I hope to empower you to function at a level such that you can meet the needs of every student, those exceptional ones on either side of the spectrum as well as those in the middle. This empowerment will enable you to analyze things outside of your normal curriculum, and to answer those embarrassingly frequent subtle and insightful questions that children ask. 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. No prior formal instruction in physics is assumed. Attendance Attendance, timliness, and participation are critical to the learning process and an integral part of this course. Since class time is heavily invested in supplemental material you cannot possibly make up missed material simply by studying a text. In general, I believe that absence is its own punishment, that is, you miss things you can't possibly get by going over a classmate's notes.