Syllabus for Mechanics and Special Relativity
Teaching Assistants: Derek Li djpli@stanford.edu, Federico Pavone fpavone@stanford.edu, Hanyue Wang hanyuew@stanford.edu, Jackie Zhang zhzhuoqi@stanford.edu, Jered Ying Zhang jyz2@stanford.edu Class meetings: PHYSICS 61 meets in Lathrop 018 for 80-minutes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Pre-requisites: IMPORTANT – PLEASE READ! If you were advised to enroll in PHYSICS 41 or 41E when you took the Physics Placement Diagnostic (and you have not completed PHYSICS 41), you will not be prepared to succeed in PHYSICS 61, in terms of both content and pace. You should instead follow the advice you received and enroll in PHYSICS 41 or 41E and then PHYSICS 43 so that you are ready to succeed in PHYSICS 61 next year. See section below for more details on pre/co-requisites. Table of Contents (download pdf Download pdf for live links to sections): There will be four proctored Learning Assessments (LAs) during the quarter to allow you to synthesize the material you are learning, to allow the teachi