PHYS 436 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lectures
Lectures take place from 9-9:50 am on MWF in 144 Loomis. The first two lectures will by done on Zoom (see the syllabus), but the remainder of the course will be in-person only. To attend the lecture you must have the Illinois app installed on your phone or bring a valid boarding pass. You will also be required to wear a face covering.
Optional Mandatory Attendance
Phys 436 students can elect to receive up to 10% of the total points in the course by attending the lecture. Please respond to the following survey before Monday, January 31 to indicate whether you will participate in this program:
To participate, you will have to procure an iClicker. You can purchase one new at any of the local bookstores. Alternatively, if you want to save money, there are hundreds for sale on EBay. Be sure to register your iClicker in the gradebook.
We will start taking attendance on Wednesday, Feb. 2.
Homework
There will be one homework set assigned each week. It will be posted on Friday on the course syllabus and will be due at 5 pm on the subsequent Friday. Homework will be handed in, graded, and returned using Gradescope. Please create a Gradescope account, if you do not have one already, and use code 4PKNKR to add Phys 436.
Discussions
Discussion sections take place on Tuesday evenings in 4018 Campus Instructional Facility. I have never been there, but they tell me it's nice. The purpose of the discussion is not just to make you work another problem, but to get you in the habit of discussing physics with other people, which in practice is an important way a lot of new science gets done. The expectation is that you will work the problem during your discussion section, and not before or afterward. Grading is pass-fail and based on both how well you did on the problem and whether you participated.
Section D1 meets Tuesdays, 6-6:50 pm
Section D2 meets Tuesdays, 7-7:50 pm
The first discussion will meet on Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022
Exams
There will be two in-class hour exams as indicated on the course syllabus. The exams will be open book, meaning you can bring any static print materials including the text, printouts of lecture notes, homeworks, or a pre-prepared equation sheet of your own making. Electronic devices of any sort are not permitted. Calculators will be neither allowed nor needed.