SPRING 2014
SYLLABUS
PH 111 GENERAL PHYSICS II
Instructor:
4 Credit Hours
Dr. E. Michonova-Alexova,
Text: Physics by Giancoli, 7th Ed.
Companion website for 6th Ed.: http://wps.prenhall.com/esm_giancoli_physicsppa_6/
MasteringPhysics website: http://www.masteringphysics.com/
Class page on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Erskine-College-General-Physics/205235069566040
Class group on Facebook (closed)
https://www.facebook.com/groups/354268921253957
PREREQUISITE PH 110 or an equivalent level course taken elsewhere
COURSE OBJECTIVES
At the end of this course:
1. Students will have improved problem solving skills and estimating skills.
2. Students will be familiar with Physics lab techniques and equipment.
3. Students will be knowledgeable about the basic terminology and methods of physics.
4. Students will know the concepts and be able to solve problems involving the topics listed below.
The course supports the mission of Erskine College by encouraging thinking and intellectual curiosity in
the area of physics. You will usually work with others on homework and lab assignments. The course
should give you an appreciation and a sense of awe for the universe in which we live. Lab reports will
develop your writing skills as you present your analyses of lab data.
CONTRIBUTION TO EDUCATION MAJORS
This course meets the National Science standards by enhancing the student’s understanding for the
Biology content area and Chemistry content area. The student’s learning of these topics is assessed
through passing the course.
Elements of active learning incorporated in this course include working problems in class, working
homework problems, collecting and analyzing data during the lab sessions, and performing calculations
with the lab data. Elements of reflective teaching incorporated in this class include consideration of the
concepts of physics, consideration of how the mathematical equations model the real world, and written
lab reports in which the student answers questions reflecting the experiments.
HOMEWORK
READING SCHEDULE
MWF Class meets for lectures.
Class
READ TOPIC
Jan 27 (Mon)
16:1-4 Electric Charge
Jan 29 (Wed)
16:5-7 Coulomb’s Law Electrostatics
Jan 31 (Fri)
16:8-10 Electric Field
Feb 3 (Mon)
17:1-4 Electric Potential & Potential Difference Electric Field
Feb 5 (Wed)
17:5-8 Electric Potential, Capacitors
Feb 7 (Fri)
17:9-11 Applications
Feb 10 (Mon)
18:1-5 Current, Resistance, Ohm’s Law
Feb 12 (Wed)
18:6-10 Electric Power, Alternating Current
Feb 14 (Fri)
19:1-5 Circuits, EMF, Terminal Voltage Capacitors, Kirchhoff’s Rule Problems
Feb 17 (Mon)
19:6-11 Batteries, RC Circuit; Applications
Feb 19 (Wed)
20:1-6 Magnetism Earth’s B Field
Feb 21 (Fri)
20:7-12 Ampere, Ampere’s Law, Applications
Feb 24 (Mon)
TEST 1 Chapters 16 – 19
Feb 26 (Wed)
21:1-7 Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s Law, Generators, Transformers, Magnetism
Feb 28 (Fri)
21:8-15 Magnetism & AC Circuits
Mar 3 (Mon)
22:1-4 Maxwell’s Equations, EM Waves, Speed of Light
Mar 5 (Wed)
22:5-8 Light Reflection & Refraction
Mar 5 (Wed)
23:1-5 Reflection, Mirrors
Mar 7 (Fri)
23:7-10 Thin Lenses , Optics
Mar 10 (Mon)
24:1-5 Waves, Huygen’s Principle, Interference
Mar 12 (Wed)
24:6-10 Diffraction, Thin Films
Mar 14 (Fri)
Albert Einstein’s birthday (official Physics holiday; no class)
Spring Break
March 17 – 21
Mar 24 (Mon)
25:1-6 Camera, Eye, Corrective Lenses , Magnifier, Telescopes
Mar 26 (Wed)
25:7-12 Resolution, Microscopes, X-rays, Diffraction
Mar 27 (Thu)
TEST 2 Chapters 20 – 24 (during the lab period)
Mar 28 (Fri)
26:1-4 Special Relativity: Postulates
Mar 31 (Mon)
26:5-8 Special Relativity: Time dilation, twin paradox, length contraction, 4D space-time
Apr 2 (Wed)
26:1-6 Special Relativity : E=mc2
Apr 4 (Fri)
27:1-5 Quantum Hypothesis, Photoelectric Effect, etc
Apr 7 (Mon)
27:6-11 Matter Waves, Atom, Blackbody, Photoelectric Effect, Compton Effect
Apr 9 (Wed)
28:1-4 Quantum Mechanics
Apr 11 (Fri)
28:5-9 QM Atom, Periodic Table
Apr 14 (Mon)
29:1-9 Molecules and Solids
Apr 16 (Wed)
30:1-6 Nucleus, Radioactivity, Decays, Half-life
Easter Break
April 17 – 21
Apr 23 (Wed)
30:7-13 Decay Series, Dating, Detectors
Apr 24 (Thu)
TEST 3 Chapters 25 – 30 (during the lab period)
Apr 25 (Fri)
31:1-5 Nuclear Reactions, Fission
Apr 28 (Mon)
31:6-9 Dosimetry, Tracers, NMR
Apr 30 (Wed)
32:1-6 Elementary Particles: antiparticles, neutrinos
May 2 (Fri)
32:7-12 Unified Theories, String Theories
May 5 (Mon)
33:1-4 Astrophysics: Stars and Galaxies; General Relativity, Gravity and the Curvature of Space
May 7 (Wed)
33:5-7 Cosmology: The Expanding Universe, the Big Bang
May 8 (Thu)
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY PLANETARIUM (during the lab period)
May 9 (Fri)
33:8-10 Cosmology: Dark Matter and Dark Energy; Large Scale Structure of the Universe
May 12 (Mon)
FINAL EXAM REVIEW
May 14 (Wed)
FINAL EXAM REVIEW
Final Exam:
May 18 Chapters 16-33