Physics B

PHY232/235: Physics B, Winter 1998

Teacher: Miron Kaufman

OFFICE: SI-116, Email:

m.kaufman@popmail.csuohio.edu

Class meets on: TU and TH 10:00-11:50AM in MC-104.

Prerequisites: PHY231/4, MTH171-172; Corequisite: MTH-173.

Textbook: Halliday, Resnick, Walker, Fundamentals of Physics, Part 3.

The subject of the course is Electricity and Magnetism.

Tentative Schedule

Week#1 Charge, the Coulomb Law Ch.22
Week#2 Gauss Law Ch.23,24
Week#3 Potential Ch.25
Week#4 Capacitors Ch.26
Week#5 Current, Resistance, Emf Ch.27, 28
Week#6 Magnetic Field Ch.29
Week#7 Ampere Law Ch.30
Week#8,9 Induction: Faraday-Lenz law Ch.31
Week#10 Gauss Law for Magnetism; Maxwell Eqs. Ch.32

Important Dates

Last day to drop the course: February 13
No classes: February 12

Exams Schedule

Exam #1 Ch.22,23,24 TU, January 27
Exam #2 Ch.25,26,27,28 TH, February 19
Exam #3 Comprehensive TH, March 19, 8:30-10:30AM

The final grade is a weighted average of:

Laboratory 20%
Exam #1 20%
Exam #2 20%
Exam #3 25%
Homework, Quizzes 10%
Computer Project 5%

Part of the course is a group project in the computer lab RT 213. We will work nontrivial problems in Electricity and Magnetism by using MathCad. Bring a diskette to save your work. The computer project will be done during the second hour of the lecture on the following dates:

TH, January 22 Computer lab.#1: Electric field created by two point-like charges.
TU, February 10 Computer lab.#2a: Electrostatic potential created by a charged ring.RINGPTNL.AVIAnimation of the charged ring potential.
TU, March 3 Computer lab.#3a: Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field. Computer lab.#3b Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field and an Electric Field.

QUIZ SOLUTION

TH 1/22/1998: Quiz #1
Quiz #2
Quiz #3

Some of you have signed for the writing version of Physics B which is called PHY235. The writing is graded as pass or fail. If you pass, the grade is determined by exams, quizzes, homework, labs as explained above. If you fail the writing component then you fail the course. You will write three essays:

Essay #1 about 1000 words, due TU, February 3
Essay #2 about 500 words, due TU, February 24
Essay #3 about 500 words, due TU, March 10

Homework

Homework #1: Ch.22: 3E, 5E, 8P, 10P, 12P, 13P, 14P, 18P, 19P, 20P, 27E, 30E.
Due: TH. 1/8/1998
Homework #2: Ch.23: 7E, 11P, 14P, 18P, 19P, 24E, 32P, 33P, 34P, 43E, 48E, 53P, 57P.
Due: TH. 1/15/1998
Homework #3: Ch.24: 7E, 11E, 14P, 22E, 24P, 25P, 27P, 28P, 30P, 31P, 32E, 33E, 37P, 38P, 44E, 46E, 50P, 53P.
Due: TU.1/20/1998
Homework #4: Ch.25: 8E, 9E, 11P, 13P, 15E, 25P, 26P, 34E, 43E, 44E, 49P, 56E, 76E.
Due: TU. 2/3/1998
Homework #5: Ch.26: 5E, 10E, 13P, 14E, 16E, 18E, 19E, 27P, 38E, 39E, 45P, 47P, 63P, 64P.
Due: TH. 2/5/1998
Homework #6: Ch.27: 2E, 18E, 29P, 31P, 47E, 56P; Ch.28: 3E, 11E, 12E, 16P, 17P, 18P, 22P, 32E, 34E, 40P, 42P, 48P, 55P, 59P, 69P, 70P, 73P, 74P.
Due: TU. 2/10/1998
Homework #7: Ch.29: 5P, 6P, 7P, 30P, 36P, 37P, 47E, 48P, 53P, 64E, 69P.
Due: TH. 2/26/1998
Homework #8: Ch.30: 1E, 8E, 27E, 38P, 43E, 46P, 47P, 53E, 54E, 56E, 61P.
Due:
Homework #9: Ch.31: 2E, 4E, 5E, 6E, 8E, 9P, 15P, 16P, 25P, 26P, 28P, 33E.
Due:
Homework #10: Ch.31: 45E, 47E, 58E, 59E, 60E, 61E, 67P, 69P, 70P, 76E, 85E, 86E.
Due:

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PHY232/235: Physics B, Winter 1998

Tentative Schedule

Important Dates

Exams Schedule

The final grade is a weighted average of:

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