Written Materials:

1. Textbook: Essentials of College Physics, First Edition, Raymond A. Serway and Chris Vuille (Brooks/Cole). The Sixth  or Seventh Edition of College Physics by Serway & Faughn will also do. The chapters have the same content, but there is some additional material in the older books, and some of the problems may be different or in a different order. Essentials has a companion web site here. The older books' web site is here. 
   


2. Laboratory: Physics 103 Laboratory Manual (Available at the University Book Store). You must have the current edition (Fall 2006-2007) of this book. Also, you should have a lab notebook, preferably the spiral bound kind that contains graph paper (1/4" squares). If you have one from another course that still has plenty of blank space in it, you can use it.
   

Calculator:

To help solve homework and exam problems you will need some kind of scientific calculator (i.e. one that can calculate sines, cosines, tangents, find square roots, etc., in addition to having the usual arithmetic functions).

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