Your Professors
• Scott Pratt
• Cyclotron Building, room 208
• prattsc@msu.edu
• http://www.pa.msu.edu/~pratts
• Office hours: TBA
Physics for Scientists &
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PHY 183
• Alex Brown
• Cyclotron Building, room 203
• brown@nscl.msu.edu
• http://www.nscl.msu.edu/~brown
• Office hours: TBA
Spring Semester 2010
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Textbook
Syllabus
! W. Bauer & G. Westfall
“University Physics”
McGraw-Hill (2010), 1st ed.
! http://msu.lon-capa.org
! Help room: Strosacker Learning Center, BPS 1248
! Hours: TBA
! Honors option: See me at end of class for sign-up to help in
Strosacker Learning Center (2 hours per week).
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Grades
! What counts?
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Midterm 1
Midterm 2
Midterm 3
Final Exam
Homework
Clicker Quizzes
• Extra credit
Total:
Homework
! What Grade?
20 pts
20 pts
20 pts
30 pts
10 pts
(5) pts
100(105) pts
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84!x!92
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! 12 HW Sets + 3 “Exam Re-do” Sets
• Due Sunday evenings at 11:59 PM
• Grade based on 80% of possible points
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• If you get 100% of HW points, you earn 10 points on final grade
• If you get 80% of HW points, you earn 10 points on final grade
• If you get 40% of HW points, you earn 5 points on final grade
• One point per answer, some weeks have more points
• Many exam questions based on HW
• “Exam Re-do” problems appear after midterms
• Due Sunday evening after exam
• Treated like extra HW sets
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Schedule
Clickers
! Use iClicker, purchase from book store
! Lecture, section 001: M Tu W Th, 4:10 – 5:00 pm
! Will count beginning Jan 25
! Lecture, section 002: M Tu W Th, 5:10 – 6:00 pm
! Three midterm exams (usual lecture time): Mark your
• Tuesday, February 2nd
• Tuesday, March 2nd
• Tuesday, April 6th
calendar!
! Up to 5 extra credit pts on final grade
! One point for answering, one point for correct answer
! Clicker grade based on 60% of possible points:
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! Final exam, (location to be determined)
• Monday, May 3rd, 5:45 – 7:45 pm (location TBA)
If you get 100% of possible points, you earn 5 points on final grade
If you get 60% of possible points, you earn 5 points on final grade
If you get 30% of possible points, you earn 2.5 points on final grade
No makeup for quizzes
! Homework due each Sunday at 11:59 PM
! In-class clicker questions every day
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LON-CAPA login
Clickers - 2
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Enter your password
Enter: msu
Click here or hit Return
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Goals and Motivation
Sub Fields
! PHY 183 will provide you with the first tools
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! Particle physics: Most fundamental basis of nature
! Nuclear physics: How quarks form protons and neutrons
and how protons and neutrons form nuclei
! Condensed matter: Transistors, semiconductors,
superfluids, superconductors, …
! Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
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Technical (math)
Problem solving skills
Basis for physical understanding
First, Classical Newtonian Mechanics, but more to come
through the course of your studies…
! Physics drives technology
• Transistors, lasers...
• http://WWW was developed in a physics research environment
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Sub Fields (2)
Sub fields (3)
! New areas emerge at frontiers of “standard” fields
! Biophysics
• Solid-state physics + Atomic Physics
= Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
• Convergence of physics
and molecular biology
• Laser tweezers
• RNA Polymerase II protein
Very promising technological advances
*Iron atoms on a copper surface
*Arrangement created by manipulating atoms
one by one by using a scanning tunneling
microscope
! Nuclear Fusion
• Fusion powers the Sun
• ITER (France): power
production using fusion
! Need to start from beginning: Classical Mechanics
• Already useful to understand and tackle a lot of interesting problems!
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Outline of the course
Week
Topic
Reading
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Motion along a straight line
Chapter 2
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Motion in 2d and 3d, relative motion
Chapter 3
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Forces and Newton’s Laws
Chapter 4
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Kinetic energy, work, power
Chapter 5
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Potential energy, energy conservation
Chapter 6
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Momentum and collisions
Chapter 7
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Systems of particles, center of mass
Chapter 8
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Motion along the perimeter of circles
Chapter 9
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Rotation, moment of inertia, angular momentum
Chapter 10
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Gravitation, Kepler’s Laws
Chapter 11
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Solids and fluids
Chapter 12
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Oscillations, harmonic, damped
Chapter 13
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Waves
Chapter 14
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Sound
Chapter 15
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