PHYS4102/6102 Spring Semester 2008  

Period 4:  11:15am - 12:05pm MWF Room 302 

                       Professor Mon, Room 223D

Office Hours:

Monday    :   10:00am - 11:00am

Wednesday :   10:00am - 11:00pm

Appointment can be made for other times.

Professor Mon can be reached at 542-3454.

Primary means of communication is to meet with Professor Mon

after class or at office hours.

Federal law prohibits discussion of student record without positive

identification. This excludes common use of telephone and email.

Attendence is mandatory but no roll will be taken.

There will be one midterm and a final exam.

All tests will be closed book and closed notes.

Academic honesty will be strictly enforced.

Excused absence from a test must be documented and the student will 

take a makeup test.    

Students are forbidden to discuss the content of a test til the

solutions have been posted.

Grading Policy:

15% of midterm + 25% of final exam + 60% of homework = 100%

The letter grade will be assigned as:

A  = 90 to 100

A- = 87 to 89

B+ = 83 to 86

B  = 80 to 82

B- = 73 to 79

C+ = 66 to 72

C  = 56 to 65

D  = 41 to 55

F  = 0  to 40

Standard rounding will be used for the final numerical grade. For

example, 89.4999 will be 89 and A-, but 89.5 will be 90 and A.

There are no exception to these assignments.

All withdrawal will be processed in accordance with University

policy as stated in the undergraduate bulletin.

For withdrawals before the midpoint, a grade of "W" will be assigned

for all cases.

Students are expected to attend all classes but no record of

attendence will be taken.

The textbook is:

"Classical Mechanics"

by John R Taylor (University Science Books, 2005).

Homework assignment:

Frequent homework assignments will be distributed and due at

announced date. Late homework will not be accepted and counted as

zero.

The lowest homework grade will be dropped. Note, homework counts 60% of

your grade. Lecture attendence is mandatory and all homework must be

handed in to me in class. Since solving problem is central to learning

physics, students must do the homework.

Learning from your peer can be valuable and encouraged but plagiarism

is forbidden.

To receive credit, students must show that it is their own work by

explaining the reasoning for the solution in a neat and legible

manner.

Course Schedule:

We wil attempt to cover chapters: 7,8,9,10 and 11. If we have time,

other chapters may be considered.

Chapter 7:  Lagrange's equations

Chapter 8:  Two-Body Central-Force Problems

Chapter 9:  Mechanics in Noninertial frames

Chapter 10: Rotational Motion of Rigid Bodies

Chapter 11: Coupled Oscillators and Normal Modes

There will be a midterm in Feb and the final exam is in May.