Welcome to Phys 5B, 2013!

Please participate in the office hour poll. My tentative office hour schedules are no longer valid. – 11:17AM, Jan 13, 2013
Reading quiz is up. I recommend you to follow the second link from the bottom at Lecture+. – 10:14AM, Jan 13, 2013
The first homework (Homework 1) is up! Be sure to read this before doing your homework. The actual link to homework site is given in the above "menubar" above as MP for your convenience. – 1:04PM, Jan 11, 2013

An email message to everyone in class has been sent out, on 10:22 AM, Jan 13, Sunday. It is the first email message sent directly from my computer, using my grading software – this is the way that all emails will be sent from me from now on. It is crucial that you are able to receive my email messages. If you indicated your preferred email addres in the questionnaire, then you will be receiving my emails at that address. If you did not receive my email message sent out this morning with the subject line "OH, homework, and quiz," then it is a serious problem that you must let me know by email! — Sam, 11:50AM, Jan 13, 2013

Welcome to the second part of Physics 5!

In this course, we will continue the exploration of the introductory physics. We will start with the simple harmonic oscillator. Then, we will study waves in general. This will lead to geometric optics and related topics. Lastly, we will come back to fluids and statics. If we somehow run out of time, we might leave some topics like fluids for reading only. I like to go through the simple harmonic oscillator and waves, slowly but surely, so that we cover these supremely important topics well enough.