| PHYS 120 - Freshman Orientation |
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| Semester: | Fall 2025 | |
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| Instructor: | Cemal Yalabık | |
| Office: | Room SA-228 | Phone 1316 |
| Assistant: | ? |
About the course:
This course intends to impart to the student knowledge and skills to adapt to the student
life at Bilkent Physics Department. The course is structured as one hour contact per week
of the class with physicists from the department: faculty members and/or graduate students
and/or physicists from other institutions. These contacts are meant to let the students
know about particulars of studying and proper conduct while being a student at Bilkent Physics.
Discussions and other participation during the contact is strongly encouraged.
It is hoped that this course will also be helpful in developing a sense of belonging
to the department.
Grading:
This is an attendance / participation based course. The overall grade will be based on attendance,
with some variation due to active (positive) or inactive (negative) participation.
| If you miss | 0 | hours of class you can get an | A | |
| If you miss | 1 | hour of class you can get an | A- | |
| If you miss | 2 | hours of class you can get a | B | |
| If you miss | 3 | hours of class you can get a | B- | |
| If you miss | 4 | hours of class you can get a | C | |
| If you miss | 5 | hours of class you can get a | C- | |
| If you miss | 6 | hours of class you can get a | D | |
| If you miss | 7 | or more hours of class you will get an | F |
Your participation (or lack of it) may result in half a grade variation.
Talks will be given in room SA-Z04, and the regular time is Wednesdays at 15:30. This is also the time for Department Seminars, and if there is a seminar which freshman students would enjoy, Phys 120 talks will start after the seminar.
Speaker schedule for this semester is:
| Wednesday | Speaker | Ceyhun Bulutay (Class starts at 17:00, after the Colloquium) Cemal Yalabık - Ekmel Őzbay Bayram Tekin Deniz Aybaş|