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a molecule of C60 (also known as a "buckyball") |
course web page http://felix.physics.sunysb.edu/~allen/104/ Instructor: Philip B. Allen email: philip.allen@sunysb.edu office Physics B-131 hours: Fri 3:00-4:00 or by appointment (or just drop in!) The class meets in B-131, 2 floors above ground, Physics Building, Monday 3:50-4:45 pm prerequisite: PHY125 or 131 or 141 corequisite: PHY126 or 127 or 132 or 142 |
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An introduction to current activities of physics
students and physicists on Long Island. Stony Brook students, faculty,
and alumni and other physicists discuss their current projects and their
professional development, and relate their activities both to the introductory
physics curriculum and to open issues such as unification of the forces,
the quest for high Tc superconductors, the search for the quark-gluon
plasma, and coherent states of atoms trapped at low temperature.
Tours of University, industry, and government lab facilities are included,
as well as interaction with physicists in non-traditional areas including
medicine, finance, and the media.
Syllabus: This course will meet once a week for one hour. Each week there will be a guest speaker from the department of Physics and Astronomy, or from some other Stony Brook department, or from Brookhaven Lab, or from the large pool of BS and PhD alumni who work on Long Island. Speakers will be chosen to illustrate the diversity of professional interests and career options, including teaching at the secondary or community college level.
Course requirements: Each week
there will be a short writing
assignment related to the visitor's talk, which may require reviewing
part of freshman physics or looking on the web for information. There
will be no exam. Attendance is mandatory.
Grading will be ABCDF unless the option P/NR
is chosen by the student. The course grade will based 50% on attendance
and completion of writing assignments, and 50% on performance (skill or
creativity in writing and participation in class discussion.) More
than one unexcused absence will start to lower the grade by one step for
each absence. More than two uncompleted writing assignments will
have the same effect.