Physics
161 General Physics II Summer, 2006
Time and
Place: MTWR 17:30 – 18:45 AM, Regener Hall 103
Textbook:
Young and Freedman, University Physics, 11th Edition
(available from the UNM
Bookstore)
Other
Required Item: Class response keypad
(available from the UNM
Bookstore)
Note that the optional study
guides are not required for this class
We do not use WebAssign in this
class.
Instructor: L.
Kent Morrison, Ph.D.
College of Arts and
Sciences
Physics and Astronomy, Room
1115
Phone (505) 277-0433
Problem
session/office hours will be held in Regener Hall,
Room 114 each day after class, 19:00-20:00. All
students are expected to be on-time and to
sign-in at the start of the problem session. Up to 10% extra credit may
be
obtained by attending at least one problem section each week of the
term.
We will work
in sequence through the textbook, completing about
one chapter every two days. The last day of the class will be dedicated
to a comprehensive
review. There will be two in-class midterm examinations, and a final
examination
during finals week, per the Registrar’s published schedule of finals.
Homework
will be assigned each for each chapter and due at
the start of class period when we begin the next chapter. You will do homework online using the
Mastering Physics that comes with your book at the bookstore. I will explain how to access this during the
first class meeting. Your homework is
immediately graded and you will have immediate feedback on your answers. Since the class is fast paced, this means you
will be doing and submitting homework about twice each week. Each
new chapter builds on all the preceding chapters, so it is critical
that you
keep up with the class and do all of the homework.
Class grading
is strictly objective, and will be determined
as follows:
10% on in-class quizzes (usually
unannounced)
20% on the solutions of the
homework exercises
20% on each of the two midterm
examination scores
30% on the final examination
score
Up to 10% extra credit may be
earned by attending the problem sessions.
Grading is
approximately as follows, but never stricter
than this:
90 - 100: A (pluses and minuses
will be assigned),
75 - 89: B , 60-74:
C , 45-59: D
All students
are strongly encouraged to attend the
regularly scheduled problem sessions, but Dr. Morrison is also
available for
office hours at other times by arrangement.
Be sure to register your ‘clicker’ on CPS. For this procedure,
go to:
http://www4.unm.edu/physics/help/students/
You will need
to enter your class key, which is F19018A648. If you need
help, contact:
Cathy Webster
Regener Room
111
Phone:
277-5812 (Regener, during office hours)
E-mail:
webster@unm.edu
BE SURE AND
REGISTER UNDER UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO, and
not
you register
under these incorrect destinations, then you
will need to call 888-333-7532
or go onto
the e-Instruction web site chat room and get
them to cancel your current
registration
so that you can register under
use the code
in your clicker box to register your clicker
for free if your clicker is new.
Otherwise,
register your old clicker and pay the
registration fee on-line.
Instruction
Schedule
Jun. 5 Temperature
and Heat (
Jun. 6
Jun. 7 Thermal
Properties of Matter (
Jun. 8
Jun. 12 First
Law of Thermodynamics (
Jun. 13
Jun. 14 Second
Law of Thermodynamics (
Jun. 15
Jun. 19
Exam 1, Chapters 17 - 20
Jun. 20 Electric
Charge and Electric Field (
Jun. 21
Jun. 22 Gauss’s
Law (
Jun. 26
Jun. 27 Electric
Potential (
Jun. 28
Jun. 29 Capacitance
and Dielectrics (
Jul. 3
Jul. 4
Jul. 5 Current,
Resistance, and EMF (
Jul. 6 Direct
Current Circuits (
Jul. 10
Jul. 11 Exam
2, Chapters 21 – 26
Jul. 12 Magnetic
Fields and Forces (
Jul. 13
Jul. 17 Sources
of Magnetic Field (
Jul. 18
Jul. 19 Electromagnetic
Induction (
Jul. 20 Inductance
(
Jul. 24 Alternating
Currents (Ch 31)
Jul 25
Jul 26 Comprehensive
review of the class, Ch. 17 - 31
Jul 27 Comprehensive
review of the class, Ch. 17 - 31
Final Exam
time and date to be announced
Recommendations
for optimal study habits:
- Study the
material in Young and Freedman before it is
covered in class
- Work
through the examples in the text before class
- Come to
class with the confusing items noted
- If not
resolved in lecture, come to a problem session or
arrange a meeting with Dr. Morrison at a convenient time.
- Start the
homework problem set immediately so you can ask
any questions in class or during the problem session.
- No late
problem sets will be accepted, so turn in what
you have done before it is due. Your lowest problem set score will be
dropped.
- Problem set
solutions will be available after you submit
your answers. Get the
solutions and
use them as a guide to work through the
problems that confuse you.
If the
solutions are not adequate, then come to a problem
session and ask about it.
- Keep
repeating this process every week, and don’t stop
trying until you really
understand.
Don’t try to fake it. You are responsible for
your own education, so
keep pushing
until you really understand.
- Review of
the materials before an exam will be easy if
you made sure that you
understand
the material while we cover it in class.
- Work
collaboratively on the problem sets – Form study
groups with other class
mates, and
learn from each other. But be sure you
understand all of the problems
in the end,
since you will take the exams completely alone.