PHYS 102 Spring 2023

PHYS 102 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Required Materials

Web Information

This course uses the Web extensively. Internet access and a web browser are required for:

• textbook (optional)
• homework
• discussion materials
• grade book
• lecture slides and other handouts

Computers with appropriate web browsers are available in Technology Services, Engineering Work Stations and housing division computer labs.

Required Materials

For Prelectures, Checkpoints, Prelabs and Prelectures

• You can access the content at https://smart.physics.illinois.edu/ and you have full access for the first two weeks free of charge.  Sometime in the first two weeks you will need to pay for access by purchasing a code through the UIUC bookstore. The product at the bookstore is confusingly named "Flip It" rather than "SmartPhysics."  The access codes are at the front, behind the registers, you need to ask at the register for an access code for Phys 102
• Details of how to pay for access are available via pdf. You may need the course code dc50982a to configure things. You have two weeks to buy access, you have a free trial until then that works fine. 

For Lecture

• you should be able to use your phone/tablet to access in-lecture poll questions
• there will be no zoom link, if you can't attend lecture you can catch up by viewing recorded lecture (including for week 1)

For Discussion

• Your laptop or tablet
• A calculator with trigonometric functions.
• Paper and pens or pencils.

For Lab

Every student will need to have access to an IOLab device and access to a computer running Windows 8.1 or above or a Mac running OSX 10.13 or above. Your options for IOLab access include:

• Rent a device from Macmillan for the semester. IOLab devices can be rented from the following website: https://store.macmillanlearning.com/us/product/iOLab-Version-2.0/p/1464101469.
  (NOTE: Use the code SHIPFREE at checkout and the shipping will be free).
  • If you are buying or renting a device on-line you should do this as soon as possible since shipping can take 1-2 weeks.
  • If you have any problems with the Macmillan website or concerns about the delivery of your device you should go to https://macmillan.force.com/macmillanlearning/s/contactsupport and select I am Using: Student Store (i.e. do not select I am Using: IOLab, which will get you tech support for the device itself).
• Purchase a new or used IOLab from the Bookstore: https://bookstore.illinois.edu/buy_book_detail.asp?pf_id=15132185
• Buy an IOLab from another student on campus
• Arrange to share with a friend or roommate
• Use one of the Course Reserve IOLabs at Grainger Library to complete Prelabs; Arrange with your lab group to share IOLabs in class.

Recommended

• Hour Exams: Physics 102 Hour Exams, Latest (Stipes)

Optional

• COLLEGE PHYSICS, R. Freedman, et al., W. H. Freedman & Co., 2014--Electronic Access