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University of California San Diego, Department of Physics
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Spring 2014 Physics 4B Webpage
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Welcome to Physics 4B, Mechanics, Fluids, Waves & Heat, Spring 2014


Announcements


Course Materials:


Course Information:


Lectures: MWF 10-10:50am, HSS 1330 ; Tu, 5:00-5:50pm, HSS 1330
Quizzes: Some Mondays, 10:00-10:50, HSS 1330.
Discussion: Wednesdays 4-4:50pm, SOLIS 104
Problems: Thursdays 7:00-8:50pm, PCYNH 121
Final exam: Monday June 9th, 8:00am-10:59pm, HSS 1330
Course Text: Giancoli, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 4th Edition. The course will cover Chpts. 13 to 20.
Course Description: See General Catalog
Academic Integrity: UCSD policy on academic integrity (i.e. cheating) will be strictly enforced. Please see the website Academic Integrity: Official Policy, use common sense, and ask the instructor if in doubt.

Instructor and TA Information -

Instructor: Jorge Hirsch, 5310 Mayer Hall, Ext. 4-3931, e-mail: jhirsch@ucsd.edu
                     Office Hours: Mondays 2pm-3pm or by appt.

Teaching Assistant: Gautam Nallamala, gnallama@physics.ucsd.edu
                                     Office Hours: Fri 3:30-4:30pm, Mayer Hall Addition 2702 (Physics Tutorial Center)


Course Format

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS: Problems from the book will be assigned every week, solutions will be posted on the web page. To fully understand the material, you should work most of the problems on your own without help of the solution key. Homeworks will not be graded.
QUIZZES: Closed-book quizzes will be given on alternate Mondays, the first one on April 7th. There will be lectures on the other Mondays. There will be no make-up quizzes.
COURSE GRADE will be computed from the average of the 5 quizzes (50%) and the (closed book) final exam (50%). If you need to miss a quiz due to unavoidable circumstances AND notify the instructor beforehand, it will not be counted and the final exam will count for 60% of the grade.

General Information