PHY1032S
General Physics B
2016
Instructors
Dr. Tom Dietel (Coord): RW James 5.11 / 650 3325 / thomas.dietel@uct.ac.za
A. Prof. Heribert Weigert: RW James 4.08 / 650 4706 / heribert.weigert@uct.ac.za
Dr. Sahal Yacoob: RW James 5.06 / 650 3341 / sahal.yacoob@uct.ac.za
Course Tutors
The course tutors can be consulted at the indicated times if you have problems with the
course material or the weekly problem sets.
Names and consultation times to be announced
Prerequisite
Passed PHY1031F or PHY1023H
Web Site
Course material and announcements will be posted on Vula.
Textbook
College Physics: A Stretegic Approach by Knight, Jones Field (Pearson, 2nd Edition).
Students are required to have access to the prescribed text.
College Physics by Urone, Hinrichs, Dirks, Sharma (OpenStax: http://openstax.org/details/college-physics). Free and open-source textbook.
Lectures
3rd Period (10:00-10:45) , Monday–Friday, RW James Lecture Theatre LT3A
Bring a calculator and writing material as problems are often solved during lectures
See the lecture timetable on next page
Syllabus
Thermodynamics (Chapters 11-12, 10 lectures):
Thermal energy, heat, laws of thermodynamics, entropy, thermal properties of matter, atomic
model of matter, thermal expansion, calorimetry.
Electricity and Magnetism (Chapters 20-26, 25 lectures):
Electric charge, electric field, electric potential, capacitance, current, current density, emf,
resistance, resistivity, networks, magnetic field, Biot-Savart law, Ampere’s law, electromagnetic
induction, inductance, alternating current.
Optics (Chapters 17-19, 10 lectures):
Light, wave optics, interference, diffraction, reflection, refraction, images, lenses, optical instruments
Modern Physics (Chapters 27-30, 10 lectures):
The electron and photon, quantum physical phenomena, atomic structure, wave-particle duality,
radioactivity, elementary particle physics
Practicals
14:00–17:00 on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday of every second week in RW James
PHYLAB1. Students will be required to hand in their completed laboratory report by
17:00 that afternoon.
Tutorials
Alternate with practicals in the afternoons. Problems will be solved in groups of three
on the whiteboards in RW James Room L. Attendance is mandatory and part of the DP
requirement. Tutorials will start in the first week of term.
Problem Sets
Each week a problem set will be issued that is due on Mondays at 10am, before the
lecture. Students must declare on vula if they made a reasonable attempt at all the
questions and be ready to hand in their hand-written solution at the beginning of the
lecture. Failure to submit the solution on request will result in the loss of all WPS points
accumulated until that day. The WPS marks count 5% towards the final mark.
Class Tests
There will be 5 tests during the semester. They will be run in the lecture time slot, but
located in PHYLAB1. Students (with a valid medical note) may be exempt from no
more than one class test on medical grounds.
Assessment
Class Tests (25%), Problem Sets (5%), Laboratory Record (10%), Practical Test (10%),
Final Exam (50%). Final (aggregate) mark of 50% is required to pass the course.
DP Certificate
In order to obtain a duly performed (DP) certificate (i.e. to write the final exam)
students must have obtained an average of 40% for the class record (class tests and
problem sets), have averaged over 50% for the practicals and attended at least 5 of the
tutorials.
1
Monday
18 July
Tuesday
19 July
EM01
Tut 1
25 July
26 July
EM06
Prac 1
01 August
EM11
EM07
Tut 2
EM14
Prac 2
EM18
Tut 3
EM23
Prac 3
OP03
23 August
24 August
06 September
07 September
Tut 4
13 September
14 September
OP08
20 September
21 September
27 September
28 September
04 October
05 October
11 October
12 October
18 October
19 October
OP09
Prac 4
19 September
TH02
TH03
Tut 5
26 September
TH07
TH08
Prac 5
03 October
MOD01
Tut 6
10 October
MOD06
Prac Test
Class Test 5
MOD02
MOD07
Consolidation
EM20
EM13
Tut 2
11 August
EM16
EM21
OP01
Prac 3
OP05
OP06
Tut 4
OP10
Prac 4
TH04
Class Test 3
TH05
Prac Test
Consolidation
EM22
26 August
OP02
09 September
OP07
16 September
TH01
23 September
TH06
Tut 5
29 September
TH10
Prac 5
06 October
MOD04
Tut 6
MOD08
19 August
Prac 4
22 September
Prac 5
MOD03
EM17
Tut 4
15 September
Tut 5
TH09
12 August
Prac 3
08 September
30 September
Class Test 4
07 October
MOD05
Tut 6
13 October
MOD09
14 October
MOD10
Prac Test
20 October
Consolidation
21 October
Consolidation
Lectures:
Monday – Friday, 3rd period, 10:00-10:45, RW James Lecture Theatre LT3A
EM: Electricity and Magnetism (Dietel)
TH: Thermodynamics (Yacoob)
OP: Optics (Yacoob)
MOD: Modern Physics (Weigert)
Tests:
3rd period (10:00–10:45) in RW James PHYLAB1
Practicals:
Mon, Wed, Thu 14:00–17:00 in RW James PHYLAB1
1: Multimeter, 2: Oscilloscope, 3: RC Circuit, 4: Optics, 5: Spectrometry
Tutorials:
Mon, Wed, Thu 14:00–17:00 in RW James PHYLAB1
2
EM10
Class Test 1
Tut 3
25 August
EM05
05 August
Prac 2
18 August
Tut 3
Class Test 2
29 July
Prac 1
Prac 2
17 August
OP04
12 September
EM15
EM09
04 August
Public Holiday
16 August
EM24
05 September
Election Day
EM04
Friday
22 July
Tut 1
28 July
Prac 1
10 August
EM19
22 August
EM08
09 August
Public Holiday
Thursday
21 July
Tut 1
27 July
03 August
Women’s Day
15 August
EM03
02 August
EM12
08 August
17 October
EM02
Wednesday
20 July