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Department of Physics & Astronomy

Bucknell University

Classical and Modern Physics I

Announcements

• Welcome to Physics 211 for the Fall semester 2025. This site is your primary online source for the course. Using the buttons to the left, you can access
  • course materials such as our Course Information document, the list of Lecture and Reading Assignments, Supplementary Reading document, and homework assignments,
  • online reading quizzes and drills,
  • the course calendar for the semester (with additional resources),
  • information regarding the laboratory component of the course
  • solutions for the weekly hand-in problems,
  • your scores on graded assignments, and
  • videos with advice from students who have taken the course previously.
• A Week in the Life of a PHYS 211 Student This is a graphical depiction of your responsibilities as a student in PHYS 211.
• Labs start during the second week of class. There are no labs during the week 25-29 August. Your first lab session will take place during the week 1-5 September.
• A note about the textbooks:
  We will use two textbooks for this course.
  • Our primary resource will be Essential University Physics, Volume 1, Fourth Edition, by Richard Wolfson. This text is available electronically through First Day which you can access (and opt out of) through Moodle. You can also choose to buy a printed version of this textbook at the Bucknell Bookstore.
  • We will also use the Physics 211 Supplementary Reading text. You can access a free .pdf version of this text from this website (just click on the "Handouts" button), or you can buy a printed version at the Bucknell Bookstore.
  • We will use both of these texts nearly every day, so it is essential that you have access to both of these texts, either in electronic or printed form.

Physics Links

• The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”
• Physics - Highlights of research published in American Physical Society journals, written for the general audience of physicists.

Your PHYS 211 Team

Jack Gallimore PS Instructor	Bekele Gurmessa PS Instructor	Cheslee Hibler Lab Coordinator Lab Instructor	Margaret Ikape PS Instructor Lab Instructor
Ned Ladd Course Administrator PS Instructor Lab Instructor	Edye Newman Departmental Assistant	Tom Solomon PS Instructor Lab Instructor	Ibrahim Sulai Problem Session Instructor Lab Instructor
	Jackie Villadsen Lab Instructor	Katharina Vollmayr-LeeCourse Lectures Problem Session Instructor