SYLLABUS For PHYS 133 Section 51 and Section 52

COURSE INFORMATION:

Title:Physics 133 General Physics (PHYS- 0133 -51 and PHYS- 0133 -52)

Meeting Place:Room 46 (Section 51) Room 45 (Section 52), Building 52 (Science)

Meeting Times:11am – 12pm (Section 51) 12pm – 1pm (Section 52)

-Monday, Wednesday, Friday

Course Prerequisites:PHYS- 0131 or x141

INSTRUCTOR:

Name:Dr Karl Saunders

Phone Number:756-1696

E-mail Address:

Website:

Office: Room E-19, Building 52 (Science)

Office Hours:Tuesday 1pm – 2pm at The Math and Physics Learning Center

Tuesday 2pm – 3pm

Wednesday 1pm – 3pm

Friday 1pm - 2pm

Additional Office Hours: By appointment

REQUIRED TEXTBOOK

Title: Physics for Scientists and Engineers

Author: Knight R.D.

Publisher: Addison Wesley (2004)

Available at: El Corral Bookstore

Note: There is also a Student Workbook and Access Kit for the Mastering Physics website (see below). We will use both of these so you need to get them too.

Price: $143 for a package containing Textbook, Workbook and Access Kit.

REQUIRED LAB MANUAL:Physics 133 Laboratory Experiments

RESOURCES

The Math and Physics Learning Center: If you are having trouble with the homework or understanding the concepts, the physics learning center will be open 25 hours a week. It is located in Room A03 in Building 52 (Science). A math professor, a math student, a physics professor, and a physics student staff the learning center. The hours are Monday to Friday 9am - 2pm, starting the second week of each quarter.

Web Resources:

My website

This website contains a link to my Phys 133 website that will include the syllabus, homework solutions, review questions, and announcements

  • MasteringPhysics Website:

Course ID: MPSAUNDERS133S05

This is an online tutorial and homework and system run by the publisher of our textbook. You can access it using the Access Kit that came with your book- there is an Access Code on the inside cover of the kit- and the course ID (see above). The kit also contains a Getting Started booklet that you should read. At my website there is a document called “Using Mastering Physics” that contains useful information, including how to register the first time. We will be using this website for doing homework so please get comfortable with it as soon as possible.

COURSE FORMAT:

CLASS MEETINGS:

I will lecture using the blackboard. As often as possible we will work together on problems and exercises from the student workbook so bringpaper, pen/pencil, calculator and the student workbook. I will assign reading from the textbookThis is important because I will not always cover everything in class. You are responsible for covering the material by reading.

Classroom behavior: We should all expect behavior in the classroom that is considerate of everyone else in the classroom. This covers a lot of different things but includes not eating/drinking or reading the newspaper. It also means we should turn our cell phones off. If you need to take a call then leave the classroom and don’t come back until the next time we meet. If people are getting up and coming back in it is distracting for us all.

LABORATORY:

The laboratory is an integral part of this course and will support the material covered in lecture. You must be concurrently enrolled in the laboratory. The lab itself will be worth 5% of your grade. You must pass the lab to pass the course.

HOMEWORK

Working on homework is a crucial aspect of this course. It will test to see if you understand the material presented and, equally importantly, it will help you to develop the skills of model building, critical thinking and problem solving. The exams I give will contain questions similar to those you receive for homework so it is also in your interest to work hard on the homework if you want to do well on the exams. Links to the solutions will be posted online on my website (see above).

You are to do the homework carefully and clearly on paper. You are also to submit it to Mastering Physics. 75% the points for each problem will be awarded for the answer you submit to Mastering Physics (WAY 1). The other 25% will be awarded for how you presented the solution on paper (WAY 2).

WAY 1: Using the Mastering Physics Website (see above): You’ll log on to the website using your login and password. Here you’ll see a list of the problems I want you to do. The deadline will appear at the top of the screen.

WAY 2: Handwritten and turned in to me.

  • Clearly label the problem number, date and your collaborators (see below) at the beginning of each problem.
  • Keep all of your homework together and organized - use a ring binder. This will help you when you are studying for exams. If you come to my office with a question on a homework problem bring the binder with you so I can see your approach to the problem. I will only answer your question if you have your ring binder and attempted solution.

Collaboration:You can work on problems/study individually or in groups. Collaboration is an important aspect of everyday life and develops teamwork and communication skills. You are to name your collaborators at the start of each homework problem.

A few words of advice:

  • It is a good idea to think about the problem by yourself first. You may find that for a particular problem collaboration isn’t necessary. If collaboration is necessary then you will make it more productive by knowing what you do and don’t understand about the problem before collaborating.
  • If you collaborate on and solve a problem you must make sure that you, individually, understand how the solution is reached. A good way to check this is to try the problem again by yourself and without looking at the solution. The exams will consist of problems similar to those from homework. It is better to make sure you understood the solution while doing homework than to realize you didn’t during the exam!

If you are having difficulty with the homework or other problems you can bring your question to:

  • Class
  • My office
  • The Physics Learning Center (see above)
  • A classmate

Student Workbook:There is a Student Workbook in addition to the textbook. It consists of short exercises that are nearly all qualitative rather than quantitative. They don’t involve significant calculation and are basically there to give you a chance to practice the ideas and techniques that you’ll learn from the textbook and class. As often as possible we’ll work on exercises during class and I recommend that you use Student Workbook as a study aid too.

“Study 25-35 Hours/Week”: You have all seen the “Study 25-35 Hours/Week – 2 hours /unit/week” signs around campus. This class is four units so you should be studying at least 8 hours/week for it. “Studying” includes (but is not limited to):

  • Reading
  • Doing exercises from the workbook
  • Doing the homework problems
  • Preparing for exams
  • THINKING about the concepts

QUIZZES

There will be a quiz most weeks in the recitation period of lab. Each quiz will test your conceptual understanding, and will require an answer and an explanation to a question. Most of the points will be awarded for the explanation you give. The main way to prepare for these quizzes is to think about the material you are being presented with in class and covering with your reading. Another good way to prepare for these quizzes is to practice answering and explaining the Stop to Think questions as well as the conceptual type workbook questions. I would be happy to discuss any of your practice explanations with you.

EXAMS

There will be two midterm exams and a final exam. The tentative dates are:

  • Midterm 1: In lab April 18/19(Week 4)
  • Midterm 2: In lab May 10/11 (Week 7)
  • Final Exams (Section 51) Tuesday June 7th 10:10am to 1pm
  • Final Exams (Section 52) Thursday June 9th 10:10am to 1pm

For Section 52: if you want to take the final on the Tuesday let me know and I’ll try to accommodate you.

If you have to miss an exam, then arrangements must be made before the exam is given. If there is a test day emergency or illness, then leave me a message at my office (756-1696) BEFORE THE TEST. Then make arrangements with me as soon as possible.

GRADING

Lab: 5%

Homework: 20% (Mastering Physics 15% & Paper 5%)

Quizzes: 15%

Midterm 1: 20%

Midterm 2: 20%

Final: 20%

ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM

This is an introductory course on electricity and magnetism. This is a very rich field both in terms of breadth and depth. The material will be new to many of you and, unlike Physics 131/141, will not immediately lend itself to everyday intuition. Much of your effort in this course will be spent on understanding and getting comfortable with new concepts- particularly fields and potential. While challenging, the topics we will cover are also fascinating and extremely relevant to today’s high tech society. Most, if not all, of the world’s technology, from computers and cell phones to levitating trains and NMR is based on electricity and/or magnetism.

One of the great scientific achievements of our history, and a culmination of the advances in electricity and magnetism was Maxwell’s theory and description of light as an electromagnetic wave, at the end of the nineteenth century. It was a young Swiss patent clerk’s musings on the nature of this electromagnetic wave that gave birth to the Theory of Relativity and a profound advance in our understanding space, time and the nature of the universe. This year is the centenary of Einstein’s publication of his theory of Special Relativity and the reason we celebrate 2005 as the World Year of Physics.

PART 1: ELECTRIC CHARGES, FORCES AND FIELD

Goal: To understand electric phenomena in terms of charges, forces and fields.

You will:

  • Use a charge model for electric interaction
  • Calculate electric forces using Coulomb’s Law
  • Use electric fields to model long-range interactions between charges.
  • Calculate motion of charges in electric fields

PART 2: ELECTRIC POTENTIAL, CURRENT AND CIRCUITS

Goal: To understand electrical energy, current and their application to circuits.

You will:

  • Analyze the motion of charged particles using electrical potential energy
  • Relate electric potential and electrical potential energy
  • Connect electric field and electric potential
  • Use sources of electric potential
  • Acquire the basic tools for designing electric circuits

PART 3: ELECTROMAGENTISM

Goal: To understand magnetism and to relate magnetism and electricity.

You will:

  • Learn about magnetic phenomena and magnetic properties of materials
  • Calculate the magnetic field due to the motion of charges and also the effect on the motion of charges due to magnetic fields
  • Calculate the magnetic forces on current carrying wires
  • Calculate current induced by a changing field
  • Analyze circuits with inductors

APPROXIMATE SCHEDULE:

ELECTRIC CHARGES, FORCES, FIELD (About3 weeks)

  • Electric Charges and Forces – Ch 25.
  • Electric Field – Ch 26.
  • Gauss’s Law – Ch 27.

Midterm 1 will cover this material

ELECTRIC POTENTIAL, CURRENT AND CIRCUITS (About 3 weeks)

  • The Electric Potential – Ch 29
  • Potential and Field - Ch 30
  • Current and Conductivity – Ch 28
  • Fundamentals of Circuits Ch 31

Midterm 2 will cover this material

ELECTROMAGENTISM (About 4 weeks)

  • The Magnetic Field – Ch 32.
  • Electromagnetic Induction – Ch 33.
  • Electromagnetic Fields and Waves – Ch 34.
  • Time permitting: AC Circuits – Ch.35.

The Final will cover this material