Professor: Nate Ackerman
Schedule: Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 10:00 - 11:00am in room A1 of David Rittenhouse Laboratory.

TA: Tim DeVries
Schedule:

• Tuesday from 8:30 - 9:30am in room 2C4 of David Rittenhouse Laboratory (Recitation 201)
• Tuesday from 9:30 - 10:30am in room 2C4 of David Rittenhouse Laboratory (Recitation 202)
• Thursday from 8:30 - 9:30am in room 2C4 of David Rittenhouse Laboratory (Recitation 203)
• Thursday from 9:30 - 10:30am in room 2C4 of David Rittenhouse Laboratory (Recitation 204)

Office Hours:

• Monday from 3:00 - 4:00pm in room 4C5 of David Rittenhouse Laboratory
• Wednesday from 11:00am - 12:00pm in room 4C5 of David Rittenhouse Laboratory

Midterm Exam #1: Wednesday, February 20 (sections 6.1 - 6.5 and 7.1 - 7.7).
Midterm Exam #2: Wednesday, March 20 (sections 8.1 - 8.5, 8.7, 8.8, 9.1 and 9.2).
Midterm Exam #3: Wednesday, April 17 (sections 9.5, 11.1 - 11.4, 12.1 - 12.6).
Final Exam: Date and time TBA. The Final Exam covers all sections covered in class.

Homework is assigned each week, but will not be collected (click here for a list of these homeworks). This policy will hopefully be quite agreeable due to it's flexibility, but it also requires a high degree of responsibility. I can not stress this point enough:

The students who do well in this class are the students who keep up with the homework assignments.
The reasons behind this are manyfold, but here are two specifics. First, as detailed below, half the questions you encounter on the quizzes will be lifted directly from your weekly homework assignments. If you understand how to do each homework problem, this will be a huge asset come quiz time. Secondly, if you start falling behind in the assignments it will make it very difficult to perform well on the exams (which make up 90% of your total course grade). If at any point you feel like you are falling behind in the homework, please be sure to stop by my office hours and talk to me. I'm here to be as helpful as possible.

Quizzes will be given in every recitation. Quizzes will consist of 2 problems worth about 3 points each. The quiz will cover material from the homework due that week, with one problem coming straight from the homework assignment and the other problem being similar to one you might find on the homework. Quizzes will be given toward the end of the recitation period and returned in the following recitation.

In general, no make-up quizzes will be given. If you miss any of the recitations in which a quiz is given, you will get a 0 on the quiz. Because students will invariable miss certain recitations for one reason or another, we will drop the lowest two quiz scores from everyone's grade. I hope this will be a fair way to manage the "no make-up" policy. Note: Under very special circumstances, make-up quizzes may be administered. Speak to the professor or visit his webpage for details if you feel this applies to you.

The breakdown of your final course grade is as follows:

Grade	% of Final Grade
Homework/Quizzes	10%
Midterm 1	20%
Midterm 2	20%
Midterm 3	20%
Final	30%

Your recitation grade will be an average of your quiz grades with your lowest two scores dropped.

A note on regrades: If you feel that I have graded one of your quizzes in error, please see me at the end of the recitation in which the quiz was handed back to you to bring this to my attention. Once said quiz leaves the recitation room, the grade is set. As for examinations (midterms and final), regrades are between you and the professor.

Email is to be used primarily to ask questions regarding the course itself, rather than the homework problems. I will not work out any homework problems via email: we can discuss such issues at my office hours. That said, if I receive enough emails concerning the difficulty of a particular problem, I will take note of this and discuss the problem in recitation.

Working together on homework assignments can be a great learning experience, and can increase the efficiency with which assignments are completed. You are strongly encouraged to work together with the students from any of the course's sections.