Caltech, Physics 7, Tuesday afternoon information page (2009 Spring term)

Basic Information

Our great leader: Frank Rice (rice@caltech.edu)

TA: Yi Chen (yichen@caltech.edu)

UTA: Garrett Drayna (gdrayna@caltech.edu)

Lab time: Tuesdays, 1~4 pm

Lab notebook due: Saturdays, 5pm

Policies

Late policy: 70% within 24 hours, 40% within 48 hours, 10% afterwards

Email Yi and Garrett if you have to turn in late.

Grading distribution:

1. 10% preparation work (prelab + reading)
2. 40% in-lab performance
3. 40% analysis
4. 10% for overall lab notebook

Computer information

Network drive: sldrive.caltech.edu

Username/password: ***/*** (email TA or UTA if you need these)

You should be able to connect to the drive via ftp.

Printer located in the lab: sldrive.caltech.edu/lp

Useful Links

• Caltech: http://www.caltech.edu
• NIST Database: http://physics.nist.gov/PhysRefData/contents.html
• Interactive periodic table: http://www.chemicalelements.com/
• Table of isotopes: http://www.nndc.bnl.gov/nudat2/
• Hyperphysics: http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html

Recitation Schedule

All recitations are on Monday.

• 02:30~03:00: E. S.
• 03:00~03:30: A. I.
• 03:30~04:00: D. H.
• 08:00~08:30: J. S.
• 08:30~09:00: S. P.
• 09:00~09:30: K. K.
• 09:30~10:00: G. R.

Lab signup schedule

First week:

• Exp 30a: E. S., A. I., S. P., K. K.
• Exp 12: J. S.
• Exp 25: D. H.
• Exp 33: G. R.

Other weeks: (shaded = not available)

Week 9 is for make-up labs. If you do all 9 weeks worth of work, the grade will be the average of highest 8 grades.

Week 21 and 32 last two weeks.

Experiments

30a

30a

30a

12

21

25

27

28

29

30b

31

32

33

34

Week 2

K. K.

D. H.

J. S.

E. S.

G. R.

S. P.

A. I.

Week 3

D. H.

S. P.

A. I.

E. S.

K. K.

J. S.

G. R.

Week 4

G. R.

S. P.

A. I.

K. K.

D. H.

J. S.

E. S.

G. R.

Week 5

S. P.

G. R.

J. S.

K. K.

E. S.

D. H.

Week 6

J. S.

E. S.

K. K.

S. P.

Week 7

E. S.

K. K.

S. P.

J. S.

Week 8

E. S.

S. P.

J. S.

D. H.

G. R.

K. K.

Week 9

E. S.

J. S.

Sections information

• Tuesday afternoon (1-4 pm)
• TA: Yi Chen (yichen@caltech.edu)
• UTA: Garrett Drayna (gdrayna@caltech.edu)
• Wednesday morning (8-11 am)
• TA: Ryan Pettibone (pettibon@caltech.edu)
• UTA: Eric Mintun (mintun@caltech.edu)
• Wednesday afternoon (1-4 pm)
• TA: Michael Cohen (mcohen@caltech.edu)
• UTA: Ernest Ryu (earnest@caltech.edu)
• Thursday afternoon (1-4 pm)
• TA: Peter Hung (peterh@its.caltech.edu)
• UTA: Joe Salamon (salamon@caltech.edu)
• Friday morning (8-11 am)
• TA: Christopher William Wegg (wegg@its.caltech.edu)
• UTA: Maxwell J. (Max) Grazier Gsell (maxg@caltech.edu)