Physics 222: Elements of Physics
Spring 2014
Course Objectives: The major goal of this course will be teaching Electricity,
Magnetism, and Modern Physics to pre-professional life science students. Other goals of
this course are to help the students (a) realize Physics can be fun to learn and practically
useful to their chosen professions, (b) develop logical, analytical, and quantitative skills
which are needed to succeed in their chosen professions, and (c) pass the exams such
as MCAT to advance to their professional career.
Instructor: Prof. Jaewook Joo; email: jjoo1@utk.edu; office: South College 211
Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 2:15 - 3:15 PM
Lectures: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 1:25 – 2:15 pm @ Nielsen Physics Building
415. All students are expected to attend all of the lectures. The lecture slides will be
posted on the course blackboard at least 3 days before the lectures are delivered in
class.
Textbooks: There is no designated textbook. One of highly recommended book is
College Physics by Serway and Vuille (9th edition). But, you can use any introductory
Algebra-based college physics textbook in addition to my lecture slides. Online
homework assignments will come from the book by Serway and Vuille.
Assessment:
1. Homework Assignment: The weekly homework assignments will be posted on the
online homework website (WebAssign) two weeks before due date, 23:59 PM on every
Friday. You need to purchase 1 semester homework only assess code for WebAssign
from the University Bookstore or from https://www.webassign.net/. The WebAssign is
auto-synchronized with the course blackboard. So, in order to access the WebAssign
website, you need to go to the blackboard and click on “Webassign” button. The first set
of homework assignment will be posted on January 8th and due January 22nd. No late
homework will be accepted. One lowest score of the homework sets will be dropped
when the final grade is calculated. See the class schedule for the HW due dates.
2. Mid term exams and final exam: There will be three 50 minutes-long mid term
exams at 1:25-2:15 PM on February 3 (Mon), March 3 (Mon), April 7 (Mon) and twohours-long final exam at 12:30-2:30 PM on April 30 (Wed). The final exam will be
comprehensive. Any exams will be closed book and closed notes, but a list of useful
equations will be provided. Simple calculators with no memory functions are permitted.
On the day of the exam, please leave your caps, MP3 players, cell phones, PDAs,
laptops, etc. at home. Do not forget to bring your university ID and a couple of #2 pencils.
Either before the exam or while you take the exam, your university ID will be checked. If
there is any concern about your exam score, you may send me a written appeal by email
no later than one week after the date when the graded exams are returned to the
students. After this “appeal period” of one week, exam scores will be considered final
and will not be altered. Your final grade will be computed from two best exams out of
three midterm exams, i.e., one lowest score exam will be dropped. This also implies that
you may miss one and only one in-class mid-term exam for any reasons such as family
emergency, sick day, departmental/collegial events, or student-athlete’s athletic events.
This policy means that there will be no makeup for any missed mid-term exams.
3. Lab: It is mandatory to attend both Lab and recitation. Each individual Lab instructor
will grade your laboratory performance independently. But, an effort will be made to
ensure a uniform grading policy between different laboratory sections. Laboratory makeups are entirely at the lab instructor’s discretion and arrangements must be made with
the lab instructor.
4. Attendance: The University requires the students to attend the all classes except
some exceptional cases. Normally, attending the class does not deserve the extra credit.
However, I want to reward those who strive to come to all the classes with 5% of extra
credit points. I will "randomly" select a few students to check their attendance either in
the beginning or at the end of a lecture. Those chosen students are required to show me
their ID card and sign in on the attendance sheet as an evidence of their attendance
before I leave the classroom. If the chosen one cannot prove his/her attendance on that
day, he/she will lose 1% of extra credit point. The maximum point one can lose is 5% of
extra credit points.
5. Participation: During each lecture, I will specifically mention which questions are
good for participation extra credits. You should claim your participation in the discussion
board by the deadline (within 7 days of your participation). You can claim only one
participation extra credit per one lecture. Each participation per day deserves 0.2% of
extra credit points. The maximum extra credit points that one can accumulate in the
semester is 3% of extra credit points.
6. Final grade will be determined by:
15% x 2 = 30%
30%
20%
20%
5% (extra credit)
3% (extra credit)
0.5% (extra credit)
Your final grade is assigned as follows:
A =
90 or above
A- = 87-89.9
B+= 83-86.9
B =
80-82.9
B- = 77-79.9
C+= 73-76.9
C = 70-72.9
C- = 67-69.9
D+= 63-66.9
D = 60-62.9
F=
59.9 or below
Best two of three mid term exams
Final exam
Recitation and Lab
Homework
Attendance
Participation
SAIS
Course Policies:
1. Attendance: Students are required to attend all classes. You need to provide me with
a doctor’s note if you miss a class due to medical reasons.
2. Late Assignments: No late homework will be accepted.
3. Makeup exams: There will be no make-up mid-term exams.
4. University’s honor Statement: “An essential feature of the University of Tennessee
is a commitment to maintaining an atmosphere of intellectual integrity and academic
honesty. As a student of the University, I pledge that I will neither knowingly give nor
receive any inappropriate assistance in academic work, thus affirming my personal
commitment to honor and integrity”. For our purposes, cheating consists of submission
of homework or exam solutions that are not one’s own work, or submission of such work
under someone else’s name. Cheating also includes the possession and/or use of
materials not permitted on any exam or quiz. According to University rules, any detected
act of cheating will be penalized with an “F” for the course, followed by appropriate
disciplinary actions.
5. Classroom etiquette: Please turn off cell phones and laptop computers during the
lecture time. I urge you to minimize any sort of distractions such as surfing the web or
reading/writing emails on laptop, or texting the massages on your cell phone so that you
and others can concentrate on learning Physics.
6. Students-Instructor and Students-Students Communication: If you have either
Physics or logistic questions, please post them in the course blackboard (go to
discussion board) and share your questions with Physics 222 community. Other
students might have the similar questions or even answers. I will try my best to provide
my response in timely manner.
7. Students with disabilities: the Office of Disability Services (ODS) assists students
with Disabilities. To have this service, contact the ODS: 2227 Dunford hall, 915
Volunteer Blvd, 964-6087 or ods@utk.edu. For more details, see the Hiltopics or contact
the ODS.
Course schedule: This schedule is tentative and subject to change as the course
proceeds. You are responsible for keeping up-to-date with course activities as
announced in class and/or via Blackboard.
Date
Jan 8
Lecture
L1: Introduction & Electric
Forces
L2: Electric Forces & Fields
L3: Electric Fields
L4: Electric Flux and Gauss’s
Law
L5: Electric Potential
MLK Holiday
L6: Electric Potential
L7: Capacitors
L8: Capacitors
L9: Current & Resistance
L10: DC Circuits: Resistors
Exam 1: Ch. 15 and 16
Reading
Ch. 15
Exam 1 Review; DC Circuits
L11: DC Circuits: Kirchhoff
Rules
L12: RC Circuits
Ch. 18
Ch. 18
Ch. 18
Ch. 19
Feb 21
Feb 24
Feb 26
Feb 28
Mar 3
L13: RC Circuits
L14: Magnetic forces on moving
charges
L15: Magnetic forces on currentcarrying wires
L16: Magnetic forces due to
electric currents
L17: Ampere’s Law
L18: Inductance: Lenz’ Law
L19: Inductance: Lenz’ Law
L20: Inductance: Generator
Exam 2: Ch. 17, 18, 19, and 20
Mar 5
Mar 7
Mar 10
L21: AC Circuits
L22: AC Circuits
L23: Electric Magnetic Waves
Ch. 21
Ch. 21
Ch. 21
Mar 12
Mar 14
Mar 1721
Mar 24
L24: Polarizers
L25: Quantum Physics
Spring Break
Ch. 21
Ch. 27
L26: Quantum Physics
Ch. 27
Jan 10
Jan 13
Jan 15
Jan 17
Jan 20
Jan 22
Jan 24
Jan 27
Jan 29
Jan 31
Feb 3
Feb 5
Feb 7
Feb 10
Feb 12
Feb 14
Feb 17
Feb 19
Homework
Ch. 15
Ch. 15
Ch. 15
Lab
Electric Fields
Ch. 16
Ch. 16
Ch. 16
Ch. 16
Ch. 17
Ch. 18
HW1:Ch.15
Ohm’s Law
Ohm’s Law
HW2: Ch.16
HW3: Ch.16
Wheatstone
Bridge
HW4:Ch.17-18
Ch. 18
Resistance vs
Temperature
HW5:Ch.18
Ch. 19
Electrical
Energy
Ch. 19
Ch. 19
Ch. 20
Ch. 20
Ch. 20
HW6: Ch.19
e/m ratio
HW7: Ch.20
Ampere’s Law
RC & RL
Circuits
HW8: Ch.21
No Lab
Photoelectric
effect
Mar 26
Mar 28
Mar 31
Apr 2
Apr 4
Apr 7
L27: Quantum Physics
L28: Atomic Physics
L29: Atomic Physics
L30: Atomic Physics
L31: Nuclear Physics
Exam 3: Ch. 21, 27, and 28
Ch. 27
Ch. 28
Ch. 28
Ch. 28
Ch. 29
Apr 9
Apr 11
L32: Nuclear Physics
L33: Nuclear Physics
Ch. 29
Ch. 29
Apr 14
L34: Elementary Particles
Ch. 30
Apr 16
Apr 18
L35: Elementary Particles
Spring Recess
Ch. 30
Apr 21
Apr 23
Apr 25
L36: Relativity
L37: Relativity
L38: Relativity or Final exam
review
Final exam
(12:30-2:30 PM at Nielsen 415)
Ch. 26
Ch. 26
Ch. 26
Apr 30
HW9: Ch.27
Balmer Series
HW10: Ch.28
Halflife of Ba137
HW11: Ch.29
No lab
HW12: Ch.2930
Lab makeups
HW13: Ch.26