Physics 208, 
Electricity and 
Magnetism
Sections 301-305, Summer 2009, Dr. Ross
General course information:
The syllabus can be seen here.
However,
note that the final exam is Monday Aug. 10 at 8 AM not Tuesday as
indicated by the syllabus!
Also see the separate lab schedule
What you will need is Vol. 2 of the text, and the
separate lab manual. Volume 2 of Young and Freedman is sold by the
local bookstores.
Course notes and exams:
Sample Exams: The following are exams from phys 208 or 219.
The older course 219 was very similar to this course except that optics was
not covered.
All online exams can now be found here.
A Formula Sheet will be attached to the in-class exams. Besides this sheet,
you will not be permitted any other note-cards or references for the
exams.
Here is a copy of the formula sheet for exam 3/final exam.
Course Notes and Summaries: Chapter summaries and a few other course
notes can be found here.
Help Desk: There is a general physics help desk in Heldenfels
room 211, Monday-Thursday 9-4 and Friday 9-12. These students can help you
with homework problem-solving or other physics-related questions if you get
stuck.
In case of problems email me at 
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Other links:
Roger Freedman's web-site (one of the text authors).
Demos and interesting sites:
Exploratorium. See the
Sports Science and other exhibits.
"How Stuff Works" pages, for example on Atom Smashers
and Televisions.
Here is an interesting van de Graaff generator site.
Molecular expressions microscopy gallery.
Other science news and physics links:
PhysLINK news and reference.
Science News.
PhysicsWeb.
The Net
Advance of Physics has many links.
A Nanotechnology page from
Zyvex, with lots of links.
The Amercan Physical Society
homepage.
Dr. Ross' home page.
Go to Physics department page.
TAMU college of Science,
Texas A&M University page.
All exams and lecture materials posted on this site are copright ©
1990-2009, Joseph Ross