Physics 3 Web Page
General Physics
I
Fall 2009
(Isaac Newton by Godfrey Kneller, 1689)
Welcome to the Physics 3 web
page. At Swarthmore Physics 3 is usually taken by students such as pre-medical,
chemistry and engineering majors. It is a course in classical Newtonian
mechanics including waves and fluids.
I have chosen a concise new
text – indeed it is probably the least massive and least expensive text for
this subject ever. It is Essential University Physics by Richard Wolfson,
Pearson Addison Wesley, publishers
For those who like to “curl up”
on a chill fall evening with a more conversationally narrative exposition of
the subject, I will put a couple traditional texts of that type on reserve in
Cornell Library. Please see the links below for an introduction addressing
specifics of the course such as meeting times, grading breakdown, the
laboratory, my coordinates, etc. A
proposed syllabus is also linked below. The links to the individual homework
assignments will become active as they are assigned.