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Course  Description:

You need:

Other Recommended Texts:

• Physics for Poets , Robert March, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, Carl Sagan, Headline BookPublishing, 1997.
• Inquiry into Physics , Vern J. Ostdiek and Donald J. Bord, Brooks/Cole, 2000.

Required work:

• Homework

  There will be homework assignments for each chapter posted on the web.   Homework will not be graded, but questions in quizzes, class questions and tests might be based on it. 

  If you have trouble with certain problems, come with questions to office hours.

• Labs

   You will need to bring to first lab your lab notebook with quadrille type pages for recording and graphing results. There are 10 laboratories, each worth 10 points. The lowest  lab score will be dropped, and the  highest score doubled, giving a possible 100 points for the practical component of the course.

• Quizzes 
  
  Quick questions will be posed in class and answers recorded via the  student remote response transmitters, or in traditional paper form.   Total quiz grade will be scaled to 50 points after dropping 25% of all quizzes.
  
  
• Tests

  Three required in-class tests, and a final examination. Each has 25 multiple choice questions worth 4 points each, to give a total of 100 points per test. The final has also 25 questions each worth 4 points, for a total of 100 points. The lowest of the 3 tests or the final will be dropped. For this reason, there will be no makeup tests offered! Clearly almost everyone will drop one of the tests rather than the final, but if you do wonderfully well in every test, you may get an "A" without turning up for the final! (Under condition, that you have  above average scores in labs and quizzes too).

  You must bring writing instruments and a student registration card with a photo for all tests and the final. You may use a calculator and bring handwritten formula sheet (standart page one side). The exams will cover material from the lectures (including demonstrations) in a manner similar to the homework problems. 

  You are responsible for all material covered in the textbook, lab, and in lecture. If you must be absent during a given lab or lecture, check with a friend to make sure you know what was covere d.

  Tentative test schedule (all exams will take place in regular class auditorium during regular class hour(s)):
  
   
  

  
  

  Test 1	NPB 1002	Thursday, Jan. 29
  Test 2	NPB 1002	Thursday, Feb. 26
  Test 3	NPB 1002	Tuesday, March 31
  Final	NPB 1002	Friday, May 1 12.30-2.30 pm

  
  

     
  

 Grading Policy:

Makeup policy:   Since the policy of dropping tests and labs is very generous, no makeups are anticipated.

For this course, the translation of numerical grades to letter grades will be fairly gentle. About halfway through the course, you will get a tentative grade.

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