Your Professor is Charles F. Perdrisat, residing in room 302 (phone 13572, e-mail perdrisa@jlab.org).

My office hours will be Monday from 9 am to 12:00 pm, Wedn. from 9 to 12,  and Friday from 9 to 2:00, or by appointment. The best way to communicate rapidly with me is via e-mail: perdrisa@jlab.org.
The internet address for this course is http://www.physics.wm.edu/~perdrisa/phy303/; this will show you the list of  .html files available to you.

The class meets on MWF from 10:00 to 10:50 in room 102; Friday from 2:00 to 2:50 we meet in 102 to discuss problem assignments; questions will be entertained, suggestions on how to solve the problems assigned or the material of the course might be offered. I will follow the text; I strongly recommend that you work out all the examples in the text; I may discuss some or all of them in class. We start with chapter  9 and  the goal is to do everything to the end of the book, including chapter 14.

You are expected to have the required text: Marion and Thornton, Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, 4th edition. A 5th edition is now available, and appears to be very much the same as the 4th. (price ~$130.00!)

Home work will be assigned each week, typically 5 (but not less than 4) problems due on Wednesday at 10 am. The problem assignments will appear on the syllabus at http://www.physics.wm.edu/~perdrisa/phy303/info303_3.html (which will be updated as often as necessary).  You are encouraged to use your preferred mathematical package to solve equations or calculate integrals; your solutions should contain enough information on the method used, and possibly simplifications made, for the grader to be able to verify that your work is original. Problem solving is an essential physicist's skill, and will be strongly tested (or challenged) in this course.

The TA responsible for grading is Thomas Verdicchio, who's e-mail address is:
Thomas.P.Verdicchio@verizon.com! He does not presently have an office in the Physics building.

Both semester tests will be take home .
The final exam will also be a take home.

Relative weight of the 4 components of your grade will be 25% each for home work, tests 1, test 2 and final.

This page will be modified as necessary. Don't hesitate to ask questions.