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SYLLABUS DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS Winter 2008 Physics 1C Jan. 7, 2008 General Physics – Waves, Optics and Modern Physics WEB PAGE: http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/winter2008/physics1C/ INSTRUCTOR: Melvin Okamura Office: 1226 Mayer Hall Office Hours: Wed., Thu. 2-3 pm Email: [email protected] Phone: 534-2506 TEACHING ASSISTANT: Email Office Office hrs: COURSE COORDINATOR: Patti Hey, 118 Urey Hall Addition, 822-1468 [email protected] CLASS SCHEDULE: Lecture: MW F 12:00 – 12:50 pm WLH 2005 Quizzes: F (alternate) 12:00 – 12:50 am WLH 2005 Problem Session: Th TBA TBA Final Exam: Wed March 19, 11:30 am -2:29 pm. Location TBA TEXT: Serway & Faughn, College Physics, 7th Edition, Thomson/Brooks/Cole PREREQUISITES: Math 10A, concurrent in 10B or 20A. Trigonometry, vectors and calculus will be used in lectures, problem sets and exams. COURSE FORMAT: Physics 1A-B-C is a lecture course covering mechanics, electricity and magnetism, waves and modern physics. This sequence is not suitable for students majoring in Physics, MAE, ECE or CSE. Other majors should check with their departments for the appropriate sequence. Physics 1C deals with waves, optics and modern physics. A course schedule is attached. A separate laboratory course which meets each week will give hands on experience of the physical concepts dealt with in the course. Enrollment in the lab is required. Labs are a separate course which must be registered separately. HELP IS AVAILABLE: Problem Session. A problem session will be held on Thursday evening. At these sessions the TA will work problems and go over the weekly lectures. Attendance is voluntary, but students are encouraged to use these meetings to help master course material and prepare for quizzes. Individual assistance is available during office hours or by appointment. Physics Evening Tutorial Center. The purpose of this Center is to provide a supplement to your lectures, TA discussion and/or problem sessions and office hours. Students may come to the Center for tutoring, individual and/or group assistance with homework, studying for quizzes or exams. For more information about the Center see http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/tutorialcenterHOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS: Problem sets will be assigned as selections from each text chapter. Solutions will be available on the course web site. The problems will be worked in detail during the Thursday problem session. The homework will not be collected or graded, but quiz problems may resemble assigned homework problems. QUIZZES: Four quizzes will be given during the quarter on alternate Fridays beginning the 2nd week. There will be no quiz during the last (10th) week. You will be allowed to drop one quiz. You will be allowed to bring a sheet of equations to the quiz. There will be no make-up quizzes. If you miss a quiz you can use this as the one to drop. The quizzes will consist of multiple choice questions. You must purchase your own scantron forms for quizzes. They are available at the Bookstore (no. X-101864-PAR) and the general store co-op. You will need a No. 2 pencil to fill in the scantron. CLICKERS: You have the opportunity to earn extra credit (up to 5%) for classroom participation using the in class clicker system. InterWrite Personal Response System (PRS). Available at Price Center Bookstore. See http://clickers.ucsd.edu/ . During lectures, questions will be asked to which you can respond using your clicker. You will be given 1 point for an incorrect answer and 2 points for the correct answer. FINAL EXAMINATION: The final examination will cover all of the material of the course. Please check your final exam schedule and inform instructor of any conflicts within the first two weeks of quarter. GRADING POLICY Quizzes 60% (best 3 out of 4) Final Exam 40% Clickers 5% (extra credit) ADD/DROP Use WebReg to add/change/drop, drop from waitlists. See Sharmila Poddar (534-3290) in the Physics Department, Student Affairs Office, Urey Hall Addition, Room 115, if you have problems with WebReg. If you need advice, see the TA or the instructor, but they do not sign any cards. ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: Please read "UC Policy on Integrity of Scholarship" in the UCSD General Catalog. The Policy regarding Academic Dishonesty will be rigorously enforced. Any confirmed case of cheating will result in an “F” grade in Physics 1 and referral to the appropriate dean for disciplinary action. DEADLINES Last day to add a class: Friday, January 18 Last day to drop a class w/o a W and change grade option: Friday, February 1 Last day to drop a class w/o an F: Friday, March 7.Tentative Schedule of Topics week Date Topic Chapter 1 1/7 Harmonic Oscillations 13 1/9 Waves 13 1/11 Sound Waves 14 2 1/14 Standing Waves 14 1/16 Doppler Effect -Beats 14 1/18 Electromagnetic waves 21 3 1/21 Holiday – Martin Luther King 1/23 Reflection and Refraction 22 1/25 Quiz 1 (Chapt. 13 and 14) 4 1/28 Dispersion -Total internal reflection 22 1/30 Mirrors 23 2/1 Lenses 23 5 2/4 Geometrical Optics- Simple optical systems 25 2/6 Microscopes, Telescopes 25 2/8 Quiz 2 ( Ch. 21, 22, 23) 6 2/11 Polarization 24 2/13 Double Slit Interference 24 2/15 Diffraction Grating, Circular Diffraction 24, 25.6 7 2/18 Holiday – President’s Day 2/20 Quantum Physics Planck's Constant 27 2/22 Quiz 3 (Ch. 24 and 25.6) 8 2/25 X-rays -Scattering and Diffraction 27 2/27 Quantum Physics -Wave nature of matter 27 2/29 Atomic Physics - Bohr Atom 28 9 3/3 Exclusion Principle-Periodic Table 28 3/5 Lasers/Transistors 28 3/7 Quiz 4 (Ch. 27 and 28) 10 3/10 Nuclear Physics- Binding Energy 29 3/12 Radioactivity 29 3/14 Nuclear Energy- Fission and Fusion


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