Note: if you look at your grade and find it to be lower than what you expected, come see me during my office hours or make an appointment. We can dig out your test and see what went wrong and talk about possible solutions. Now is the time to do this! Don't wait until the end when you've got three or four bad tests behind you making it hard to raise your grade.

If your grade is missing, please let me know!

Note: This database contains no identifying information other than your ID number. But let me know if you'd rather not participate (we can work something else out).