Physics 102: Computational Physics in MATLAB
Professor Jessica Kintner
This is the course web page for Physics 102, Spring 2018
Jessica Kintner's Information:
- Office: Gal 106-B
- Office hours: TBA, and by appointment
- email: jkintner@stmarys-ca.edu
Class Information
Recent announcements:
- 4/12 Exam 2 will be Thursday, April 19.
It will cover Chapters 12-13, and Chris Ray's section on Curve Fitting.
For class dates, that would be 3/20-4/10. (Not much was new in Ch 12.)
- 3/8 Exam 1 will be Thursday, March 15. It will cover Ch 1-4, and 9.1, and 9.5
- 3/8 For all the .m files that you turn in, I am starting to list them
by name in the "due to me" column. Be sure to add your name! So for
example, if I say turn in incline.m, it should be: incline_YourName.m
- 3/6 I updated the instructions for turning in script files.
See links under course info to the left.
- 3/5 I emailed back the corrected/commented HW that was due 2/27.
Search for JCK in the documents to find my comments.
- 3/5 I posted the grades for the HW due 2/27 onto moodle.
I am still playing with moodle a bit, so you can ignore lots of it.
The HW due 2/27 should be correct and match the scores at the top of
the two docs I returned today. (diary file and resist2D.m files)
- It would be great if you can arrive in class the very first day with the textbook
and a working copy of MATLAB installed on whatever machine you plan to use.
Calendar
5/22
all
Final Exam
1-3pm
5/15
all
Finish Review 2 Handout
5/10
all
Finish Review 1 Handout
5/8
14.6.2
Finish handout
email me if you'd like to present your final Project
5/3
Finish the handout.
14.7, Rewrite of Example 8.3
5/1
14.6
Finish the first problem from handout
4/26
Finish the handout and
write matlab scripts for Examples 8.1-3 in Newman.
(Newman has them in Python.)
4/24
14.4.4
14.7, finish handout
4/10
Ch 13
Finish the handout from last time
4/5
Ch 13
Problem 1 from today's handout
3/22
Finish all of today's rewrite handout
3/15
Ch 1-4, 9.1, 9.5
Exam 1
3/8
Ch 4
homework
(fixed a missing $R_3 = 10\Omega$)
3/6
Ch 3
3.4, 5 from end of chapter,
for each write a function to calculate conversion or quadratic.
Call them tempConv.m and quadratic.m respectively.
problem 5 from today's In Class worksheet.
2.18, 23 pp78-81, 9.1, 2 pp231, 9.2 p 198
solutions
3/1
9.1,9.5
9.1, 2, 3 pp 231, 9.2 p 198
2/27
Ch 2
For loops and If/Then
2.14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23 pp78-81
2/20
Ch 2.1-4
Read 2.4-2.6, do 2.1, 3, 4, 5 on pp 53-54,
finish 1-8 on
worksheet from class.
2.6-8
2/15
Ch 1
2.6, 7, 8 (pp53-54)
2/13
Ch 1
Intro and MATLAB