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by Dr. John P. Cise Professor of Physics, Austin Community College


PHY 1624 General Physics II

Summer Course Syllabus Text: PHYSICS, 4th edition by GIANCOLI
Useful website on Giancoli text: http://www.prenhall.com/giancoli/
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 Week 1

Monday

Lecture & Homework

Franklin 

1706-1790 

USA 

Coulomb 

1736-1806 

French 

Volta 

1745-1827 

Italian 

Ohm 

1787-1854 

German 

Ampere 

1775-1836 

French 

Kirchhoff 

1824-1887 

German 

Oersted 

1777-1851 

Danish 

Faraday 

1791-1867

British

Henry 

1797-1878 

USA 

 LAB

Mazwell 

1831-1879

Scottish 

 

 

Tuesday

16.1

 Static q

 

 16.2

Atomic q 

 

 16.3

 Insulators

Conductors 

 16.4

Electroscopes 

 

 16.5

Coulomb 

1,3,5. 

 16.6

 Coul. Probs.

7,11.

 16.7

 E=F/q

19,21,23. 

 16.8

Field Lines 

25,29. 

 16.9

E. fields 

Conductors 

 Lab 1: Plot Es & Eq. Potential

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

17.1

V=W/q

1,3.

17.2

delta(V)=Ed

 5

17.3 

Equili. V lines 

 

17.4

ev=1.6E10-19

 7,9,11.

17.5

V=k(q/r) 

 13,15,17,21.

17.7

C = Q/V 

 31,33,35,37,39.

17.8

C=K (A/d) 

 40,41.

17.9

U=(1/2)QV 

 43,45,47.

 

U=(1/2)Q2/C 

 

 AQ & Video on Electronic Fields

 

 

Thursday

Review: Chapter 17-18 (Test Monday)

 

 

 

18.1 

Volta's Zinc-Silver Battery 

18.2

I=Q/t; Ampere

1,3.

18.3

V=RI; Ohm's 

 4,5,6,7,9.

18.4

Resisitivity R=L/A 

 11,13,15.

18.6

P=IV=RI2 

23,25,27.

 

"

29,31,33.

18.7

AC 

37,39,41,43.

Lab 2: Ohm's Law

 

 

Week 2

Monday

Lecture & Homework

 

 Test: Chapter 16 & 17

room 328 

12:40-2:30

 

 HW Due: Chapter 16 & 17

Due when test turned in 

 

 Review: 19.7 - Capacitor Charging

LAB 

 Lab 3: Capacitor Charging

 

 

Tuesday

 19.1

 Resistors

1,3,5,7.

 

 Series & Parallel

9,11,13.

 19.2

 V=E-Ir

19,21.

 19.3

 Kirchhoff

25,27,29.

 19.4

 "

 31,33.

 19.5

 EMF's in

 

 

 Series & Parallel

36.

19.6

C's: Series & Parallel

37,39,41,43.

 19.7

 R & C Circuits

49,51.

 AQ & Video on Bs

 

 

 

Wednesday

 20.1

 Magnesia: Asia Minor

 

 20.2

 I's cause B's

 

 20.3

 F=BIL

 1,3,17.

 20.4

 F=qvB (or Bev)

 5,7,9,13.

 

 "

 15.

 20.5

 B due to a st. wire

 19,21,23.

 

 

 27,29.

 20.7

 Ampere Law

 36,37.

 

 B ~ I/r

 

 Lab 4: Induction/Transformers

 

 

Thursday

Review: Chapter 18,19,20 (Test Monday)

21.1

 Faraday's Law

 1,3,5.

 21.2

 V~(delta BA)/delta t

 9,13,15.

 21.3

 V = BIv or Bvd

 11.

 21.4

 E = vB

 

 21.5

 V=NBAw; Generators.

 19,21.

 21.7

 Transformers

 29,31,33,35.

 21.9

 M & L Inductance

 41,43,45,47.

 21.10

 U=1/2LI2

 53,55.

 AQ & Video on AC current

 

 

 

Week 3

Monday

Lecture & Homework

 

 Test: Chapter 18,19,20.

 room 328

 12:40-2:30

 

 HW Due: Chapter 18,19,20.

 Due when test turned in 

 

 

LAB 

Lab 5: Refraction

 

 

Tuesday

 22.1

 Maxwell's Equations

 

 22.4

 E=vB

7,9. 

 22.5

EB Spectra

 

 

 c=lf

11,13,15. 

 22.6

 

 17,19,21.

 

Electromagnetic 

 23

 

 Energy

 

 

 Energy/sec/sq. meter =

 

 

 Pointing Vector = EB/m0

 

 AQ & Video on Optics

 

 

 

Wednesday

 23.1

 Ray Model of Light

 

 23.2

 n=c/v

 1,3,5.

 23.3

 Mirrors

 11.

 23.5

 Snell's Law

 31,33,35.

 

 "

 37.

 23.6

 Internal

 41,43.

 

 Reflection

 

 23.7

 Thin Lens

49,51,53.

 23.8

 Equation

55,57,61.

 Lab 6: Wave Interference

 

 

Thursday

 Review: Chapter 21,22,23 (Test Monday)

24.1

 Waves vs Particles

24.2

 Huygen's Principle & Refraction

24.3

 Young's double slit

 3,5,7,9.

24.4

 Dispersion

 13,15.

 24.5

 Sing. slit diffraction

 19,21,23.

 

 

 25.

24.6 

 Diffraction

 27,29,31.

 

 Grating

 33,35.

 AQ & Video on Wave Interference

 

 

Week 4

Monday

Lecture & Homework

 

 Test: Chapter 21,22,23.

 room 328

 12:40-2:30

 

 HW Due: Chapter 21,22,23.

 Due when test turned in 

 

 

LAB 

Lab 7: Thin Lens

 

 

Tuesday

 25.2

 Eye

11,13. 

 

 

 15,17.

 25.3

 Magnifying

19,21.

 

 Glass

 23,25.

 25.4

 Telescopes

 27,29.

 

 

 31,33.

 25.5

Microscopes 

 37,39.

 

 

 41

 

 

 

 AQ & Video on Optical Instruments

 

 

 

Wednesday

 26.1

 Relativity

 

 26.3

 Postulates

c=constant 

 26.8

 mass

 13,15,17.

 26.9

 Ultimate Speed

 

 26.10

 E=mc2

 19,21,23.

 

 

 25,27,29.

 

Mass & Energy 

 31,33,35.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Lab 8: e / m; charge / mass

 

 

Thursday

 Review: Chapter 24,25,26. (Test Monday)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More on Relativity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 AQ & Video on Relativity

 

 

 

Week 5

Monday

Lecture & Homework

 

 Test: Chapter 24,25,26.

 room 328

 12:40-2:30

 

HW Due: Chapter 24,25,26.

 Due when test turned in

 

 

LAB 

 Lab 9: Photoelectric Effect

 

 

Tuesday

 27.1

 Electon

 1,3.

27.2

 Planck's

 5,7,9.

 

 Idea

 

27.3 

 Einstein's

 11,13,15.

 

 Photoelectric

 17,21,23.

 

 Effect

 

27.5 

 Wave or Particle

 

27.6

 Matter

33,35.

 

 waves

37,39

 AQ & Video on the Atom

 

 

 

Wednesday

 27.8

 Early Atom

 

 27.9

 Atomic

 

 

 Spectra

 

 27.10

 Bohr

 45,47.

 

 Atomic

 49,51.

 

 Model

 53

 27.11

 de Broglie's

 

 

 Hypothesis Proved

 

 

 Bohr's "ad hoc" condition true

 Lab 10: Atomic Spectra

 

 

Thursday

 Review: Chapter 27 & 30. (Test Monday)

 30.1

 Atomic Nucleus

 1,3,5,7.

 30.2

 Nuclear Binding

 9,11,13.

 

 Energy

15 

 30.3

 Radioactivity

 19,21,25.

 30.4

 Alpha Decay

 27,29.

 30.5

 Beta Decay

 31

 30.6

 Gamma Decay

 35,37,39,41.

 30.8

 Radioactive Half-Life

 45,47,49.

AQ & Video on The Nucleus

 

 

 

Week 6

Monday

Lecture & Homework

 

 Test: Chapter 27 & 30.

 room 328

 12:40-2:30

 

 HW Due: Chapter 27 & 30.

Due when test turned in 

 

" * " = Optional Labs

LAB 

 *Lab 11: Diode I vs. V graph

 

 

Tuesday

 31.1

 Nuclear

 1,5,93

 

 Reactions

 11

 31.2

 Fission

 19,21.

 31.3

 Fusion

 25,27.

 

 

 29,31.

 31.4

 Radiation

 

 

 Damage

 

 31.5

 Radiation

 37,39,

 

 Dosimetry

 41,43.

 *Lab 12: Transistor Characteristics

 

 

 

Wednesday

 

 

 Top FIVE best students selected

 who will NOT take the final exam.

 

 Basis: 60% unadjusted tests (all five)

 & all HW & Labs in.

 

 AQ & More Review.

 

 

Thursday

 

 FINAL EXAM

 70% Problems

 30% Multiple Choice

 room 328

 12:40-2:30

 

 Final Grade Conference

room 323; 3:30-4:30 

 

     Grades: 1/9 AQ, 1/9 HW (6, do 5),1/9 Labs (10) 1/3 Tests (5, drop lowest, count 4) 1/3 Comprehensive Final    

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