PHYSICS 2001 Fall 2015 Syllabus Introduction to Physics Tuesday/Thursday Walter 245 101: 7:30-8:50AM 4616 Dr. A. Neiman Clippinger 242D 593-1701 neimana@ohio.edu 102: 10:30-11:50AM 4619 Dr. M. Lucas Clippinger 252D 597-2984 lucasm@ohio.edu 103: 12:00-1:20PM 4620 Dr. M. Hadizadeh Clippinger 240 597-2556 hadizadm@ohio.edu 104: 1:30-2:50PM 4745 Dr. H. Seo Clippinger 333 597-1714 seoh@ohio.edu Course Description: First course in physics; open to students from all areas. Students should have a background in algebra, trigonometry and geometry, but no calculus required. Recommended for students in liberal arts, engineering management and technology, geological sciences, plant biology, and premedicine. Mechanics of solids and liquids, oscillations, heat, thermodynamics. No credit for 2001 after 2051. Outcome Goals: Students will develop a broad knowledge of the physical principles that describe the world around us. Students will learn how algebra, trigonometry and geometry are used to represent the world mathematically and how they are used to solve problems. Students will learn to understand and solve physics problems. Prerequisite: MATH 1200 or Placement Level 2 or higher. Text: College Physics, OpenStax College. ISBN 1-938168-00-3. The book is available free as either a pdf file or an epub file at the web site: https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics. There are other materials available as ancillaries, but only the text is required. Printed copies are available through OpenStax or the local bookstore. Attendance: Students are responsible for being aware of schedule changes announced in class. There is also a participation component of the grade which will be discussed below and could be affected by lack of attendance. Participation: While we will be using a lecture format for the material, Physics is learned by doing, not by listening. We will be using a personal response system to facilitate class participation. Questions will be posed throughout the lecture, and responses will be collected. Questions will be graded 3 pts for a correct response and 2 pts for an incorrect response. The percentage will be scaled at the end such that a score of 75% or higher will represent full credit. Other in-class exercises may also be included in this portion of the grade. You are assigned a transmitter. Unless arranged in advance, you will not use a different transmitter or use two transmitters. Those found using 2 transmitters risk losing all or a portion of their participation grade. Excused absences are considered part of the 25% of the score that is discarded. Pre-class Assignments: It is important to be prepared for class. Short online assignments will be posted before each lecture in order to help you prepare for that class. These assignments will make up 5% of your grade. If your combined score for the assignments is above 90%, you will receive the full 5% towards your final grade. If it is below 90%, we will calculate your score considering 90% as full credit.
Homework: Homework assignments will be handled via the LON-CAPA system. Instructions for accessing the system are at the end of the syllabus. Additional problems and questions can be found at the end of each chapter in the textbook. Assignments are usually due Friday at 11:59 PM each week. Exact due dates are available online. Additional written assignments may be factored into the homework grade as well. When a problem is completed successfully, you are provided with a receipt number. Please record this number. This is your proof that you completed the work. We will not investigate discrepancies in records without this receipt. Exams: There will be two evening midterm exams and a comprehensive final exam. One 8-1/2x11 sheet of paper with handwritten notes can be used along with calculators during the exams. No books or other notes are allowed. We will not provide any formulas on the exam, so your sheet should contain any formulas you need. Do not forget it! It is highly suggested that you start preparing the sheet right from the start. Electronic Devices in Exams: You are allowed a dedicated calculator for exams. All other electronic devices are forbidden. This includes music players, electronic dictionaries, tablets and cell phones. You get the idea. No earbuds will be used during the exam. Simple scientific calculators can be purchased for as little as $10. Make sure that the calculator will handle scientific notation and trigonometric functions. Laboratory: The Physics 2001 Laboratory must be passed in order not to fail the entire course. A passing grade is better than 70%. Labs start the week of August 31. See Laboratory Schedule attached. You need to be registered separately for a lab. The lecture and lab show up as different call numbers on your schedule. Labs are in Clippinger 045. Drop/Add: See the Changing Class Schedule policy in the O. U. Undergraduate Catalog. Makeup work may not be provided for past-due assignments when adding after the first day of class. Misconduct: We are required to remind you that academic misconduct is a Code A violation of the Ohio University Code of Student Conduct. If you are found to be involved in academic misconduct regarding this course, you will receive F on the pertinent work and possibly for the entire course and/or a referral to the Office of Community Standards and Student Responsibility. Unveristy Judiciaries may impose additional sanctions. Procedures for judicial actions will be invoked as described in the Student and Faculty Handbooks. See the O. U. Undergraduate Catalog.
Grading: Your grade will be determined as follows: Exam 1 (evening) 17% Exam 2 (evening) 20% Final Exam (Comprehensive) 30% CAPA Homework 15% Pre-class Assignments 5% Participation 3% Laboratory 10% Total 100% Final grades for the course will be assigned according to the following scale (we reserve the option of shifting it downward if we judge the exams to be particularly difficult, but we will never shift it upward.) A to A 90% or better B to B+ 80 89% C to C+ 70 79% D to D+ 60 69% F 59 and below Contingency Plans: In the event of a major campus emergency, course requirements, deadlines and grading percentages are subject to changes that may be necessitated by a revised calendar or other circumstances beyond the instructor s control. We will make sure this information is communicated through email and LON-CAPA. Copyright: The lectures, classroom activities, and all materials associated with theis class and developed by the instructors are copyright in the name of the individual instructors on this date August 24, 2014. Accessibility Services: Any student who suspects s/he may need an accommodation based on the impact of a disability should contact the class instructor privately to discuss the students specific needs and provide written documentation from the Office of Student Accessibility Services. If the student is not yet registered as a student with a disability, s/he should contact the Office of Student Accessibility Services. HELP!: Available out-of-class assistance for this course includes: Physics help room (WALTER 245) staffed by Physics 2000 TAs and instructors. The tentative schedule is 6-9PM Wednesday and Thursday. Modified times may be announced in class. Instructor office hours (announced in class and by appointment) and e-mail. Supplemental Instruction sessions administered by the Academic Advancement Center. The official schedule of sessions can be found at: http://www.ohiou.edu/aac/si. Tutors are available for hire through the Academic Advancement Center: http://www.ohiou.edu/aac/tutoring
PHYSICS 2001 Introduction to Physics Tentative schedule (subject to changes announced in class) Text: College Physics, by OpenStax College. DATE STUDY TOPIC 8/25 T Ch 1 Introduction; Units 8/27, 9/1 Th,T Ch 2 1-D Motion; Free-Fall 9/3,9/8,9/10 Th,T,Th Ch 3 2-D Kinematics, Vectors 9/15,9/17 T,Th Ch 4 Newton s Laws and Forces 9/22 T Ch 5 Applications of Forces 9/24 Th Ch 9 Torque and Static Equilibrium 9/29 T Ch 9 Torque and Static Equilibrium 10/1 Th Ch 6 Circular Motion 10/5 M Combined Sec. Exam 1-7:15 9:15 pm. - Morton 201,235,237 10/6 T Ch 7 Work and Energy 10/8 Th Ch 7 Conservation of Energy; Power 10/13,10/15 T,Th Ch 8 Momentum and Collisions 10/20 T Ch 10 Rotational Kinematics and Dynamics 10/22 Th Ch 10 Moment of Inertia and Angular Momentum 10/27, 10/29 T,Th Ch 16 Hooke s Law and SHM 11/3, 11/5, 11/10 T,Th,T Ch 11/12 Fluids 11/12 Th Ch 13/14 Thermal Physics 11/16 M Combined Sec. Exam 2-7:15 9:15 pm. - Morton 201, 235, 237 11/17 T Ch 13 Kinetic Theory 11/19,11/24 Th,T Ch 15 Laws of Thermodynamics 11/26 Th Thanksgiving (no class) 12/1 T Ch 15 Laws of Thermodynamics 12/3 Th Review problems 12/11 F Comprehensive Final Exam at 2:30 4:30 pm. Room to be announced.
Week of: Physics 2001 - Lab Schedule - Fall Semester 2015 Clippinger 045 Experiment Aug 24 NO LABS this week Aug 31 2 Simple Measurements and Density Sept 7 NO LABS this week (Labor Day) Sept 14 3 Addition of Forces Sept 21 8 Acceleration Using the Air Track Sept 28 7 Atwood s Machine Oct 5 4 Equilibrium and Center of Gravity Oct 12 5 Parallel Forces Oct 19 12 Ballistic Pendulum Oct 26 11 Conservation of Momentum Using the Air Track Nov 2 19b Simple Harmonic Motion & Hooke s Law Nov 9 NO LABS this week (Veteran s Day) Nov 16 16 Coefficient of Linear Expansion Nov 23 NO LABS this week (Thanksgiving) Nov 30 18 Heat of Fusion & Vaporization of Water Scheduling Lab: Lab call numbers in the 2000 and 2050 series are different from the course call numbers, so make sure that two (2) call numbers appear under Physics. If you have not scheduled a lab by the end of the first week, you will need to see Ms. Candi Spaulding in Room 046 Clippinger for a pink slip. You may only change or sign into a lab that has open slots. Lab is required to be taken the same semester that the associated lecture class is taken. Missing First Lab: Because of the large student enrollment in these courses, students not attending the first scheduled lab will have their names automatically dropped from the lab roster so that other students may be put into these openings. If, for any reason, you miss the first laboratory it is YOUR responsibility to contact Ms. Candi Spaulding immediately to retain your seat in lab. (593-1689, spauldic@ohio.edu) Lab Grades: A passing grade in the Laboratory is required in order to pass the entire course. (70% or better.) All laboratories will be graded on the basis of 20 points distributed over three areas: 1. (6pts) Pre-lab assignment 2. (4pts) Participation (graded from laboratory observation of student s in-class performance, punctuality, cooperation, etc. at the TA s discretion); and 3. (10pts) Laboratory report (numerical and graphical analysis and conclusions). Under normal circumstances the data and the analysis of each laboratory is expected to be completed within the two-hour period and the report turned in to the laboratory instructor. Please read very carefully the makeup policy included on the last page of the syllabus. +++ No food, drink (including water), or open toed shoes are allowed in lab. +++ Bring your calculator and ruler/protractor to lab.
Department of Physics and Astronomy Laboratory Makeup Policy 1. All make-up labs are to be scheduled through the Clippinger 046 office (Ms. Candi Spaulding). Your TA cannot make these arrangements. You may also contact Ms. Candi Spaulding at 593-1689, or by email at spauldic@ohio.edu. 2. Any student who will miss a lab for a mandatory scheduled University activity (i.e.: track member in track meet) (these people should have a written excuse explaining their absence) should make up the lab in another regular section of the lab during the week the missed experiment is run. Emergency excused make-ups must be rescheduled within one week of the missed lab. Note: If your lab falls late in the week, you may have to do your makeup lab before your regularly scheduled lab time. 3. All labs will be graded so that each lab counts something towards the student s final course grade. 4. Missed labs without a valid (University Sanctioned) excuse, shall count as zero(0) and the student will not be allowed to make up this missed lab. 5. If more than three (3) labs are missed with or without valid excuses and are not made up (University sanctioned misses only may be made up) the student shall fail the entire course (lecture and lab.) 6. Schedule all medical appointments at times other than your lab time. Makeup exams and labs in other courses do not take precedence, neither do advisor or RD meetings. Flight time also does not take precedence over regularly scheduled classes. University procedures require that regularly scheduled classes and laboratories take precedence over such activities. 7. Students waiting until the last weeks of the semester to do make-ups missed during the first part of the semester will be denied makeup privileges even if the original excuse for missing lab was valid. 8. Missed scheduled make-ups will be counted as zero and will not be rescheduled unless exceptional circumstances exist. 9. All makeup labs must be completed by the last lab of the semester in the course in which it was missed. 10. All makeup labs must be accompanied by a blue half-sheet for both the performance part and in order for that lab to be graded by the regular instructor. If this sheet is not presented to the makeup lab instructor the student will be denied makeup. If the sheet is not attached to the makeup report, it will not be graded by the regular lab instructor. All completed lab material must be turned in to the student s lab instructor, either in his/her mailbox in the Physics office (Room 251) or in the green 2050 box in the basement within 24 hours of the makeup.
Instructions for Using LON-CAPA This semester we will be using LON-CAPA for homework assignments and general course materials. Access: The system is accessed via a web browser. Go to the URL: http://loncapa.phy.ohiou.edu. If you are going to bookmark the address, USE THIS address (http://loncapa.phy.ohiou.edu), NOT the individual servers. Your username is your 8 character Ohio ID (for example: ml931098). The username is CASE SENSITIVE. Make sure the first two letters are lowercase. You will use your Ohio ID password to access the system. (See Activate your Ohio ID and Change your password links under http://technology.ohio.edu/myaccount/ to change your password.) Your browser will need to have cookies and Javascript enabled. Popup windows should not be blocked from *.phy.ohiou.edu. Finding Materials: Upon login select the Student role in your particular course. You will be presented with the first item in the course. This may be a home page or the course contents page itself. Click on Course Contents. The Course Contents page allows you to view all resources in the course. It is a good place to check the status of various problems. To help with clutter, folders can be opened and closed by clicking on the + or - in front of the folder icon. When expanded, the status of individual problems in an assignment will be displayed. You can select several options at the top. Explore! To go to a problem, click on the title. Enter the answers in the boxes provided (or via pull-down menus). Press submit answer to send the answer to the computer. Feedback will be provided. Read this carefully. If you are correct, you will be provided a receipt number. RECORD THIS NUM- BER!!! If there is a technical problem, this number will provide proof that you have done your assignment. Without this number we will not investigate any issues regarding claims of lost points. You are typically allowed multiple attempts at a problem. The number of attempts is displayed below the problem and on the Course Contents page. Printing the Assignment: To obtain a printout of your assignment, go to one of the problems in the assignment. Select the Print icon from the menu at the top right of the screen. Select Selected Resources in folder... and press NEXT. Press NEXT again. The system will create a PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) file which can be read using Adobe Acroread. Checking Scores: Goto the Main Menu (link on top left) and click on View current problem status and grading information to get an overview of the point totals for each folder. WARNING! Check due times carefully under Course Contents Page. If you think this time is not correct, contact your instructor BEFORE the due date listed. Beware - the time on the computer is set to National Standard Time (www.time.gov). The time on the computer is NOT necessarily the time on your watch. Waiting to the last hour to do your assignment is not suggested. Additionally, the computer load can get pretty high at due times. Do not wait until the last minute! Tips: Here are a few tips when entering answers: Scientific notation is entered in the form 6.02e23 not 6.02 10 23 Problems may or may not require units. The computer will let you know. If units are requested, place a space before the units. An example of a complex unit would be acceleration, meters per second per second, input as m/sˆ2, m/s/s, or m/(s*s). Read the computer feedback carefully! If computer complains about units or sig figs, it HAS NOT YET CHECKED THE NUMER- ICAL PART OF THE ANSWER. HELP!!! If you are having technical difficulties, please click on the Help link on the login page or the Help link on the top right once you ve logged in. Other help items are scattered throughout the web pages (see the blue question marks). If you are still having difficulties, please visit the page loncapa.phy.ohiou.edu/help. Further instructions can be found there. Fall 2015 August 21, 2015