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| Course Coordinator | Dan Stump Tibor F. Nagy Remco Zegers Jon Pumplin |
| Teaching Assistant (Section 001) | Weigang Geng 5 James Thomas Laverty Andrew Ratkiewicz Christopher Gregory Dunckle Kit Yu Lau |
| Teaching Assistant (Section 002) | Christopher Gregory Dunckle Kit Yu Lau Andrew Ratkiewicz James Thomas Laverty Weigang Geng 5 |
| Teaching Assistant (Section 003) | James Thomas Laverty Andrew Ratkiewicz Weigang Geng 5 Christopher Gregory Dunckle Kit Yu Lau |
| Teaching Assistant (Section 009) | James Thomas Laverty Kit Yu Lau Christopher Gregory Dunckle Andrew Ratkiewicz Weigang Geng 5 |
| Teaching Assistant (Section 730) | Christopher Gregory Dunckle Kit Yu Lau James Thomas Laverty Andrew Ratkiewicz Weigang Geng 5 |
| Teaching Assistant (Section 731) | Kit Yu Lau James Thomas Laverty Andrew Ratkiewicz Christopher Gregory Dunckle Weigang Geng 5 |
| Last updated: | Sun Apr 22 06:55:17 pm 2007 (EDT) | by Tibor F. Nagy |
PHY 232, section 001: Dr. Remco Zegers
Office: W109 Cyclotron
Phone: (517) 333-6473
Email: zegers@nscl.msu.edu
Office hours: Monday 15:00-16:00, BPS 1248
PHY 232, section 002: Dr. Jon Pumplin
Office: 3240 BPS
Phone: (517) 355-9200 x 2126
Email: pumplin@pa.msu.edu
Office hours:
PHY 232, section 003: Dr. Tibor F. Nagy
Office: 1253 BPS
Phone: (517) 355-9200 x 2515
Email: nagy_t@pa.msu.edu
Office hours: Monday 16:00-17:00 in BPS 1248
PHY 232C, sections 730, 731: Dr. Dan Stump
Office: 1312 BPS
Phone: (517) 355-9200 x ????
Email: stump@pa.msu.edu
Office hours:
Teaching assistants:
Andrew Ratkiewicz (ratkiew1@msu.edu, Fr 1PM-3PM, Mo 6PM-9PM, Tu 10AM-5PM, 6PM-9PM.)
Kit Yu (Rita) Lau (laukit@msu.edu, Mo 1PM-3PM, Tu 9AM-10AM, 1PM-4PM.)
James Laverty (laverty1@msu.edu, Fr 10AM-1PM, Mo 10AM-1PM, 3PM-6PM, Tu 9AM-10AM, 4PM-9PM.)
Christopher Dunckle (duncklec@msu.edu, Fr 1PM-4PM, Mo 1PM-4PM.)
Electricity and magnetism; geometric and wave optics; special relativity; quantum mechanics; atomic and nuclear physics.
PHY 231 or PHY 231B or PHY 181B or PHY 183 or PHY 183B or LBS 271 or PHY 193H or PHY 231C.
Room BPS 1410.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Section 003: 12:40-13:30,
Section 001: 13:50-14:40,
Section 002: 15:00-15:50.
BPS 1248.
Friday 10:00-15:00, Monday 10:00-21:00, Tuesday 9:00-21:00.
For the Honor Option students can work in the help room for 2 hours each week helping their classmates with their homework. A 3.0 final grade or higher must be also achieved in the class.
Midterm #1: Feb 02, Fr, BPS 1410, PHY 232: lecture hour, PHY 232C: 16:10-17:00.
Midterm #2: Mar 16, Fr, BPS 1410, PHY 232: lecture hour, PHY 232C: 16:10-17:00.
Midterm #3: Apr 13, Fr, BPS 1410, PHY 232: lecture hour, PHY 232C: 16:10-17:00.
Final Exam: May 03, Thursday, 17:45-19:45, (5:45 PM) Wells Hall B106 and B108.
Percent weights:
Clicker questions: 5%. You are allowed to miss 20% of the clicker questions and you will still receive 5%.
Homework: 10%.
Midterm exams: 3 x 20% = 60%. The midterm exams will have correction exams as a homework. 30% of the positive difference between the correction exam and the in-class exam will be added to your in-class exam score as bonus.
Final Exam: 30%. The final exam will not have correction.
Grading scale:
4.0 >= 92%,
3.5 >= 84%,
3.0 >= 76%,
2.5 >= 68%,
2.0 >= 60%,
1.5 >= 52%,
1.0 >= 44%,
0.0 < 44%.
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From ------- To | Week, Chapter, Topic
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01/08 --- 01/12 | 1 Ch 15 Electric Force and Electric Field
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01/15 -- Monday | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (no classes)
01/17 --- 01/19 | 2 Ch 16 Electric Energy, Capacitance
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01/22 --- 01/26 | 3 Ch 17 Current, Resistance
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01/29 --- 01/31 | 4 Ch 18 DC Circuits
02/02 -- Friday | Midterm #1 (1410 BPS)
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02/05 --- 02/09 | 5 Ch 18-19 DC Circuits, Magnetism
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02/12 --- 02/16 | 6 Ch 20 Induction and Inductance
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02/19 --- 02/23 | 7 Ch 21 AC Circuits and EM waves
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02/26 --- 03/02 | 8 Ch 22 Properties of light
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03/05 --- 03/09 | Spring break (no classes)
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03/12 --- 03/14 | 9 Ch 23, 25 Geometric Optics, Instruments
03/16 -- Friday | Midterm #2 (1410 BPS)
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03/19 --- 03/23 | 10 Ch 24, 25 Wave Optics, Instruments
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03/26 --- 03/30 | 11 Ch 26 Relativity
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04/02 --- 04/06 | 12 Ch 27 Quantum Mechanics
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04/09 --- 04/11 | 13 Ch 28 Atomic Physics
04/13 -- Friday | Midterm #3 (1410 BPS)
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04/16 --- 04/20 | 14 Ch 29 Nuclear Physics
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04/23 --- 04/27 | 15 Ch 30 Particle Physics, Review
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05/03 -Thursday | Final: 17:45-19:45 PM. Wells Hall B106 & B108
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Serway, Faughn: College Physics, Vol. 2, MSU edition (paperback) with H-ITT clicker. (The official 7th, 6th or 5th editions are also fine.)