Lecture Hours: T, TH 1.25 PM- 2.50 PM
Location: 1109 Science
Text : Physics by Giambattista, Richardson and Richardson McGraw Hill( 2008)
Lecturer: Karur R. Padmanabhan
Office: Rm.364 Physics Building
Telephone: 577-3005
E-mail:
Office Hours: T, Th 11AM -1 PM (or by prior appt)
Course Objective: This is a three-credit course that must be taken concurrently with the one credit lab, PHY 2141. The goal is to give an introduction to physics based on algebra and trigonometry. The topics covered include electricity, magnetism, and modern physics.
Lectures and Reading Assignments: In order for you to learn from and participate in the discussion of the material covered, it is very important for you to do the reading assignment before coming to class. Many short, in class quizzes will be given. These will test whether you have a clear understanding of the material covered during the previous lecture, and whether you are familiar with the terminology and basic concepts of the reading assignment. You can earn bonus points towards the hour exams from these in class quizzes. Since these points are awarded for attending class regularly and doing the assigned reading before coming to class, no make-up in class quizzes will be given. Attendance to all lectures is expected. Consecutive absence from 2 lectures without prior approval will result in negative points in the exam.
Homework: The homework assignments are a good opportunity to really think about, digest, and apply the concepts discussed in your text and during the lecture.Doing the homework assignments is an invaluable practice for problem solving. Furthermore, the homework assignments may be used to cover some material not covered in class. For both these reasons, doing the homework problems regularly is an essential part of preparing you for the exams. Homework problems will be posted in webassign every other week You need to get a password from webassign for this by paying a fee. Go to www. webassign.com
Quiz Sections: Quiz sections meet once a week and are important because they give you an opportunity to meet in smaller groups to ask questions, discuss homework assignments and some lecture material. For each quiz section you are expected to do the homework that relates to the material covered during the week prior to the quiz class. In the quiz sections, you will be given a number of unannounced 10-minute quizzes, which will have questions and problems similar to your homework assignments. There will be no make-up quizzes. You will have the opportunity to earn up to 5% of bonus points towards your course grade for the attendance and performance of the quiz sections.
Grading: Your course grade will be determined by the three in-class hour-exams, the final exam.
3 in-class exams 15% each
Webassign 15%
Final exam 40%
There will be no make-up exams. Note the Final Exam Date and Time
Grading Scale: The grading scale will be as follows:
A 90-100%
A- 86 - 90%
B+ 80 - 85%
B 76- 80%
B- 70 -75%
C+ 65 -69 %
C 60 - 64%
C- 55-59 %
D+ 50 -54 %
D 40 – 50 %
E 0 - 39%
Blackboard: All information will generally be posted on Blackboard. You need to
look at the blackboard on a daily basis including Weekends.
TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE
Week Date Day Lecture Topic Reading Assignment
1 01/13 T Electric Charges, Coulomb's Law 16.1-16.3
Electric Field 16.4-16.5
01/15 Th Conductors, Gauss's Law 16.6-16.7
2. 01/20 T Potential energy, potential, 17.1-17.4
01/22 Th Capacitors, dielectrics 17.5-17.7
3. 01/27 T Current, Emf and Resistance 18.1-18.4
Kirchhoff Rules / Problems 18.5-18.6
01/29 Th Power and RC circuits 18.7-18.10
4. 02/03 T Exam-1 ( 16-18 )
02/05 Th Charged particle in magnetic field 19.1-19.3
Charged particle in E and B field 19.4-19.5
5.. 02/10 T Force on a wire, torque on a loop 19.6-19.8
02/12 Th Ampere’s law, magnetic materials 19.9-19.10
6 02/17 T Induced Emf, faraday’s law, Lenz law 20.1-20.4
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0/2/19 Th Transformers, inductance, LR circuits 20.5-20.10
7.. 02/24 T AC Circuits with R, C and L 21.1-21.4
02/26 Th RLC Resonance, ac to dc 21.5-21.6
8. 03/03 T Exam-2 (chapters 19 - 21)
03/05 Th Electromagnetic Waves 22.1-22.4
Energy Transport,
9. 03/10 T Polarization, Doppler effect 22.5- 22.9
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03/12 Th Relativity postulates, frames and observers 26.1-26.2
Time dilation, Length contraction,
Inertial frames 26.3-26.5
Relativistic Mass, Momentum and energy 26.6-26.8
10. 03/16- 03/21 Spring Break ( no classes)
11. 03/24 T Quantum Physics, Blackbody, Photo effect 27.1-27.3
03/26 Th X-rays, Compton scattering, atom 27.4-27.5
Atomic energy levels, 27.6-27.7
12. 03/31 T Exam-3 ( Chapters 22, 26,27 )
04/02 Th Wave – particle duality 28.1-28.3
De Broglie Waves, Quantum Mechanics
Uncertainty Principle, wave function,
13. 04/07 T Quantum numbers, selection rules 28.4-28.7
Atomic Transitions, Periodic table
. 04/09 Th Lasers, electron tunneling 28.9-28.10
Solid state Physics 28.8
14. 04/14 T Nuclear Structure and BE 29.1- 29.2
04/16 Th Radioactivity/ decay process 29.3-29.4
15. 04/21 T Nuclear reaction, Fission, Fusion 29.6-29.8
Fundamental Particles and Interactions 30.1-30.2
Unification, super symmetry 30.3-30.4
04/23 Th Review
04/30 Th Final Exam (cumulative)
Laboratory
The laboratory (PHY 2141) is a separate part of the course, with its own grades and procedures. These will be covered by your lab instructor. Your laboratory manual is to be purchased separately at the University Bookstore. Lab sections begin on
Available Resources
· Physics Resource Center
This is a Help Center for undergraduate physics students conducted by the Department of Physics and Astronomy. The Center is located in Rm. 172 of Physics Research Building. You will be able to get assistance at this Center with your homework, labwork, and other issues related to your course. The scheduled times for the center will be given later.
· Tutoring and Supplemental Instruction (SI)
Tutoring is also available at the Academic Success Center (ASC) in Rm.1600 of Undergraduate Library. The SI leader appointed by the ASC for this course will be announced later.