Physics 112N - Fundamentals of Physics II - Section 1
Fall Semester 2009
LECTURES:
MTWR 8:10 - 9:00am, CHCB Room 131
INSTRUCTOR:
Andrew Ware
Office: CHCB 130
Phone: 243-6221
Email: andrew.ware@umontana.edu
Office Hours: M 9 - 10am, T 3 - 5pm, W 9 - 10am, R 2 -3pm
(and by appointment)
WEBSITE:
http://www.physics.umt.edu/phys112/
TEXTBOOKS:
Physics - Principles with Applications
by D.C. Giancoli, 6th Edition (Prentice-Hall, 2005)
PREREQUISITE:
Physics 111N or equivalent.
GENERAL ED.:
This course satisfies the general education group XI Natural
Science. This course is the second half of a broad overview of the
discipline of physics. Through this course you will be exposed to
the general principles of electricity, magnetism, light, and modern
physics.
HOMEWORK:
Reading assignment (about 1 chapter per week)
Problem assignments (15-20 problems per week)
Homework problems will not be collected but students will use
clickers to answer questions based on the homework. An i-clicker
is required for this class.
EXAMS:
Six mid-term exams on Wednesday evenings from 6-8 pm,
9/16, 9/30, 10/14, 10/28, 11/11, & 12/2
* Will cover two to three chapters per exam.
* Closed book but each student is allowed to bring
one 3” x 5” card on which notes can be written.
* Two help sessions will be scheduled before each exam.
One 2-hour final exam (10:10am-12:10pm, We 12/13)
* Comprehensive and closed book but each student is allowed to
bring six 3” x 5” cards on which notes can be written.
GRADING:
50-minute exams
Homework questions
Final exam
60 % (5 best, 12 % each)
10 %
30 %
[This course can be taken for a traditional letter grade (A,A-,B+,B,B-,C+,C,C-,D,F) only]
Drop/add by CyberBear through 2/10; drop/add by paper form from 2/11-3/6;
drop add by petition after 3/6.
TENTATIVE COURSE OUTLINE:
Week
Topics
Chapters in Text
1
electric charge, Coulomb’s law,
electric field, field lines
Chap. 16
2
electric potential, electric potential energy,
electric field and potential, capacitance
Chap. 17
3
electric current, Ohm’s law, resistivity,
electric power, alternating current
Chap. 18
4
resistor combinations, batteries,
Kirchhoff’s laws, capacitor combinations
Chap. 19
5
RC circuits
magnets and magnetic fields, Ampere’s law
Chap. 19
Chap. 20
6
interactions between magnetic field and
moving electric charge, applications
Chap. 20
7
electromagnetic induction, Faraday’s law,
transformers
Chap. 21
8
electromagnetic waves
geometric optics, laws of reflection and
refraction
Chap. 22
Chap. 23
9
lenses and mirrors, lens combinations
Chap. 23
10
wave optics, interference and diffraction,
diffraction grating
Chap. 24
11
Einstein’s theory of special relativity
Chap. 26
12
early quantum theory
photon’s interactions with matter
Chap. 27
13
Bohr’s model
introduction to quantum mechanics
Chap. 27
Chap. 28
14
More on quantum mechanics
Chap. 28
15
FINAL EXAM WEEK