Physics 222: Elements of Physics Spring 2014 Course Objectives: The major goal of this course will be teaching Electricity, Magnetism, and Modern Physics to pre-professional life science students. Other goals of this course are to help the students (a) realize Physics can be fun to learn and practically useful to their chosen professions, (b) develop logical, analytical, and quantitative skills which are needed to succeed in their chosen professions, and (c) pass the exams such as MCAT to advance to their professional career. Instructor: Prof. Jaewook Joo; email: jjoo1@utk.edu; office: South College 211 Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:15-3:15 PM Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 1:25 2:15 pm @ Nielsen Physics Building 415. All students are expected to attend all of the lectures. The lecture slides will be posted on the course blackboard at least 3 days before the lectures are delivered in class. Textbooks: There is no designated textbook. One of highly recommended book is College Physics by Serway and Vuille (9 th edition). But, you can use any introductory Algebra-based college physics textbook in addition to my lecture slides. Online homework assignments will come from the book by Serway and Vuille. Assessment: 1. Homework Assignment: The weekly homework assignments will be posted on the online homework website (WebAssign) two weeks before due date, 23:59 PM on every Friday. You need to purchase 1 semester homework only assess code for WebAssign from the University Bookstore or from https://www.webassign.net/. The WebAssign is auto-synchronized with the course blackboard. So, in order to access the WebAssign website, you need to go to the blackboard and click on Webassign button. The first set of homework assignment will be posted on January 8th and due January 22nd. No late homework will be accepted. One lowest score of the homework sets will be dropped when the final grade is calculated. See the class schedule for the HW due dates. 2. Mid term exams and final exam: There will be three 50 minutes-long mid term exams at 1:25-2:15 PM on February 3 (Mon), March 3 (Mon), April 7 (Mon) and twohours-long final exam at 12:30-2:30 PM on April 30 (Wed). The final exam will be comprehensive. Any exams will be closed book and closed notes, but a list of useful equations will be provided. Simple calculators with no memory functions are permitted. On the day of the exam, please leave your caps, MP3 players, cell phones, PDAs, laptops, etc. at home. Do not forget to bring your university ID and a couple of #2 pencils. Either before the exam or while you take the exam, your university ID will be checked. If there is any concern about your exam score, you may send me a written appeal by email no later than one week after the date when the graded exams are returned to the students. After this appeal period of one week, exam scores will be considered final and will not be altered. Your final grade will be computed from two best exams out of three midterm exams, i.e., one lowest score exam will be dropped. This also implies that you may miss one and only one in-class mid-term exam for any reasons such as family
emergency, sick day, departmental/collegial events, or student-athlete s athletic events. This policy means that there will be no makeup for any missed mid-term exams. 3. Lab: It is mandatory to attend both Lab and recitation. Each individual Lab instructor will grade your laboratory performance independently. But, an effort will be made to ensure a uniform grading policy between different laboratory sections. Laboratory makeups are entirely at the lab instructor s discretion and arrangements must be made with the lab instructor. 4. Attendance: The University requires the students to attend the all classes except some exceptional cases. Normally, attending the class does not deserve the extra credit. However, I want to reward those who strive to come to all the classes with 5% of extra credit points. I will "randomly" select a few students to check their attendance either in the beginning or at the end of a lecture. Those chosen students are required to show me their ID card and sign in on the attendance sheet as an evidence of their attendance before I leave the classroom. If the chosen one cannot prove his/her attendance on that day, he/she will lose 1% of extra credit point. The maximum point one can lose is 5% of extra credit points. 5. Participation: During each lecture, I will specifically mention which questions are good for participation extra credits. You should claim your participation in the discussion board by the deadline (within 7 days of your participation). You can claim only one participation extra credit per one lecture. Each participation per day deserves 0.2% of extra credit points. The maximum extra credit points that one can accumulate in the semester is 3% of extra credit points. 6. Final grade will be determined by: 15% x 2 = 30% Best two of three mid term exams 30% Final exam 20% Recitation and Lab 20% Homework 5% (extra credit) Attendance 3% (extra credit) Participation 0.5% (extra credit) SAIS Your final grade is assigned as follows: A = 90 or above A- = 87-89.9 B+= 83-86.9 B = 80-82.9 B- = 77-79.9 C+= 73-76.9 C = 70-72.9 C- = 67-69.9 D+= 63-66.9 D = 60-62.9 F= 59.9 or below
Course Policies: 1. Attendance: Students are required to attend all classes. You need to provide me with a doctor s note if you miss a class due to medical reasons. 2. Late Assignments: No late homework will be accepted. 3. Makeup exams: There will be no make-up mid-term exams. 4. University s honor Statement: An essential feature of the University of Tennessee is a commitment to maintaining an atmosphere of intellectual integrity and academic honesty. As a student of the University, I pledge that I will neither knowingly give nor receive any inappropriate assistance in academic work, thus affirming my personal commitment to honor and integrity. For our purposes, cheating consists of submission of homework or exam solutions that are not one s own work, or submission of such work under someone else s name. Cheating also includes the possession and/or use of materials not permitted on any exam or quiz. According to University rules, any detected act of cheating will be penalized with an F for the course, followed by appropriate disciplinary actions. 5. Classroom etiquette: Please turn off cell phones and laptop computers during the lecture time. I urge you to minimize any sort of distractions such as surfing the web or reading/writing emails on laptop, or texting the massages on your cell phone so that you and others can concentrate on learning Physics. 6. Students-Instructor and Students-Students Communication: If you have either Physics or logistic questions, please post them in the course blackboard (go to discussion board) and share your questions with Physics 222 community. Other students might have the similar questions or even answers. I will try my best to provide my response in timely manner. 7. Students with disabilities: the Office of Disability Services (ODS) assists students with Disabilities. To have this service, contact the ODS: 2227 Dunford hall, 915 Volunteer Blvd, 964-6087 or ods@utk.edu. For more details, see the Hiltopics or contact the ODS.
Course schedule: This schedule is tentative and subject to change as the course proceeds. You are responsible for keeping up-to-date with course activities as announced in class and/or via Blackboard. Date Lecture Reading Homework Lab Jan 8 L1: Introduction & Electric Ch. 15 Forces Jan 10 L2: Electric Forces & Fields Ch. 15 Jan 13 L3: Electric Fields Ch. 15 Electric Fields Jan 15 L4: Electric Flux and Gauss s Ch. 15 Law Jan 17 L5: Electric Potential Ch. 16 Jan 20 MLK Holiday Jan 22 L6: Electric Potential Ch. 16 HW1:Ch.15 Ohm s Law Jan 24 L7: Capacitors Ch. 16 Jan 27 L8: Capacitors Ch. 16 Ohm s Law Jan 29 L9: Current & Resistance Ch. 17 HW2: Ch.16 Jan 31 L10: DC Circuits: Resistors Ch. 18 HW3: Ch.16 Feb 3 Exam 1: Ch. 15 and 16 Wheatstone Bridge Feb 5 Exam 1 Review; DC Circuits Ch. 18 Feb 7 L11: DC Circuits: Kirchhoff Ch. 18 HW4:Ch.17-18 Rules Feb 10 L12: RC Circuits Ch. 18 Resistance vs Temperature Feb 12 L13: RC Circuits Ch. 18 Feb 14 L14: Magnetic forces on moving Ch. 19 HW5:Ch.18 charges Feb 17 L15: Magnetic forces on currentcarrying wires Ch. 19 Electrical Energy Feb 19 L16: Magnetic forces due to Ch. 19 electric currents Feb 21 L17: Ampere s Law Ch. 19 HW6: Ch.19 Feb 24 L18: Inductance: Lenz Law Ch. 20 e/m ratio Feb 26 L19: Inductance: Lenz Law Ch. 20 Feb 28 L20: Inductance: Generator Ch. 20 HW7: Ch.20 Mar 3 Exam 2: Ch. 17, 18, 19, and 20 Ampere s Law Mar 5 L21: AC Circuits Ch. 21 Mar 7 L22: AC Circuits Ch. 21 Mar 10 L23: Electric Magnetic Waves Ch. 21 RC & RL Circuits Mar 12 L24: Polarizers Ch. 21 Mar 14 L25: Quantum Physics Ch. 27 HW8: Ch.21 Mar 17- Spring Break No Lab 21 Mar 24 L26: Quantum Physics Ch. 27 Photoelectric effect
Mar 26 L27: Quantum Physics Ch. 27 Mar 28 L28: Atomic Physics Ch. 28 HW9: Ch.27 Mar 31 L29: Atomic Physics Ch. 28 Balmer Series Apr 2 L30: Atomic Physics Ch. 28 Apr 4 L31: Nuclear Physics Ch. 29 HW10: Ch.28 Apr 7 Exam 3: Ch. 21, 27, and 28 Halflife of Ba- 137 Apr 9 L32: Nuclear Physics Ch. 29 Apr 11 L33: Nuclear Physics Ch. 29 HW11: Ch.29 Apr 14 L34: Elementary Particles Ch. 30 No lab Apr 16 L35: Elementary Particles Ch. 30 Apr 18 Spring Recess HW12: Ch.29-30 Apr 21 L36: Relativity Ch. 26 Lab makeups Apr 23 L37: Relativity Ch. 26 Apr 25 L38: Relativity or Final exam Ch. 26 HW13: Ch.26 review Apr 30 Final exam (12:30-2:30 PM at Nielsen 415)