Physics 106 - Spring 2011
The course secretary is Deb Schmidt. Her e-mail is debs@iastate.edu, tel: 4-4936
and office is at 12 Physics
Lecture hours: Tuesday and
Thursday 8:00 am to 8:50 am in Physics 5.
Recitation and Laboratory Schedules
with names of the TAs, as well as the section numbers.
Course syllabus Physics106_Syllabus is given to WebCT.
You can buy the previous editions (5th and ealrier) of our textbook.
Print the flash-cards to bring them in the lecture every time. Students will be asked to respond to multiple-choice questions in class
using flash-cards.
Lectures
Lecture1, Lecture2,
Lecture3, Lecture4,
Lecture5, Lecture6,
Lecture7, Lecture8,
Lecture9, ReviewEXAM1 Lecture10,
Lecture11, Lecture
12,
Lecture13, Lecture14,
Lecture15, Lecture16,
Lecture17, Lecture18,
Lecture19, ReviewEXAM2, Lecture20,
Lecture21, Lecture22,
Lecture23,
Lecture24, Lecture25, ReviewFINAL.
Homework assignments
HW1, HW2,
HW3, HW4,
HW5, HW6,
HW7, HW8, HW9, HW10, HW11, HW12, HW13, HW14
The solutions of the homework assignments will be posted in the WebCT.
Solutions of Wednesday Recitations
Rec1,
Rec2, Rec3, Rec4, Rec5, Rec6, Rec7, Rec8, Rec9, Rec10, Rec11,
Rec12
Exam dates:
1) EXAM 1: Tuesday, February 15,
2011 at 8:00 am
in Physics 5
Please
go over class notes, examples and in class multiple choice
questions. Check over your
howework and recitation
exercises. Look over the old exam questions.
I have
prepared a review sheet for the
first
exam.
You
allowed one page of hand written notes for Exam 1 and calculators
are NOT allowed.
The results for the exam 1 are given here. Also the 3 class quizzes are given in the same file.
The average
score of the first exam is 65%, and the histogram is given here.
The key of exam 1 is given here and the percentage of the correct answers are shown in this file.
2) EXAM 2: Tuesday, April 5, 2011 at 8:00 am in Physics 5
Please
go over class notes, examples and in class multiple choice
questions. Check over your
homework and recitation
exercises. Look over the old exam questions.
I have
prepared a review sheet for the
second
exam, and will be included in the second exam.
You
allowed one page of hand written notes for Exam 2 and calculators
are NOT allowed.
The results for the exam 2 are given here. Also the 8 class quizzes are given in the same file.
The average
score of the second exam is 75%, and the histogram is given here.
The key of exam 2 is given here and the percentage of the correct answers are shown in this file.
I have updated the results of the first two exam and the 8 class quizzes. I multiply the exam 1 and 2 with 4.6 and
divided each
exam by 0.9. The maximum score of the 8 quizzes is 11%, if you have
done all
the quizzes correctly.
3) FINAL
EXAM will be on Friday, May 6, 2011
at 7:30 to 9:30 am
in Physics 5.
You are allowed to use
3 pages
of handwritten notes. No
calculators are allowed. Please
review the old exams.
I have
prepared a review sheet for the
final
exam, and will be included in the final exam.
The final results are given here. Please make sure that we have not done any mistake.
We have multiply the first two exams by 4.5 and
final exam by 5. We have added the HWs, Recitation and the
Lab grade and we have
divided by 600.
The key of the final exam is given here.
Animations: You can try these different
animations om your own.
Wiley
Animations
The
Applet Collection
Physics
Education and Information sites Links
Unit Conversions:
Practise how to change units from meters to kilometers to miles.....
eHow.com: How to do 15,00 things.
How Stuff Works: What is
the difference between a diesel and gasoline engine? This site
explains how this
and thousands of other everyday devices work.
Biographies
of Mathematicians and Physicists: From the stone age to last week.
SciTech Hands-on Museum:
A science museum in Aurora Illinois. The web site has everything from
"quarks" to "wild weather".
Exploratorium:
World class science museum in SanFrancisco. Web site has everything
from frogs to the physics of basebal
Physlink: Physics and Astronomy
on-line education and reference
Physics Web: Web based popular
physics magazine, associated with Physics World.
Old Exams
Please also look the final exam of
Fall 2003. It's very close in style to the final exam that will be
given for our class. Here is the answer
key.
Please also review the final exam of Spring
2004. The key of the final exam
of Spring 2004 is given here.
The
first exam of S2004 for Physics 106 had two versions, Exam 1A and Exam 1B.
The answer key
of the first exam is given here.
The
second exam of S2004 for Physics 106 had two version, Exam 2A and Exam 2B.
The answer key
of the second exam is given here.
First exam of S2005 and its key. Second
exam of S2005 and its key. Final exam of S2005 and its key.