Physics 142 -- Dr. Weeks -- Spring '01

Schedule:
• June through August: Enjoy your summer. If you're around campus, drop by Emerson 309 to say hi.
  

ANNOUNCEMENTS: No announcements.

Current Handouts:

• Syllabus, course schedule, & grading policy
• Revised syllabus for last 3 weeks of class
• Advice for studying for the final exam

Gradebook

• Has been removed.

Older Homework & Handouts:

Everything through Exam #1:
• Homework #1
• Homework #2
• Homework #3
• Grading of Feb 2 reading quiz
• Advice for studying for Exam #1
• Answers to conceptual problems on "advice" handout
• Answers to even numbered "suggested" problems for homeworks #1 - #3

  Everything through Exam #2:

• Homework #4
• Homework #5
• Homework #6
• Advice for Exam #2
• Answers to concept questions on Exam #2 help handout

  Everything through Exam #3:

• Sign conventions handout -- Note that the original handout had a typo, VIRTUAL objects and images have negative distances.
• Homework #7
• Homework #8
• Homework #9
• Advice for Exam #3
• Answers to concept questions on Exam #3 help handout

  Everything through Exam #4:

• Homework #10
• Homework #11
• Homework #12
• Homework #13
• Short supplement to Voodoo Science reading
• Advice for Exam #4
• Answers to conceptual questions on exam #4 advice handout

Other information:

• 142 lab home page
• How are test charges used to find the electric field?
• National Geographic web page on lightning
• Lightning Stalker, another good page on lightning
• Results of the in-class survey from Monday, Feb 12.
• CNN.com article on a solar sail spacecraft that was almost launched April 2001
• Information on an ongoing solar-sail project
• Readings for the lab tour, which was in class, Monday, April 30.
  • Colloidal glass experiments
  • How a confocal microscope works
• Home page for Dr. Weeks