GENERAL INFORMATION: PLEASE READ CAREFULLY!
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Physics 141		Fall Quarter  2008     H.J.Frisch HEP320 (702-7479)
Sept. 29, 2008

OFFICE HOURS: Friday 3-5, or by appointment (2-7479 or arrange
after class).  Sunday afternoons I'm often in my office- call to check
first.  You are welcom to come and talk physics.

FINDING MY OFFICE: (Please read!!): High Energy Physics 320. Enter
through 5620 Ellis Ave, go down stairs, follow red dots on floor (to
the right) to the elevator in the basement of HEP. Take elevator to
3rd floor, exit right, HEP320 is the corner office.)

REACHING ME: Please phone (2-7479). Email is strongly discouraged, but
phone messages will ALWAYS be answered.

TEXTS:
Required Texts:  Kleppner and Kolenkow, An Introduction to Mechanics 
		    (McGraw-Hill)
		Feynman, Lectures on Physics, Vol I (Addison Wesley)
		Schey, Div, Grad, Curl and All That. (WW Norton)
		Taylor,	An Introduction to Error Analysis 

Recommended texts: 

I recommend going to the library and looking at other texts- often one
book is very clear on one topic to one person. Ones I often refer to are: 
        Taylor & Wheeler, Spacetime Physics(W.H. Freeman)
        Marion, Classical Dynamics, Academic Press
	Symon,   Mechanics (Addison Wesley) (Hard!)
	Ohanian, Physics, (W.W. Norton )
	Jeffreys, Cartesian Tensors (Cambridge) 

PROBLEM SETS: There will be problem set due every Monday. Late
solutions will not be accepted.  A set of solutions will be posted on
the course web site (see below), in Kersten in Rm 101 (first floor),
and a set will be in Crerar. The teaching assistants and myself are
here to help you if you are having trouble. Please don't get isolated
and behind! (come ask questions).

WEB PAGE: Problem sets and solutions will be posted on the course web
page, at  http://hep.uchicago.edu/cdf/frisch/p141/.

WORKING TOGETHER: You are strongly encouraged to work in groups- the
problem sets will go faster if you discuss the problems, and you will
have a much deeper understanding.  However, the work you hand in has
to be your own- you must NEVER NEVER copy anybody else's work.  (as an
aside, I recommend reading `Doing Honest Work in College', by Charles
Lipson.) 

QUIZZES: There will usually be a quiz every week. It will cover
mostly, but not entirely, the work of the previous week.

MIDTERM and FINAL:
There will be one midterm, and one final.

LABORATORIES: There will be lab weekly starting the THIRD week. The
lab assignments are taken care of by Mr. Gazes (Kersten
205). Dept. policy is that you MUST do ALL the labs to be asigned a
grade. In addition, you will be penalized by a letter grade for each
lab missed (i.e. you miss one lab, highest possible grade is a B). If
you are sick and can't attend a lab, please contact me asap.


DISCUSSION SESSIONS: 

The LA's will run discussion sessions. See the web site and the
bulletin board in Kersten 101 for anouncements. The lab assistant
office hours will be posted soon.

GRADES:
The final grade will be determined by a mix of the final, the homework, the
quizzes, the midterm, and the labs, in that order. The labs, however, will be
used to adjust those students close to a boundary between two grades, and
consequently often have a big impact. All the labs have to be completed
satisfactorily to receive a course grade. The final will count twice the
midterm in the course grade, and the quizzes will count approximately the
same (8 x 15 minutes/quiz is approximately the same as a 2 hour final, and is
twice a 1 hour midterm...).

PHYSICS 141/PHYSICS 131 

All transfers between 131 and 141 and vice versa must be done before
the add/drop date of end of 3rd week. If you are having trouble at the
start of 141 I recommend seeing me to discuss transfering asap.

OTHER:
	Please feel free to see me about any physics problems you're having.
Scheduling problems (labs, etc.) are best handled by Mr. Gazes. You should get
used to asking the LA's and me (and fellow students!) for physics help. 
(Please remember to phone rather than email- thanks!).


			GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY HUNTING!