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Welcome to Physics 225 - Relativity & Math Applications! This website contains all the information for the course.
For Fall 2020, physics 225 will be available fully online.
Plans for remote instruction:
- To coordinate discussion and questions about course material, a Piazza has been set up for this course at: https://piazza.com/illinois/spring2020/phys225/home.
- Lectures: recorded video lectures will be provided at units. All students will receive full participation credit for all remaining lectures.
- Homework assignments: homework assignments may be submitted electronically at https://compass2g.illinois.edu/. To upload your homework: log in, click on physics 225, click on homework, then select the assignment and upload your homework. In addition, I will be dropping your two lowest homework scores from your final grade, instead of dropping your lowest score only.
- Discussion sections: virtual discussion sections will be held using Zoom (see meeting rooms at zoom.html). All students will receive full credit for attendance at all remaining discussion sections.
- Class Times and Locations
Lectures Loomis 151, Tuesdays from 4:00 - 4:50 pm Discussion Sections Loomis 64 or Loomis 147, Thursdays and Fridays (see schedule) - Office hours (Thurs 1-3 PM in 275 Loomis, Thurs 3-5 PM in 279 Loomis, Fri 1-4 PM in 279 Loomis):
Thurs 1-2 PM 275 Loomis Loomis Tianhao Wu Thurs 2-3 PM 275 Loomis Loomis Ben Hooberman Thurs 3-4 PM 279 Loomis Loomis Michael O'Boyle Thurs 4-5 PM 279 Loomis Loomis Min Li Fri 1-2 PM 279 Loomis Loomis Robert McKay Fri 2-3 PM 279 Loomis Loomis Yumeng Cao Fri 3-4 PM 279 Loomis Loomis Jinchao Zhao - Instructors
- Lecturer: Prof. Ben Hooberman, benhoob@illinois.edu with "[phys225] " in the subject line
- TA: Michael O'Boyle, moboyle2@illinois.edu
- TA: Robert McKay, rcmckay2@illinois.edu
- Grader: Min Li minl2@illinois.edu
- Grader: Yumeng Cao ycao31@illinois.edu
- Grader: Jinchao Zhao jinchao2@illinois.edu
- Grader: Tianhao Wu twu49@illinois.edu
- email link to all graders: graders
- (or send an email to: minl2@illinois.edu; ycao31@illinois.edu; jinchao2@illinois.edu; twu49@illinois.edu)
- 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 deposited in the course homework box that is located on the second floor of Loomis Lab, at the entrance to the overpass to the Materials Research Lab (MRL) on the north side. The homework boxes are painted bright yellow; you can't miss them unless you are totally absorbed with texting or Angry Birds.
- 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
- 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.
- Conflict Exam Rules
- Physics 225 does not schedule conflict exam sittings. For final exams, the rules concerning conflicts are outlined in points (5) and (6) of the Student Code - Final Exam section. Point (5) describes the max-2-in-24hr rule: students are not required to take three exams in a 24 hour period. There is a strict order of precedence that determines which courses have to offer you a conflict exam if you have a scheduling collision.
- As Phys 225 runs a "non-combined" final and has a relatively small number of students compared with many other 1st or 2nd year classes, it is first in this order, i.e. you will take the conflict exam for your larger classes. If you have a final exam scheduling collision which is not resolved by these rules (e.g. two smaller / "non-combined" courses that collide), email the instructors from all of the courses involved at the same time so that they can work out among themselves who will give you a conflict sitting.