PHY126 Physics II for Minor in Physics PHY128 Physics II for Natural Sciences PHY129 Supplementary Physics II for Chemistry

For questions about scheduling of exercise sessions, contact  Matthias Hengsberger

Course material:

• Reference book : Any introductory university physics text book (Halliday & Resnick, Tipler, ...). Find one that explains well for you.
• Podcasts can be found here

Module info:​

• PHY 128 : Physics for chemists & earth system sciences (5 KP) : Feb. 19 – Apr. 24 PHY 129 : Physics minors who took PHY 118 : Apr. 30 – May 29
• PHY 126 : Physics for minors (8 KP) : Feb. 19 – May 29 (126 == 128 + 129)

Holidays :

• April 2 & 3 (regular spring break)
• April 16 (Sechseläuten after 12pm)
• May 1 (Labor Day)
• May 21 (Whit Monday)

Assessments:

Homeworks & solutions, and other materials will be stored on OLAT: https://lms.uzh.ch/

• ​Online conceptual homeworks (You will get one OLAT homework assigned per week on Wednesdays by email. To be completed individually. You will have 1 week to complete it (due the following Tuesday). These are relatively short assignments if you have reviewed your lecture notes. Please log in immediately to see if you can access the course. If not, check that your UZH email is registered properly. Further instructions will be sent via email
• Written exercises. Grade on each homework assignment is pass/fail. These will be assigned on Tuesdays, and turned in to the Teachers Assistant (TA) in your exercise session the following week. Written exercises must be completed and given to TA. Homework will be assigned on Tuesday after lecture, and due the following Monday, (according to TA’s instructions). First homework assigned Feb. 20, due at 9 AM on Feb. 26th. Solutions will be posted online 1-2 weeks later.
• Mid-term examination. April 10th 2018, 08:00 – 10:00 during lecture. Exam on first 5 weeks of classes.
• Final exam. June 29th, 2018, 10:00 – 12:00.

Eligibility to take the final exam :

1. obtain >= 50% on the OLAT homeworks
2. hand in all written exercises
3. pass 50% of written exercises
4. attend most of the exercise sessions
5.  Grade : your grade will be 25% mid-term + 75% final exam (but please note eligibility requirements).

Exercise sessions : TAs will explain homeworks, answer questions, and go through additional exercises if time. TAs will keep an attendance list. First exercise sessions the week of Feb. 26th. Note: You really have to go the exercise sessions. This is where real physicists teach you how to solve problems. In your exams, you will have to solve similar problems.

Etiquette : * No laptops, phones, facebook, etc. during class (unless requested by me for polling)