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Date
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Notes, News
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| 6/01/06 |
Welcome to the PH 202-7B course website. If you
have not already, use your WebAssign Username and Password (emailed to
you) to log onto the WebAssign site.
The syllabus contains the tentative course
schedule. |
| 6/05/06 |
Someone at UAB or NC State apparently messed up some or all of the
WebAssign passwords. I have reset those for students who have
spoken to me. |
| 6/07/06 |
Some of you are starting the homework assignments MUCH too late.
When you wait until a day or two before the due date, there is little
you or I can do when the inevitable difficulties come up.
The new
assignment can be found below and is posted on WebAssign. |
| 6/19/06 |
Fluids. I will hold one-hour sessions on fluids, based on Ch 11 from
Cutnell & Johnson, on Wednesdays, July 12 and 19, from 4-5 PM. We
will probably be in CH 301A, which may be accessed from the hallway to
the right of the main lecture hall 301. |
| 7/12/06 |
Fluids: Due to unexpected student visitors during this afternoon
I will NOT be able to have a session on fluids. We will start
fluids on July 19 and plan the second session for later. |
| 7/12/06 |
Quiz on July 17-- a forewarning: you better know how to accurately
ray-trace a lens system, as well as use mathematics to find image
distances, magnifications, etc. |
| 7/19/06 |
Today we will cover
sections 1-5 in Ch 27 and we will begin Ch 29. I would suggest you
all read the later section in Ch 27 on diffraction gratings, as this is
important and is on some standardized exams, but the homework and final
exam will only cover sections 1-5 in Ch 27 (along with all the other
chapters for the semester).
Ch 29: I plan to
cover all of this chapter.
Ch 30: will cover
sections 1-6
Ch 28: I very much hope
to cover sections 1-3, briefly. |
| 7/31/06 |
As most of you have figured out, there will be a quiz today. The
material will be the reading from Ch 30 and what we have done in class.
I will expect a reading knowledge of the sections noted above as well as
ability to do simple calculations of the sort we did in the last class.
Since it will benefit us all to have a quiz that can be quickly
gradable, many of the questions will be multiple-choice. |
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