Homework for this week: There will be weekly homework assignments in this course.

Problem solving sessions: Occasionally, we will hold problem solving sessions, during the recitation hour. A problem will be asked, and all students will be expected to solve the problem on their own. You can use your textbooks or notes, but may not discuss the problem with your friends. You may discuss it with the instructor. You will have to complete the solution and hand it in during the session, your solution will be graded as a quiz.

You can view your grades through the Stars system.

FZ Policy In order to get a D grade from this course, a student must show an overall achievement level of %. An important part of this achievement must be accumulated through regular studying, before taking the final exam. The student must demonstrate this by accumulating sufficient pre-final points from the first and second exams such that the overall average will be over % even if the remaining assessment grades (i.e. Homework+Quiz+Final) average to less than or equal to twice this pre-final grade. (Also, see below for the attendance requirement.) Therefore a student cannot get a D grade if the pre-final achivement level is below % from the first and second exams. This means, a student will receive the FZ grade (and will not be able to take the final exam) if the average is lower than % from the first and second exams! (If the average is %, the student will need to receive from the remaining assesments [Homework+Quiz+Final] to get a D grade.) Furthermore, there is an attendance requirement: If you miss more than 6 hours of lectures, you will need to compensate that by completing assignments which will take much longer time to do, or you will get an FZ. (Students who get a grade higher than 85 from the first or the second exam will be exempt from this requirement.) Information about the attendance compensation homework: Students who have missed more than 6 hours of class should contact me and obtain their individual assignments before Monday, May 5th. (Absences after that date cannot be compensated!) The completed assignments, written in latex and generated in pdf format should be e-mailed as well as brought to me in printed form no later than Monday, May 12th. In order for the assignment to be found satisfactory for compensation, the problem(s) assigned must be solved comprehensively, with numerical analysis if an analytic solution is not possible. (Typically, a student will have to spend more than 10 hours for a satisfactory assignment. In the past only a fraction of the submitted assignments were found to be satisfactory for passing!)

Relevant links:

• "Magnetic forces do no work"
• A very useful resource on Fresnel's Equations for Reflection and Transmission of EM waves  
  (https://www.brown.edu/research/labs/mittleman/sites/brown.edu.research.labs.mittleman/files/uploads/lecture13_0.pdf)
• MIT Open Courseware link:
  • Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism
  • Electromagnetism II