IMPORTANT: DO NOT LOSE THIS DOCUMENT!PHYSICS 208: Electricity and Magnetism (Spring 2004)Co/Pre-requisites:You should have taken MATH 151 and currently be enrolled in MATH 152. You are expectedto have a working knowledge of plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, algebra, vectors,differentiation and integration.Instructor:Dr. George R. WelchOffice: ENPH-Office Wing, Room 415Office hours: Monday 9:00-10:30, Tuesday 8:30-10:00 or by appointmentE-mail:Please use this address: [email protected] departmental address is very busy. If you do not use the class address above, my responsewill almost certainly be delayed.World-Wide Web:http://leona.physics.tamu.edu/Phys208.04s/Textbooks:Physics for Scientists and Engineers 3rd ed. by Douglas C. Giancoli (Volume 2)Laboratory Manual for Physics 208-219 6th ed. by S. Ramirez, J. H. Ross, Jr. and W. M.Saslow.Recitation and Laboratory:Recitation meets in 119 Heldenfels Hall for the first hour, and is followed by a Laboratorysession the remaining two hours. If you are retaking the course you should notify me imme-diately in order to arrange to get credit for any lab taken previously. Students retaking thecourse do not have to repeat the Lab provided your lab grade was 80 or higher, but you mustattend the Recitation.Note: There will be no recitation or lab meetings during the first week of thesemester.Web Based Homework:Homework is required and will be implemented through the TAMU WebCT system.Before beginning the semester’s assignments, you are required to set up your account onWebCT and take some Math Review Quizzes and 218 Review Quizzes. These are preliminary,and will not be part of your grade. You must score 10 perfect scores on the Math Quizzesand 5 perfect scores on the 218 Review quizzes before you will be allowed to access theWebCT homework sets. Thus, you should get this out of the way as soon as possible.Homework problems are from the textbook, and are listed at on the tentative schedule thatis attached to this syllabus.Homework assignments are for you to practice problem solving techniques. You will have aweekly homework assignment to submit a selected number of these problems using WebCTfor grading as part of your homework/lecture grade. You are nominally expected to com-plete the list of assigned problems for each chapter in the week following the discussion of1this material in lecture and recitation. Recitation is a problem solving session, where theinstructor will work problems and answer questions.In-Class Quizzes and Homework:During the semester many short ( ≈ 10 minute) quizzes will be given in class. My goal is tohave a quiz every day, but the actual number will be short of that.Each quiz will test your ability to work the material that was just discussed in class, or thematerial that you should have read before coming to class. No partial credit will be given –the answer is either right or wrong.In addition to the quizzes, there will be periodic assignments handed out that you will beasked to complete. Think of these as “take-home quizzes.”Exams:There will be three midterm exams and one final exam. Each midterm exam is 50 minuteslong and the final exam is 2 hours long. These exams will generally consist of problemssimilar in content and difficulty to the homework, the examples in the book, and the dailyquizzes. The entire solution will be graded and partial credit given if merited. Your workmust show the steps toward the solution; the answer alone is not sufficient. The graderwill judge your use of physics in arriving at the solution. You can expect at least one problemto be something you have not seen, but that can be worked with the material presented inthe course.You will be supplied with a formula sheet with each exam. A copy of this sheet may beavailable on the departmental web site before each exam. You will need to bring a calculatorto the exams. However, if you have a programmable type calculator, please clear its memorybefore b eginning the exam.If you miss an exam due to an authorized excused absence as outlined in the UniversityRegulations you must contact me no later than the next class meeting following the missedexam to arrange for a makeup exam. We may organize a single course-wide makeupexam for those missing an exam. If so, this makeup exam will be written by a committeeof 208 lecturers and administered outside normal class time within 7-10 days following themissed exam. Note: Very few conditions qualify as an authorized excused absence, so avoidmissing an exam at all costs.You must bring your student ID with you to all exams for identification purposes.Exam Grade:Exam grades may be curved depending on special conditions of a particular exam. In nocase will a curve result in a lower letter grade than the standard 90-100% A, 80-89% B,70-79% C, 60-69% D and <60% F.2Course Grade The total course grade consists of 750 points distributed as follows:Points3 Midterm Exams 300Final Exam 200Daily Quizzes 100Laboratory 100Web-Based Home Work 50Total 750NOTE: In the case where your final exam grade is better than your 3 exam average, analternate grading scheme will b e used. This scheme allows the final to count 300/750 pointstoward your final grade and your exam average to count 200/750 instead of the breakdownindicated above. You must pass both the laboratory and lecture (3 midterm exams and finalexam) parts of the course separately in order to pass the course.Important Statements:Americans with Disabilities ActThe Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a federal antidiscrimination statute thatprovides comprehensive civil rights protection for persons with disabilities. Among otherthings, this legislation requires that all students with disabilities be guaranteed a learningenvironment that provides for reasonable accommodation of their disabilities. If you believeyou have a disability requiring an accommodation, please contact the Department of StudentLife, Services for Students with Disabilities in Room 126 of the Koldus Building, or call 845-1637.CopyrightsThe handouts used in this course are copyrighted. By “handouts” we mean all materialsgenerated for this class, which include but are not limited to syllabi, lab problems, in-class materials, review sheets, and additional problem sets. Because these materials arecopyrighted, you do not have the right to copy the handouts, unless the author expresslygrants permission.Scholastic DishonestyAs commonly defined, plagiarism consists of