SYLLABUS

PHYS 2220

 

Spring Semester 2008

MWF !:30-2:20 ESLC 130 (Are you in the correct class?)

Instructor:  Jan J. Sojka

Office:  SER Rm 250A

E-mail:  sojka@cc.usu.edu

 

Class Format

¤     41 Lectures

¤     4 written exams and 1 laboratory exam

¤     14 World Wide Web based homework assignments

¤     14 recitation quizzes (on Thursday only)

¤     10 laboratory sessions

 

Textbook

Physics for Scientists and Engineers, with Modern Physics, Randall D. Knight

 

With your class identification number, enter the www homework system. Class grades will be posted on the Blackboard/Vista system.

 

Syllabus

Week

Beginning

Monday

Weds

Thurs

Fri

Laboratory

Description of lectures

1

7 Jan

Ch 20

Ch 20

Quiz 1

Ch 21

NO

Traveling waves

2

16 Jan

Ch 21

Ch 22

Quiz 2

Ch 22

YES-1

Superposition, Interference

3

21 Jan

Holiday

Ch 23

Quiz 3

Ch 24

NO

Light, Optics

4

28 Jan

Exam 1

Ch 25

Quiz 4

Ch 25

YES-2

Electric Charge & Forces

5

04 Feb

Ch 26

Ch 26

Quiz 5

Ch 27

YES-3

Electric Fields

6

11 Feb

Ch 27

Ch 28

Quiz 6

Ch 29

YES-4

Gauss, Currents

7

18 Feb

Ch 29

Ch 30

Quiz 7

EXAM 2

NO

Electric Potentials

8

25 Feb

Ch 32

Ch 32

Quiz 8

Ch 32

YES-5

Magnetic Fields

9

03 Mar

Ch 33

Ch 33

Quiz 9

Ch 34

YES-6

Electromagnetic Induction

10

10 Mar

SPRING BREAK

11

17Mar

Ch 34

Ch 36

Quiz 10

Ch 36

YES-7

E & M waves, Relativity

12

24 Mar

Ch 37

Ch 37

Quiz 11

Exam 3

YES-8

End of Classical Physics

13

31 Mar

Ch 38

Ch 38

Quiz 12

Ch 39

YES-9

Quantization, Wave Function

14

07 April

Ch 39

Ch 40

Quiz 13

Ch 40

NO

Quantum Mechanics

15

14 April

Ch 40

Ch 41

Quiz 14

Ch 41

YES-10

Atomic Physics

16

21 April

Ch 42

Ch 42

NO QUIZ

Ch 42

NO

Nuclear Physics

Note: Final Exam is on Monday, April 28, from 11:30 to 1:20.

 

 

FINAL EXAM IS ON MONDAY, APRIL 28, FROM 11:30 TO 1:20.

 

The honor code will be strictly enforced in this course.  Any suspected violations of the honor code will be promptly reported to the honor system. For more information go to:

 

http://www.usu.edu/policies/PDF/Acad-Integrity.pdf