Physics 198
The Physics of Music
Fall 2003





Vital Information:
  • Lecture meets Tuesday and Thursday 9:00 - 9:50 AM in Physics 38
  • Lab Instructor Nathan Grau
    • Office: A332
    • Phone:  294-3565
  • Lab meets in Physics 78 periodically on
    • Thursday   2:00 PM -   4:00 PM   (Section 1)
    • Friday     10:00 AM - 12:00 PM   (Section 2)
    • Friday     12:00 PM -   2:00 PM   (Section 3)
  • Grader for the course is Feng Wei
    • Office: 
    • Phone:
  • Course Secretary is Judy Zunkel
    • Office: Physics 12
    • Phone:  294-4936
  • All of us have mailboxes in Physics 12
Check out the Course Syllabus for all of the important information:  Course Syllabus
Laboratory:
Next Lab:  Labs are over -- Enjoy Thanksgiving Break.
Check out the Lab Syllabus for all of the important information:  Lab Syllabus
Check out the Grading section to see how you are doing.
Grading:
Grading is reported by the first 4 numbers of your ISU student ID.  If you cannot find your number, let us know.

Lab Grades:
Section 1
Section 2
Section 3

Exam Grades:
Exam 1 Scores

Exam 2 Scores

Exam 3 Scores   There was extra credit for giving the answer d) for #28 and #29.

Homework:
Next Homework: ?

Solutions
:
Here is homework #1
Here is homework #2
Here is homework #3
Here is homework #4
Here is homework #5
Here is homework #6

I haven't gotten any solutions lately.  I'll bug the grader for some.

Exams:
Final Exam:  Dec 16 or 19

Example Exams:
Exam 1:  Page 1 and Page 2

For the following example, there are only 10 questions, but it was to take students less
than an hour.  Expect more questions than this, since the test will be made to take an hour.

Exam 2:  Page 1 and Page 2 and Page 3
Solutions for the practice exam.

Exam 3:  Sorry for the late posting -- trouble with the scanner.  You need Adobe Acrobat Reader for Exam 3
                The exam exam does not cover scales and ideas of several tones: consonance, dissonance, beats, etc.

Final Exam:  For the final we have added the rest of the existing set of past exams.  Be sure and check out the
old example exams and then check out these as well  (You will need Acrobat Reader for these):

From 1997:  Exam1  Exam2  Exam3  Exam4  and Exam6

Solutions:
First Exam (the correct letters only).

Second Exam
(the correct letters only).

Third Exam (the correct letters only).