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1 Instructor: Office Hours: Textbook: Online Homework: Class Participation: Optional: Disclaimer: Physics 07 Course Information Introductory Physics II - Lecture Fall 03 A. Tillotson, tillotwa@uic.edu and S. Hahn, srhahn@uic.edu The most up-to-date office hours are posted on the Blackboard website. Physics Volume II (4th Edition), James S. Walker, Pearson/Prentice Hall. Available as a reduced price UIC version in the UIC book store. Student Access Kit, for Mastering Physics Online Course Material Course ID (Tillotson): UICPHY07FALL03TILLOTSON Course ID (Hahn): UICPHY07FALL03HAHN The iclicker remote feedback unit is required in lecture Physics 07 CD by Prof. Clive Halliwell. The CD contains sample problems and solutions. Available in UIC textbook store. The terms of this syllabus are subject to change by announcements in class, on the course website (blackboard), or by . Introduction: Physics 07 is a non-calculus based physics course focused primarily on electricity and magnetism, geometrical optics, and selected modern physics topics. It is the second course in a sequence of two introductory foundation physics courses. Prerequisites will be strictly enforced, and they require a grade of C or better in PHYS 05 and PHYS 06. Please be sure you have also registered for both a 08- discussion (DIS) and 08-laboratory (LAB) section. Although Physics 08 is a separate course, with a separate grade, both physics 07 and 08 should be taken simultaneously. Lectures: You are expected to attend all lectures! Each will involve your participation. Some of these activities will result in participation points, a small but non-trivial contribution to your overall grade. You will answer multiple choice questions using the iclicker remote control (see below for details). Homework: Homework is the core of this class! A major part of what I expect you to learn in this class will come as a result of doing homework. Homework will not be a lot of trivial manipulation exercises - most will be reasonably challenging. Do not wait until the last minute to work on the assignments; expect each assignment to take 3-6 hours to complete. Homework will not be graded. This may appear to be a direct contradiction to the bold statement above. However, we strongly believe that it is your personal responsibility to keep up with the homework, not ours to hover and keep track. A combination of online and written assignments will comprise the weekly homework. You should keep track of the directions each week in the Assignments section of the Blackboard website. o The online homework will be given through the Mastering Physics web page ( To access our homework site, go to the above website, and when you register and log in for the first time, choose the Mastering Physics Course ID of: UICPHY07FALL03TILLOTSON for Tillotson s section (Monday 9am). UICPHY07FALL03HAHN for Hahn s section (Monday 3pm).

2 o In addition to the online homework, there will be additional written homework problems. Solutions for written homework problems will be posted along with the problems. Weekly quizzes will measure your comprehension of the homework. We will give you eight 5- minute in-class quizzes that will consist of problems taken almost directly from the homework. If you feel confident that you can succeed at these quizzes without doing the homework, you are more than welcome to try, but those students who do will have the obvious advantage. The lowest two quiz scores will be dropped. No make-up quizzes will be given for any reason. Work together on the homework! Since the homework problems will be difficult, it may not be easy to do them entirely on your own. You are encouraged to work together, but each member of the group must fully understand how to solve each problem on their own. ("Oh, I see." is not good enough!) The best way to be sure that you don t fall into the Oh, I see trap when you work together is to agree on a solution, then each try to write up the work independently. Explanations are essential. On weekly quiz problems (and, by extension, on written homeworks), you will be expected to provide explanations as to what principles you are using and how you know they are relevant. An answer which includes only equations is unlikely to get full credit. (Even though Mastering Physics problems will not require such explanations, our advice is to keep notes about what explanations you would include if it were given as a quiz problem.) Don't fall behind! Most importantly, homeworks are not independent entities; the skills you gain on one will be essential for completing later assignments. This is a fast-paced class; do not fall behind, or it will quickly become hopeless to catch up! Discussion and Lab: Be sure you have also signed up for a Physics 08 discussion (DIS) and lab (LAB) section. Again, Physics 08 is a separate course, so do not come to one of us with questions about it we re not qualified to answer! Examinations: There will be three written examinations during the course of the term. They will be about 75% multiple choice and 5% free-response. This is the most important requirement of this course. Students should bring to the exams a working calculator, # pencils with good erasers, and one 8.5 x cheat sheet (details TBA). Textbooks, cell phones, computers, or any forms of wireless communication are strictly prohibited in an exam. Giving or receiving aid in an examination is cause for dismissal from the University. Any other violation of academic honesty can have the same effect. It is your responsibility to be available for all examinations, to take the exams at the arranged time, and to insure your exam is turned in and collected by the Instructor. Other than official UIC class related conflicts, no make-up exams will be given, no exceptions. o NOTE! If one of the exam times conflicts with another one of your UIC classes (MCAT prep classes and the like don t count), contact us during the first week of class to arrange an earlier alternate time. In Class Participation: We will be using the iclicker ( class participation remote system. Each student must have their own remote (your remote can be used for all iclicker classes at UIC, even if different courses are taken in the same semester). You can purchase this remote at the UIC bookstore, or online. You must register your remote at the iclicker web site given above. Use your UIC username (NetID) for your Student ID when registering your iclicker (see Blackboard for more detailed instructions).

3 Although we expect you to give your best answer, you will not be penalized harshly if the answers you give are incorrect. Each iclicker question is worth 4 points: you get 3 just for answering, and for answering correctly. Note that these points are given for participation, not attendance. You are contributing your answer to the class's discussion of possible answers. If you attend class but forget your clicker you do not get the points. Your lowest two iclicker days will be dropped, and each day is weighted equally (a 5-question day is worth the same as a 0-question day). No iclicker exemptions will be given for any reason. We will start using the iclicker right away, but the deadline for iclicker registration is September 9. If you register after this date, you will not receive any iclicker points! The Text and Pre-Lecture Checkpoints: Reading the textbook is an essential part of the course, and you will benefit most if you read ahead before coming to the lecture. To encourage you to do so, we are assigning weekly Pre-Lecture Checkpoints, designed to get you thinking about the material in the text before it is introduced in lecture. These will be given on Mastering Physics, and each checkpoint will consist of two components: a multiple choice question (worth point) and a brief justification (worth 3 points). You can get most of the credit even if your answer is incorrect, as long as your justification is thoughtful, consistent with your answer, and worthy of discussion in lecture. Each assignment will have about 5 or more questions, but only two of the questions per assignment, selected at random, will be graded. Grades: Final scores are based on the following items/percentage weighting: Exam I % Exam II % Final Exam 5% Quizzes (lowest two dropped) % Pre-lecture checkpoints 5% iclicker (lowest two dropped) 5% A single letter grade of A, B, C, D or F is assigned at the end of the semester according to the final score each student has earned, according to the following breakdown: 78% or higher = A 63-78% = B 50-63% = C 38-50% = D less than 38% = F The grade of incomplete (I) is given only in special cases according to very strict criteria. Course Web Site: The course web site will be handled through the UIC blackboard system. The blackboard site will list important course information including practice exams, solutions and contact information. It will also be the primary source of up-to-date information for what is happening in the course. Our rule of thumb: If we post it on Blackboard, that s just as good as us telling you directly. So, keep up to date with the notifications! Additional Help: Physics 07 tutoring will be available in the Science and Learning Center SES 0B (next to Bunsen s Café). Tutoring hours will be listed at the center, and should also be available online by the end of the second week of class. This is a free service provided by the Physics Department. Students with disabilities who require accommodations for access and participation in this course must be registered with the Office of Disability Services (ODS). Please contact ODS at 3/43-83 (voice) or 3/43-03 (TTY). 3

4 Physics 07 Course Outline - Fall 03 Text: Homework: Physics Volume II (4th Edition), James S. Walker Mastering Physics Online Web Homework: Exam I - Wednesday, September 5 at 6pm; covering Ch Exam II - Wednesday, October 30 at 6pm; covering Ch..7,, 3, 4., and 5 Final - During finals week; cumulative, but mostly focused on Ch. 6, 7.-7., and Week Date Book Topics Homework Quizzes/Exams Aug 6 Chapter Electric charge, Insulators, Conductors, Coulomb's Law, Electric Field, Induced Charges PL # Sunday, 9/, :59pm Sep 9.7 Chapter Labor Day Electric Flux, Gauss's Law, Electrostatic Shielding Electric Potential Energy, Electric Potential, Conservation of Energy HW # Thursday, 9/5 PL # Sunday, 9/8, :59pm Q - 9/5 3 Sep Chapter.-. Potential of Point Charges, Equipotential Surfaces, Capacitors, Dielectrics, Electrical Energy Storage Electric Current, Resistance, Ohm's Law HW # Thursday, 9/ PL #3 Sunday, 9/5, :59pm Q - 9/ 4 Sep Electric Power in Circuits, Resistors in Series and Parallel, Kirchoff s Rules, Capacitors in Circuits HW #3 only Thursday, 9/9 Q3-9/9 5 Sep 3.7 Review for Exam RC Circuits HW #4 Wednesday, 9/5 PL #4 Sunday, 9/9 Exam Wednesday, Sep 5 6pm in TBA Covers through.6 6 Sep 30 Chapter.-.6 Introduction to Magnetic Fields Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge Motion of a charge in a Magnetic Field Force on a wire with Current PL #5 only Sunday, 0/6 7 Oct 7.7 Chapter Fields produced by wires, current loops, and solenoids Induced EMF, Magnetic Flux, Faraday s Law, Lenz s Law Motional EMF, Mechanical work input vs. Electrical Energy output HW #5 Thursday, 0/0 PL #6 Sunday, 0/3 Q4-0/0 4

5 8 Oct AC Generators and Motors Inductance, RL Circuits, Transformers HW #6 Thursday, 0/7 PL #7 Sunday, 0/0 Q5-0/7 9 Oct 4. (no phasors) Chapter Definition of rms voltage and current, AC resistor circuit Electromagnetic Waves, EM Spectrum, Energy and Momentum, Doppler Effect HW #7 only Thursday, 0/4 Q6 0/4 0 Oct Chapter Review for Exam Polarization of EM Waves, Malus's Law Reflection, Images in Plane Mirror, Spherical Mirrors, Ray Tracing for Mirrors HW #8 Wednesday, 0/30 PL #8 Sunday, /3 Exam Wednesday, Oct 30 6pm in TBA Covers through 5.5 Nov Chapter Refraction, Snell s Law, Total Internal Re- flection, Ray Tracing for Lenses Dispersion and the Rainbow The Human Eye and Corrective Optics PL #9 only Sunday, /0 Nov Chapter Problems with Classical Physics: Blackbody radiation, the Photoelectric Effect, Compton Effect, de Broglie Wave- Particle duality The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle 08 Radiation Safety Quiz Sunday, /7 HW #9 Thursday, /4 PL #0 Sunday, /7 Q7 - /4 3 Nov 8 Chapter Semiclassical Atomic Physics (Bohr Model) Quantum Mechanics of the Hydrogen Atom, Multi- electron Atoms, Pauli s Exclusion Principle, Periodic Table HW #0 Thursday, / PL # Sunday, /4 Q8 - / 4 Nov 5 Chapter Thanksgiving Nuclear Structure, Radioactivity, Half- life HW # only Tuesday, /6 5 Dec Review for Final Nuclear Binding Energy, Fission and Fusion HW # Thursday, /5 6 Dec 9 Final Exam Details TBA Cumulative *All exams are closed book and it is the student s responsibility to be present at the scheduled time. Students must bring a working calculator and pens or pencils. Textbooks, cell phones, computers or any forms of wireless communication are strictly prohibited in an exam. Giving or receiving aid in an examination is cause for dismissal from the University. Any other violation of academic honesty can have the same effect. 5

Physics XL 6B Reg# # Units: 5. Office Hour: Tuesday 5 pm to 7:30 pm; Wednesday 5 pm to 6:15 pm

Physics XL 6B Reg# # Units: 5. Office Hour: Tuesday 5 pm to 7:30 pm; Wednesday 5 pm to 6:15 pm Physics XL 6B Reg# 264138 # Units: 5 Department of Humanities & Sciences (310) 825-7093 Quarter:_Spring 2016 Instructor: Jacqueline Pau Dates: 03/30/16 06/15/16 Lectures: 1434A PAB, Wednesday (6:30-10pm)