A pocket calculator will prove to be extremely useful. This is not a hard core physics class and is not intended to turn you into budding young physicists. I hope that it piques your interest enough to go off and learn more. The lectures will present the main ideas of the course and will include topics which deserve emphasis. It is up to the student to take responsibility for doing the problems at the end of each chapter since they will not be collected.
Similar questions are likely to show up on the exams.
Your lowest score will be dropped. The exams will typically be 50 multiple choice questions. Make-up exams will only be given in cases of excused absences due to illness, serious illness or death in your immediate family, or other significant reasons. Make-up exams will typically be problems taken from other textbooks at the same level and may be more difficult than regular exams. Letter grades are not assigned on an individual exam, but will be determined only at the end of the course when all scores are in.