Syllabus, Physics 212, General Physics II section M30
Summer II, 2008, MTWTh, 8:00-10:00AM at GN 230
Instructor:
Office:
Email:
Office Hours:
Hikmat BC.
Gardiner Hall, Room 224, Phone No: 575- 646-1209
bchikmat@nmsu.edu
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday: 4:00-5:00PM
Textbook:
Required: James S. Walker, Physics 3rd edition.
Prerequisites:
Physics 211 or Physics 215 or an equivalent course covering
introductory physics with mechanics.
Schedule:
A very tentative schedule of the chapters and sections to be covered in
lecture will be distributed separately. It will be necessary to make
some changes in this during the semester.
Homework:
Homework is assigned on a weekly basis and is due one week later.
Web assign will not accept any late homework without a valid excuse. I consider this to be
the most important part of the class. Summer classes go very fast. So, its hard to give
extension for the assignments. You should be able to complete the homework by yourself,
but if you have difficulty with it, you may work with others, or get help from tutoring room
GN 225.
All the assignments are web based. I have created an account for each student. Go to
http://webassign.net and then click on log in. Your user name is the user name for your
NMSU e-mail account and password is: student. Once you log in your account change your
password by going to My Options. All homeworks will be submitted online. I encourage you
to write down important notes while solving homework problems.
Tutorial:
There is a physics tutoring room in the Physics building (Gardiner
Hall room # 225) where you can get help in your assignments.
Tests:
There will be two midterm tests and a final exam, given around the
days listed in the schedule, covering the chapters indicated. I will announce the test at least
two days prior to the test. They will consist of problems and questions based on the material
covered. Test problems will be similar to the ones in the homework assignments. You will
not need to memorize formulas for the tests. I will provide them. If you must miss a test,
inform me before the actual test date. If you miss a test without a valid excuse, you will be
given a zero for that test. The Final Exam is scheduled for Saturday August 7th, 8:0010:00AM; please be there!
Grade:
Two-Midterm tests (15% X 2 = 30%), the final exam (15%), and the
homework (55%).
University Policies: General university policies are found in the NMSU Undergraduate
Catalog and on the NMSU web site: http://www.nmsu.edu/reference.html. A separate
handout on university policy will be distributed with this syllabus.
Syllabus University Page, New Mexico State University, Summer II 2008
I have been asked to provide the following information to students as part of the syllabus.
General university policies are found in the NMSU Undergraduate Catalog and on the
NMSU web site: http://www.nmsu.edu/reference.html.
Academic Integrity: Cheating will not be tolerated. When taking exams, eyes must remain on
your own exam, with your work covered. If there is a suspicion of copying, you, or someone
around you will be asked to move, as a first warning. After the second incident, you will be
asked to leave. Any evidence of cheating on the exams themselves will lead to an automatic
F in the class with possible follow-up discipline. Please refer to the student code of conduct
for information regarding appeals processes etc.
Plagiarism: Plagiarism is using another person’s work without acknowledgment, making it
appear to be one’s own. Any ideas, words, pictures, or other intellectual content taken from
another source must be acknowledged in a citation that gives credit to the source. The
university
information
about
this
may
be
found
at
http://www.nmsu.edu/%7Evpsa/SCOC/misconduct.html
Students with Disabilities: If you have or believe you have a disability and would benefit
from any accommodations, you may wish to self-identify by contacting the Services for
Students with Disabilities (SSD) Office located in Room 244 of Corbett Center (phone: 6466840). If you have already registered, please make sure that your instructor receives a copy of
the accommodation memorandum from SSD within the first two weeks of classes. It is your
responsibility to inform either your instructor or SSD representative in a timely manner if
services/accommodations provided are not meeting your needs.
Feel free to call Jerry Nevarez, Director of Institutional Equity, at 505-646-3635 with any
questions you may have about NMSU's Non-Discrimination Policy and complaints of
discrimination, including sexual harassment.
Feel free to call Michael Armendariz, Coordinator of Services for Students with Disabilities,
at 505-646-6840 with any questions you may have on student issues related to the Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA) and/or Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. All
medical information will be treated confidentially.
Incompletes ("I" grades): Given for passable work that could not be completed due to
circumstances beyond the student's control (e.g., severe illness, death in the immediate
family). These circumstances must have developed after the last day to withdraw from the
course. Requests for "I" grades should be made to the instructor, but must be approved by the
Department Head and the College Dean.
Tentative Schedule:
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July 14
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July 17
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PHYS 212, Summer II 2008
Contents
Exams
Introduction to Electric Charge, Insulators and
Conductors, charging by conduction vs. by induction.
Coulombs Law, Spherical charged distribution, Electric
field, point charge in El. Field, El. Flux, Gauss’ Law,
El. Potential energy, El. Potential, Equipotential surface,
El. Charges and dipoles in El. Field, capacitors. Energy
stored in a capacitor.
Circuit components: EMF, battery, Ohm’s law, resistance
and resistivity, energy and power in electric circuit,
resistors and capacitors in series and parallel
Dc circuits, Kirchhoff’s rules, RC circuit, charging and
discharging of capacitor.
Magnetic Field, magnetic force on and motion of moving
charge in magnetic field.
Test
Mid Term I
Applications using Electric and magnetic fields, current
carrying wires and magnetic fields, superposition of
magnetic fields, ferromagnetism.
Induction, magnetic flux, Faraday’s law, Motional EMF,
Generator, AC current and voltage,
Transformers, inductance, Energy in magnetic field,
Electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum.
Intensity, polarization, Doppler effect, Geometrical
optics: rays of light, reflection, and mirrors.
Refraction, total internal reflection, dispersion, ray
tracing for thin lenses.
Thin lens equation, ray tracing for spherical mirrors, The
eye, combination of lenses, corrective optics.
Test
Magnifying glass (Optical instruments), light and wave:
superposition, interference, double slit expt.
Diffraction-single slit expt., Brief introduction to special
relativity
Black body radiation, photons, photoelectric effect,
Line spectra, Bohr’s model of the atom, X-rays, Lasers
Nuclear structure, mass defect, radioactivity
Test
Mid Term II
Final Exam