Physics IA / PHYS140 (2006)

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Week 13 and the study week will consist of review lectures and drop-in tutorials:

Evening Enrolment
Monday evening 5/6 - no 5pm tutorial before lab (having 3 hour session 29/5 5-8pm), lab class 6-9pm 5/6.
Tuesday 13/6 - 5pm: tutorial for evening class with DMK, held in E7A 333.

Day Enrolment
There will be no tutorials (Monday 12 noon, Wednesday 11am, Thursday 11 am) in week 13. All lecture timeslots will be revision tutorials. Come along to ask questions to the following “tutors”
Tuesday 6/6 - 10 am, T3, Associate Professor Mark Wardle on Electricity and Magnetism
Thursday 8/6 – 10 am, T5, Dr James Downes on Mechanics
Friday 9/6 - 10 am, T3, Dr James Downes on Mechanics
Friday 9/6, 1 pm, E7A 333, drop-in tutorial Dr James Downes on Mechanics
Tuesday 13/6, 9 am, E7A 333, drop-in tutorial Prof Deb Kane on Electricity and Magnetism
Wednesday 14/6, 10 am E7A 333, drop-in tutorial Prof Deb Kane

Some teaching material will be made available here during term for you to download. In addition to the copies of the overhead slides used in lectures, available below, there are copies of past exam papers available from the Library's Special Reserve Site

Files available below for downloading are in PDF format. To view or print them you need Acrobat Reader (free from Adobe).

Password Access: If you cannot remember your username and password please email Dr James Downes , sending your full name and student number.

Lecturers

First half of unit: Dr James Downes (Unit Convenor) Second half of unit: Prof Deb Kane

Class Times & Locations

Please check for your name and tutorial classroom location on the lists posted outside the 100-level Physics Lab in the NE corner on the ground floor of building E7B.

Unit	Activity	Day	Time	Location	Notes
PHYS140 Day Class	Lecture 1	Tue	10	E7B T3	Please attend all 3 weekly lectures
	Lecture 2	Thu	10	E7B-T5
	Lecture 3	Fri	10	E7B T3

	Tutorial	Mon	12	W6B 286	Chose one of these three tutorials.
	Tutorial	Wed	11	E6A 133
	Tutorial	Thu	11	E7B 164

Weekly Lab Classes

Laboratory classes starts in the second week of term. A detailed schedule of the weeks during which the lab classes are held is provided in the unit outline (see documents below). Please remember that attendance of all the lab classes is a compulsory requirement.

The lab. is located at the NE corner of the ground floor of building E7B. Before attending you need to obtain a copy of the Physics IA Laboratory Notes from the Co-op Bookshop plus a science notebook (the type containing alternating lined pages and graph paper) obtainable from many sources.

Student Services in the Department

Need help or advice? - Academic advice, illness or misadventure?...

The Generic Skills you can expect to develop during this unit...some are listed here.

Some Fun Science Links

... including Planet Busters, Physics Timeline.

Teaching Material Available to Download

Course-Unit Requirements

Unit Outline shows details of assessment tasks and laboratory work requirements.

Remember to obtain a Physics IA Laboratory Manual and bring along a science notebook (containing both ruled pages and graph paper). You are required to keep a log of your work in this notebook.

Assignments

Please place you assignments in the box labelled PHYS140 that is opposite the 100 level laboratory (E7B-114). Please attach an assignment coversheet to your assignment when you submit it (these (and a stapler) are also available near the submission box).

Assignment #1 - Due by 5 pm Tuesday 21st of March.
Assignment #1 solutions
Assignment #2 - Due by 5 pm Tuesday 11th of April.
Assignment #2 solutions
Assignment #3 - Due by 5 pm Tuesday 16th of May
Assignment #3 solutions
Assignment #4 - Due by 5 pm Tuesday 30th of May
Assignment #4 solutions

Part 1 Mechanics (Dr James Downes)

A short-form study guide for the first half of the unit.

PDF files of the powerpoint slides used in the day lecture classes and written solutions to the tutorial exercises:

Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Tutorial 1 solutions
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Tutorial 2 solutions
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11
Lecture 12
Tutorial 3 solutions
Lecture 13
Lecture 14
Lecture 15
Tutorial 4 solutions
Lecture 16
Lecture 17 (scanned notes)
Tutorial 5 solutions
Tutorial 6 solutions

Revision Lecture 1

(8/3/06 the password is now active, email Dr James Downes if you have forgotten it)

Part 2 Electricity & Magnetism (Prof Deb Kane)

A short form study guide and a set of related problems for the second half of the unit.

PDF files of the lecture notes:

Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
Week 6

PDF files of chapter solutions

Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30

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On-line Material Relating to the Unit

In addition to studying the textbook there are some useful (and fun) resources relevant to the unit available on the web:

The first is maintained at Georgia State University in the USA. And the second and third are the Physics Tutor page of Dr Irina Nelson at SSLC. The last page includes animations of the electric field lines (covered 13/4/06) and equipotentials (coming soon) of various distributions of discrete charges that you can select.

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