Spring 2008
INSTRUCTOR:
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
PHYSICS 4B
March 27, 2008
C. M. Surko; csurko@ucsd.edu
Office: 4581 Mayer Hall; Ext. 46880
Office Hours: Mon. 2 - 3 pm, after class, or email/call to arrange.
COURSE COORDINATOR: Patti Hey
118 Urey Hall Addition, Ext. 2-1468
TEACHING ASSISTANT:
COURSE SCHEDULE:
Lectures:
Casey Conger
Office: 2101 Mayer Hall; caconger@physics.ucsd.edu
Office hour: e-mail to arrange.
MWF
Tu
10:00 am – 10:50 am
4:00 – 4:50 pm
WLH 2111
CENTER 222
Discussion:
Problem Session
W
M
1:00 – 1:50 pm
8:00 – 9:50 pm
CENTER 222
CENTER 217A
Quizzes:
Tu
4:00 – 4:50 pm
CENTER 222
(Apr. 15, Apr. 29, May 13, and May 27)
[Final Exam: Monday, June 9, 2008, 8:00 am – 11:00 am (location TBA)]
COURSE WEB PAGE: See the course web page for changes and updates:
http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/spring2008/managed/physics4b/
GRADING:
Highest 3 Quizzes
Final Exam
60 %
40 %
COURSE TEXT: The required text is Physics for Scientists and Engineers, fourth edition, by
Douglas C. Giancoli (Prentice Hall, 2008). A reserve list will be set up for Physics 4B in the
Science and Engineering Library, in case you’d like to read other discussions of the material.
(Please note, however, that this material is not required reading.) Of interest for 4B are:
Vibrations and Waves, by A. P. French (W. W. Norton, New York, 1971); and Statistical
Physics, Berkeley Physics Course Vol. 5, by F. Reif. Both texts are excellent treatments of the
topics covered. Also useful are the more general texts, Pasachoff, Physics; Young and
Freedman, University Physics; and Davidson & Marion, Mathematical Methods for Introductory
Physics with Calculus.
ABOUT THE COURSE: This is the second quarter of a five-quarter sequence for physics
majors. This quarter focuses on a description of fluids (both statics and dynamics), oscillations,
waves (including sound), heat and the first law of thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases,
entropy, and the second law of thermodynamics. Emphasis will be placed on oscillations, waves,
thermodynamics, and an elementary statistical description of physical systems. Prerequisites:
Phys. 4A, Math. 20B and concurrent enrollment in Math 20C.
HOMEWORK: Homework will be assigned weekly. Solutions will be posted on the course
web page by Wednesday of the week they are assigned. Homework will not be graded.
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However, there is no substitute for working lots of problems, and if you give up on the problems
too easily before looking up the solution, you'll only learn how to check whether the TA worked
them properly. Not doing homework is the most frequent cause for grade disappointments, so be
sure to do it faithfully. Feel free to talk over homework problems with your classmates, but
make sure you do the problems yourself. As an added inducement to do homework faithfully,
some of the quiz and final problems will be similar to homework problems.
QUIZZES, HOMEWORK, AND FINAL DETAILS:
1. Bring a fresh blue book for each quiz and the final exam.
2. You will be assigned a 3-digit code number. Please enter your code number and the Test
Form number on the exam blue books in the upper right-hand corner.
3. Quizzes and the final will be "closed book." Bring a calculator to all exams, but
programming it for formulae is not permitted. There will be formulae sheets on each quiz
and the final, listing potentially useful formula.
4. There will be no makeup for quizzes for medical or other reasons. The total quiz score
will be based on the highest three of the four quizzes. If you are excused for good cause,
grades on the other quizzes will be prorated accordingly.
5. The solutions to quizzes and recorded grades will be posted on the course web page.
Please check your posted grade against that on your quizzes to be sure your grades have
been recorded correctly.
6. It will not be possible to take the final exam early for any reason, so make your summer
plans accordingly.
WHOM TO SEE:
Physics student affairs window (115 Urey Hall Addition; 534-3290), if you have
questions about Web-Reg, adding or dropping the course, or getting appropriate
authorization for such actions.
The instructor, if you have questions about the subject matter, assigned problems,
administrative problems, or anything else you want to talk about.
The teaching assistant, if you have questions about grades received on quizzes, the
subject matter, or the assigned problems.
For questions about grading, see the teaching assistant first; if you are not satisfied, see
the instructor.
ADD/DROP deadlines:
Add ………………………………….
Drop without 'W' on transcript ……. .
Drop without penalty of 'F'
('W' will appear on transcript) …
Friday, April 11, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: Please read "UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship" in the
General Catalog. The rules on academic dishonesty will be strictly enforced.
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Physics 4B – Spring 2008
Course Outline and Schedule
Week
Chapter(s)*
Quiz
Homework Assignments1
1
March 31
13
Fluids
No quiz
Ch. 13: Q. 3, 11, 14, 17, 18, 21
P. 4, 14, 23, 30 , 36, 45, 54, 56,
66, 74.
2
April 7
14
Oscillations
No quiz
Ch. 14: Q. 4, 9, 11, 20;
P. 11, 16, 33, 36, 45, 51,
52, 59, 67, 80.
3
April 14
15
Wave Motion
April 15
(Ch. 13, 14)
4
April 21
15 & 16
Wave Motion
and Sound
No quiz
5
April 28
16 & 17
April 29
Sound (cont’d) (Ch. 15, 16*)
Temperature,
The ideal gas law
Ch. 16: Q. 18, 19, 21; P. 40, 46, 55,
70, 77, 106,
Ch. 17: Q 15, 17, 22; P. 18, 26, 34.
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May 5
17 & 18
Temperature, ideal
Gas, kinetic theory
Ch. 17: P. 59, 74, 78, 80. Ch. 18: Q. 1
19, 25; P. 14, 20, 26, 33, 41, 48.
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May 12
18 & 19
May 13
Ch. 18: P. 49, 53, 54, 61, 66, 69.
Kinetic theory (Ch. 16, 17,18*) Ch. 19: Q. 4, 20 25, 26; P. 3, 5, 17,
real gases, 1st law
23, 28.
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May 19
19
Heat, 1st law of
thermodynamics
No quiz
No quiz
9
May 26
Ch. 15: Q 7, 9, 12, 16, 18;
P. 11, 17, 19, 24, 37, 41,
42, 55, 66.
Ch. 15: P. 68, 80, 85, 87, 88, 90.
Ch. 16: Q. 9, 15, 16; P. 6, 13, 31, 32.
Ch. 19: P. , 31, 32, 38, 39, 49, 54, 59,
62, 68, 74, 81
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May 27
Second law of
(Ch. 18, 19)
(holiday May 26) thermodynamics
Ch. 20: Q. 1, 9, 11, 13, 17, 19, 20.
P. 6, 7, 15, 17, 24, 28,
32, 35, 44, 45, 46.
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June 2
Ch. 20: P. 51, 52, 54, 55, 57, 70, 72, 73,
77, 80.
20
No quiz
Statistical view
of entropy and review
1. Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Fourth Edition, by Douglas C. Giancoli
* Quiz 2 will cover through Sec. 16.3, p. 431; quiz 3 will cover through Sec. 18.4, p. 486.
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