PHYCS 2220    Physics for Scientists and Engineers II  FALL 2004

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Schedule:  Section 001  MWF, 12:55 pm - 01:45 pm,
  Section 010  MWF, 02:00 pm - 02:50 pm.

Location:  JFB 103

Instructor: Ben Bromley
   www.physics.utah.edu/~bromley
E-mail:  bromley@physics.utah.edu
Office:  INSCC 218   Hours: 11:30am-12:30pm MWF
Phone:  581-8227

Teaching Assistants:
Tamara Young-Jui   Class Marshall tamara@physics.utah.edu
Akiko Soemori Web(assign) Master   akiko@physics.utah.edu
Justin Peel Discussion Leader jpeel@physics.utah.edu
Nicholas Todd Discussion Leader nickt@physics.utah.edu
Abdel Farid Discussion Leader afarid@physics.utah.edu

Course Description.

Three lectures and two recitations weekly. The continuation of PHYCS 2210. Electrostatics, electric fields, and potential. Magnetic fields and Faraday's law. Current flow, resistance, capacitance and inductance. Electric circuits and electromagnetic oscillations. Electromagnetic waves, geometric optics, and a short introduction to modern physics. (4 credits.)

Recommended prerequisite: PHYCS 2210. Recommended corequisite: MATH 1220.

Textbook.

Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd edition, Volume Two, R. Wolfson & J. M. Pasachoff, 1999 (Addison-Wesley).

Please download and print the page of Additional Constants to keep in your textbook.

Administrative issues.

Homework.

Homework will be assigned regularly and will be turned in electronically by a specified deadline. Any required hardcopy of homework (such as graphs which can not be submitted electronically) must be turned in at the beginning of discussion sections. Directions for accessing assignments are at the the class homework web site; solution sets will be provided there after homework is due. NO LATE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED. Your lowest scores from two weeks' worth of homework will be dropped.

Exams.

There will be six exams in total for this course (five midterm exams and the final). The exam dates are given in the course lecture plan while the exam policy can be found at this link. Your lowest midterm exam score will not count toward your grade; this will help you if for some reason (unexpected scheduling conflicts) you are unable to take an exam.

NOTE: You must show your student ID in order to turn in each exam. NO EXCEPTIONS.

All material submitted for this course must have your NAME and STUDENT ID NUMBER printed clearly at the top of each page. This is very important for exams, since pages of a test may be separated for grading purposes.

No early or makeup exams will be given. (Again, a single missed midterm exam will not count against your grade since the lowest exam score is dropped. It is highly recommended that you do not miss two or more exams.)

Grades.

Grades are calculated as follows. The top four of the five midterm exams are each worth 12.5% of your grade, whie your lowest midterm exam score is not counted. The final exam is worth 25% and homework contributes 25%. The lowest two weeks' worth of homework scores will be dropped (e.g., the four lowest homework scores if assignments are due twice a week).

A disputed exam grade must be brought to the instructor's attention before the next exam is given. Regrades will not be performed on exams which are written in pencil. Regrade forms must be completed for every problem in question. Regrade forms are available here. No regrades will be made for homework problems.

Discussion sections.

All students must register for a discussion section. The purpose of these sections is to go over homework or related problems. Any homework due at a discussion section must be submitted at the BEGINNING of the recitation.

The discussion section schedule is given in the following table.

Help labs/Supplemental Instruction.

If you have questions concerning the homework or material covered in lecture, you are encouraged to attend a help lab, offered weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The meeting place will be the JFB Rotunda.

Also you are strongly encouraged to attend the Supplemental Instruction sessions run by Seth Allen. Please check out his SI website for more information.

Help lab schedule:

Times are approximate.

Course-related dates.

Please see the exam page for locations of the midterms and final.

Course-related links.

Below is a list of URLs that may be useful throughout the course. In particular, please monitor the Announcements page throughout the semester for updates regarding the more bureaucratic aspects of the course.

Disabilities Services.

The University of Utah seeks to provide equal access to its programs, services and activities for people with disabilities. If you will need accommodations in the class, reasonable prior notice needs to be given to the Center for Disability Services, 162 Olpin Union Building, 581-5020 (V/TDD). CDS will work with you and the instructor to make arrangements for accommodations.

All written information in this course can be made available in alternative format with prior notification to the Center for Disability Services.

Acknowledments.

Thanks are extended to Professors George Williams, Richard Price and Charlie Jui for much help and guidance in the preparation of this course.

Prof. Sid Rudolph has pioneered the use of web-based assignments in our Department. I am grateful to him for his foresight, as well as all the help he has given me and others as we try to incorporate web-based assignments into our own courses.

We are also greatly indebted to Lynn Higgs for all his help in setting up the personnel and infrastructure for this course.

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