Physics 2300 -- Autumn 2020
Welcome to the Physics 2300 home page! Announcements/changes: The nerve center for the course is Carmen. This page exists just to make some things more convenient, but no longer aspires to be the nerve center. Upcoming: Tuesday 25 August: term begins on Zoom ... Tuesday 24 November: one Zoom class this week, as the campus empties Wednesday 25 November: Zoom class from off campus Tuesday-Friday 1-4 December: one last week of Zoom Contents of this Page Course description and info, goals, etc. Assignments Handouts Video Lectures Exams -- schedule

Physics 2300 -- Autumn 2020

Welcome to the Physics 2300 home page!

Announcements/changes:

The nerve center for the course is Carmen. This page exists just to make some things more convenient, but no longer aspires to be the nerve center.

Upcoming:

Tuesday 25 August: term begins on Zoom
...
Tuesday 24 November: one Zoom class this week, as the campus empties
Wednesday 25 November: Zoom class from off campus
Tuesday-Friday 1-4 December: one last week of Zoom

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General Information about Physics 2300

Course title:: Physics 2300: Intermediate Mechanics (part 1)
Texts:: Introduction to Classical Mechanics by D. Morin (available as an ebook); Basic Training in Mathematics by Shankar
Topics to be covered:

Vectors and Kinematics
Foundations of Newtonian Mechanics
Momentum, Work, and Energy
Conservative and Nonconservative Forces
Angular Momentum
Orbital mechanics
Also ... some math methods
and introduction to Mathematica

Meeting Schedule:
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 10.20am or 11.30am by Zoom
Holidays:
Labor Day, Mon Sept 7
Veterans Day, Mon Nov 11
Thanksgiving break, Th-Fri Nov 26-27

Grade Weighting:
Weekly homework [45%]
Bi-weekly online quizzes+final [55%]

Instructor:
Dr. Gregory Kilcup
office: (M2030 Physics Research Building)
email: kilcup.1@osu.edu
phone: 946-0276
Office Hours: 1-2pm most afternoons on Zoom.
Tutors:
TBA
Meeting Schedule:: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 10.20am or 11.30am by Zoom
Holidays:: Labor Day, Mon Sept 7; Veterans Day, Mon Nov 11; Thanksgiving break, Th-Fri Nov 26-27
Grade Weighting:: Weekly homework [45%]; Bi-weekly online quizzes+final [55%]
Instructor:: Dr. Gregory Kilcup
office: (M2030 Physics Research Building)
email: kilcup.1@osu.edu
phone: 946-0276
Office Hours: 1-2pm most afternoons on Zoom.
Tutors:: TBA

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Assignments

Homework will normally be due on Wednesday night by submission of a PDF file to Carmen. For those using tablets this should be no problem. For those using good old paper, a scanner is best, but there are phone apps (e.g. CamScanner, demo) which turn photos of your pages in to more readable scan-like PDFs. Other weekly assigments will include online Essential Skills drills (essentialskills.osu.edu).

Hwk #0: get your tech in order, beginning with a good Zoom platform.

Handouts and Software

Please join the course at tophat.com. The codes are 830722 for the 10.20am class and 106468 for the 11.30am class
Mathematica is among the software which has been licensed for your use at OSU. Start reading here to learn more. You will eventually end up logging in to the Self Service Portal, and clicking on through "Software Services" to make a "Site Licensed Software Request."

Video lectures

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