PHY 303K: ENGINEERING PHYSICS 1
Prof. E. C. George Sudarshan
Spring 2015
Preliminary Course Information
Basic Course Information
Course number: PHY 303K
Semester: Spring 2015
Unique No: 56155, 56160, 56165, 56170
Class schedule: MWF 11:00AM-11:50AM.
Class location: PAI 2.48
Instructor: E. C. G. Sudarshan
Email Address: sudarshan@physics.utexas.edu
Office: RLM 9.328
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 12:00-1:00pm (at RLM 9.328)
TA: Akarsh Simha
Email address: asimha@physics.utexas.edu
Discussion sessions: Wednesday, 1 hour between 6 PM to 10 PM depending on unique number. (at JES A305A)
Office hours: Thursdays 4:45 PM to 5:45 PM (at RLM 9.326).
PRE-AND-CO-REQUISITES: High-school physics or PHY 306 course; Calculus: either M 408C already taken,
or M 480K already taken with M 480L being taken this semester.
The class also requires concurrent enrollment in a physics lab course, PHY 103M. You must take the lab in the
same semester as the class.
Overview
The Engineering Physics I course is about Mechanics and Mechanical Waves. The material covered in the course is
based on the first 21 chapters of the textbook (see below).
This course carries the Quantitative Reasoning (QR) flag. Courses carrying the Quantitative Reasoning Flag ask
you to interpret quantitative models and apply quantitative reasoning to real-world problems.
Course Materials
TEXTBOOK: “Physics for Engineers and Scientists”
by H. C. Ohanian and J. T. Markert,
3rd Edition, Vol. 1, Publisher: W. W. Norton and Company
Content: This course covers Chapters 1-21.
CLICKERS: Purchase an ”iClicker” from the UT-Coop or ask around to see if you can purchase a used one.
REGISTER YOUR CLICKER ON QUEST: See http://lcns.utexas.edu/quest/supportlstudent for instructions
on how to register your iclicker.
QUEST: This course makes use of the web-based Quest content delivery and homework server system maintained by the College of Natural Sciences. The Quest homework service will require a $ 25 charge per student
per class for its use, with no student being charged more than $ 50 a semester. This goes toward the maintenance and operation of the resource. Please go to http://quest.cns.utexas.edu to login to the Quest system for
this class. After the 12th day of class, when you login to Quest you will be asked to pay via credit card on a
secure payment site. Quest provides mandatory instructional material for this course, just as is your textbook,
etc. For payment questions, email: quest.billing@cns.utexas.edu.
Class Logistics and Grading
• Homework: The Quest homework service handles distribution and collection of homework and the web.
Login to http://quest.cns.utexas.edu/student to obtain and submit home work assignments. Homework assignments will generally be available Mondays at 9am. Homework is due the following Sunday by 11:59PM.
No late homework will be accepted. Solutions will be available on Quest one hour after the deadline.
• Quizzes: There will be four in-class 50 minute quizzes. No makeup quizzes will be given, but one will be
dropped. The Quiz schedule shall be announced to you during the second week of classes.
• Final Exam: The final exam is comprehensize and mandatory, and is currenty listed on U.T. Registrar’s exam
schedule as on Wednesday, May 13, 9:00am-12:00pm. The final location will be announced by U.T. Registar’s
office around 1 month prior to Final exam period.
• During each Quiz and Final Exam: You may bring one sheet of Letter paper with anything you want
written on either side, and a simple calculator. No other references will be allowed. All cell phones must be
turned off. Programmable calculators are not allowed.
Guidelines for taking the quizzes shall be posted before the first Quiz and must be adhered to for all quizzes and
exams. Most importantly, exams will be conducting using bubble sheets, and graded by a computer. Hence,
you must ensure that you bubble in the 3-digit test Version Code (entered into the “Special Code” box) and
your EID correctly to be eligible for any credit for an exam. Invalid bubble sheets that do not have a correct
EID and/or Version code will not be graded for any credit.
• Attendance: We are required to keep track of attendance for this class. It will be done in the form of ”iClicker quizzes”. Therefore, you will need to purchase an i-Clicker and register it (see ”Clickers” above). We
will intersperse lectures with interactive quiz questions chosen to highlight the course materials. We will begin
taking attendance via ”i-Clicker quizzes” on Wednesday, Sept 3, 2014. Clicking any response will earn you
attendance. There will be 4 dropped attendance grades for all unrecorded absences including personal absences,
and technical snags with clickers. You are responsible for maintaining your clicker in working condition and
ensure that your responses are being registered.
Out of the 10% attendance credit, 2% will be reserved for discussion session (Wednesday evening class) attendance. The remaining will be for class attendance.
• Announcements: Announcements pertaining to the class will be made predominantly through the Quest
system and via email. Please ensure that the addresses of the instructor and TAs are on a whitelist and do not
end up in Spam. Please check e-mail and the Quest system front page frequently throughout the semester for
important announcements.
• Grading Policy:
Homework (drop one) 25%
Quizzes (drop one) 35%
Final Exam 30%
Attendance 10%
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