Physics 605
How Things Work I -- 3 Credits

Instructor

Instructor of Record:

Dr. R.A. Lindgren, Research Professor of Physics
Office Hours: TBA
Phone: 434-982-2691
E-mail: ral5q@virginia.edu

Lecturer & Demonstrator:

Dr. Louis A. Bloomfield, Professor of Physics

Description

This course is a practical introduction to physics and science in everyday life. The course considers objects from our daily environment (baseballs, frisbees, roller coasters, vacuum cleaners, rockets, clocks and much more!) and focuses on their principles of operation, histories, and relationships to one another. This course emphasizes motion, mechanics, liquids, heat, gases, and sound. The demonstrator and lecturer is Professor Lou Bloomfield, who has originated and developed the courses How Things Work I and II at UVa. To view a sample lecture, click on radio button Sample Lecture Videos. The lectures are in MP4 format and can be viewed using the software Quicktime on your computer. When you get your UVa email and password, you may download any lecture from Blackboard. If you do not want to download the lectures, they will be available on CDS as before from the UVa bookstore at your expense. For more information, click on Overview.

Textbook

How Things Work: the Physics of Everyday Life, 3^rd edition, by Dr. Bloomfield. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-46886-X, 576 pages, full-color, paperback. If you already have the 2^nd edition, you do not have to buy the 3^rd edition. You do not need ed. 3 for assignments, since all problems are rewritten in WebAssign.

You are welcome to buy the book online at Amazon.com whose site is listed here. You may also get it from the UVa book store. The phone number is 434-924-3721.