Discussion Sections for
PY 212 (General Physics II) Fall 2006
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I will be your discussion Teaching Fellow for PY 212 (General Physics II) for the Fall of 2006. I will be holding office hours twice weekly (see below) and by appointment. I am a first year graduate student with a BS in Physics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The goal of my discussion sections will be to help you master all of the material covered this year in PY 212. If you have any questions / comments / concerns about any aspect of PY 212 or if you would like some particular information added to this website, please contact me.
N.B. If you cannot make my office hours and prefer not to make an appointment, or if you would like a different TF's perspective on a particular topic, there are two other discussion TF's (James and Claudia) for this course as well as two professors (your lecturer Prof. Roberts and Prof. Ludwig who is handling discussions and labs) all of whom hold office hours. A schedule of those office hours can be found here.
About Your Homework:
Your homework is due every Friday at 5:00 PM.
Please put a box around your final answer to each problem.
Please try to be as neat as possible.
Collaboration on homework is allowed; however, every student is responsible for turning in his or her own assignment. Copying solutions directly from the web or other students is not allowed.
Late homework will not be accepted. If you are sick or if you will be away let me know ahead of time and we may be able to reach an agreement; however, this is only possible if I am contacted well before the homework is due and there are extraordinary circumstances.
Helpful Information:
A Guide to Differential Volume (Useful for Gauss's Law Integrals)
A Plot of the Field Lines and Equipotential Surfaces (generated by MATLAB) for Problem (4a) from Mid-Term I
A Complete Guide to Electrostatics!
About Discussion:
Discussion is fifty (50) minutes long.
The first thirty-five (35) minutes will be spent discussing problems with the class, your understanding of the material, trouble on homework, etc. If the class does not provide topics for discussion, I will have a few problems prepared to go over.
The last fifteen (15) minutes of class will be spent doing an in-class conceptual exercise. If you do not come to discussion, you will receive a score of zero out of ten (0 / 10) for the exercise. These conceptual exercises will contribute to your over all grade.
Conceptual exercises are to worked on in groups of about three and each group need only hand in one paper (note: this is NOT true of the problem sets assigned for homework). The exercises will be collected and graded at the end of discussion.
If you must miss a discussion and wish to receive credit for a conceptual exercise, you must contact me well before the discussion section and an arrangement may be able to be reached (e.g. attending a different discussion section or completing the exercise ahead of time).
Again, if you have any concerns whatsoever, please contact me ASAP. My number one goal is to help you learn and understand physics!
Christopher A. Serino
Last modified: 20 December 2006
