Syllabus for Physics 11b: Spring 2005

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1 Syllabus for Physics 11b: Spring 2005 Course Personnel Masahiro Morii Lecturer Lyman 239 Carol Davis Staff Lyman 237 Kyriakos Papadodimas Head TF Shiyamala Thambyahpillai TF Jian Huang TF Jihye Seo TF Kristi Adamson TF Ali Nayeri TF Christine Wang Lab TF Joon Pahk Lab TF Course Description Physics 11b is the second half of a one-year physics sequence. It covers the basic phenomena of electricity and magnetism, elements of circuits with selected applications, Maxwell s equations, and electromagnetic waves and optics. In addition to what is discussed in the course catalog, at the end we will also discuss selected aspects of quantum mechanics. Textbook: Serway and Jewett, Physics for Scientists and Engineers; 6 th ed. All the material for the course can be purchased in the Coop. Please contact me if there are any questions. Prerequisite: Physics 11a; Mathematics 21a or 23a. If you wish to take the course but have not met the prerequisites, you must obtain permission from Prof. Morii first. Please note that the mathematical sophistication demanded of you will be higher in Physics 11b than it was in 11a. Students are expected to be fully comfortable and facile with one-dimensional calculus, and to understand multivariable calculus, line integrals, and surface integrals. 1

2 Logistics Lecture The course will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00-11:30, in Science Center B. Lecture is intended to cover the same material as the readings, though not necessarily in precisely the same style, and with more responsiveness to you personally. Your questions on the difficult parts of the material are the most important thing for you to bring to lecture, and you should ask them in lecture as they occur to you. For this reason it is important to have read the assigned readings before lecture. Sections You must sign up for a section between Thursday, Feb. 2, and Wednesday, Feb. 8, afternoon using the course sectioning software. Section assignments will be distributed on Friday, Feb. 10. You will need to consult with Prof. Morii if you wish to alter your section, or sign up for section, after this time. For the week of Feb. 6-10, there will be no official section meetings. However, section-leading TFs will be holding office hours in the section rooms. Visit your favorite section to get to know the TF. Office Hours Day Time Location Monday 2-3 PM SC 113, SC 216 Tuesday 2-3 PM SC 113, SC PM SC PM SC 216 Wednesday 9-10 AM SC PM SC 222, Jefferson PM SC 304 Thursday 9-10 AM SC PM SC PM SC 113 Prof. Morii will have office hours Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons (time to be announced). Please contact him if you would like to set up an appointment for another time. The TFs will announce their office hours at the sections. Weekly Homework Weekly homework will be regularly due on Fridays at 4 PM, in the mailboxes outside Science Center 109. Solutions will available on the web, beginning at 4 PM. Late homework will not be accepted. There will not be homework due in weeks with midterm exams, and of course the first Friday. Homework assignments distributed the week before a midterm will be due a week after the midterm, covering the extra lecture the week of the midterm. 2

3 Laboratory The course also consists of laboratory work. You will also choose lab sections when you choose weekly TF sections. Each lab will be set up for two weeks, and you will attend one section every two weeks. There are five labs overall. First labs start on the week of Feb. 14. Lab reports are due 1 week after the day of the lab at 8 AM, in the mailbox outside Science Center 109. (If, for example, you do a lab on a Tuesday, the report is due next Tuesday at 8 AM.) Late laboratory work will not be accepted, and switching sections is not allowed except for medical, religious, and similar reasons. If you find, when signing up for lab sections, that there is no section which you can attend regularly without unalterable conflicts, please see Prof. Morii. Otherwise, once you have signed up for a laboratory section it is assumed you can make it to all meetings of the section. Week Day Hours (PM) 1 Tuesday 12:00-3:00 3:30-6:30 7:00-10:00 Wednesday 12:00-3:00 Thursday 12:00-3:00 3:30-6:30 2 Monday 3:30-6:30 7:00-10:00 Tuesday 12:00-3:00 3:30-6:30 7:00-10:00 Wednesday 3:30-6:30 Weekly Reading All readings are from the course textbook, Serway and Jewett, available in the Coop. Each week s homework assignment will detail the precise sections to be read; the course outline below gives you an idea what we will be covering each week. Reading the material before coming to class will allow you to be prepared with your questions and help you get more out of the course. Course Website The course website will contain all the assignments, policies, and handouts. The lecture slides will also be posted, hopefully in a timely manner. However, none of this should be taken as a substitute for attending lecture, and we may review website policy if we feel it has become so. 3

4 Grading The course grade will be determined by two midterm exams, weekly homework, laboratory work, participation, and a final exam. The relative weights are described below, along with the percentages corresponding to various grades. The grade for a typical student in the course is expected to be around a B. We are prepared to curve scores as needed. Component Points each (x #) Total Points Homework 30 x Midterms 150 x Laboratory 30 x Final 200 to Course total 1000 Score Grade A A B B B C C C D D D- <601 God forbid Homework Each homework will contain 8-12 problems, and be worth 30 points. Problems will be graded with partial credit, but be aware that no homework problem with an incorrect answer will receive full credit, however small the mistake. There will be eleven assignments. Your lowest homework score will be dropped. Midterms There will be two midterms exams, on March 3 and April 7. Each midterm will be worth 150 points. The midterms are intended such that students with good understanding of the material should score in the 80-85% range. In the case of a clear failure of design, the scores will be adjusted reasonably. Each midterm will include at least one problem from the assigned homework sets. Laboratory The labs are graded by the TFs out of 30 points. In your first week in lab you will learn more detail on how the labs are graded. Final A three-hour final exam will take place during the usual exam period. It is graded out of 250 points, to bring the total course score to 1000 points. 4

5 Course Outline This is a rough course outline so that you will know what we will be covering in the course. Actual mileage may differ. Week Lectures Topic Homework 1 2/2 Course Logistics, Coloumb s Law 2 2/7, 2/9 Electric Field, Flux, Gauss Law #1 due 2/10 3 2/14, 2/16 Electric Potential #2 due 2/17 4 2/21, 2/23 Capacitance, Dipoles, Dielectrics 5 2/28, 3/2 Midterm 1, Current, Resistance #3 due 3/3 6 3/7, 3/9 DC Circuits, Magnetic Fields #4 due 3/10 7 3/14, 3/16 Sources of Magnetic Fields #5 due 3/17 8 3/21, 3/23 Faraday s Law, Inductance #6 due 3/24 Spring Break 9 4/4, 4/6 Midterm 2, LC, RLC and AC Circuits, 10 4/11, 4/13 AC Circuits, Electromagnetic Radiation #7 due 4/ /18, 4/20 EM Radiation, Optics #8 due 4/ /25, 4/27 Lenses, Mirrors, Images, Interference #9 due 4/ /2, 5/4 Diffraction, Polarization #10 due 5/5 14 5/9, 5/11 Towards Quantum Mechanics Legalese In a course of this size it is very difficult to maintain fairness to all students without a clear and firm set of policies which are uniformly adhered to. This syllabus is your primary source of information concerning the policies we will maintain. Naturally, where there are applicable University policies (for instance, regarding religious holidays and family or medical emergencies) those will govern our decisions. Fair Warning The Administrative Board is responsible for dealing with all issues of academic dishonesty, etc. I do not have any say in this. It saddens me that experience has shown that I need to make this very clear at the outset. 5

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