Instructor:  Hal Haggard

Office:  112 Rose

Office Hours: T 5-6pm & F 4:30-5:30pm

Email: haggard "usual at" bard.edu

Phone: +1-845-758-7302

Class Meeting:  102 Hegeman

Time:  MWF 10:10-11:30am

Text:   D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and J. Walker, Fundamentals of Physics Wiley (10th Ed, Aug 2013)

Organization and Logistics

Guest lecture schedule.

Exam Schedule:

• Exam 1, March 2nd & 3rd: Electrostatics, Gauss's law, & the motion of charges. Forces.
• Oral, April 6th & 7th: Circuit physics & Magnetism.
• Exam 2, May 11th & 12: Comprehensive. Emphasis on post exam 1 material.

Course Grade:

• Weekly Homework (due on Wednesdays) 20%
• Lab 20%
• Student lecture 5%
• Oral 15%
• Exam 1 20%
• Exam 2 20%

The course web site (this site) will be used to post homework assignments and any other useful materials.

Homework assignments

• Homework 1, due Friday, January 30th at 6pm: pdf.
  
• Homework 2, due Friday, February 6th at 6pm: pdf.
  
• Homework 3, due Friday, February 13th at 6pm: pdf.
  
• Homework 4, due Friday, February 20th at 6pm: pdf.
  
• Homework 5, due Friday, February 27th at 6pm: pdf.
  
• Homework 6, due Friday, March 13th at 6pm: pdf.
  
• Homework 7, due Friday, March 27th at 6pm: pdf.
  
• Homework 8, due Friday, Apr 3rd at 6pm: pdf.
  
• Homework 9, due Friday, Apr 17th at 6pm: pdf.
  
• Homework 10, due Friday, Apr 24th at 6pm: pdf.
  

Supplemental Notes and Links

• Whence the Force of F=ma? by F. Wilczek, .pdf.
  
• Electric field simulator, link.
  

On Giving Talks

• Geroch's wonderful Suggestions for Giving Talks.
  

• An excellent presentation by Jean-luc Doumont: Creating Effective Slides: Design, Construction, and Use in Science.
  

• Doumont refers to the classic critique of the use of PowerPoint by Tufte: The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint, .pdf.
  

• For a comprehensive, and research-based, look at scientific presentations see The Craft of Scientific Presentations, by M. Alley, link.
  

• Alley has also built up a series of resource videos on the Assertion-Evidence approach; if you find this structure interesting check them out, link.
  

• Amy Cuddy's TED talk on posture, Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are.
  

• Vanessa Van Edwards teaches several online courses on body language, here is the only free one I know of: 7 Scientifically Prove Steps to Increase Your Influence.