Class Activities

This course is taught in the TEAL/Studio Physics format. The course format differs substantially from the lecture/recitation format. In this format, classes are held three times a week, twice in a two-hour block, and once in a one-hour block. Students sit at tables of nine in a specially designed classroom, with three groups of three students at each table. Mini-lectures are interspersed with desktop experiments and group problem solving and discussion. The one-hour session on the third session of the week is reserved entirely for problem solving.

The summaries cover the material in the up-coming class session. Students are urged to read the summary before coming to class. The course notes - written by John Belcher, Peter Dourmashkin, and Sen-Ben Liao - can be read before or after class.

During class sessions, questions are posed to the class to stimulate discussion and indicate how concepts are going over. Students "vote" on answers electronically (formerly using the Interwrite™ PRS system) and their answers are tallied.

This section shows all of the class activities in a schedule format. The same documents are also available in other sections of this Web site.

Some of the Course Note files contain figures with associated animations or interactive simulations that can be found on the Visualizations page. A table correlating the figures to the animations can be found here (PDF).