Identification
Prerequisites
Language
Compulsory/Elective
Required textbooks
and course materials
PHSC 112 Physics II
(3 KU/6 ECTS credits)
Department of Electronics, Telecommunications and Radio
Engineering
Undergraduate
Program
Spring, 2013
Term
Siyavush Azakov, AliHuseyn Dovlatov
Instructors
E-mail:
sazakov@khazar.org, azakov_s@hotmail.com
alihuseyndovl@rambler.ru
421 79 27 (ext. 251), 511 04 83
Phone:
Monday and Thursday from 13:40 to 15:00 (Group A) and
Classroom/hours
Tuesday and Thursday from 16:40 to 18:00 (Group B)
Room 203 in the New Building
Monday and Thursday from 18:00 to 19:00 in Room 408a in the
Office hours
Old Building
PHSC 111 Physics I (English)
English
Compulsory
Core Textbook:
1. E.R. Jones and R.L. Childers, Contemporary College Physics, 2nd ed,
Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1990
Supplementary Textbooks:
Subject
Department
2. D. C. Giancoli, Physics for Scientists & Engineers. Prentice Hall. 1988
Course website
Course outline
Course objectives
3. R. Muncaster , A-Level Physics, 4th ed, Stanley Thornes (Publishers) Ltd., 1991
Under preparation
Introduction. Electric Charge and Electric Field. Capacitance. Electric Current.
Magnetism. Electromagnetic Induction. Alternating Current. Geometrical and Wave
Optics. Quantum Theory. Quantum Mechanics. The Nucleus. Elementary Particles.
Course objectives for the Students:
 Develop a high level of understanding of the fundamental principles of physics in
Electrostatics, Electrodynamics, Optics, Quantum Theory, Nuclear Physics and
Physics of Elementary Particles.
 Develop basic laboratory skills demonstrating the application of physical principles.
 Work cooperatively to facilitate a collegial atmosphere conducive to learning for all
students in the class.
 Prepare for and attend each class by reading the assigned sections before class,
completing homework, and participating in class discussions and team activities.
Course objectives for the Instructor:
 To provide all students the tools necessary to succeed in their pursuit of a high level
of understanding of the principles of physics in Electrostatics, Electrodynamics,
Optics, Quantum Theory, Nuclear Physics and Physics of Elementary Particles.
 To provide all students with an atmosphere conducive to learning the principles of
physics.
 To provide sufficient feedback to students, enabling them to gauge their progress
towards achieving their goal in learning the principles of physics.
 To facilitate student learning through the use of appropriate activities, appropriate
technology, and the illustration of physics applications in the real world.
Learning outcomes
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Teaching methods
Evaluation
Policy
Students will know and will be able to explain the concepts of Electrostatics,
Electrodynamics, Optics, Quantum Theory, Nuclear Physics and Physics of
Elementary Particles and will demonstrate appropriate knowledge in the chosen track
of engineering.
Students will have strong physical reasoning and problem solving skills and apply
these skills to the solution of theoretical and applied problems in Electrostatics,
Electrodynamics, Optics, Quantum Theory, Nuclear Physics and Physics of
Elementary Particles.
Students will be able to collect, analyze, and explain data from physics experiments
in Electrostatics, Electrodynamics, Optics, Quantum Theory, Nuclear Physics and
Physics of Elementary Particles to communicate physics concepts effectively both
orally and in writing.
Students will demonstrate a comprehension of physical and environmental reality by
understanding how fundamental physical principles of Electrodynamics, Optics,
Quantum Theory, Nuclear Physics and Physics of Elementary Particles underlie the
huge variety of natural phenomena and their interconnectedness.
Students will demonstrate a comprehension of technology by understanding how
things work on a fundamental level.
Lecture
Group discussion
Experiential exercise
Case analysis
Problem Solving
Course paper
Others
Methods
Date/deadlines
Midterm Exam
Laboratory works
Home Assignment
Activity
Quizzes
Final Exam
Total
Methods of Assessment and Evaluation
x
x
x
Percentage (%)
30
15
14
3
8
30
100
Homework Portfolio: 8 homework assignments will be assigned during the semester.
Each homework assignment will contain 10 problems in physics. These problems
provide ample opportunity for learning physics at the application and analysis levels of
learning. Homework problems will be accumulated in a portfolio and collected by the
instructor periodically. During the semester the instructor will provide assessment
feedback to recognize and increase your performance in the learning process. Finally, at
mid-term and at the end of the semester an evaluation will be made of the homework
performance demonstrated by the student.
In the case of a known absence, homework can be turned in by another student to the
instructor.
Late homework: 20% will be deducted from the homework grade for each day it is late
if it is not turned in on time.
Quizzes: During the semester in Problems Solving sessions there will be 20-minute
written quizzes (8 in total) to evaluate whether assigned readings are completed. No
make-up quizzes will be given. Quizzes missed due to a serious illness or a family
emergency (these must be documented) will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
Exams: There will be an in-class mid-term exam and a final exam. An in-class midterm exam will be worth 30% of the total grade. The final exam will be worth 30% of
the total grade as well. The mid-term and approximately one-half to two-thirds of the
final are not cumulative other than the fact that some of the material will be dependent on
previous material. The last portion (one-third to one-half) of the final exam will be
cumulative. No make-up exams will be given. If you have a serious conflict with an
exam time, you must discuss it with the instructor and take the exam early. Exams
missed due to a serious illness or a family emergency (these must be documented) will be
dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
For exams students will be allowed to bring an electronic calculator. No other materials
or devices (including mobile phones) may be used during the exams.
Pass/Fail: Khazar University uses 100 points grading system with 60 point passing grade
for bachelor students. In case of failure, student will be required to repeat the course the
following term or year.
Attendance /Activity
Every student is expected to attend every class, to arrive on time, to stay until the end of
class, and to participate with high quality discussion. Those having legitimate reasons for
absence (illness, family bereavement etc) are required to inform the instructor. Generally,
20 % unauthorized absence marks will lead to the student’s expulsion from the Course.
If student is late to the class for more than five (5) minutes, then he/she may not be
allowed to enter and disturb the class. For successful completion of the course, the
students shall take an active part during classes, raising questions and participating ingroup discussions.
Professional Behavior Guidelines: The student shall behave in the way to create
favorable academic and professional environment during the class hours. Unauthorized
discussions and unethical behavior are strictly prohibited.
Honesty Issues: All Khazar University students are bound by honor to maintain the
highest level of academic integrity. By virtue of membership in the Khazar University
community, every student accepts the responsibility to know the rules of academic
honesty, to abide by them at all times, and to encourage all others to do the same.
Cheating or other plagiarism during the mid-term and final examinations will lead to
paper cancellation. In this case, the student will automatically get zero (0), without any
considerations.
Week
1
Date/Day
(tentative)
11.02.13
14.02.13
Students are supposed to read about the topics before they are discussed in lectures. It is
not necessary that students study them carefully, but at least they should get the "smell of
it". This should make it much easier for students to follow the lectures and find them
more interesting.
Tentative Schedule
Topics
Textbook/
Assignments
Overview of syllabus. Basic principles of electricity. Electric charge.
[1], Chapter 15
Coulomb’s law. Electric field and forces. Superposition principle.
[2], Chapters
Properties of electric field. Electric field lines. Electric Flux and Gauss’s
23, 24
law. Electric dipoles.
2
18.02.13
21.02.13
Electric potential. Equipotential surfaces. Conductors and Insulators.
Conductors as Shields. Capacitance and Capacitors. Energy Stored in
Capacitors. Electric field in medium. Polarization of dielectrics.
3
25.02.13
28.02.13
4
04.03.13
07.03.13
5
11.03.13
14.03.13
Problems solving 1 (Lectures 1-4). Quiz 1, Home Assignment 1
Current, resistance and electromotive force. Ohm’s law. Resistivity.
Specific resistance. Power and energy in electric circuits. Joule’s law.
Direct current circuits. Batteries and circuit elements. Kirchhoff’s rules.
Simple resistive circuits. Direct current circuits with capacitors.
Problems solving 2 (Lectures 5-6). Quiz 2, Home Assignment 2
Magnets and magnetic forces. Basic concepts of magnetic field. Types of
magnetic fields (moving charge, current element, solenoid). Magnetic
forces on electric current and moving charged particle. Lorentz’s force.
Magnetic field due to a current –carrying wire. Biot-Savart’s law.
Magnetic force on a current loop. Magnetic flux. Ampere’s law.
Magnetic materials
Problems solving 3 (Lectures 7-8). Quiz 3, Home Assignment 3
Novruz Holiday
Novruz Holiday.
Electromagnetic induction. Faraday’s law. Lenz's law. Induced electric
field. Motional emf. Generators and motors. Magnetic medium. Selfinduction and mutual induction. The transformer. Inductance.
Inductance within circuits. Magnetic field energy.
Problems solving 4 (Lecture 9). Quiz 4, Home Assignment 4.
Alternative –current circuits. RL and RC circuits. Effective Values of
Alternating Current. Reactance. RLC series circuits. Resonant Circuits.
Maxwell’s Equations and Electromagnetic Waves. Displacement current.
Maxwell’s Equations. Production of Electromagnetic Waves. Energy and
Momentum in Electromagnetic Waves. The Poynting Vector.
Problems solving 5 (Lectures 10-12). Quiz 5, Home Assignment 5
Mid-term exam.
Laws of geometrical optics. Basic concepts of optics. Reflection.
Refraction. Total internal reflection. Lenses & optical systems. Types of
lenses. Spherical Mirrors.
Problems solving 6 (Lectures 13). Quiz 6, Home Assignment 6
Wave optics. Huygens’ principle. Reflection and refraction of light
waves. Interference. Coherent sources. Two-source interference.
Interference condition. Observation methods for interference. Diffraction
by a single slit. Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction. Various types of
diffraction. Diffraction grating. Resolution and the Rayleigh Criterion.
Dispersion. Polarization.
Problems solving 7 (Lectures 14-15). Quiz 7, Home Assignment 7.
9 May Holiday
The Spectroscopy. Energy levels. Energetic transitions in atoms.
Blackbody radiation. Photoelectric effect. Emission and absorption of
light. Einstein equation. Corpuscular concepts of light.
The Bohr’s model. Classical and Quantum mechanics. The Compton
effect. De Broglie waves. Electron diffraction. Probability and
uncertainty. Schrodinger equation. Wave function.
Problems solving 8 (Lectures 16-17). Quiz 8, Home Assignment 8.
Atomic structure. Hydrogen atom. Electronic shells. Zeeman effect.
Pauli’s principle. Spin. Quantum numbers. Periodic table of chemical
6
7
18.03.13
21.03.13
25.03.13
28.03.13
8
01.04.13
04.04.13
9
08.04.13
11.04.13
10
15.04.13
18.04.13
22.04.13
25.04.13
11
12
13
14
15
29.04.13
02.05.13
06.05.13
09.05.13
13.05.13
16.05.13
20.05.13
23.05.13
[1], Chapter 16
[2], Chapters
25, 26
[1], Chapter 17
[2], Chapter
27,
[1], Chapter 17
[2], Chapter 28
[1], Chapter 18
[2], Chapters
29, 30
[1], Chapter 19
[2], Chapter
31, 32
[1], Chapter 20
[2], Chapter 33
[1], Chapter 19
[2], Chapter 34
[1], Chapter 21
[2], Chapter 35,
36
[1], Chapter 23
[2], Chapter 37
[1], Chapter 23
[2], Chapter 38,
39
[1], Chapter 26
[2], Chapter 41
[1], Chapter 26,
27
[2], Chapter 41
[1], Chapter 28
[2], Chapter 41
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June
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30.05.13
elements.
Neutron. Composition of the nucleus. Nuclear size, force and binding
energy. Radioactivity. Types of radioactivity. Radioactivity decay.
Nuclear reactions. Nuclear fission. Nuclear fusion. Elementary particles
& antiparticles. Classification of elementary particles. The quark model
of the matter. Unified theories. Cosmology.
Final Exam
[1], Chapter 28,
31
[2], Chapter 41