Prospectus: PHYSICS 117 S08, Basic Facts (01/11/08)

COURSE: Introduction to Physics I, Physics 117, Spring Semester 2008.

• TEXT: Physics; a World View (5^th Ed) by Kirkpatrick and Francis (2004):
  ISBN:0-534-40824-9 (or 6^th Edition, which has nearly the same text)*, and
• Lab Manual: PHYSICS 117 LABORATORY MANUAL.
• Also, you may wish to consider the (Optional) Supplement:
• PROBLEM SOLVING for PHYSICS; a World View (5^th or 6^th Ed):
  ISBN:0-534-40825-7.
• LECTURES: MWF 12:00 P.M.in Physics Lecture Hall 1410.
• (We shall use in-class “clickers”: see PARTICIPATION for details.)
• See the Course SYLLABUS for detailed program schedule.
• Click for general ADVICE ON PHYSICS 117
• And click to see more about LABORATORY, HOMEWORK, PARTICIPATION, GRADING,  and EXAMS.

LABORATORY ( in Room 3310 Physics) times:

SECTION	Laboratory Time	Teaching Assistant
0202	Thu. 9:00 AM-10:50 AM	To Be Announced
0203	Thu. 4:00 PM-5:50 PM	To Be Announced

SCHEDULE of OFFICE HOURS

Name	Telephone No./ email address	Office Location	Times
Dr. James J. Griffin	301-405-6115/ griffin@physics.umd.edu	Physics 2109, or in 1410, after class	MW&F 1:00- 2:00PM
T.B.A.	T.B.A.	T.B.A.	T.B.A.

Students may also request appointments at other times, with a day or two's notice.

*A note about the course textbook: The 5th Edition, the official course text, may be no longer be available in new condition. The 6th Edition, which the publisher is now offering new, has virtually the same text, perhaps displaced a page or two from the 5th Ed. (Click 5th/6thTableofContents to compare the two paginations), but its Conceptual Questions and Exercises may be modified and re-ordered as compared with the 5th Ed. We shall assign our HW problems from the 5th Ed and post their text and their solutions on this website.