RCC CONTACT FOR THIS COURSE:
Current COLLEGE NOW teachers: Dusty Rittenbach, RCC Science Dept Instructor
541-245-7513, jrittenbach@roguecc.edu
New Articulations only: Jim Van Brunt, Science Instructor & Department Head
541-956-7081, jvanbrunt@roguecc.edu
COLLEGE NOW WEBSITE: http://www.roguecc.edu/COLLEGENOW
Your resource for current information, including processes and forms
COURSE INFORMATION & REQUIREMENTS
RCC Course Title:
Course No.
General Physics with Calculus I & III
PH211 & PH213
Credits: 5 credits each
Requirements for Articulating This Class
HIGH SCHOOL INSTRUCTOR EDUCATION BACKGROUND:
BS, BA, MS, or PhD in Physics and department approval.
Instructors with a BS or BA in physics must have an MS or MA in another science area or an MS or MA in
education OR BS or BA in science, math, or engineering with a MS or PhD in Physical Chemistry, Mathematics
or Engineering.
GRADING INSTRUCTIONS:
 Advanced Physics or non-calculus based AP physics gets PH 201 and PH 203 credit with a course grade
of B or better.
Calculus based AP physics (no AP exam taken) gets PH 211 and PH 213 credit with a course grade of B
or better.
 PH 201 and PH 211 cover the same topics, just with more in-depth and challenging homework and tests
for PH 211. PH 211 also requires calculus level mathematics.
 NEW - Rubric & sample activity required (see attached). If you have questions please contact Dusty
Rittenbach.
COLLEGE NOW Course Completion Requirements
Students must have:
 1Received grade A-F, W, I, P, Z and NP
 Completed COLLEGE NOW registration process
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Based on current state and college regulations and policy, all students in COLLEGE NOW or other dual enrollment classes
are graded on the same standards and under the same guidelines as any regular college student. That means that COLLEGE
NOW students can earn A - F, W, I, P, Z and NP grades that will show on the official college transcript.
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RCC Course Title: PH211 & PH213 General Physics with Calculus I & III
COLLEGE NOW CONTACT INFORMATION:
Daniella Bivens
Rogue Community College
Table Rock Campus
7800 Pacific Avenue
White City, OR 97503-1060
HSA@roguecc.edu
541-245-7806
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RCC Course Title: PH211 & PH213 General Physics with Calculus I & III
Course Outline
Course No: PH211
Credits:
5
Date: April 2011
Course Title:
General Physics (Calculus Based) I
Institution:
Rogue Community College
Type of Course:
Transfer
Length of Course:
A minimum of seventy (70) lecture/lab hours per one term.
Prerequisites:
MATH 112, WR 115 Corequisite: MATH 251
Department Assignment:
Science
Course Description: For engineering and physics majors, studies vectors, mechanics, dynamics, and
analog to sound, heat, fluids, and oscillation, and an introduction to electricity and magnetism.
Expected Course Objectives/Outcomes and Assessment: To successfully complete this course:
Expected Outcomes:
ISLO Key Indicators
1. Students will show up on
AL 2 – Put forth the time and
time and use the time provided effort necessary to succeed.
as well as come to office hours
as needed.
Assessment Methods:
1. Instructor observation
2. Students will work together
in the laboratory, recitation
and discussion of in-class
conceptual questions (TwoMinute Problems) with an
emphasis on explaining one’s
thoughtful reasoning for a
given choice, considering
other’s opinions and safety.
3. Students will apply
physical models to unknown
situations. Examples of
physical models for PH 211
would be Conservation of
Momentum, Conservation of
COM 3 - Collaborate effectively
to achieve course/learning goals.
2. Instructor observation, lab
reports, homework.
AK 1 - Demonstrate ability to
transfer learning in familiar and
unfamiliar contexts in order to
complete tasks.
3. Quizzes, homework, lab report,
exams, instructor observation.
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RCC Course Title: PH211 & PH213 General Physics with Calculus I & III
Expected Outcomes:
Energy, Conservation of
Angular Momentum and
Newton’s Three Laws of
Motion. Students are
expected to apply these laws
to new situations for nearly
every homework problem,
quiz question, test question
and/or laboratory exercise.
4. Students will incorporate
new physical models into
previous ones. Examples of
this in PH 211 would be using
momentum in kinetic energy
and using kinetic energy and
potential energy
5. Students will create a body
of work (homework, quizzes,
lab reports, exams, etc.) that
represents their skills and
abilities.
ISLO Key Indicators
AK 2 – Integrate previous and
new learning, along with
practical skills, to solve
problems.
Assessment Methods:
4. Quizzes, homework, lab report,
exams, instructor observation.
PG 6 – Adhere to a strong work
5. Quizzes, homework, lab report,
ethic and be able to negotiate and exams, instructor observation.
abide by the terms of agreement
that defines one’s employment.
Typical Required and Recommended Text(s): “Six Ideas That Shaped Physics” 2nd edition by
Thomas A. Moore, Units C (Conservation Laws Constrain Interactions) and N (The Laws of Physics
Are Universal)
Typical Required and Recommended Materials: At least two good mechanical pencils
Nice eraser (the white ones by Pentel™ or similar)
Green engineering paper
Scientific calculator WITHOUT program capabilities (for exams and quizzes)
Clear ruler with millimeter markings
Protractor
Purple pen (for homework corrections)
Scientific calculator with graphing and programming capabilities (for homework and lab)
Red, blue, green and black pens for taking notes (match whiteboard pen colors)
Super Review™ optional text
Math textbook (MTH 111 or MTH 251)
Assessment Methods: Successful completion of these competencies and skills may be judged by the
following criteria:
Three levels of mastery will be used to evaluate completion of competencies.
Emerging: Knowledge of physical models: To assess basic concepts evaluated by the basic homework
problems.
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RCC Course Title: PH211 & PH213 General Physics with Calculus I & III
Developing/Practicing: Concept synthesis: Testing concepts by the use of simple synthetic homework
problems and quiz questions.
Master/Exemplary: Critical thinking/applications: The assessment of learning through application of
knowledge and skills typically in rich-context homework problems (not all information is given in the
problem, student must make reasonable assumptions and state those assumptions clearly), exams and lab
exercises.
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RCC Course Title: PH211 & PH213 General Physics with Calculus I & III
TYPICAL COURSE OUTLINE:
Schedule of Lecture Topics, Homework and Lab Activities:
Week 1: 28 or 30 September
Class Introductions
C1: Introduction to Interactions
C2: Vectors
PH 211: C1B.1, C1S.5, C1R.1; C2B.2, C2S.5, C2S.6
Lab: Warp ‘N’ Woof
Week 2: 5 or 7 October
C3: Interactions Transfer Momentum
C4: Particles and Systems
C5: Applying Momentum Conservation
PH 211: C3B.3, C3S.1; C4S.5, C4R.2; C5S.8, C5S.10
Lab: Vector Lab
Week 3: 12 or 14 October
C6: Introduction to Energy
C7: Some Potential Energy Functions
PH 211: C6S.3, C6S.5, C6R.1; C7S.5, C7S.8, C7S.9
Lab: Error Analysis
Week 4: 19 or 21 October
C8: Force and Energy
C9: Rotational Energy
C10: Thermal Energy
PH 211: C8S.4, C8S.5; C9S.3, C9S.8; C10S.6, C10R.2
Lab: Conservation of Momentum and Energy: Collisions (Part 1 of 3)
Week 5: 26 or 28 October
C11: Energy in Bonds
C12: Power, Collisions and Impacts
PH 211: C11S.6, C11S.11, C11S.12; C12S.9, C12S.12, C12R.1
Lab: Conservation of Momentum and Energy: Collisions (Part 2 of 3)
Week 6: 2 or 4 November
C13: Angular Momentum
C14: Conservation of Angular Momentum
PH 211: C13B.8, C13S.5, C13R.1; C14S.2, C14S.5, C14S.8
Lab: Conservation of Momentum and Energy: Collisions (Part 3 of 3)
Week 7: 9 or 11 November
9 November is a study session at RVC (RWC welcome too!)
11 November is Veteran’s Day Holiday
Lab: Take Home Lab (TBA)
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RCC Course Title: PH211 & PH213 General Physics with Calculus I & III
Week 8: 16 or 18 November
N1: Newton’s Laws
N2: Vector Calculus
N3: Forces from Motion
N4: Motion from Forces
PH 211: N1S.3, N1S.5, N1S.6; N2S.3, N2S.4, N2R.1; N3B.5, N3S.3, N3S.5; N4B.1, N4S.10, N4R.1
Week 9:
23 November is a study session at RVC (RWC welcome too!)
25 November is Thanksgiving Holiday
Lab: Take Home Lab (TBA)
Week 10: 30 November or 2 December
N5: Statics
N6: Linearly Constrained Motion
PH 211: N5S.2, N5S.4, N5R.1; N6S.6, N6S.10, N6S.12
Lab: (Static and Kinetic Friction & Air Resistance) OR (Picket Fence Free Fall &
Projectile Motion)
Unit C Test during Recitation Time
Week 11: 7 or 9 December
Unit N Test
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RCC Course Title: PH211 & PH213 General Physics with Calculus I & III
Course Outline
Course No: PH213
Credits:
5
Date: April 2011
Course Title:
General Physics (Calculus Based) III
Institution:
Rogue Community College
Type of Course:
Transfer
Length of Course:
A minimum of seventy (70) lecture/lab hours per one term.
Prerequisites:
PH 212
Department Assignment:
Science
Course Description: For engineering and physics majors, studies vectors, mechanics, dynamics, and
analog to sound, heat, fluids, and oscillation, and an introduction to electricity and magnetism.
Expected Course Objectives/Outcomes and Assessment: To successfully complete this course:
Expected Outcomes:
ISLO Key Indicators
Assessment Methods:
1. Students will show up on
AL 2 – Put forth the time and
1. Instructor observation
time and use the time provided effort necessary to succeed.
as well as come to office hours
as needed.
2. Students will work together COM 3 - Collaborate effectively 2. Instructor observation, lab
in the laboratory, recitation
to achieve course/learning goals. reports, homework.
and discussion of in-class
conceptual questions (TwoMinute Problems) with an
emphasis on explaining one’s
thoughtful reasoning for a
given choice, considering
other’s opinions and safety.
3. Students will apply
AK 1 - Demonstrate ability to
3. Quizzes, homework, lab
physical models to unknown
transfer learning in familiar and report, exams, instructor
situations. Examples of
unfamiliar contexts in order to
observation.
physical models for PH 213
complete tasks.
would be the calculus-based
form of Maxwell’s Equations
and Laws of Thermodynamics. Students are expected
to apply these laws to new
situations for nearly every
homework problem, quiz
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RCC Course Title: PH211 & PH213 General Physics with Calculus I & III
Expected Outcomes:
ISLO Key Indicators
Assessment Methods:
question, test question and/or
laboratory exercise.
4. Students will incorporate
AK 2 – Integrate previous and
4. Quizzes, homework, lab
new physical models into
new learning, along with
report, exams, instructor
previous ones. An example of practical skills, to solve
observation.
this in PH 213 would be using problems.
Conservation of Energy and
Quantum Mechanics
(specifically discrete energy
levels) to explain the entropy
of a solid.
5. Students will create a body PG 6 – Adhere to a strong work
5. Quizzes, homework, lab
of work (homework, quizzes,
ethic and be able to negotiate and report, exams, instructor
lab reports, exams, etc.) that
abide by the terms of agreement
observation.
represents their skills and
that defines one’s employment.
abilities.
Typical Required and Recommended Text(s): “Six Ideas That Shaped Physics” 2nd edition by
Thomas A. Moore, Units E (Electric and Magnetic Fields Are Unified), Q (Particles Behave Like
Waves), T (Some Processes Are Irreversible).
Typical Required and Recommended Materials: At least two good mechanical pencils
Nice eraser (the white ones by Pentel™ or similar)
Green engineering paper
Scientific calculator WITHOUT program capabilities (for exams and quizzes)
Clear ruler with millimeter markings
Protractor
Purple pen (for homework corrections)
Scientific calculator with graphing and programming capabilities (for homework and lab)
Red, blue, green and black pens for taking notes (match whiteboard pen colors)
Super Review™ optional text
Math textbook (MTH 111 or MTH 251)
Assessment Methods: Successful completion of these competencies and skills may be judged by the
following criteria:
Three levels of mastery will be used to evaluate completion of competencies.
Emerging: Knowledge of physical models: To assess basic concepts evaluated by the basic homework
problems.
Developing/Practicing: Concept synthesis: Testing concepts by the use of simple synthetic homework
problems and quiz questions.
Master/Exemplary: Critical thinking/applications: The assessment of learning through application of
knowledge and skills typically in rich-context homework problems (not all information is given in the
problem, student must make reasonable assumptions and state those assumptions clearly), exams and lab
exercises.
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RCC Course Title: PH211 & PH213 General Physics with Calculus I & III
TYPICAL COURSE OUTLINE:
Schedule of Lecture Topics, Homework and Lab Activities:
Week 1: 29 or 31 March
E11: Ampere’s Law
E12: The Electromagnetic Field
PH 213: E11S.2, E11S.4, E11R.1; E12B.3, E12B.6, E12S.9
Lab: Make Your Own Electric Motor
Week 2: 5 or 7 April
E13: Maxwell’s Equations
E15: Waves
PH 213: E13S.1, E13S.7, E13R.1; E15B.7, E15S.1, E15S.5
Lab: Speed of Sound & Tones, Vowels and Telephones
Week 3: 12 or 14 April
E16: Electromagnetic Waves
Q1: Standing Waves
Q2: The Wave Nature of Light
PH 213: E16B.9, E16S.11; Q1B.2, Q1R.2; Q2S.9, Q2S.12
Lab: Determining the Diameter of a Red Blood Cell using a Laser
Week 4: 19 or 21 April
Q3: The Particle Nature of Light
Q4: The Wave Nature of Matter
PH 213: Q3S.4, Q3S.8, Q3R.1; Q4B.8, Q4S.8, Q4R.1
Lab: Bright Lights (Spectroscopy lab) & Computer Simulations
Week 5: 26 or 28 April
Q5: The Quantum Facts of Life
Q6: The Wavefunction
PH 213: Q5B.9, Q5B.10, Q5S.2; Q6S.7, Q6S.9, Q6R.1
Lab: UNIT E TEST
Week 6: 3 or 5 May
Q7: Bound Systems
Q8: Spectra
PH 213: Q7B.6, Q7S.2, Q7R.1; Q8S.1, Q8S.3, Q8S.6
Lab: Radioactivity Labs
Week 7: 10 or 12 May
Q9: Understanding Atoms
T1: Temperature
PH 213: Q9S.4, Q9S.5, Q9R.1; T1S.3, T1S.10, T1R.1
Lab: Specific Heat Capacity of Various Metals
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RCC Course Title: PH211 & PH213 General Physics with Calculus I & III
Week 8: 17 or 19 May
T2: Ideal Gases
T3: Gas Processes
PH 213: T2B.8, T2S.5, T2S.7; T3S.5, T3S.7, T3R.1
Lab: Ideal Gas Laws
Week 9: 24 or 26 May
T4: Macrostates and Microstates
T5: The Second Law
PH 213: T4S.3, T4S.5, T4S.7; T5B.7, T5S.5, T5R.2
Lab: Quantum Computer Simulations
Week 10: 31 May or 2 June
T6: Temperature and Entropy
T9: Heat Engines
PH 213: T6B.6, T6S.7, T6S.8; T9S.7, T9S.15, T9R.2
Lab: Sterling Engine
Week 11: 7 or 9 June
Units Q & T Tests
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