Physics 225 Fall 2020

Prof. Ben Hooberman 

News

& Info 

Units

& Notes

Homework

& Exams

Gradebook 



Welcome to Physics 225 - Relativity & Math Applications! This website contains all the information for the course. 

Announcements


General Information

Class Times and Locations

Lectures

Tuesdays from 4:00 - 4:50 PM

Discussion Sections   

Wednesdays and Fridays (see schedule)


Office hours (Thurs 1-5 PM and Fri 1-5 PM on zoom at: https://illinois.zoom.us/j/96990810822?pwd=Nm1PQUdDbThKUUh6UlYvd1pCWFV2Zz09):

Thurs 1-2 PM

Samuel Peng

Thurs 2-3 PM

Ben Hooberman

Thurs 3-4 PM

Shuyi Zhang

Thurs 4-5 PM

Siddharth Mansingh

Fri 1-2 PM

Yumu Yang

Fri 2-3 PM

Yumeng Cao

Fri 3-4 PM

Zed Zhong

Fri 4-5 PM

Xuchen Cao

Instructors


Recommended textbook

There is no required book for this course, but a textbook is often very helpful to provide a different point of view and additional detail. If you would like to purchase a textbook, I recommend "Special Relativity" by A.P. French.


Office hours

Office hours will be held on zoom on Thursdays and Fridays, starting Sept 3. The times will be posted here shortly.


Policies


Course grading

Your grade in this course will be based on successful completion of the weekly homework assignments (35%), participation in lectures (5%), participation in the discussion sessions (10%), performance on a mid-term exam (15%), and performance on the final exam (35%). 

Homework due dates and time

Homework is due at 4 PM on Mondays. Your solutions are to be submitted electronically via compass2g. 

Late policy for homework

If you don't make the deadline, you may turn your homework assignment in by the following Tuesday at 4 PM and receive 80% credit.

Late policy for attendance at discussion sessions

Discussion attendance counts for 10% of your grade in the course.If you're 10 minutes or more late to discussion section more than once, you will not receive participation credit. You get one free pass to be late to discussion section.

Equation sheet

A summary of all the equations used in physics 225 is available here.