Physics 2B, Spring 2012 ... Comprehensive Final (25-30%), Homework-Activities
(10-15%), and Lab (20%). ... are required to attend the midterms and the final.
Dr. W. Pezzaglia Las Positas College
Physics 2B, Spring 2012 Lec #1, Electric Charge
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Physics 2B: Electromagnetism, Optics, Modern Physics WHERE: Room 1828 When: Tu/Th 5-6:15 pm WHO: "Dr. Bill" Pezzaglia (Pez-al-ya) http://www.clifford.org/~drbill EMAIL:
[email protected] Phone/Messages: 650-430-0342 (cell) Office: 1825/1824 Hours: Tu 6:15-6:45, Thur 4:15-4:45 ________________________________________________________________ PREREQUISITES: TEXT:
Physics 2A, Math 20 (precalc), 38 (trig) (completed with a “C” grade or higher)
Knight, Jones & Field, College Physics nd [2 edition, 2010, Pearson, Addison Wesley with “Mastering Physics”] Scientific Calculator (NOT a cell phone or wireless device)
---------------------------------------------------------------ATTENDENCE: Showing up at all classes is a college requirement (you can be dropped for missing 4 classes). Role will be taken and attendance may influence your grade. GRADES: Approximate weighting: Two Midterms (25%), Three Quizzes (15%) (lowest one dropped), . Comprehensive Final (25-30%), Homework-Activities (10-15%), and Lab (20%). Missing multiple lab activities could lower your grade by up to one full grade point. To avoid a “D” in the course your average exam performance will need to be better than 25 to 30%. EXAMS: Your lowest quiz score will be dropped (which allows for one absence). You are required to attend the midterms and the final. Make up exams will not be given except for college accepted reasons (e.g. death in family, documented illness). There will be some example questions handed out before each exam. Any cheating on exams will automatically result with a “zero” score, and result in referral to the student discipline office. HOMEWORK: There will be regularly assigned homework problems. Its important for you to spend time on them, even if you don’t get it all correct. I’ll be grading half for effort. Most of homework will use “Mastering Physics”, but some will be “old fashion” pencil on paper. • Mastering Physics: login at www.masteringphysics.com • Course: " LPC Physics 2B Spring2012 Pezzaglia” • Course ID: “LPCPhys2BS2012Pezzaglia” WEB: http://www.clifford.org/drbill/lpc/ • Login as “student”, password: “galileo9” In particular, download the PowerPoint Slides for the lecture, and other materials. PHILOSOPHY: The Lectures, Text, Lab and Homework problems are intended to supplement and complement each other. They do not necessarily cover the same ground (e.g. lectures will not "parrot" the text but often provide a different perspective). Try not to get so lost in details that you lose the "big picture". Pay attention to note the "outline" format of my lectures for perspective. LAB: Mondays 4:30-7:20 pm in 1831. A separate lab syllabus will be given at that time. •
Lab Meeting #1 (Jan 23), will most likely be “Electric Fields and Equipotentials” http://lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us/lpc/physics/pdf/phys2/fields.pdf
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Might also do something on static electricity (depends upon the weather).
Dr. W. Pezzaglia Las Positas College
Physics 2B, Spring 2012 Lec #1, Electric Charge
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TENTATIVE LECTURE SCHEDULE for Physics 2B (Tu/Th 5:00-6:15 pm) Week
Meeting
Day
Date
1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 x x 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33
Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue Thur Tue
17-Jan 19-Jan 24-Jan 26-Jan 31-Jan 02-Feb 07-Feb 09-Feb 14-Feb 16-Feb 21-Feb 23-Feb 28-Feb 01-Mar 06-Mar 08-Mar 13-Mar 15-Mar 20-Mar 22-Mar 27-Mar 29-Mar 03-Apr 05-Apr 10-Apr 12-Apr 17-Apr 19-Apr 24-Apr 26-Apr 01-May 03-May 08-May 10-May 15-May
Electric Charge Electric Field Electric Flux Gauss Law Electric Potential Energy Voltage Capacitors Dielectrics, Energy Stored Current, Ohms Law Kirchhoff's Laws
34
Thur
17-May
Particle Physics
Tue
22-May
2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 x 13 14 15 16 17 18
Topic
Reading
Note
Chap 20
Chap 21 Quiz 1
Chap 22 Chap 23 Exam 1
Magnetic Field Ampere's Law Electrodynamics Faraday's Law Inductance AC Signals RLC Circuits Maxwell's Equations Polarization, Reflection Diffraction
Chap 24
Chap 25 Chap 26
Quiz 2
Chap 17 Exam 2
Refraction, Lenses, Mirrors Telescopes, Microscopes Spring Break Spring Break Special Relativity General Relativity Black Body Radiation Atomic Spectra Uncertainty Principle Atoms Molecules Nuclear Structure Nuclear Radiation Final Exam 5:30-7:20 pm nd
Textbook: Knight, College Physics [to 2 edition, Pearson] Note all of the above is subject to change.
Chap 18 Chap 19
Chap 27 Chap 28 Quiz 3 Chap 29 Chap 30
