My thanks to the Erins at TPWKY (This Podcase Will Kill You) for this reminder.
NOTE: I just want to be clear that everything associated with these public webpages for my classes is being actively updated. If something seems wrong or inconsistent with other information you have received in class assume that 'it' is wrong and contact me at the email address at the bottom of this page. Thanks in advance for your patience and active participation. We're all in this together!
This is the third term is the calculus level general physics course. If you are taking this without having taken the previous two terms please visit the PH211/PH212 webpages to get a sense of my teaching philosophy and our class community values. These pages will also give you a sense of the material you are expected to understand coming into this course.
This term we will be exploring a wide range of phenomena which are all connected to waves or periodic behavior in some way. This is a rich and fertile part of physics which is embedded in a much of our modern world from cell communication and wifi to quantum behavior and optics. MTH 256 (Differential Equations) is a class that most of you are currently taken or have taken because of it's integral connection to our topics this term. Solid skills in MTH 251/252 are assumed and we will be using material from MTH 253 and 256.
The lab portion of the course is generally an independent project of some kind which is intended to help you develop stronger investigative and communication skills. In 2021 the lab will again be a term long project to gather data, analyze, model (using python), and present (using Jupyter notebooks) some physics or engineering setting of personal interest to you.
