Courses Taught
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Required Texts: 
College Physics, 7th edition by Serway & Faughn. (With the swimmer on the cover.) These can be found used online. The text also occasionally appears as a 2-volume set. The two-semester course sequence 1091-1092 uses the entire text (more or less), but Phys 1091 will require only the chapters found in Vol 1, if you prefer to purchase only that.
Phys 1091 Lab Manual will be sold for $5 by the Physics Club at the first meeting of your lab section.
Labs begin the first week of class, which in some cases means the first day of class. |
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Required Texts:
Course reader available at the campus bookstore.
Man's Conquest of Space, which you will receive on loan at the first class meeting. This
is a National Geographic special edition from 1969. Since it is out of print, I have bought a huge stack of them and will loan you a copy for the semester. Please bring $5 to class as a deposit which you will get back when you return the text to me at the end of the semester… unless you love it so much you want to keep it forever! (It is kinda cool.)
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Phys 1053
Stars, Galaxies & Cosmology
2009 page |
Required Texts:
Stars by James Kaler. ISBN 0-7167-5033-3.
This book is out of print. The bookstore & duplicating services team up to reproduce bound copies for you at a very reasonable price.
Copies may also be available from internet used booksellers.
Dark Side of the Universe by Iain Nicolson. ISBN 0-8018-8592-2.
This book is very new (March 2007) and in print.
New and used copies are available from internet booksellers.
Optional Texts:
Some students find it useful to have a copy of a general introductory astronomy textbook to use as a reference. These generally contain very thorough indexes and can be useful, for example, when you've read about interpreting the Doppler shift of galaxies but can't quite remember how the Doppler shift works. A few such texts will be available on reserve at the main desk in Briggs library.
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Phys 2401
Optics |
Required Text:
Optics by Eugene Hecht.
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Math 1011
PreCalculus
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Required Text:
Precalculus: Functions and Graphs, 5th edition by Demana, Waits, Foley & Kennedy. ISBN 0-321-13196-7.
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