COURSE OUTLINE

  I.  COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Number:  PHYS 212
Course Title:   General Physics II
Curriculum:     Physical Science
Semester Hours: 5  Lecture: 4  Lab: 2 Contact hrs/wk: 6
Prerequisite:  PHYS 211  Corequisite:  Math 272

Catalog Description:  A continuation of PHYS 211.  Topics covered include light (physical and geometrical optics), electricity and magnetism, and modern physics.
Lecture 4 hours Laboratory 2 hours  Total 6 hours per week. SP

 II.  COURSE OUTLINE REVISED BY:

Kwan Lee  Date: September 1996     Effective date:     September 1996

III.  STUDENT MATERIALS:

A.  Textbooks:  (rent/buy)         rent

 B.  Lab Manual:  (rent/buy)         buy

C.  Other Required Materials:  Scientific Calculator

 IV.  UNIQUE OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:
 
Same as for PHYS 211 Course

V.  PROJECTS FOR STUDENT EXPRESSION:
         (Projects, Papers, Experiments, etc.)
 
A list of experiments which will definitely be conducted during the course is attached.  Other experiments designed to stimulate and clarify sections of the textbook will be added from time to time. Students will be required to write up selected experiments and hand these in for grading.

VI.  EVALUATION:

A.  Distribution of Final Grade.

Five tests each counting 100 points be given at the end of every three weeks and only the best four scores will count.  The course final exam counting 200 points will be comprehensive. The laboratory is a required and integrated part of the course and the total score from the laboratory is 200 points.  Homework problems will be given during classes and should be worked prior to recitations.  The recitation periods will be used to work through problems and to answer questions.  The instructor will choose students randomly to work out the assigned problems on the board.  The student will be given points for properly solving the problem.  The total, maximum score from these recitations will be 200 points.
 

B.  Assignment of Final letter grades:

A -   85% to  100%
B -   70% to   84%
C -   55% to   69%
D -   40% to   54%
F -    below     40%
   

 EXPERIMENTS

1. Electrostatics:  To study electrical charges at rest and to charge bodies by contact and  by induction.

2. Mapping Electric Fields (I):  To map the electric field of different charge distributions by using a  graphical approach based on the superposition principle.

3. Mapping Electric Fields (II):  To map the electric field of different charge distributions by using the  potential function.

4. Ohm's Law: To apply Ohm's law to a single resistor circuit and to study the factors  determining the resistance of a metallic conductor.

5. DC Circuit Analysis:  To study DC circuits with resistors (a) in series, (b) in parallel, and  (c) in combinations of series and parallel.

6. Kirchhoff's Laws: To apply Kirchoff's laws to a DC circuit in which the resistive elements  are neither in series nor in parallel.

7. The wheatstone Bridge: To determine the resistance of two coils when taken singly and when  connected in series and in parallel by means of a slide wire wheatstone  bridge.

8. Capacitance: To determine the capacitance of two capacitors when taken singly and  when connected in parallel and in series.

9. Magnetic Fields: To show magnetic fields of (a) a straight wire, (b) a single turn, (c)  solenoid and by using grip and right hand rule indicated direction of  magnetic fields.

10. Magnetic Induction: To study some of the phenomena of electromagnetic induction,  particularly do note the e.m.f. induced in a secondary coil when the  magnetic flue linking it is changed.  This change in magnetic flue is  produced either by a change of current in the primary coil of wire as it  is rotated in a uniform magnetic field.

11. AC Circuits (RLC): To study the effective current and voltage in an AC circuit and an RLC  series circuit.

12. Refraction of Light: To determine the index of refraction of a glass prism for the mercury  green line by spectrometer measurements of the prism angle and angle of  minimum deviation.

13. Thin Lenses: To determine experimentally the focal length of a converging lens and a  diverging lens.
 

 COURSE OUTLINE
 

WEEK                           Topics
 

 1 Electric charges, atomic structure, gold leaf electroscope, and electrometer, conductors and        insulators, charging by induction, Coulombs law, electric field, calculation of electric intensity, lines of force, Gauss's law, applications of Gauss's law.
 
 2 Line integral of electric intensity, electrical potential energy, potential calculation of  potential difference, potential in terms of charge distribution, potential gradient, cathode-ray oscilloscope,        sharing of charge by conductors.  Van de Graff generator, capacitors, parallel-plate capacitor, capacitors in series and parallel, energy of a charged capacitor, effect of a dielectric.
 
 3  Current, resistance, e.m.f. potential difference, current-voltage diagrams, power, energy, resistors in series and parallel, Kirchoff's rules, ammeters and voltmeters, Wheatstone bridge, Ohmmeter,    potentiometer.
 
 4  Test 1.  Lines of induction, magnetic flux, orbits of changed particles in magnetic fields.  Thompson's measurement of e/m, force and torque on a complete circuit.  D'Arsonval, moving coil
and ballistic galvanometers, D.C. motor.
 
 5  Magnetic field of a current carrying circuit, Biot law, magnetic field of a long straight conductor, force between parallel conductors, ampere and Coulomb, magnetic field of a circular turn, ampere's law, applications, of Ampere's law, induced e.m.f., Faraday's law, Lenz's law.
 
 6  Search coil, galvanometer damping, eddy currents, mutual inductance, self-inductance, energy associated with an inductor, R-L circuit, L-C circuit, R-L-C circuit, alternating currents, circuits containing resistance, inductance or capacitance.
 
 7  Test 2.  R-L-C series, circuit, average and R.M.S. values, A.C. instruments, power in A.C. circuits, series resonance, parallel circuits, transformer.

 8  Nature and sources of light, waves, wave fronts and rays, speed of  light, laws of reflection and refraction, Snell's law, index of   refraction, Huygen's principle, derivation of Snell's law from Huygens' principle, total internal reflection.
 
 9  Refraction by a prism, dispersion, rainbow, reflection at plane and spherical mirrors, sign convections, focal point and length, graphical methods, refraction at plane and spherical surfaces.
 
10  Test 3. Images as objects, converging and diverging lenses, lensmaker's, and Gaussian equations, graphical methods, lens aberrations, eye.
 
11  Magnifier, camera, projection lantern, microscope, astronomical telescope, binoculars, principles of interference, coherent sources, Young's double slit and Phol's mica sheet; intensity distribution    in interference fringes, phase change in reflection, Lloyd's mirror, Michelson interferometer, interference in this films; Newtons' rings, thin coatings on glass, Fresnel diffraction, Fraunhofer     diffraction by a single slit.
 

12  Plane diffraction grating, diffraction of x-rays by a crystal, resolving power of optical instruments, polarization, polarization by reflection, double refraction, Polarization by double refraction  percentage, polarization, Malus law, scattering of light.
 

13  Test 4.  Circular and elliptic polarization, production of colors by polarized light, optical Stress analysis, study of crystals by convergent, polarized light, optical activity, conduction in gases, thermionic emission, thiode.
 

14  Photoelectric effect, Einstein's photoelectric equation, electron microscope, laser, band spectra, x-ray tube and spectra, natural radioactivity, alpha particles, Rutherford's scattering experiment,     Beta particles, gamma rays.
 

15  Radioactive transformations, artificial nuclear integration, cosmic rays, positron, neutrons, mesons, nuclear stability, nuclear fission, thermonuclear reactions.

16  Test 5.
 
 

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