Physics 5B UCSC
Welcome to Physics 5B, 2014!
An important doodle poll is now open. Please participate!—10:29AM, Feb 04, 2014
- Thanks to those students who participated in the device poll. Here is a summary.
- ic: 21/98, sp: 84/98, tm: 85/98, lp: 67/98, tb: 14/98
sp|tm: 94/98, sp|tm|lp: 96/98, sp|tm|lp|tb: 96/98 (“|” means “or”)
ic=i-clicker, sp=smart phone, tm=text messaging, lp=laptop, tb=tablet.—2:37PM, Jan 09, 2014
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.