Please feel free to contact me if you have any problems in this course, or if you're doing well, and just want to talk. It's in my interest, and I care, that you do well.

Vaccination: In order to create a safe environment on campus, all students must be vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-02 virus, or obtain an exemption, in order to attend classes on campus or access any services on campus. Documentation of the first dose of the vaccination must be uploaded to the student portal by August 20, and documentation of the final dose by September 30. Students may request an exemption to the vaccine requirement by going to their student portal to complete the COVID self-certification. Students with vaccination exemptions are subject to weekly COVID testing. You are not allowed to come to campus if any of the following is true:


• You have not been vaccinated, and have not been granted an exemption, or
  
• You have been granted an exemption, but have not completed your required weekly testing.
  

Health Screening: Students who come to campus and/or are participating in off-campus in-person experiential learning will be required to complete a daily health screening before coming to campus or learning site. You are not allowed to come to campus if any of the following is true:

• If you are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms (vaccinated or not).
  
• If you have tested positive within the past 10 days.
  
  
If you have a suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19, please complete the campus online reporting form. A campus official will reply to provide guidance and information.


Safety Measures: Face coverings are required to be worn indoors on-campus and during in-person classes (vaccinated or not), and/or in accordance with learning site requirements if participating in off-campus experiential learning, to reduce the risk of community spread of COVID-19. The Student Health and Counseling Center has complimentary masks available for students who need them. The mask requirement may be modified if/when transmission rates in Fresno Country drop below the threshold identified by the CDC.

Please remember that the same student conduct rules for in-person classroom instruction also apply for virtual/online classrooms. Students are prohibited from any unauthorized recording, dissemination, or publication of any academic presentation, including any online classroom instruction, for any commercial purpose. In addition, students may not record or use virtual/online instruction in any manner that would violate copyright laws. Students are to use all online/virtual instruction exclusively for the educational purpose of the online class in which the instruction is being provided. Students may not record any online recordings or post any online recordings on any other format (e.g., electronic, video, social media, audio recording, web page, internet, hard paper copy, etc.) for any purpose without the explicit written permission of the faculty member providing the instruction. Exceptions for disability-related accommodations will be addressed by Student Disability Services working in conjunction with the student and faculty member.

Lecture meeting times and location: Schedule 75208 (Section 01), TuTh 3:30-4:45 p.m. in McLane 162.

Videos of all classes have been posted to YouTube and are linked to the Course Schedule (see below).

Iclickers or clickers are NOT required for Phys 4C: I never use them. I also never use Mastering Physics.

Holidays: September 6 (Labor Day), November 11 (Veterans' Day), November 24-26 (Thanksgiving Break).

Required Course Text, which should be available in Kennel Bookstore:

(1) Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 2, 10th Edition, by Raymond A. Serway and John W. Jewett, Jr. (2018) (ISBN-13: 978-1337553582; ISBN-10: 1337553581). MAKE SURE your copy has Chapters 33 to 43!

Recommended Course Texts, all of which are excellent sources of worked examples:

(1) Schaum's Outline of Optics by Eugene Hecht (ISBN 0-070-27730-3).
Schaum's outlines typically have hundreds of worked examples, and are available for a wide variety of science and engineering fields. If they aren't available with the other Phys 4C texts, look for the large display of the Schaum's outline series in Kennel Bookstore's lowest level.

(2) Schaum's Outline of Modern Physics by Ronald Gautreau and William Savin (ISBN 0-070-24830-3).

(3) Schaum's Outline of Mathematics for Physics Students by Robert Steiner and Philip Schmidt (ISBN 0-071-46158-2).

Course webpage: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/phys4c.html . This is not on Canvas: I do all my own web programming.

The Homework Assignments are available on the course webpage, at: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/hw4c.html.
Solutions to the homework assignments will be posted to the course webpage the day after they are due.

Course grades will be awarded for the following final percentages:
85.000-100% = A; 70.000-84.999% = B; 60.000-69.999% = C; 50.000-59.999% = D; 0-49.999% = F.

These percentages will be computed from the following:

25% Mid-Term Exam 1, which will cover Chapters 33-35. Because of the pandemic, it will be a take-home exam. It will be emailed to students on October 5, and will be due by email to Professor Ringwald by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, October 7.

25% Mid-Term Exam 2, which will cover Chapters 36-40. Because of the pandemic, it will be a take-home exam. It will be emailed to students on November 30, and will be due by email to Professor Ringwald by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, December 2.

50% The Final Exam, which will be comprehensive, covering Chapters 33-41.3 and 43. Because of the pandemic, it will be a take-home exam. It will be emailed to students on December 14, and will be due by email to Professor Ringwald by 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, December 16.

Do the homework, even though it won't be graded this semester. If you don't, you won't know the material on the exams, which count a lot.

A favorite pastime is to try and determine a ``running'' grade (in other words, trying to figure out a grade based on a single exam or some subset of it). Since there are many contributors to the final grade, this isn't very useful. The above grading scale will not be moved: how any student's grade is determined doesn't depend on any other student's grade.

Professor Ringwald will be happy to fix any errors that occur in the grading. If after any errors are fixed, students still want to contest their grades, the students are required to do it in writing. This written request must be typed and must be a minimum of half a single-spaced page of 12-point type for exam or Final Exam questions, and a minimum of one single-spaced page of 12-point type for the overall grade. It is to be submitted one time, either to Professor Ringwald during his office hours, or to his mailbox in McLane 173.