Our simple mathematical statements of law become a vehicle for predicting the behavior of the physical world. It is also important to be able to use words to describe and predict the behavior of systems. If you have a question, please ask it. If you have a comment, please make it. Even an anonymous note under my door or in my mailbox is fine.
Communication is the essence of the classroom experience.
I am pleased to see you any time you can find me. Assumed Knowledge You should be comfortable with physics 201. Many basic principles and skills learned and used there will be applied here. Some of you are probably very good at math, but all of you are probably better than you think you are. Math is a skill needed in the modern world to do useful things like manage a stock portfolio, and the math we do in physics is no harder than stock investing.