Whats new in Physics 131?

• Final exam on December 21, 8:00AM - 10:30AM

• Seating Arrangement for the final exam:
  

• If your last name starts with letters A-J --> Harriman Hall P137

• If your last name starts with letters K-L --> P118

• If your last name starts with letters M-P --> P113

• If your last name starts with letters Q-T --> Javits 103

• If your last name starts with letters U-Z --> Javits 109
  

• Review Sessions: PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TOPICS TO BE COVERED IN EACH OF THE REVIEW SESSIONS BELOW. Because of the size of the two rooms, I have inverted the topics to be covered.
  
• Review I: TUESDAY, SB Union Auditorium 123, 5:00-7;00PM
• WILL COVER THE SECOND HALF OF THE BOOK/TOPICS

• Review II: Wednesday,  Psy A137, 2:00-4:00PM
• WILL COVER THE FIRST HALF OF THE BOOK

• Special Office Hours & Reviews in the week of 12/17 by Prof. Deshpande
• Monday 10:00AM-12:00Noon in C-101
• Evening 2 hrs of REVIEW SBU 123
• Wednesday 2:00PM-4:00PM Review in Psy A 137
  
• Thursday 10:00AM - 12:00Noon in C-101
  

Whats not new in Physics 131?

• Practice Problem Set now on Mastering Physics Web Pages. The new set contains problems from the last three chapters. The practice problems given to you before Midterm 1 and 2 are still available for your review. Please also look at them. The final exam will cover all chapters covered so far in the class.

• Week of November 19, no laboratory sections. If you have to do make-up labs, this is your chance. Please contact your TA and arrange a time.

• New Home Work assignment on Mastering Physics WebPages : DUE MONDAY 11/19 8:00AM and also available is the new end of chapter problem set for that week.

• Second midterm some statistics:
• Maximum grade 100/100
• Minimum grade 0/100
• Class average 45
• Those students who have not recieved their blue books, should contact Prof. Deshpande

• Second midterm examination on November 6, 2007, 8:30PM - 10:00PM
• Syllabus: Chapters 7-12
• Seating Arrangement (same as the first midterm)
  If your Last Name starts with letters:
  A-K then sit in Room ESS001
  L-R then sit in Room Old Engineering 143
  S-Z  then sit in Room Old Engineering 145          
  
• FOR MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE EXAM, VISIT THE EXAMS PAGE

• Reviews:
• Class on Monday 11/05/2007, 8:30-9:30AM (by Prof. Deshpande)
  

• Other reviews (free) by the Tau-Beta-Pi Engineering Honor's society (officially unconnected with this course): Monday November 5th, 2007, 5:00PM - 6:30PM, Room 144 Old Chemistry
For more information contact: sbutbp@gmail.com

• A practice problem set is available on Mastering Physics Website

• New home work assignment 7 (online as well as paper-submission) is now available. See schedule. The Web part is due 10/29 and the EOC problems are due that week in the recitation sections.

• Mistake on the WebAssignment due date, my fault. Credit will be given to all who tried to solve the assigment. Please do not loose sleep over this. Apologies!

• REVIEW FOR THE 1ST MIDTERM: TUESDAY (TODAY, OCTOBER 2, 2007)

• FIRST MIDTERM EXAMINATION
  October 4, 8:30PM-10:00PM
• Will cover chapters 1-through-6
  
  Seating Arrangement
  If your Last Name starts with letters:
  A-K then sit in Room ESS001
  L-R then sit in Room Old Engineering 143
  S-Z  then sit in Room Old Engineering 145

• New Assignment (4) is online: Due 10/01/2007 at 8:00AM and EOC problems for that week are also listed. See Schedule page.

• First MIDTERM Exam is being held on October 4th, 2007 between 8:30pm - 10:00pm. Seating arrangements will be soon available on the Exams page of this course. Please pay attention.
• New Assignment (3) is online: Due 9/24/2007 at 8:00AM and EOC problems for that week are also listed. See Schedule page.

• 256 out of 303 students now have books (and hence the Mastering Physics Access codes). Congratulations and welcome aboard to thos who have made it. The rest, please register ASAP, while all is not lost yet, PLEAES REGISTER WITHIN A WEEK AND YOU WILL BE FINE, but after that things will get difficult.
  

• Laboratory Experiments (PHYSICS 133) will start on Monday, September, 17, 2007
  
• Laboratory (Physics 133) and recitation section schedule, the teachers, their room numbers and office hours are available on the SECTIONS page.
  
• Please note that you HAVE TO  REGISTER FOR  PHYSICS  133  if you are taking Physics 131. A common grade will be assigned at the end of the semester for the two courses. Details of how the grades will be assigned and how different parts of this course will be weighted in evaluating your final grade are discussed in the Syllabus.

• New Assignment (2) on line and also partiallly to be turned in on paper next week. See schedule. Also,  Laboratory sections start next week, come prepared to your lab sessions. Reading material for Lab 1 is on line, also on the Schedule page (last column)! No excuses if you do not come prepared to do experiments.
  

• COURSE ID FOR MASTERING PHYSICS IS: MPDESHPANDE0004
  

• It has been pointed out that there are not enough text books and online kits available at the campus bookstore. We will extend the deadline for the home work assignments to September 18, but there will more problems to do to cover the next week's portion of the syllabus. I will appropriately reduce the number of problems from this week's assignment if I feel necessary. New books are expected on September 15th.

• NOTE DATE CHANGE:First home work assignment is on the web due September 17, 2007
• EOC (End of Chapter) problems are due in HAND WRITTEN FORM IN THE RECITATION SECTIONS STARTING SEPTEMBER 17th, 2007. The other problems can be solved and submitted on the web for grading.
• It is very important that you do the practice assignment (Assignment 0) which will train you in the symantics and workings of MasteringPhyiscs. The due date for this work is September 17, so that you get used to working  with MasteringPhysics. There are no points for this home work.

• NOTES from the last two lectures are linked from the schedule page
• Recitations sections will start on September 10, 2007
• Welcome to Physics 131, Part 1, Fall '07:  This is a course on mechanics, dynamics, fluid mechanics and thermodynamics
• We will use Essential University Physics, First Edition, Volume 1, by Prof. Richard Wolfson for this course. This is a Pearson, Addison & Wesley publication. ISBN 0-8053-3829-2
  
• In addition to having this book, we will use MASTERING PHYSICS, the web-based assignment system for this course. You can get the access key to this system:
  
1. at a reduced cost,  by buying the volumes 1 and 2 together now, (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) or
2. you can also buy the access key alone, at a higher price.
   

• Lectures will be held on Monday-Wednesday-Friday at 8:30AM in the Stonybrook Union Auditorium 123
• The first class will be held on Wednesday, September 5, 2007
• All lecture notes will be available after the lecture, on the Lecture-Schedule webpage in pdf file format

• A simple math test will be offered on the first day of the classs to help you evaluate your readiness for this class.

• A few simple but essential rules in this class:
• Switch off the cell phones as you come in to the class
• No electronic/electrical equipment should be operated in this class: no phones, no beepers, no emails during class, no text messaging, no refrigerators, no TVs, no washing machines, .... no nothing!
  
• All we want in this class is your attention and conversations we will have about physics.