Physics 1120, General Physics 2: Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics
Instructors: Murray Holland and Steven Pollock
Congratulations on completing this semester of
physics 1120! I leave you with this image of the Earth (the dot in the middle) as seen from 3.7 billion miles away by the Voyager 1 spacecraft. It is through photons that we know the universe, and it is through photons that the universe knows us, sitting here, on our pale blue dot.
Week 16 Highlights:
Lectures this last week on Chapter 23,
geometrical optics.
Special notes: 
- The usual weekly pretest (Due Tuesday morning, Dec 12) will stay "live" past the deadline in case you forgot to do it - you still have a chance!
- There is also an optional (extra credit) survey available this week, designed and run by the Physics Education Research group. Pease fill it in, it's very useful information for us! Thanks. (Note that this is different from the pretest)
- CAPA #14 is now out in the bins, and we will also give a little extra time for that one, it will be due on Friday evening (Dec 15), basicallythe end of the term. Last homework, yay!
- No more Tutorial homeworks due, woo-hoo!
- Final exam is 7:30-10 PM, on Dec. 19 (Tues). It will be all multiple choice. Rooms are the same as we've done for midterms!
- Looking for holiday presents? I asked
Mike Thomason, who is responsible for all the
wonderful lecture demos we have had all semester!
Here are his suggestions for links specifically for buying physics toys:
(1) scitoys.com Mike
T's absolute favorite.
(MatchRockets.com overlaps but he "prefers the simplicity of SciToys".)
(2) edsci.com Edmunds
Scientific. Vast.
(3) Third place is a tie:
Arbor Scientific , or
teachersource.com
(This is one of my own favorites)
Home page from weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14,
15
I welcome your comments on the class and this website.
Send them to Steven.Pollock@colorado.edu
(Many thanks to John Price for the original construction of this page!)
