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
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41
Lectures
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4
written exams and 1 laboratory exam
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14
World Wide Web based homework assignments
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14
recitation quizzes (on Thursday only)
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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 |
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|
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