PHY 112
Last changed on 520/2008
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announcements
homework assignments
course schedule
The information on this page is for the SPRING 2008 Physics 112
course.
If you are looking for information about the SUMMER PHY 112 course
(which
is very similar to this one) click
here. This page will be updated for Spring 2009 by the start
of the course. It is unlikely that there will be big changes.
Announcements
Brief Description. This course is the second of a two semester
introductory sequence in physics for science majors. Calcuclus is
not used in this course. If you need a calculus based course, you
should register for PHY 123. The topics covered are electricity
and magnetism,
light and optics, and several topics from contemporary physics.
Instructor: Robert Coakley, coakley@usm.maine.edu
Text: PHYSICS, 6th ed
by Douglas Giancoli. People just starting
with the second semester should get only volume 2.
An OPTIONAL study guide is available.
Classes meet Tuesday and Thursday and Friday from 8:45 - 10:00 in 524
Luther Bonney.
The usual pattern will be about two classes devoted to new
material followed by a class devoted to review of assigned problems.
Homework Assignments
Assignments should be completed before they are reviewed in class,
but may be handed in at any time.
Ch
Problems
16 1, 5, 7, 10, 12, 23, 26, 28, 33, 36
17 1, 3, 5, 14, 15, 19, 22, 31, 33, 35, 47
18 1, 5, 7, 13, 14, 26, 27, 33, 37
19 1, 5, 7, 11, 17, 20, 51
First Test Friday 2/8/08
20 1, 3, 10, 11, 12, 15, 26, 32, 37, 38
21 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 14, 17, 33, 36
22 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13
23 7, 11, 15, 23, 27, 32, 36, 43, 46, 47, 49, 53
Second Test Thursday 3/13
24 1, 5, 6, 15, 20, 27, 29
25 7, 13, 16, 21, 29, 31, 35, 41, 43, 70
26 1, 3, 5, 11, 12, 15, 17, 22, 26, 29, 45
Third Test Tuesday 4/15/08
27 2, 11, 13, 15, 23, 33, 38, 39, 49, 55
30 1, 9, 18, 37, 39, 41, 43, 50
Schedule for Spring 2008
The tentative schedule the course appears below. It will be
updated
as we proceed through the semester. You can use this to structure
your reading and for other planning, but there may be changes, so check
frequently.
Snow Day? Official USM closing information: 780-4800.
Check this page for information relevant to this course.
1/15 Electric charge, Electrostatic Forces 16-1 - 16-6
1/17 Electric Field 16-7 - 16-9
1/18 Finish Ch 16. Electric Potential 17-1 -
17-3
1/22 Review Chapter 16
1/24 More Potential 17-4, 17-5, 17-7 - 17-9
1/25 Finish 17. Electric Current 18-1 - 18-4
1/29 Review Chapter 17
1/31 More Electric Current 18-5 - 18-7, 19-2
2/1 Electric Circuits 19-2, 19-1, 19-7
2/5 Review Chapters 18 and 19
2/7 Class Cancelled -
Snow
2/8 First
Test
Chapters 16, 17, 18, and 19 - changed due to weather
2/12 Magnetism 20-1 - 20-4
2/14 More Magnetism 20-4 - 20-7
2/15 Review Chapter 20
2/18 - 2/22 Vacation Week
2/26 Induced emf and Faraday's Law 21-3, 21-4
2/28 More Faraday. 21-1, 21-2, 21-5, 21-7 - 21-8
2/29 Review Chapter 21
3/4 Electromagnetism 22-1 - 22-4. Start
Optics. 23-1 - 23-2
3/6 More Geometrical Optics 23-2 - 23-8
3/7 Finish Chapter 23 AND review Chapter 22
3/11 Review Chapter 23
3/13 Second
Test Chapters 20 - 23. This is a rescheduled date.
3/14 Interference of light 24-1, 24-3.
Maybe dispersion 24-4
3/18 Diffraction 24-5, 24-6
3/20 Review Chapter 24
3/21 Optical Instruments, magnification 25-2 - 25-4
3/24 - 3/28 Vacation Week
4/1 25-5, 25-7 - 25-9 More applied magnification
4/3 Review Chapter 25
4/4 Start Relativity 26-1 - 26-5
4/8 More Relativity 26-5 - 26-9
4/10 Review Chapter 26
4/11
No Class - Test Rescheduled for Tuesday 4/15
4/15 Third Test Chapters 24, 25 and 26
4/17 Early Qunatum
Ideas 27-1 - 27-4
4/18 Photons and particle waves 27-4, 27-6 -
27-8
4/22 First atom models 27-10 - 27-13
4/24 Review Chapter 27
4/25 The Nucleus 30-1, 30-2 and Radioactivity
30-3 - 30-6
4/29 More radioactivity 30-7 - 30-11 (Maybe
dosimetry 31-5 but not on the test).
5/1 Review Chapter 30
5/2 Course Review
5/6 Final
Exam 8:00 to 10:00 am.
a 100% on the final gaurantees an A in the
course.