1Physics 2140 GENERAL PHYSICS II Fall 2009 QUIZ SECTIONS: Quiz sections meet once per week and are important. They allow you to meet together in small groups to ask questions, discuss lecture material, discuss assigned practice problems, etc. The practice problems are intended to test your understanding of the course material. In the same way you must practice to become proficient at a sport or musical instrument, you must work problems in order to master basic physics. It is very important that you work out the solutions to each problem, and understand clearly the correct method of solution. It will be difficult to obtain a good grade in this course without making a conscientious effort to do all of the homework assignments. Quiz instructors, by using a few examples, are there to help students to understand the problems and to learn problem solving skills. However, they may not have time to do all the problems in details. It is student’s responsibility to work on all the practice problems. In the quiz sections, particularly during (but not limited to) the weeks indicated by asterisks, you may be given short quizzes, which will have questions and problems similar to your homework assignments. Five best quizzes will be counted toward your final quiz score. You will have the opportunity to earn up to 10% of points towards your course grade for the performance of the quiz sections. No individual make-up quizzes will be given. Quiz Sections CRN Instructor Room Tu 7:35 PM 16601 Dr. Anupam Kumar 319 OAK Th 6.30 PM 14431 Dr. Anupam Kumar 177 Physics EXAMS: I do NOT grade Exams on curve. There will be three mid-term exams, consisting of multiple choice questions and some partial credit problems. You will drop the lowest of the three exam scores. There will be NO make-up exams. Repeat: THERE WILL BE NO MAKE-UP EXAMS. This is the reason you are allowed to drop one exam score. If you must miss the exam, that will have to be the one you drop. You MUST bring your Wayne State ID to the exam and present it to a proctor when you hand in the exam. No electronic devices (other than a calculator) are allowed in the room during the exam (no iPods, headphones, cell-phones, Blackberries, etc.) Lecture Hours/ Location: T and W 6.00 PM – 7.30 PM. Room: OAK 319 TEXT: PHYSICS 1e by Giambattista, Richardson and Richardson, McGraw-Hill. ISBN: 978-0-07-340447-9; Webassign 2-Semester Access Card and New MCAT with CD included. LECTURER: Dr. Sudakar Chandran, Research Associate TELEPHONE: 313-577-0209 OFFICE: 368 Physics Building E-MAIL: [email protected] or [email protected] COURSE WEB PAGE: WSU Blackboard OFFICE HOURS: T and W 5.15 p.m to 6.00 p.m at Room 170 OAK faculty office.2 BONUS POINTS (ONLINE HOMEWORK): The WebAssign online testing system (http://webassign.net) provides online homework submission and grading. You will be asked to solve and submit for grading some additional problems each week for a maximum bonus 10% of your final score. I may give you additional extra-credit points using WebAssign. You are encouraged to do the problems in a timely fashion. If you buy the book in store, it will include a WebAssign access card valid for two semesters. However, if you loose this card you need to purchase it through the internet. Your username and initial password are your six character WSU ID (e.g. “ab1234”) and your last name with the first letter in uppercase, respectively. Please consult your WebAssign Student Guide for additional information. GRADING: Your course grade will be determined by your performance in three midterm Exams, Online Homework (bonus), Quiz Section results, and a Final Exam. The Final will cover the material presented during the entire semester. The overall course grade will be determined on the basis of the following distribution: Midterms – drop lowest score of 3 50 points (25 X 2=50 points) Quiz section performance 10 points Final Exam 40 points Web Assign (bonus) 10 points Total 110 points (out of 100) The overall course grade will be determined on the basis of the following table: Grade Cumulated score Grade Cumulated score Grade Cumulated score A 91 – 100 B- 70 – 74 D+ 50 – 54 A- 85 – 90 C+ 65 – 69 D 45 - 49 B+ 80 – 84 C 60 – 64 D- 40 - 44 B 75 - 79 C- 55 - 59 E 0 – 39 ADDITIONAL STUDY HELP: If you have difficulty doing HW or lab work, or understanding some of the course material, you can get help from the Physics Resource Center, in room 172 Physics (the center will open in couple of weeks). Lectures and Reading Assignments: The tentative schedule of lectures and reading assignments for the course is given in the next page. In order to learn from and participate in the discussion of the material covered during the lecture, it is very important for you to do the reading assignment before coming to class. Student Disability Services: If you have a documented disability that requires accommodations, you will need to register with Student Disability Services for coordination of your academic accommodations. The Student Disability Services (SDS) office is located at 1600 David Adamany Undergraduate Library in the Student Academic Success Services department. SDS telephone number is 313-577-1851 or 313-577-3365 (TDD only). Once you have your accommodations in place, I will be glad to meet with you privately during my office hours to discuss your special needs. Student Disability Services’ mission is to assist the university in creating an accessible community where students with disabilities have an equal opportunity to fully participate in their educational experience at Wayne State University."3TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE (Subject to change, * indicates a suggested quiz week) Week Date Day Lecture Topic Reading Assignment 1 09/08 T Syllabus, Electric charge, Coulomb’s law 16.1-16.3 09/09 W Electric field, Electric Flux and Gauss’ Law, Examples and review 16.4-16.7 2* 09/15 T Electrical potential and potential energy, conservation of energy for moving charges 17.1-17.4 09/16 W Capacitors and dielectrics, Energy stored in a capacitor, Examples and review, Electric current 17.5-17.7 3* 09/22 T Electric current and Ohm’s law,