Physics 6A

Winter 2001

Introduction to Physics I

University of California at Santa Cruz

MWF 9:30 am to 10:40 am, Thimann Lecture Hall, Room 3

Discussion Session I: 7:00 to 8:30 pm, Tuesday, Thimann Lecture Hall, Room 1.

Discussion Session II: 6:00 to 7:30 pm, Wednesday, Nat. Sci. Annex, Room 101.

 

Instructor: Robert Johnson

Office: 323 Natural Sciences II

Phone: (831) 459-2125

E-mail: johnson@scipp.ucsc.edu

 

Office Hours:

11:00 am to 1:00 pm Wednesday

11:00 am to noon, Monday, Friday

 

Physics 6A is the first course of a three-quarter sequence in introductory physics with calculus. It covers classical mechanics, including linear and rotational kinematics and dynamics, energy and momentum, statics, oscillations, and gravity. The second quarter, Physics 6B, covers waves, sound, fluids, optics, and heat, and the third quarter, Physics 6C, covers electricity and magnetism.

 

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Electronic Reserves (Homework Solutions, etc.) The password is the last name of the guy who first wrote down those three laws that we’re studying (all lower case).

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Last Updated: January 4, 2001