Physics 13: Introductory Physics I — Fall 2024

Instructor:
Robert Caldwell [email protected]
Open Office: Mondays 4-6pm in Wilder 236

Teaching Assistants:
Danelle Akanova [email protected]
Hory Mohammadpour [email protected]
Andrew Projansky [email protected]
Chris Wang [email protected]
Open Office: See Canvas for details

Class Meeting Times and Location:

Class time 10 (10:10am - 11:15am) or 11 (11:30am - 12:35pm) in Wilder 104.

Grading:
The grade will be determined based on homeworks (20%), labs (20%), and quizzes (60%).

Text and Other Required Materials, Services:

• University Physics, by Ling, Sanny, and Moebs (OpenStax), volume 1 (chapters 1-17) and
2 (chapters 1-4). Both texts are free and available online. Help yourself to volume 3 and
complete the set.

• Access to WebAssign is purchased online and requires a separate fee. You should be
directed to WebAssign from within Canvas/Assignments. Note that WebAssign gives
access for a two-week trial period, after which payment is required.

Assignments:

Homework: There will be nine WebAssign homework assignments. (HW0 does not count.)
For each assignment, your full solutions must be submitted online by the deadline listed
online, after which the solutions will be available. Therefore, late submissions will not be
accepted. You may drop the lowest two homework scores, so that the best seven contribute
to your final grade. To pass the course, you must score at least 60% on homeworks.

Laboratory: There will be five laboratory assignments. Lab meeting times will be ar-
ranged during the first week of class. The lab assignments can be downloaded from Canvas.
Lab homework is due one week following the lab; late homeworks are penalized 10% per
day. You may drop the lowest lab score, so that the best four contribute to your final grade.
To pass the course, you must score at least 60% on labs.

Quiz: There will be five in-class quizzes (September 27, October 11, October 25, November
8, and November 18). There are no make-ups. You may drop the lowest quiz score, so that
the best four contribute to your final grade.
Lecture Schedule:
Lectures will include discussion of new material and demonstrations. Students are expected
to read the text prior to class. An approximate timetable with reading assignments is given
below.
Week Date Event Reading Lab Homework
1 9/16 Welcome! Chapters 1-4
9/18 lecture
9/20 lecture HW0
2 9/23 lecture Chapters 5-8 Lab 1 HW1
9/25 lecture
9/27 Quiz 1
3 9/30 lecture Chapters 5-8 Lab 2 HW2
10/2 lecture
10/4 lecture
4 10/7 lecture Chapters 9-11 HW3
10/9 lecture
10/11 Quiz 2
5 10/14 lecture Chapters 9-11 Lab 3 HW4
10/16 lecture
10/18 lecture
6 10/21 lecture Chapters 12-17 HW5
10/23 lecture
10/25 Quiz 3
7 10/28 lecture Chapters 12-17 Lab 4 HW6
10/30 lecture
11/1 lecture
8 11/4 lecture Chapters 1-4 (vol 2) Lab 5 HW7
11/6 lecture
11/8 Quiz 4
9 11/11 lecture Chapters 1-4 (vol 2) HW8
11/13 lecture
11/15 lecture
10 11/18 Quiz 5 HW9

Lab Schedule:
Number Week Title
Lab 1 Week 2 Kinematics
Lab 2 Week 3 Dynamics
Lab 3 Week 5 Rotation
Lab 4 Week 7 Harmonic Oscillator I
Lab 5 Week 8 Harmonic Oscillator II

How to study:
Read assigned material before lecture. Watch lectures and take notes by hand. Confused? Come
to open office time to ask questions or just listen. Start Homework, Lab work early. Summarize
the new material presented in each chapter in your own words. Read the conceptual problems in
each chapter – can you answer them? Review the problems at the end of each chapter. Practice!
Work many problems. Find a study partner and take turns explaining problems to each other.
Religious and Cultural Observances:
Dartmouth has a deep commitment to support students’ religious observances and diverse faith
practices. Some students may wish to take part in religious or cultural observances that occur
during this academic term. If you have such an observance that conflicts with your participation
in the course, please meet with me as soon as possible—before the end of the second week of
the term at the latest—to discuss appropriate course adjustments.

Student Accessibility Services:

Students requesting disability-related accommodations and services for this course are required
to register with Student Accessibility Services (SAS; Apply for Services webpage; email address;
1-603-646-9900) and to request that an accommodation email be sent to us in advance of the
need for an accommodation. Students should schedule a follow-up meeting with us to deter-
mine relevant details such as what role SAS or its Testing Center may play in accommodation
implementation. This process works best for everyone when completed as early in the quarter
as possible. If you have questions about whether you are eligible for accommodations or have
concerns about the implementation of accommodations, you should contact the SAS office. All
inquiries and discussions will remain confidential.

Honor Principle:
You are strongly encouraged to discuss the course material and study together – this is an
important part of the learning process. However, anything with your name on it, such as home-
works, lab notebooks, or exams, should represent your own, independent work, in accordance
with Dartmouth’s Honor Principle. A student found in violation of the Honor Principle on any
exam, lab, or assignment shall receive a zero for the exam, lab, or assignment.
Exams: Any of the numerous activities normally considered cheating are violations of the
Dartmouth Honor Principle. Any student giving or receiving assistance during an examination
or quiz violates the Academic Honor Principle. Examinations and quizzes are not proctored;
however, the professor will be present to answer questions that arise. Since exam graders some-
times make mistakes, claims of error in grading will be considered carefully. Changing a graded
answer and returning the paper for regrading is a direct and flagrant violation of the Honor
Principle.
Labs: Honesty and integrity lie at the very heart of any experimental science, and the
following remarks indicate how the Honor Principle applies to the laboratory work in Physics
14. Unless permission is granted by the instructor, use of another student’s laboratory data is
a violation. When use of another’s data is allowed, the source of the data must be indicated.
Fabrication of data or alteration of your own data to secure some desired result is also a violation.
In the case of experiments where two students work together and data have been recorded in one
student’s notebook, a copy of the data may be made in the other student’s notebook with an
appropriate citation to the location of the original data. Laboratory reports must represent your
independent calculations and individual conclusions. Direct copying of any portion of another
student’s lab report is a violation of the Honor Principle.
Homework: Working problems is excluded from strict Honor Principle constraints, as follows.
You are encouraged to tackle each problem independently until the point is reached where further
time and effort seem futile. At that point, consultation with a study partner is encouraged.
However, the homework assignment you hand in should reflect your own solution, not a copy of
your study partner’s solution.
Course Material: Denying other students access to course material is a violation of the Honor
Principle. This includes removing or altering course material on reserve in the library.