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

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1 Physics XL 6B Reg# # Units: 5 Department of Humanities & Sciences (310) Quarter:_Spring 2016 Instructor: Jacqueline Pau Dates: 03/30/16 06/15/16 Lectures: 1434A PAB, Wednesday (6:30-10pm) Laboratories: Knudsen Hall, Tuesday (8-10pm) Office: Knudsen 4-145B Office Hour: Tuesday 5 pm to 7:30 pm; Wednesday 5 pm to 6:15 pm Course Description: This course provides an introduction to mechanical waves, sound, electricity and magnetism, and electromagnetic waves, with applications to biological and biochemical systems. Goals & Learning Objectives: To understand the fundamental concepts of physics and their relationship to biological systems. Required Text: Principles of Physics Serway and Jewett - 5th Ed (or 4 th Ed) UCLA Extension Contact for this Course: Kathleen Cho ( ) Student Records: Students can access and update student records online by visiting: and clicking on My.Extension on the left navigation bar, selectingstudent's Course Essentials, and following the directions to log in. Student's Course Essentials lets you view your grades, request an official transcript, change credit status on a current course, obtain enrollment verification, update your personal information, and much more. Student Conduct: By enrolling in this course, all students are expected to comply with the UCLA Extension Student Conduct Guidelines provided in the current Quarterly catalog (print or online) under General Information. Please silence all cell phones and refrain from texting during class lectures. Students are subject to disciplinary action for several types of misconduct or attempted misconduct, including but not limited to dishonesty, such as cheating, multiple submission, 1

2 plagiarism, or knowingly furnishing false information to the University; or theft or misuse of the intellectual property of others or violation of others' copyrights. Students are encouraged to familiarize themselves with policy provisions which proscribe these and other forms of misconduct at Accommodations: To arrange any accommodations for any disability, please contact the UCLA Extension Services for Students with Disabilities. Website: Phone: (310) Campus Escort Service: The UCLA Police Department provides a free walking escort service every day of the year from dusk until 1 a.m. They are available to walk students, faculty, staff members and visitors to and from anywhere on campus, in Westwood Village and in the village apartments. CSO Safety Escorts are uniformed students who have received special training and are employed by the UCLA Police Department. To obtain an escort, please call (310) Please allow 15 to 20 minutes for your escort to arrive. Grading: Course grades will be based on the following: Breakdown of Points for Each Assignment/Exam: Assignment/Exam Scheme 1 # Points Assignment/Exam Scheme 2 # Points 2 Midterms (15 points each) 30 1 Final (35 points) 35 Laboratory 15 Quizzes 10 Homework 10 1 Midterms (the highest one) 20 1 Final (45 points) 45 Laboratory 15 Quizzes 10 Homework 10 Total Points for the Course : 100 Total Points for the Course : 100 I will use both scheme to compute your total points earned and use whichever the highest score to determine your final letter grade. So, if you miss one midterm, you will only have 1 total point. Letter Grade Equivalent: A (89-100%) B (76-88%) C (63-75%) D (51-62%) F (<50%) _89-100_ points _76-88 points _63-75 points _51-62 points _0-50 points NO extra work or extra credit is accepted to improve your final grade. All grades are final when filed by the instructor on the Final Grade Report. 2

3 Exams There will be two midterms and a final. All exams will be closed book and closed notes. However, you may bring one 3 x5 card with whatever you want to the midterms and two 3 x5 cards (or one letter size paper, double sided) for the final exam. Midterm is one hour long during class time and final is three hours long. Final is cumulative. Calculators may also be used. The problems on the exams will include some multiple choices, some conceptual questions, and some numerical problems. The content of the exams will be similar, but not identical to the material assigned as homework, discussed in lecture, or included at the end of the text chapters. Quizzes You will have 15 minutes in class short quiz every week (except first and last week). Each quiz will have 5 multiple choice questions of conceptual or simple calculation. I will drop 1 lowest quiz score. Homework Homework will be assigned every week and due in-class in the following week. You have a week to work on all the problems. You are strongly encouraged to work together on problems, and to make use of tutoring programs. Extra credits Extra credits will be given occasionally in the Homework Assignment. The mills (1 mill =0.1 point) you earn in the extra credit will not be weighted. This will be the extra scores that you earn towards your total 100 total grade points for the class. Laboratory The course has a required lab. Be sure you attend every lab section. If you are repeating the course and have already completed some of the labs, you should turn in your graded lab report for me to record your lab grade. Tentative Course Outline Week 1 (3/30): Introduction to Simple Harmonic Motion (Spring Oscillation and Pendulum). Discussion of problems on Simple Harmonic Motion. Week 2 (4/6): Intro to Damped and Forced Driven Oscillations, Introduction to Mechanical Waves. Discussion of problems on Mechanical Waves. Week 3 (4/13): Sound waves and Doppler Effect, Superposition and Standing Waves. Discussion on problem solving strategy for Standing waves. Week 4 (4/20): Standing Waves in Air Columns, and Coulombs Law. Discussion on problem solving strategy for Standing waves in Air Columns. Review for Midterm 1. Week 5 (4/27): 1st Midterm. (Ch ) Electric Fields and Gauss s Law. Problems on finding Electric Field. Week 6 (5/4): Electric Potential and Potential Difference. Problems on Electric Potential. Week 7 (5/11): Capacitors, Resistors, and Ohm s Law. Discussion of problems on Capacitors and Resistors. 3

4 Week 8 (5/18): DC Circuit, Introduction to Magnetism. Discussion of problems on Kirchhoff s Rule. Review for Midterm 2. Week 9 (5/25): 2nd Midterm (Ch ) Magnetic Force, Magnetic Field, and Biot Savart Law. Problems on Finding Magnetic Field. Week 10 (6/1): Ampere s Law, Solenoid, and Faraday s Law. Problems on Finding Magne tic Field. Week 11 (6/8): Motional EMF, Lenz s Law and Induced EMF. Review for Final. Discussion of problems on EMF. Week 12 (6/15): Final exam. Tips A physics course can be difficult because of a lack of visualization of conceptual aspects and/or mathematical skills necessary to solve concrete problems. To enjoy and benefit from the course, students should familiarize themselves with the math that is summarized at Appendix B at the end of the textbook. I strongly encouraged the students to work together on problems, study in pairs or groups. Please take homework assignments seriously. Doing them is the best way to learn. If time allowed, I encourage you to do extra problems for practice. Practice makes perfect. I suggest you to study the lecture notes, textbook example first, and list all the equations in a piece of paper (cheat sheet) before you try the homework. Do the homework in a timely manner to train your speed. If any equation or information is missing in the cheat sheet, immediate include these information. This will help you to create the formula sheet for exam. My exams are straight forward, but quite lengthy. So, start training yourself to work fast with accuracy is important towards good grade. Don t wait till the last minute to study. Physics is not like Biology or Chemistry that you can memorize the night before and do well in exam. Don't miss class! My main objective during class is to summarize the important aspects of course. This facilitates your study. As far as the grades are concerned, I would like to assure you that they will be determined with fairness and generosity. Make-Up Exams No make-up exams. 4

5 Lab Schedule (revised) WEEK OF EXPERIMENT MARCH NO MEETING APRIL 5... ORIENTATION & DRIVEN HARMONIC OSCILLATOR APRIL STANDING WAVES APRIL MAKE-UP LECTURE APRIL ELECTROSTATICS MAY 3... VAN DE GRAAFF (SKIPPED) MAY MAKE-UP LECTURE MAY ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS MAY THE CHARGE-TO-MASS RATIO OF THE ELECTRON MAY NO MEETING JUNE 7... NO MEETING / MAKE-UP LECTURE Lab Policies and Guidelines: Written report will be required for each lab. Each student should write their own lab report. Each lab report is worth 10 points. Written reports must be turned in to your lab instructor within one week of the end of the laboratory session. Late reports will have their grades reduced by 25%. Copying is cheating. Course Syllabus Subject to Update by the Instructor 5

6 Week Lab (Tuesday) Lecture (Monday) Mar No Meeting (Subject to change) (base on 5 th Ed) Apr 5-6 Orientation & Driven Harmonic Oscillator ;(briefly) Apr Standing Waves ; Apr Make-up Lecture Review; ; Apr Electrostatics Midterm 1 (Ch 12-14) (9-11 briefly) May 3-4 Van de Graaff (SKIPPED) (5-6 briefly) May Make-up Lecture ; May Electrical Circuits Review; ; May The Charge-to-mass Ratio of the Electron Midterm 2 (Ch 19-21) May 31 Jun 1 No Meeting ; Jun 7-8 No Meeting / Make-up Lecture Review; Jun No Meeting Final 6

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