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Homework Assignments
All problems from the text:
Fundamentals of Physics, 8th ed., by D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and J. Walker unless otherwise specified
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Problems |
Due 11:00 a.m. |
| #1 | Write half-page accounts of your experience with each of two websites which are intended to provide help in learning the material of this course. You may choose from those at Some Resources for Introductory Physics at http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/people/faculty/tenn/ResourcesIntroPhysics.html or find your own. Your accounts must include the titles and URLs of the websites. Please submit via e-mail to joe.tenn@sonoma.edu. If you attach a file please title it "yourlastnameP114HW01.suffix", where "suffix" is a format I can read, i.e., doc, rtf, or pdf. | M 8/27 |
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See WileyPLUS. The first time you must register at http://edugen.wiley.com/edugen/class/cls43188/
Note that exponents must be written in the form 1.23e7. Angles should be between –180° and +180°. |
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| Extra Credit | Attend a lecture in the “What Physicists Do” series and submit a description of what you learned. Minimum length 200 words. E-mail submission is welcome. Please title any enclosure "yourlastnameP114EC.suffix", where "suffix" is a format I can read, i.e., doc, rtf, or pdf. Be sure your name is in the document as well. You are encouraged to attend all of the lectures, but you may submit a paper for extra credit only once. | Friday after the lecture |
| Midterm Exam #1 | Material in Chapters 1–6 | M 10/1 |
| Midterm Exam #2 | Material in Chapters 1–11 | F 11/16 |
| Final Exam | Material in Chapters 1–11, 14.1–14.3, 15, 18–19 | M 12/10 11:00–12:50 |
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