UC Berkeley Physics 8B - Introductory Physics (Fall 2017)
GSIs
Head GSI: Chien-I Chiang
Section GSI: Karthik Siva
Section Times & Locations
Section 102
- Lab: T 12-2pm, 201 LeConte Hall
- Discussion: Th 12-2pm, 200 LeConte Hall
Section 215
- Lab: W 12-2pm, 201 LeConte Hall
- Discussion: F 12-2pm, 201 LeConte Hall
Office Hours
- M 10-11am, Tu 4pm-5pm, 103 LeConte Hall
Required Resources
- Essential University Physics Vol. 2 3rd Ed., Richard Wolfson, ISBN-13:978-0-321-97642-0
- Physics 8B Student Learning Handbook Revised 5th Ed., Fiona Waterhouse, ISBN-13: 978-0-558-94373-8
Policies & Expectations
Section Policy
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 regularly post an outline of my notes for the discussions. They are not meant to be a substitute for coming to discussion and participating. They are instead meant to serve as a backup resource, so if you have to miss section, you can see what kinds of problems were worked. Or, if you want to check something in your own notes, you may find it in this uploaded set.
Discussion Notes
- Week of 08/21/17: pdf (p. 1-3), Policies, Review of Relevant Mathematics, Coulomb's law (last updated on 08/24/17)
- Week of 08/28/17: pdf (p. 4-9), Coulomb's Law, Electric Field, Continuous Charge Distributions, Electric Flux, Gauss's Law (last updated on 09/02/17)
- Week of 09/04/17: pdf (p. 6-10), Gauss's Law (last updated on 09/03/17)
- Week of 09/11/17: pdf (p. 11-15), Conductors, Potentials (last updated on 09/17/17)
- Week of 09/18/17: pdf (p. 15-17), Potentials, Current, Ohm's "law", Circuits (last updated 10/02/17)
- Week of 09/25/17: pdf (p. 18) Midterm Practice (last updated 10/02/17)
- Week of 10/02/17: pdf (p. 18) Midterm Practice, Magnetism (last updated 10/02/17)
