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PHYS-2426-001 Principles of Physics II
Prerequisites: PHYS 2425 and MATH 2414
Principles of physics for science, computer science and engineering majors, using calculus, involving the principles of electricity and magnetism, including circuits, electromagnetism, waves, sound, light and optics. Laboratory experiments supporting theoretical principles presented in lecture involving the principles of electricity and magnetism, including circuits, electromagnetism, waves, sound, light and optics; experimental design, data collection and analysis, and preparation of laboratory reports.
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(4 sem hrs; 3 lec, 3 lab)
On Campus Course
Lecture: Physics for Scientists and Engineers 9th edition, Serway & Jewitt (optional, the WebAssign access includes an ebook version)
Lab: Laboratory Manual for PHYS 2426, on Blackboard. Summer Lab Manual, on Google Drive. Summer Lab Equipment take-home bag available at Ware Student Commons the week of June 8.
Homework: You will need to get a code for WebAssign if you do not already have one. If you took Principles of Physics I from Professor Van Domelen, your old code should still work (unless you bought a single-term code, or retook Physics I).
Calculator: You will need a calculator that is not your phone that can handle scientific notation, exponents, and trigonometric functions.
Ruler and Protractor: Normally these are supplied in class, you will need to acquire both in addition to the usual writing and note-taking equipment.
Graph Paper: If you find you need this for any lab reports, http://www.printfreegraphpaper.com is a good resource.
Lab Kit: A bag of equipment for hands-on labs will be available at the Ware Student Center. This includes a Digital Multimeter, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, patch cables, batteries, lenses, and a tape measure. You will need to return the kit at the end of the term.
After completing the lecture part of this course, students should be able to:
1. Articulate the fundamental concepts of electricity and electromagnetism, including electrostatic potential energy, electrostatic potential, potential difference, magnetic field, induction, and Maxwell’s equations.
2. State the general nature of electrical forces and electrical charges, and their relationship to electrical current.
3. Solve problems involving the inter-relationship of electrical charges, electrical forces, and electrical fields.
4. Apply Kirchhoff’s laws to analysis of circuits with potential sources, capacitance, and resistance, including parallel and series capacitance and resistance.
5. Calculate the force on a charged particle between the plates of a parallel-plate capacitor.
6. Apply Ohm’s law to the solution of problems.
7. Describe the effects of static charge on nearby materials in terms of Coulomb’s law.
8. Use Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws to find the electromotive forces.
9. Describe the components of a wave and relate those components to mechanical vibrations, sound, and decibel level.
10. Articulate the principles of reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference and superposition of waves.
11. Solve real-world problems involving optics, lenses, and mirrors.
After completing the lab part of this course, students should be able to:
1. Prepare laboratory reports that clearly communicate experimental information in logical and scientific manner.
2. Conduct basic laboratory experiments involving electricity and magnetism.
3. Relate physical observations and measurements involving electricity and magnetism to theoretical principles.
4. Evaluate the accuracy of physical measurements and the potential sources of error in the measurement.
5. Design fundamental experiments involving principles of electricity and magnetism.
6. Identify appropriate sources of information for conducting laboratory experiments involving electricity and magnetism.
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IMPORTANT NOTE: This course is set up as "in person" but will be taught in a "tech-assisted" format due to the pandemic. What this means is that we will still meet at the scheduled times for lectures, problem solving sessions, labs, and so forth. It will not be self-paced in the way that hybrid and online courses often are. Discord will be used for course meetings, with the link provided on Blackboard.
The lecture meetings will include class discussion and some activities, so students will not be expected to sit quietly the entire time. Students will be expected to exercise good judgement regarding when to speak and when to listen, however, both with Dr. Van Domelen and their fellow students.
Students are expected to remain up-to-date on their own grades, and bring any disputes to the instructor in a timely manner. Other than disputes regarding the final exam itself, all disputes must be brought up prior to taking the final exam.
You may record (screenshots or other means) lectures for your personal use or to share with other students currently taking this course. You do not have permission to post them online for wide distribution or to sell them or otherwise profit by the distribution of the lectures.
Academic dishonesty will at a minimum be punished by a score of zero on the relevant task. This includes cheating on exams, and turning in lab reports for a lab that was not actually attended. (The online homework is harder to cheat than to just do honestly, but please do not take this as a challenge.) Due to the necessity of delivering exams online, further details regarding impermissible behavior will be made available as part of an Honor Statement all students are expected to sign and upload before taking the first exam. Additional sanctions at the College level may be applied if the situation merits.
Three regular exams will together compose 30% of the class grade, while the final exam will count as 20%. Homework will count for 20% of the grade. Laboratory work, between pre-lab exercises and group lab reports, will count for 20% (10% for each). Participation in group work during recitation will make up the remaining 10%.
If it will raise your average, the lowest regular exam grade (unless it is a zero given for cheating) will be replaced by the percentage score of the final exam.
Due to the limitations of the tech-assisted course format, there will only be five lab report grades, but there will be nine pre-lab grades (you will be responsible for the pre-labs for several labs that we will not actually be doing due to equipment limitations). The lab reports will be submitted as group work, with all in the group sharing the same score. There will be no dropped lab scores, but submitting teamwork evaluations will grant some extra credit points.
Up to two group work sessions can be missed with no penalty, and no excuse needed (although notifying your group is considered polite).
There are no dropped homework grades. In extreme circumstances Dr. Van Domelen may grant a one day extension, but you are expected to not leave the entire assignment until the night it is due. You will not have the oppportunity to redo homework later to reclaim lost points. However, lecture attendance will be used to grant extra points to the final assignment. Perfect lecture attendance will result in 15 bonus points (each point being one homework problem's value), with one fewer point for each missed lecture, to a minimum of zero bonus points.
There is not a separate grade for lecture attendance beyond the extra credit above. However, when setting the final curve, good attendance is more likely to convince Dr. Van Domelen to make adjustments in your favor.
The harshest grading scale that will be applied will be as follows: 89.5% = A, 79.5% = B, 69.5% = C, 59.5% = D. Dr. Van Domelen reserves the right to adjust the curve to be more forgiving, but will not make it harsher. The final analysis will consider the grades of all students: a few very high scores will not prevent a relaxing of the curve if most of the class struggled. The resulting curve will probably be uneven, meaning the numerical ranges of each letter grade will not be the same.
Student attendance in lecture and lab is expected. Roll call will be taken in the Discord server, requiring student activity (such as saying "Here" or participating in group work) to count. Merely being online will not be considered attendance.
There is only one section of this course, but the grading criteria include making allowances for a few absences.
Important note: Students who are absent for all meetings of the class in the first week will be automatically dropped. At least one day of attendance is required. Since this is an online course, even if you have a schedule clash with the first week, you should be able to log in via Discord on your phone.
There will always be lectures during the lecture times except where noted in this syllabus. Unless otherwise specified in a week’s entry, the weekly schedule for other matters will be as follows:
Mondays: WebAssign homework over the week’s new material is available at 10:00 AM. Lab during lab time some weeks, otherwise recitation. There may be a Pre-Lab exercise due, to be uploaded before lecture. If there was a lab the previous Monday, the report is due at the beginning of lab today. At 11:59 tonight, homework over the previous week’s material is due (exceptions: no homework due on June 8, and Homework 8 is due on July 29 at 11:59 AM). Note, "Experiment" refers to the in-person lab manual on Blackboard, while "Summer Experiment" refers to the labs using take-home equipment. You will be responsible for reading the lab manual even for experiments that we will not be able to do in class.
Tuesdays: Recitation during lab time. This involves group work problems and discussion of the homework that was due this week.
Wednesdays: Some weeks, there will be a Lab during lab time, and a Pre-Lab due before lecture. Otherwise, there will be another recitation time. If there was a lab last Wednesday, the report will be due at the beginning of lab today.
Thursdays: In odd-numbered weeks, there will be a recitation during lab time, including discussion of not-yet-due homework and group problem solving. In even-numbered weeks, there will be an exam. For Exams 1-3, the exam will be open from 7PM to midnight, but should not require more than 90 minutes to do. The Final Exam will be available all day July 30 (24 hours), but is not expected to require more than two hours. Note: exams will include material covered as close as two days before the exam. This would be a one week gap in a 16 week class, 8 week class pacing is a bit rough.
Week 1 (6/8 – 6/11): Lecture: Chapter 23 (Electric Forces and Fields), Chapter 24 (Gauss’s Law), start Chapter 25 (Electric Potential). Lecture is likely to overflow into the Tuesday recitation time. Lab: Monday – Policies and WebAssign account creation. No Pre-Lab. Wednesday – Experiment 1 (Friction and Torque, Pre-Lab exercises done as a group and submitted as a lab report).
Week 2 (6/15 – 6/18): Lecture: Finish Chapter 25 (Electric Potential), Chapter 26 (Capacitance), Begin Chapter 27 (Current and Resistance). Lab: Monday - Summer Experiment 2 (Electrical Measurements). Pre-Lab: Honor Statement for exams. Wednesday – No lab, review for Exam 1. No lecture on Thursday. EXAM 1 on 6/18 (covers Chapters 23-26).
Week 3 (6/22 – 6/25): Lecture: Finish Chapter 27, all of Chapter 28 (DC Circuits), Chapter 29 (Magnetic Fields). Lab: Monday - Work in groups on Pre-Lab for Summer Experiment 2. Pre-Lab for Experiment 3 (Potential Mapping) is due, Wednesday - Summer Experiment 2 (Kirchhoff Loop Laws). Prelab for Summer Experiment 2 due.
Week 4 (6/29 – 7/2): Lecture: Chapter 30 (Sources of Magnetic Fields), Chapter 31 (Faraday’s Law). Lab: Monday - None. Wednesday – Recitation. Pre-Lab for Experiment 6 (Magnetic Force on a Wire) due. EXAM 2 on 7/2 (Chapters 27-30). (University closed July 3.)
Week 5 (7/6 – 7/9): Lecture: Chapter 32 (Inductance), Chapter 33 (AC Circuits). Lab: Monday – Summer Experiment 3 (RC Circuits). Pre-Lab for Summer Experiment 3 due. Wednesday – Recitation. Pre-Lab for Experiment 7 (Charge-Mass Ratio of Electrons) is due.
Week 6 (7/13 – 7/16): Lecture: Chapter 34 (Electromagnetic Waves), Chapter 35 (Ray Optics). Lab: Monday - Recitation. Pre-Lab for Experiment 8 (RLC Circuits) is due. Wednesday – Recitation. EXAM 3 on 7/16 (Chapters 31-34).
Week 7 (7/20 – 7/23): Lecture: Chapter 36 (Image Formation), Chapter 37 (Wave Optics), Chapter 38 (Dispersion and Polarization). Lab: Monday - Recitation. Pre-Lab for Experiment 9 (Reflection and Refraction) is due. Wednesday – Summer Experiment 4 (Lenses). Pre-Lab for Summer Experiment 4 is due.
Week 8 (7/27 – 7/30): Lecture: Chapter 40 (Intro to Quantum Mechanics). Wednesday lecture will be an “Ask Me Anything (about science)” session. Lab: Monday – Recitation. Wednesday – Final Exam review questions, including discussion of Homework 8. Homework 8 will be due at 11:59 AM on 7/29. FINAL EXAM on 7/30 (comprehensive, but heavily weighted towards chapters 35-38, 40).
If you are going to miss class due to internet outage or illness, please notify Dr. Van Domelen by email as soon as possible. Non-final Exams can be rescheduled within a limited range, and lab absences can be excused by the circumstances.
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