Welcome to Physics 5305!!
Class Web Page!
http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~cmyles/Phys5305/5305.html
• There, you will find:
1. Posted (MS Word format): Syllabus, Help Resources,
Homework Assignments & Solutions, Exams.
2. Posted (MS Power Point format): Lectures
3. IMPORTANT Class Announcements & Calendar Items!
5. Other important items relating to this class.
PLEASE!!
Get into the habit of checking this page often!
• Linked from the class Web Page is:
The Announcement Page:
http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~cmyles/Phys5305/announce.html
– Contains class announcements & major
calendar items. Please check it often!
• If you are interested, you might also check out
My Web page at:
http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~cmyles/
Physics 5305
• Email Distribution List!
– It is VERY important that you have an email
address & that I have it!!!
– I will use the email distribution list to make
important class announcements!!!
– It is VERY important that you check your
email DAILY!!! (PLEASE tell me if you
change email address!)
Assignment Number 1
• 20 EXTRA POINTS towards your homework grade!!
• Send me an email message:
– Include your name & Physics 5305 in the message.
– Email address: Charley.Myles@ttu.edu
• Due 5PM, Wednesday, January 19, 2010!!!
Where to Go for Help??
– Your Fellow Students!!!
• A very effective strategy is to work on homework
and to study for exams together in a group.
• This is how professionals work in the “real world”.
– Me (office hours or not!)
– The Internet!!!
• There are LARGE numbers of Statistical Physics
Help sites! Using Google.com & typing in “Statistical
Physics Help” gives more than 4,100,000 hits!!!!
– Class Web Page!
To Succeed in this Course
• See the document:
“How to Succeed in Statistical Physics by Really Trying”!
• READ the book, which cost you many $$$!
– It’s most effective to read the material BEFORE I lecture over it.
• WORK the assigned homework problems!!
No looking at solutions from previous years!
That is CHEATING!
Copying the solutions will NOT teach you physics!
• WORK extra problems!
To Succeed in this Course
• COME TO CLASS!!
• There is a correlation between attendance & grade! Also,
skipping means that you are WASTING the tuition & fees
that you (or your someone) paid! With tuition & fees for a
full-time student, each class meeting costs about $23.
Each time you skip, you are throwing away $23!! After a
while this adds up! My lectures may not be entertaining or
brilliant, but I do expose you to the material.
• ATTENDANCE!!!
THE WEEKEND DOESN’T BEGIN THURSDAY
(or end Monday)!!!!
FRIDAY IS A CLASS DAY
(as is Monday)!!!