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PHY2061 - Enriched
Physics 2
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Fall 2006 Syllabus
[PDF, DOC]
Instructor:
Prof. Darin Acosta
New Physics Building, room 2035
Tel: 846-3144
E-mail: acosta @ phys.ufl.edu (always put
“PHY2061” in the Subject!)
Class Hours:
Tuesday and Thursday, Periods 4-5 (10:40–12:35 am), 1002 New
Physics Building
Office Hours:
Monday and Wednesday Periods 6 and 7 (1:00–3:00pm), or by appointment.
Textbook:
Halliday, Resnick and Krane, Physics, Volume 2, 5th edition, published
by Wiley
Homework problems are based on WebAssign
(separate purchase) and are in
common with the text Halliday, Resnick and Walker, Fundamentals of
Physics 7th
edition, Parts 3 and 4.
(The first textbook is more explanatory than the second, but you could
consider
purchasing the second one instead with a bundled WebAssign code,
supplemented
by lecture notes.)
Web Page:
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~acosta/phy2061/
Includes schedule, homework assignments, solutions, lecture notes, etc.
Grading:
Three exams,
two during the semester and one during finals week, are worth
a total of 75% of
the final grade. Each exam covers
material only since the last exam. Exams are closed book, but a
calculator is required. Format of exams is worked out solutions (i.e.
not scantron bubble sheets). Make-up exams only for excused school
functions or documented dire emergencies.
Weekly web-based
homework counts towards 20%
of the final grade. We will use the WebAssign
service for the homework problems (separate license purchase).
Collaboration on homework is accepted and encouraged, but you must do
the problems and enter the solutions yourself. Homework will typically
be assigned on Tuesday mornings, and due by 11:59pm Wednesday the
following week.
Class participation
counts for another 5%. This is
based on regular attendance and
answering questions posed in class (and asking questions as well!).
Guaranteed grading scale: A:
85%; B+: 80%; B: 70%; C+: 65%; C: 55%
Academic Honesty:
Students are reminded that they are to abide by the Honor Code of the
University of Florida. Dishonesty in any form will not be tolerated;
cheating during an exam will result in a failure for the exam and
possible failure for the course.
Disabilities:
Students with disabilities that require any special arrangements for
homework or exams must report such needs to the instructor at the start
of the semester along with supporting documentation from the Dean of
Students Office.
Course Overview:
This
course covers the laws of electricity and magnetism, which have been
developed over the past several centuries but have recently led to a
microelectronic revolution. Just consider all the fantastic discoveries
that made communication via a cell phone possible! As this course is
part of the University Honors program (aka the Accelerated Program in
the Physics Department), it is enriched. This means that we will go
into more depth than the material presented in the corresponding
Physics 2 with calculus course, PHY2049, and will cover additional
topics beyond those in your textbook. For example, we will incorporate
Special Relativity into some of the material, and we will derive both
the integral and differential forms of the electromagnetic laws that
will allow us to understand why electromagnetic waves are predicted.
Lecture notes for some topics will be made available from the web. The
overall pace of the class will be high, as we cover one and sometimes
two chapters of the textbook every week.
This
course assumes that you have studied Newtonian mechanics in a previous
calculus-based physics course (i.e. PHY2060) and at least have
co-registered in a vector calculus course (Calc 3). A “Math &
Physics Refresher” is available from the course web page that
summarizes the math and physics you should know or learn in preparation
for (or during) this course.
The
best way to succeed in this course is to attend lectures, ask
questions, read the textbook and online lecture notes (try before the
lecture!) and to do the
assigned homework problems. Even better: try solving other additional
problems from your textbook.
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