Physics 10
Overview of Physics: what do physicists do?
Tuesday 4:00-5:45 P.M. Thimann Lecture 1
| Instructor | Josh Deutsch (M.C. for the show) |
| Office Hours: | Tuesday 1:30-3:50P.M. 219 ISB |
Organization
Physics 10 presents an overview of research in physics by presenting ten lectures (one lecture per week) by faculty members of the physics department at UCSC. They'll talk about research areas of interest to them. You'll be able to question them on many things, such as their research and what motivated them to go into physics.This gives you an opportunity to see what physicists do ``in action''. You don't really get to see this in any of the other undergraduate courses, which teach you the basics but have long since ceased to be active areas of research.
Physics 10 can be taken as a fourth course. There are no in class exams such as a final, just homework. Readings will be either on reserve in the science library or up on the web. However this is generally more than you need to do the homework. The main point is to attend the lectures which should be quite general and not require any specialized knowledge such as the physics 5 sequence.
Homework
The homework will be handed out at every lecture or given on the web. The homework for the previous week should be turned in at the beginning of class. The answers should be written on the homework sheet and the reverse side. Late homework will only be accepted in very special circumstances. Do not hand homework in if you did not attend the lecture. See Josh if you wish to ``make up'' a missed lecture. This is normally much harder than the attendance of a lecture so it is strongly advised to attend the lectures. Missing one of the lectures and not handing the corresponding homework set is acceptable.You are free to discuss the homework problems with other students. Obviously the verbatim copying of other students' homework is not permitted.
Evaluations of the course are almost exclusively based on the homework. It should not be very time consuming. Succinct answers to all questions are expected. So if your answer is taking more than a page, you're doing something wrong. This should develop your ability to answer questions concisely. You are strongly urged to draft your answers on a separate sheet, edit it, and copy it to the handout.
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