| Instructor: | Jim Crumley |
| Office: | 107 Peter Engel Science Center |
| Email: | jcrumley@csbsju.edu |
| Phone: | 363–3183 |
| Office Hour: | 2:40 pm Days 26, noon Day 5 (or by appointment or just stop by) |
| Lecture: | 11:20 am, 1:00pm Days 246 |
| Room: | 173 Peter Engel Science Center |
| Textbook: | College Physics, 8th Edition by Serway and Vuille |
| Web Site: | http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/~jcrumley/106/ |
Welcome to Physics 106. This course is designed to give you the background in physics in order to better understand processes that you study in your field. Toward this end, we try to incorporate examples and lab activities which show you how the physics being studied can be applied in the “real” world. This course will move more quickly than Physics 105 since there is more material to cover.
Labs are an important part of learning physics. It is important that you come to labs prepared. This means you must read the appropriate sections from the lab manual and do whatever pre-lab work the manual describes before you come to lab. Proper preparation will help you understand the experiments that you are doing and complete the lab activities in the allotted time. More details on the labs are in the lab manuals.
The grades in this class will be based on 7 grades: lab grades, homework grades, 3 test grades, the final exam grade and a participation grade. Each of the 3 tests will be worth 13% of the overall grade, homework and labs will be worth 15% each, while the final exam will be worth 21% and quizzes will be worth 10%. The quiz will be based on participation in the practice group tests and other exercises in class.
Grades for this class will be curved at the end of the course. You will be given a rough curve after each test, so that you know how your performance on that test compared to the test’s difficulty.
There will be a homework assignment online using WebAssign ( http://www.webassign.net/login.html) for each chapter and will be due the class day after we finish that chapter. There will also be one written problem for each chapter, which are listed in the schedule below.
Finally, there will be extra, suggested problems assigned for each chapter through WebAssign. These problems will be worth extra-credit. Completing all of the extra problems correctly would be worth 2% extra for your grade. These points will be added after the curve for the course has been set.
The tests will have two parts: an individual portion and a group portion. The individual portion of the tests will consist of multiple choice questions and problems. The group portion of the tests will consist of a more difficult problem that you will solve as a group and hand in one solution. Before each group test, there will be at least one practice group test so that the groups have a chance to learn to work together. The group test will take place on the class period before the regular test. The final test will be solely an individual effort. All of the tests will be closed book and closed notes. You will be given a sheet with all of the equations and constants that you need for the test, though you will have to remember how to apply them.
| Cycle | Date | Sections | Topics | Tests | Labs | Written HW | |
| 1-2 | T | 1/12 | 14.1–14.8 | Sound | None | 14.64 | |
| 1-4 | R | 1/14 | 14.9–15.3 | Sound and Charges | |||
| 1-6 | M | 1/18 | 15.4–15.6 | Electric Fields | Practice Group | 15.56 | |
| 2-2 | W | 1/20 | 15.6–16.3 | Conductors & Potential | Elec. Instruments | ||
| 2-4 | F | 1/22 | 16.4–16.10 | Electric Potential | 16.62 | ||
| 2-6 | T | 1/26 | 17.1–17.4 | Current | Practice Group | 17.56 | |
| 3-2 | R | 1/28 | 17.4–18.1 | Resistance | Resonance | ||
| 3-4 | M | 2/01 | 18.2–18.8 | DC Circuits | 18.51 | ||
| 3-6 | W | 2/03 | 14–18 | Review | Group Test 1 | ||
| 4-2 | F | 2/05 | 14–18 | Sound and Electricity | Test 1 | Sound Waves | |
| 4-4 | T | 2/09 | 19.1–19.6 | Magnetism | 19.69 | ||
| 4-6 | R | 2/11 | 19.7-20.1 | Magnetic Forces | |||
| 5-2 | M | 2/15 | 20.2–20.6 | Inductance | DC Circuits | 20.62 | |
| 5-4 | W | 2/17 | 20.7–20.8 | RL Circuits | Practice Group | ||
| 5-6 | F | 2/19 | 21.1–21.7 | AC Circuits | 21.76 | ||
| 6-2 | R | 2/23 | 21.8–21.12 | EM Waves | Magnetic Fields | ||
| 6-4 | T | 2/25 | 21.12–22.4 | Reflection | 22.54 | ||
| Spring Break | |||||||
| 6-6 | M | 3/08 | 22.5–23.2 | Mirrors | 23.62 | ||
| 7-2 | W | 3/10 | 23.3 | Convex Mirrors | Practice Group | AC Circuits | |
| 7-4 | F | 3/12 | 23.4-7 | Lenses | |||
| 7-6 | T | 3/16 | 19–23 | Review | Group Test 2 | ||
| 8-2 | R | 3/18 | 19–23 | Mag., Circuits, Light | Test 2 | None | |
| 8-4 | M | 3/22 | 24.1–24.4 | Interference | 24.68 | ||
| 8-6 | W | 3/24 | 24.5–24.9 | Diffraction | |||
| 9-2 | F | 3/26 | 25.1–25.6 | Optical Instruments | Thin Lenses | 25.59 | |
| 9-4 | T | 3/30 | 25.7 | Interferometer | Practice Group | ||
| Easter Break | |||||||
| 9-6 | T | 4/06 | 26.1–26.5 | Special Relativity | 26.39 | ||
| 10-2 | R | 4/08 | 26.6 –27.2 | Relativity, Blackbody | Diffraction | ||
| 10-4 | M | 4/12 | 27.3–27.4 | X-Rays | Practice Group | 27.47 | |
| 10-6 | W | 4/14 | 27.5–28.2 | Dual Nature | |||
| 11-2 | F | 4/16 | 28.3–28.7 | Atomic Physics | Nuclear Rad. | 28.46 | |
| 11-4 | T | 4/20 | 24–28 | Review | Group Test 3 | ||
| 11-6 | R | 4/22 | 24–28 | Optics, Relativity, QM | Test 3 | ||
| 12-2 | M | 4/26 | 29.1–29.4 | The Atomic Nucleus | Assessment test | 29.53 | |
| 12-4 | R | 4/29 | 29.5–29.8 | Radioactivity | |||
| 12-6 | M | 5/03 | 14–29 | Review | |||
| R | 5/6 | 14–29 | 1–3pm | Final Exam (choose 1)
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| F | 5/7 | 14–29 | 10:30–12:30pm | Final Exam (choose 1)
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