PHYSICS 2054C Syllabus Spring 2008

College Physics B ^{Spring 2008}
(PHY 2054C) Department of Physics, Florida State University

Course Leader/Lecturer: Dr. David M. Lind Office: 405 Keen Phone: 644-1576 lind@martech.fsu.edu
Recit. Instructor, Lab czar: Dr. Peng Xiong Office: 409 Keen Phone: 644-5849 xiong@martech.fsu.edu

Recit. Instructor, CAPA czar:Dr. Shahid Shaheen Office: 417 Keen    Phone: 644-2712; Cell: 443-4786 shaheen@phy.fsu.edu
Recitation Instructor,               Dr. Aferdita Ishmaku   Office: 318 Keen    Phone: 644-6814    dita@martech.fsu.edu
Recitation Instructor,               Dr. Tony Sumaryada    Office: 202 Keen    Phone: 644-1257    rts03@garnet.acns.fsu.edu
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Syllabus:

Welcome:

We're happy to have you with us this semester. Our goal this semester is to give you the opportunity to understand the basic concepts of physics relating to electricity and magnetism, optics and modern physics. We (your instructors) are "Physics True Believers'' - we believe that every science is built around physics, and that a deep understanding of physics makes you a better scientist, clinician, or teacher. We are hoping to share some of our enthusiasm with you this semester!

Textbook:

This course uses the Textbook: Douglas C. Giancoli, "Physics", 6th edition, Prentice-Hall
ISBN 0-13-060620-0 (hardcover, both semesters)
or ISBN 0-13-035257-8 (paperback, covers this term only)

Class Meetings:
Each student is registered for four class meetings.

Two large lectures: Monday, and Wednesday, in 101 Richards Building (UPL) from 11:15am to 12:05pm,or from 1:25pm to 2;15pm
One recitation session: Friday for 50minutes, starting at 9:05am, 10:010am, 11:15am or 12:20 pm, depending on the section you have registered for.
One laboratory session: one day per week from 3hours, can be Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday, depending on section you are registered for, all in 112 Richards Building (UPL), except section 10, which meets in 105 UPL. Notice that every student must be registered seperately both for a recitation section and for a lab section to be properly registered for in this course.

The Monday and Wednesday lectures will be used to outline the course material for which the student is responsible along with experimental demonstrations, to discuss examples of problems and to administer biweekly mini-exams. Lecture highlights will be posted on the course webpage. These highlights will indicate the exact topic covered during lecture and which textbook sections they were drawn from. However, these highlights do not contain all the information and explanations which will be presented during the lectures. Therefore, students are strongly encouraged to attend the lectures, since it is a demonstrated fact that there is a strong correlation between lecture attendance and student performance. To underline this statement, you can earn bonus points by attending these and the Friday lectures.

The Friday lecture class will be a "recitation style'' session, during which the focus will be on working through assigned problems (either from the CAPA homework set or from the recommended textbook problems) . This session will be particularly valuable since the exams will consist of problems very similar to those that will be discussed on Fridays. The graded mini-exams will also generally be returned during the Friday class. Graded problem solutions in the Friday recitations will contribute to the CAPA scores.

Recitation Sections:

Section	Day	Time __	Room	instructor___	_________	Section	Day	Time _	Room	instructor___
1	Friday	10:10-11:00am	105UPL	Dr. Ishmaku		7	Friday	11:15am-12:05pm	109UPL	Dr. Xiong
2	Friday	11:15am-12:05pm	105UPL	Dr. Ishmaku		8	Friday	9:05-9:55am	109UPL	Dr. Xiong
3	Friday	9:05-9:55am	107UPL	Dr. Sumaryada		9	Friday	12:20-1:10pm	105UPL	Dr. Ishmaku
4	Friday	10:10-11:00am	107UPL	Dr. Sumaryada		10	Friday	10:10-11:00am	109UPL	Dr. Xiong
5	Friday	11:15am-12:05pm	107UPL	Dr. Sumaryada		11	Friday	8:00-8:50am	109UPL	Dr. Shaheen
6	Friday	12:20-1:10pm	107UPL	Dr. Shaheen		12	Friday	9:05-9:55am	110UPL	Dr. Shaheen

Laboratory Experiments/Sections:
The purpose of the laboratory sessions is to gain hands-on experience with laboratory apparatus, to develop skills in performing experiments, to learn methods for analyzing scientific data and to relate the physics concepts covered in lectures with real experimental situations. Each student must complete a lab report, following the format prescribed by the lab instructor, before leaving the lab session for each experiment. Any missed labs should be made up by arranging to attend another lab section that same week! Lab manuals can be downloaded from the course web site, at http://www.physics.fsu.edu/courses/Spring08/phy2054c/labs/labs.htm If you have any questions or problems with your lab section, or if you miss a lab and must make it up, please contact Dr. Xiong. Laboratory classes will meet based on the schedule listed below: line-anim


Section	Day	Time	Room	instructor __	Section	Day	Time	Room	instructor_ _
1	Monday	12:30-3:30pm	112UPL	Farukh Fattoyev (PZ)	9	Tuesday	12:30-3:30pm	110UPL	YangGui (SS)
2	Monday	3:45-6:45pm	112UPL	Farukh Fattoyev (PZ)	10	Thursday	12:30-3:30pm	105UPL	Zach Stegan (AI)
3	Tuesday	12:30-3:30pm	112UPL	Nathan Sparks (SS)	11	Tuesday	3:45-6:45pm	110UPL	YangGui (SS)
4	Tuesday	3:45-6:45pm	112UPL	Nathan Sparks (SS)	12	Thursday	12:30-3:30pm	110UPL	Farukh Fattoyev (AI)
5	Wednesday	12:30-3:30pm	112UPL	Liuqi Yu (TS)	13	Tuesday	7:00-10:00pm	110UPL	Tadamasa Takeuchi (DL)
6	Wednesday	3:45-6:45pm	112UPL	Liuqi Yu (TS)	14	Wednesday	3:45-6:45pm	110UPL	Zach Stegan (TS)
7	Thursday	12:30-3:30pm	112UPL	Judy Cherian (AI)	15	Monday	7:00-10:00pm	110UPL	Tadamasa Takeuchi (DL)
8	Thursday	3:45-6:45pm	112UPL	Judy Cherian (AI)

Calculation of the Course Grades:
A student will have completed the course and will be eligible for a grade greater than ''F'' only if the student does the following:

Attends all laboratory sessions and submits satisfactory reports to the lab instructor for each session;
Attempts at least six of the seven mini-exam and attempts the final exam.

The final course grade will be calculated using the grades from the 7 bi-weekly mini-exams, the laboratory reports, the CAPA homework sets, and the final examination. Your final grade will be calculated according to the following weighting:
                CAPA/Homework sets       Laboratory Reports         Seven Mini-Exams         Final Examination
                      17% + 3% = 20%                     15%                              45%                              20%

Bonus points:
       A system of bonus points will be implemented, which allows each student the opportunity to have three extra percentage points (3

%

) added to his/her final accumulated grade. Two methods will be available to receive credit toward bonus points: (1) class participation through answering questions using the personal response system (PRS), or other other participation as determined by the instructor; and (2) preparedness checks through handing in a written summary at the beginning of Monday lectures of the topics covered that week. Details of exactly how the bonus point system will work will be outlined during a lecture. [Each student is responsible for bringing his or her own functioning, registered, PRS transmitter to class every day, and using it to answer the requested problems. You cannot earn those points without it. Written summaries will only be accepted at the beginning of class on the first day that the lecture meets each week, and must be one full page, hand-written, for each chapter to be discussed that week.]

Your final grade will be based on your total score in the five areas listed above (plus extra credit). The total course average will be converted into a letter grade, using the table shown below.

A	A-	B+	B	B-	C+	C	C-	D	F
100--91.0	90.9--88.0	87.9--85.0	84.9--79.0	78.9-76.0	75.9--73.0	72.9--67.0	66.9--64.0	63.9--55.0	below 54.9

lonCAPA Homework Sets and Recommended Textbook Problems:
        Completing the weekly CAPA problem set and attempting and becoming competent in doing the recommended textbook questions and problems listed for each week in the syllabus are the best ways to prepare for the mini-exams and the final exam. The CAPA problem set will be available early Monday morning and must be completed and turned in online at http://loncapa.fsu.edu/ by the required deadline (usually the Tuesday night/Wednesday morning of the following week, at 1:00am) to receive credit. The recommended textbook questions and problems will not be turned in for grading, but they are a useful resource for completing the CAPA assignments and emphasizing the physics subjects we consider important. The examination problems will be based on the subjects covered in both the CAPA and the textbook problem sets. Detailed solutions for the recommended textbook questions and problems can be found on the class webpage. Remember the "Blank Paper Test" in your examination preparation: try to solve the problems yourself first without looking at the solutions; if you need to use the solutions for help (which many times you will), go back and try the same problems again afterward to see if you have learned how to do them on your own. Memorizing the solutions will not help you, since the goal of this course is to teach you the physics concepts and how to apply them in different situations. The CAPA problems, the textbook questions and problems, and other items related to these will be discussed during the Friday lecture.
         A couple of problems (usually 2 or 3) will be assigned each week for you to work out completely and hand in to your recitation instructor on Fridays during recitation classes. These problems,and other participation in recitations, will be counted as 3% of your course grade total and will be included in your CAPA/ Homework score.

Final Exam:
        The final exam is a university mandated Block-exam, will be held on Tuesday, April 22, 2008 from 7:30am to 9:30am, and because of the size of the class will be given in a room which is not our usual lecture hall. You must come to class the last week of the term (or check the on-line lecture notes below), to confirm the place for the final exam. The exam is a university block exam and must be taken at the time listed.

Biweekly Mini-Exams:
        Preparing for the seven biweekly mini-exams has the most important impact on your final grade, since they account for 45

%

of the available points (See table "Calculation of the Course grade''). Below are a few rules and common questions about the exams and their grading:

Seven mini-exams will be given during the semester. Each exam contributes 7.5 $%$ towards the final score. Six of the seven exams will count toward the final grade, with the lowest grade (or a single missed exam grade) being dropped.
These mini-exams will be given on the designated Wednesday lecture times and each will take the full 50 minutes of the lecture.
The material covered in each exam will be that specified in the syllabus and based closely on concepts related to the recent CAPA assignments and recommended textbook questions and problems. You should note, however, that you are responsible for all the material covered in the lectures and in the textbook.
the policy in this course is that no make-up exams will be given. Students who can not attend one of the seven-mini exams for any reason will have that miss count toward the low dropped grade; any further misses will be counted as a zero on that test. The only exceptions to this rule are (1) university mandated travel, and (2) military service, and for both of these you must notify your lecture professor before the exam, and make up the exam within two weeks of the original exam date. A word to the wise....proper documentation will be required. If you have questions about how this policy applies to you, please talk to Dr. Lind
Students arriving late will be required to submit their exams by the same deadline as the rest of the class.
Each student is responsible for bringing a working calculator to each exam. No sharing is allowed. You will not be allowed to use your cell-phone as a calculator, because your cell-phone is not allowed on in the test-room.
Do not program formulae into your calculator - this is cheating and will be treated as such.
Don't cheat. the first instance of cheating on an exam results in a grade of zero points for that exam, the second results in an "F" for the course. Remember you are responsible to follow the FSU Honor Code.
Any questions you have with the grading of the exams must be resolved within 2 weeks of the hand-back date.

Resources for Students:
We want you all to do well in this course. Several resources are available to help you toward this goal:

Textbook: An excellent source of information. Read it, and work problems at the end of each chapter.
Classes: Attend lectures and recitations. Ask questions, and get involved in the discussion. What you retain from these classes may surprise you.
Professor's Office Hours/Tutorial Sessions: Each of the faculty members teaching this course have scheduled office hours to help students with homework problems and other matters that arise during the course. We have set these times so that they may be most useful to you as you do your lonCAPA homework and prepare for mini-exams. These times are given below. Other times may be arranged by calling the individual faculty member. Please don't hesitate to call or e-mail us at any time.

           (all office hours held in the faculty member's regular office, except where noted, or if the group is too large; overflow can also be accomodated in UPL211)
Dr. Lind:   Monday 3:30-5:30pm                   Dr. Shaheen: Tuesday 12:00-1:00pm                     Dr. Xiong: Tuesday 4:00-6:00pm
              Dr. Sumaryada: Monday 2:00-4:00pm          Dr. Ishmaku: Tuesday 12:15-2:15pm

Physics Department Consultation Sessions: A graduate student is available to assist you with homework problems and preparing for the exams. The times for these sessions will be announced later.

Course Information and CAPA on the World-Wide-Web:
The class web page is an extremely useful source of information for this course. You can get most of the web content via the Physics Department homepage at http://www.physics.fsu.edu/ and clicking on the Undergrads icon, then clicking on Physics Courses web pages link, then choosing PHY2053c from the menu of courses. This syllabus, a link to the CAPA web pages, the laboratory manual, and other information related to this course can be found there. Links to some of the course materials (some announcements, PRS clicker registration, old exam and CAPA problem solutions, textbook problem solutions, and your course grades, etc.) can be found on the Web via the Blackboard homepage at http://campus.fsu.edu/. You need a garnet user account to access the Blackboard system. It is a good idea to check the open class web page at least once a week. In order to read many of the files on the web pages, you will need to have an Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. You can download the software free of charge from the Adobe web site: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html
In order to attempt CAPA assignments, you also must have access to the web. There are numerous computer labs on campus and in the libraries. The Physics Department also has a number of computers that may be used for CAPA (e.g. in every classroom in UPL, and in our tutorial room, 211UPL, on the seventh floor of the Keen building). If you have any difficulties locating a computer, please contact any one of your instructors. there is a CAPA web page at http://loncapa1.fsu.edu, which contains useful information, and the log-in site for that system. You need your acns.garnet user name and password to log on-to CAPA. If you have any problems with your CAPA-login or related to how the CAPA system works, please contact Dr. Shaheen.

Some Sensible Advice:
We want everyone to have fun passing this course. Unfortunately some people find doing physics rather difficult. Below are a few tips which might help out: Take them seriously!!

This course is no pushover, physics is based on understanding, not remembering. We will do all we can to help you, but you have to be prepared to put some serious effort in to make sure you really understand the concepts. Only you know if you really are gaining an understanding or not! Remember the "blank paper test''! Try it on some additional end-of-chapter problems to test if you have understood the concepts.
Attend all lectures, especially the Friday recitations. It is a demonstrated fact that there is a strong correlation between lecture attendance and student performance; in addition, you can earn bonus points by attending the lectures!
The mini-exams form the most important component of the course. In order to prepare for those exams, make sure you understand and can do all the CAPA problems and the recommended homework problems.
In answering any problem, always ask yourself, "Is the answer I just worked out sensible?'' Remember to put units in.
Use the book, you paid good money for it. Take time to look over a chapter before it is covered in class. Taenotes on what you read. Remember you can earn extra credit by handing in chapter summaries. The Study Guide can also be quite useful.
Find a study partner. We strongly encourage students to study together or in groups.
When studying together, don't always be the one having ideas explained to you. Try explaining ideas to your friends. Surprizingly, the one doing the explaining is always the one who learns the most from this process.
Finally, don't give up or sit for hours in vain trying to do the homework. Come and see one of the faculty instructors and ask questions; usually you will be much closer than you think to being able to solve a problem.
If you are seriously thinking about dropping the course at any point, please come and talk to Dr. Shaheen, Dr. Xiong, Dr.Ishmaku, or Dr. Sumaryada or myself (Dr. Lind) first.

ADA statement:
Students with disabilities needing academic accommodations should register with, and provide documentation to, the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC) and bring a letter from SDRC to Dr. Lind indicating your needed academic accommodations. Please, if at all possible, do this during the first week of class.

A Note about the Master Table:
The following table outlines the week-by-week flow of the course, with reference to the chapter covered, the laboratory project for the week, the mini-exam schedule and material covered. You will also see listed two sets of homework problems: (a) the CAPA sets, which must be done because it is part of your final course grade; and (b) the recommended textbook problems and questions, which do not need to be handed in. We have chosen the textbook problems to further emphasize the physics principles which are important. We will post solutions to these problems on the web on the day you receive your CAPA assignment. They provide a useful resource to enhance your understanding of each weekly chapter, to help with the CAPA assignment, and to act as exam preparation material.

Physics 2054C Syllabus Guide Spring 2008

Date

Lectures

Reading and Homework

Mini-Exams & CAPA

Laboratory

Mon Jan 7

Ch16-Intro to course, &

electric charges&forces (notes)

Questions,Ch 16: 2,5,9,12,18
Problems,Ch 16: 3,6,8,12,13,23,28,30,34

CAPA#1 available

No Lab

This Week

Wed Jan 9

ch16-electric fields, problem

solving (notes)

(organizational skills)

Mini-Exam #0-pre-test

Fri Jan 11

discuss CAPA Set

& HW problems (Ch16)

Mon Jan 14

ch17-electrical potentials,

electric work (notes)

Questions,Ch 17:1,2,3,6,14
Problems,Ch 17: 3,8,9,15,16,33,37,45,47

CAPA#2 available

No Lab

This Week

Wed Jan 16

ch17,18-capacitors, Ohm's

law, dc-currents (notes)

Questions,Ch 18: 6,9,11,16;
Problems,Ch 18: 3,9,12,26,31,34,40

CAPA set#1 due

Fri Jan 18

discuss CAPA Set

& HW problems (Ch17)

Mon Jan 21

No Class:

MLK Holiday

CAPA#3 available

No Lab

This Week

Wed Jan 23

(Chapters 16, 17)

Mini-Exam #1

CAPA set#2 due

Fri Jan 25

discuss CAPA Set

& HW problems (Ch18)

Mon Jan 28

ch19-circuits: resistors

&capacitors (notes)

Questions,Ch 19: 1,4,7
Problems,Ch 19: 5,11,12,20

CAPA#4 available

Expt.I

Electric Fields

Wed Jan 30

ch19-analyzing circuits:

series&parallel (notes)

CAPA set#3 due

Fri Feb 1

discuss CAPA Set

& HW problems (Ch19)

Mon Feb 4

ch20-magnetism, magnetic

forces, Faraday's law (notes)

Questions,Ch 20: 1,8,14,16,25,26
Problems,Ch 20: 5,11,12,26,30,34,37,45

CAPA#5 available

Expt.II
Ohm's Law

Wed Feb 6

(Chapters 18, 19)

Mini-Exam #2

CAPA set#4 due

Fri Feb 8

discuss CAPA Set

& HW problems (Ch20)

Mon Feb 11

ch20,ch21-induction, motors,

Lenz's law, generators, (notes)

Questions,Ch 21: 1,3,4,15
Problems,Ch 21: 2,4,9,11,15,20,31,36,65,76

CAPA#6 available

Expt.III
Magnetic Fields

Wed Feb 13

ch20,21-problem solving in
magnetism, RHR, Lenz'

law, AC circuits (notes)

CAPA set#5 due

Fri Feb 15

discuss CAPA Set

& HW problems (Ch21)

Mon Feb 18

ch22-electromagnetic waves,

Maxwell's equations (notes)

Questions,Ch 22: 2,3,7
Problems,Ch 22: 11,29,50

CAPA#7 available

Expt.IV
Thermisters

Wed Feb 20

(Chapters 20, 21)

Mini-Exam #3

CAPA set#6 due

Fri Feb 22

discuss CAPA Set

& HW problems (Ch22)

Mon Feb 25

ch23-light & geometrical

optics, Snell's law (notes)

Questions,Ch 23: 1,8,13,21
Problems,Ch23: 4,27,35,41,44,53,54,56

CAPA#8 available

Expt.V
Oscilloscopes

Wed Feb 27

ch23-geometrical optics, lens

equation, ray tracing (notes)

^{cool
optics ray-tracing link!!}

CAPA set#7 due

Fri Feb 29

discuss CAPA Set

& HW problems (Ch23)

Mon Mar 3

ch24-wave nature of light:

diffraction (notes)

Questions,Ch 24: 2,5,10,18,25
Problems,Ch 24: 3,5,9,33,36,38,39,42

CAPA#9 available

Expt.VI
Meters

Wed Mar 5

(Chapters 22, 23)

Mini-Exam #4

CAPA set#8 due

Fri Mar 7

discuss CAPA Set

& HW problems (Ch24)

Mar 10-14

Spring

Break

Mon Mar 17

ch24,25: wave nature of light:

interference & optical

instruments (notes)

Questions,Ch 25: 3,8,9,16
Problems,Ch 25: 3,7,14,15,18,20,26,27,33,
40,43,58

CAPA#10 available

Expt.VII
Lenses

Wed Mar 19

ch25: optical instruments

(notes)

CAPA set#9 due

Fri Mar 21

discuss CAPA Set

#10

& HW problems (Ch25,26)

Mon Mar 24

ch26: Albert Einstein& the

theory of relativity (notes)

Questions,Ch 26: 1,4,5,9,10,11,18
Problems,Ch 26: 1,2,3,11,12,13,16,24,30,37

CAPA#11 available

Expt.VIII
Laser Light

Wed Mar 26

(Chapters 24-26)

Mini-Exam #5

CAPA set#10 due

Fri Mar 28

discuss CAPA Set

#11

& HW problems (Ch27)

Mon Mar 31

Ch.27: Early Quantum

Theory: Electrons&Photons

(notes)

Questions,Ch 27: 1,5,9,12,15,18,18
Problems,Ch 27: 4,10,11,13,22,23,26,32,33
36,42,48,54

CAPA#12 available

Expt.IX
Diffraction Gratings

Wed Apr 2

Ch.28,29:Quantum Mech. of

Atoms, (Extra -- ch29:Quantum
Mech. of Molecules & Solids) (notes)

Questions,Ch 28: 3,4,10,24 Ch29:1,6,8,12
Problems,Ch 28: 1,9,11,16,17,28,34,42
Ch 29: 1,20,23,28,35,36

CAPA set#11 due

Fri Apr 4

discuss CAPA Set

#12

& HW problems (Ch28-29)

Mon Apr 7

Ch.30: Nuclear Physics:

Nuclei, Binding Energy

a- & b-decay (notes)

Questions,Ch 30: 1,3,6,8,16
Problems,Ch 30: 4,6,12,17,22,38,39,43,44
52,56

CAPA#13 available

Expt.X
Radioactivity

Wed Apr 9

(Chapters 27, 28, 29)

Mini-Exam #6

CAPA set#12 due

Fri Apr 11

discuss CAPA Set

#13

& HW problems (Ch30-31)

Mon Apr 14

Ch.31:Nuclear Energy: Chain

Reactions,&Nuc.Medecine

(notes) Review for Final:

Questions,Ch 31: 3,11,14,22;
Problems,Ch 31: 4,13,16,22,25,31,34

(Chapters 16-22)