UC Berkeley Physics 7B - Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Spring 2022)
GSIs
Head GSI: Joy Carpio
Section GSI: Karthik Siva
Section Times & Locations
Section 103
- Lab: W 8-10am, Physics 248
- Discussion: M 8-10am
Section 107
- Lab: W 10-12am, Physics 248
- Discussion: M 10-12am
Office Hours
- Th 5-7pm, virtual (for now)
Required Resources
- D. C. Giancoli,Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 2, 4th edition.
- 7B Workbook, by Hedeman.
- Lab Pages from Workbook
Policies & Expectations
The purpose of the discussion section is to review concepts and clarify them by working additional problems in detail. Therefore, to make best use of the time, please come prepared having done the reading for the week and/or gone to lecture. Then, bring any questions you have to discussion and ask them!
Likewise, the purpose of office hours is to fill in gaps as you try to work through exercises, especially homework problems. Therefore, please come prepared having worked every problem as far as you can so that you can pinpoint where you are stuck. I am more than happy to help.
Below, I will post additional notes and problems for the discussions. They are not meant to be a substitute for coming to discussion and participating. They are meant to fill in the gaps in derivations and go in depth. They are also meant to serve as a backup resource, so that if you want to check something in your own notes, you may find it in this uploaded set. Problems that are uploaded here will not be graded but are meant to supplement MasteringPhysics, give you a better understanding of the concepts, and challenge you at a level more comparable to exam material.
Discussion Notes
- Week of 01/18/22: Math Review (103) Math Review (107) (Last updated 01/19/22)
- Week of 01/24/22: Taylor Series, Thermal Expansion of Materials, Ideal Gas (Last updated 01/24/22)
- Week of 01/31/22: Derivation of Maxwell Boltzmann Distribution and the Equipartition Theorem (Last updated 01/26/18), Discussion Problems (Last updated 02/02/22)
- Week of 02/07/22: More Thermodynamic Cycles, Adiabatic Processes (Last updated 02/05/18)
- Week of 02/14/22: Entropy, Efficiency, Conduction, Electric Fields (Last updated 02/21/22)
- Week of 02/21/22: Midterm Review
- Week of 02/28/22: Continuous charge distributions, electric flux, Gauss's Law (Last updated 03/04/22)
- Week of 03/14/22: Notes from Sec. 103 (Potentials, Capacitance), Notes from Sec. 107 (Potentials, Capacitance) (Last updated 03/16/22)
