Instructor: Dr. Kelly Cline E-mail: kcline@carroll.edu Office: SH 119 Office phone: 447-4451
Office Hours: MWF 9-12, TR 9-11, or by appointment.
Course Description:
PHYS 205 and 206 are a two-semester calculus-based introduction to physics designed for engineering, chemistry, and mathematics majors.
In this semester we will study electric and magnetic fields, electricity and circuits, the quantum theory, and basic thermodynamics.
This course will consist of three lecture hours and one two-hour laboratory per week (W 3:00 - 4:50 or Th 3:45 - 5:35, SH 121).
Prerequisite: MA 232. If you have special needs or problems, please be sure to speak to me or see Joan Stottlemyer in the Academic Resources Center about them as early as possible in the semester. There is additional information in the Carroll College catalog.
Textbook:
Six Ideas That Shaped Physics Second Edition by Thomas L. Moore, volumes E, Q, and T.
Grading:
Unit E Exam: 15%
Unit Q Exam: 15%
Unit T and Final Exam: 25%
Homework: 30%
Lab: 15%
There will be three exams in this class, a midterm on Unit E on Wednesday, February 25,
a midterm on Unit Q Friday, April 2, and a comprehensive final emphasizing Unit T on Wednesday May 5 from 10:00 to 11:45 a.m. In order to pass this class, all students
must take all three exams and receive a passing grade on the lab.
I will use a no-curve grading policy to assign final grades, so you are not competing
with anyone but yourself:
above 90% = A, 80% - 89% = B, 70% - 79% = C, 60% - 69% = D, below 60% = F.
Policies on academic integrity are in the Carroll College catalog
Homework:
There will be homework due at the beginning of almost every class.
I will not accept any late homework unless you make some arragement with
me before the date when the homework is due. I will drop your
two lowest homework scores, so you can miss two homeworks without any penalty.
Homework problems will be graded on a five point scale (0 - 5) emphasizing both accuracy and effort.
After homeworks have been returned to you, I will post solutions to the problems.
At this point you may correct any errors you may have made and submit a revised
version of any problems that you choose.
You have one week after the original assignment was due to turn in this revision.
I will then add up to two points to your grade on each problem based on the correctness
of your revision.
In Class:
I will assign a section of the text for you to read before each class.
Rather than lecturing, I prefer to ask you questions about what we've read, and guide
a class discussion about the material, so if you haven't done the reading it is very
obvious! There will also be many short assignments that you will do in small groups
during class.
| Topic | Assigned Reading | Date |
| Electrostatics | E1 | M 1/12 |
| Electric Fields | E2 | W 1/14 |
| Electric Potential | E3 | F 1/16 |
| Conductors | E4 | W 1/21 |
| Driving Currents | E5 | F 1/23 |
| Analyzing Circuits | E6 | M 1/26 |
| Magnetic Fields | E7 | W 1/28 |
| Currents and Magnets | E8 | F 1/30 |
| Symmetry and Flux | E9 | M 2/2 |
| Gauss's Law | E10 | W 2/4 |
| Ampere's Law | E11 | F 2/6 |
| The Electromagnetic Field | E12 | M 2/9 |
| Maxwell's Equations | E13 | W 2/11 |
| Induction | E14 | F 2/13 |
| Introduction to Waves | E15 | W 2/18 |
| Electromagnetic Waves | E16 | F 2/20 |
| Unit E Review | M 2/23 | |
| Unit E Examination | W 2/25 | |
| Standing Waves | Q1 | F 2/27 |
| The Wave Nature of Light | Q2 | M 3/1 |
| The Particle Nature of Light | Q3 | W 3/3 |
| The Wave Nature of Matter | Q4 | F 3/5 |
| The Quantum Facts of Life | Q5 | M 3/15 |
| The Wavefunction | Q6 | W 3/17 |
| Bound Systems | Q7 | F 3/19 |
| Spectra | Q8 | M 3/22 |
| Understanding Atoms | Q9 | W 3/24 |
| The Schrödinger Equation | Q10 | F 3/26 |
| Energy Eigenfunctions | Q11 | M 3/29 |
| Unit Q Review | W 3/31 | |
| Unit Q Examination | F 4/2 | |
| Temperature | T1 | M 4/5 |
| Ideal Gases | T2 | W 4/7 |
| Gas Processes | T3 | W 4/14 |
| Macrostates and Microstates | T4 | F 4/16 |
| The Second Law | T5 | M 4/19 |
| Temperature and Entropy | T6 | W 4/21 |
| Some Mysteries Resolved | T7 | F 4/22 |
| Calculating Entropy Changes | T8 | M 4/26 |
| Heat Engines | T9 | W 4/28 |
| Review | F 4/30 | |
| Unit T and Final Examination | 10:00 - 11:45 a.m. | W 5/5 |