Class information
Your grade for the lecture portion of the course will consist of:
The lecture portion is 80% of your whole grade and the lab is 20%.
Office hours will be on the 9th floor of Stevenson. I can be found in either SC6906 (my office) or (usually) SC6924 (the Johns/Sheldon/Webster Lab area).
The official class rooms are.
The final will be in the lecture classroom. Here is a link to the Registrar's final exam schedule for all classes.
We will be using Halliday and Resnick: "Fundamentals of Physics" 10th Extended version.
You may find an extended version of the class contract here .
Lecture 1: Jan 6 Ch 21: Conservation of Charge, Forces from charges Lecture 2: Jan 8 Ch 22: Electric Fields, Lines Lecture 3: Jan 13 Ch 23: Flux, Gauss Law Lecture 4: Jan 15 Ch 24: Potential Energy, Electric Potential (Last day to drop Jan 19) Lecture 5: Jan 20 Ch 25: Capacitance Lecture 6: Jan 22 Ch 26: Drift Velocity, Conductivity Lecture 7: Jan 27 Ch 26/27: Resistors and circuits Lecture 8: Jan 29 Ch 28: Magnetic Fields, Force on charges Test 1: Feb 3. Covers material through Jan 20 Lecture 9: Feb 5 Ch 29: Coils, Loops, Solenoids Lecture 10: Feb 10 Ch 30: Induced EMF Lecture 11: Feb 12 Ch 30/31: Inductance Lecture 12: Feb 17 Ch 33: Travelling Waves, EM Waves Lecture 13: Feb 19 Ch 33: Polarization, Index of Refraction Test 2: Feb 24. Covers material up to Feb 12 Lecture 14: Feb 26 Ch 34: Index of Refraction, Images Lecture 15: Mar 10 Ch 34: Lenses, Application of Lens Equation Lecture 16: Mar 12 Ch 35: Interference, Diffraction (Last day to withdraw Mar 13) Lecture 19: Mar 17 Ch 36: Diffraction Grating, Rayleigh Criterion Lecture 20: Mar 19 Ch 37: Relativity, time dilation/length contraction, energy Lecture 21: Mar 24 Ch 38: Quanta, Blackbody Radiation, Photoelectric effect Lecture 22: Mar 26 Ch 38: DeBroglie waves, Schrodinger equation, Uncertainty principle Test 3 Mar 31 Covers material through Mar 17 Lecture 23: Apr 2 Ch 39: Bohr Model, Wave functions, Hydrogen Lecture 24: Apr 7 Ch 40: Spin, Quantum applications, Periodic Table Lecture 25: Apr 9 Ch 41: Conductivity revisited Lecture 26: Apr 14 Ch 42/43: Decays, Fission/Fusion Lecture 27: Apr 16 Ch 44: Quarks/Big Bang Final Exam: Comprehensive, mandatory
Extra Study materials. lecture notes, old tests For tests in 121b, you will want to examine material from this page.
Additionally, here is the 1st exam I gave last year. Notice the included equation sheet. I was not planning to have resistors on your exam, but we can discuss it.
Equation Sheet For the second test.
Equation Sheet For the third test.
We'll be doing most homeworks on the computer this semester. The computer package we'll be using is called WebAssign. You can get to their info page by clicking on the link below.
Here are the solutions. Some of them may likely be from the 7th edition of your book and I recycled them in Webassign...and also in the solutions.<\p>
Pre resistors practice exam Please enter responses in Webassign. Make a note of the due date in Webassign as well.
Pre resistors practice exam solutions Solutions
1st challenge Problem set Due Sunday Feb 1.
Challenge Problem Set 1 solutions Supplementary Problem set 1 solutions
2nd challenge Problem set Due Sunday Feb 22.i I will post solutions on Monday.
2nd challenge Problem set solutions and here as an excel spreadsheet of my fit spreadsheet
Practice test 2 Practice test 2 (can enter and check answers in Webassign until 1pm on Sunday, I will post solutions on Monday. Note: Resistors will be on your exam.)
HW 12 key. . The problem labels are jumbled, but the info is in there!
3rd challenge Problem set Due Sunday March 29th.
3rd challenge Problem set solutions.
Practice test 3 Practice test 3 (Can enter and check answers in Webassign. Need to turn in to get credit for the lens diagram.I will post solutions on Monday. Note: Relativity will NOT be on your exam.)
4th challenge Problem set Due Sunday April 19th.
4th challenge Problem set key.
Practice final This is just to give you an idea of what I intend the final to be like.
Practice final solutions Don't look at these until you've given the practice final a try.
Additionally I may hand out a problem or 2 each week for you to turn in. I expect to see all steps completely worked out in these problems and I will grade these myself to get an idea of how you are doing.