Welcome to Physics 1408!!
Class Web Page!
http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~cmyles/Phys1408/1408.html
NOTE!! THIS PAGE IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!
There, you will find:
1. Posted (Word): Syllabus, Help Resources, links to sample
exams (with solutions), links to sample quizzes (with solutions).
2. Posted (Power Point): Lectures
3. A link to the on-line homework page, WebAssign.
4. Important Class Announcements & Calendar Items!
5. Links to help resources web pages
6. Other important items relating to this class.
PLEASE!! Get into the habit of checking this often!
Announcement Page!
My Web Page
• Linked from the class Web Page is:
The Announcement Page:
http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~cmyles/Phys1408/announce.html
– Contains class announcements & major
calendar items. Please check it often!
• You might also check out My Web page at:
http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~cmyles/
Physics 1408
• 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
• 15 extra points towards your quiz grade!!
• Send me an email message:
– Be sure to include your name AND Physics
1408 in the message!
– Email address: Charley.Myles@ttu.edu
Due 5PM
Tuesday, September 4, 2007!!!
Math Co- & Pre-Requisites
• Math is the Language of Physics!! But, this is
NOT a math course!! I simply will not have time to teach math
to you! I must assume that you know it! Primary difficulties
with the course are often math-related!!
• Co-Requisite: Math 1351: Calculus I
– Or an equivalent course somewhere else!
• Assumed Pre-Requisites:
– Math 1320 & 1321: Algebra & Trigonometry
– Or: Math 1550: Pre-Calculus, Or equivalent courses elsewhere.
• Take advantage of the:
Math Review in Appendix B!
Physics 1408 Laboratory
• This no-credit lab is a required co-requisite!
• IF you drop the lecture you MUST drop the lab also!
(Exceptions: Ask in Physics Office, Room 101)
ATTENTION!
LAB SCHEDULE
Monday labs begin today, Monday, August 27!
All other labs begin Tuesday, September 4!!!!
• Don’t Forget!!
• NOTE: COME to lab prepared to start,
including already having your lab manual!!!
Where to Go for Help??
• See the syllabus, which covers this!
– See Me!!! Room 18.
• During office hours or not (I’m usually not
rigid about these). Or call me on the phone.
Or email me! I respond to email!!!
– See your Lab TA!!!
• There will be office hours for this person.
– Get a tutor!!!
• The Physics Department Office (Room 101)
has an approved list.
Where to Go for Help??
– Your Fellow Students!!!
• A very effective strategy is to work on homework and to
study for quizzes & exams together in a group.
• This is how professionals work in the “real world”.
– Help Sessions!!
• I’ll try to arrange weekly Help Sessions.
– The Internet!!!
• There are HUGE numbers of Physics Help Web sites! Using
Google.com & typing in “Physics Help” gives about
54,700,000 hits!!!! I encourage you to try out some. The last
page of the syllabus lists some Physics Help Web pages.
– Class Web Page!
Bottom Line on Help
• IF YOU NEED HELP, TAKE
ADVANTAGE OF THE MANY HELP
RESOURCES AVAILABLE!!
• If you need help & don’t use these
resources, only YOU are to blame!
To Succeed in this Course
• See document: “How to succeed in 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!!
– Before looking at the solutions. 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 parents) paid! With tuition & fees for a fulltime student, each class meeting costs about $16.96. Each
time you skip, you are throwing away about $17!! 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 ON
THURSDAY (or end on Monday)!!!! FRIDAY IS A
REGULAR CLASS DAY (as is Monday)!!!
On-Line Homework
• Commercial Website WebAssign
– On-line homework will be assigned & graded at
the WebAssign site.
– Doing homework is the most effective means of learning
physics, which is impossible without working problems!
– Once you are registered at WebAssign, you’ll be able to
download assignments. Assignments are posted each Mon.
& are due by 11:30pm on the Tues. a week later. You’ll be
able to get answers after the due date.
WebAssign
– To access WebAssign, login at
https://www.webassign.net/login.htm.
Instructions are in the Student Access Kit.
– Your login ID is the same as your eraider ID. I’ll tell you
your initial password.
If you don’t have the Student Access Kit which comes with
a new book, you can purchase one on the WebAssign site.
Please do this ASAP!
– NOTE: This site is not at TTU & you should give yourself plenty of
time for submitting answers–sometimes the network can be slow or
down.