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| Course Coordinator | Tibor F. Nagy |
| Instructor (Section 002) | Jon Pumplin |
| Last updated: | Fri Jan 11 10:06:37 am 2008 (EST) | by Tibor F. Nagy |
Sections 001 and 003: Dr. Tibor F. Nagy
Office: 1253 BPS
Phone: (517) 355-9200 x 2515
Email: nagy_t@pa.msu.edu
Office hours: Tuesday, 3:00-4:00 PM, BPS 1248.
Section 002: Dr. Jon Pumplin
Office: 3240 BPS
Phone: (517) 355-9200 x 2126
Email: pumplin@pa.msu.edu
Office hours: Tuesday, 4:00-5:00 PM, BPS 1248.
Teaching assistants:
Pampa Devi (devipamp@msu.edu, Tu: 9AM-6PM, We: 6PM-9PM.)
Zsolt Rak (rakzsolt@msu.edu, Tu: 6PM-9PM, We: 9AM-6PM.)
Daniel Bruder (bruderda@msu.edu, Tu: 3-6PM, We: 3-6PM.)
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: 12:40-1:30 PM,
Section 001: 1:50-2:40 PM,
Section 002: 3:00-3:50 PM.
BPS 1248.
Tuesday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM, Wednesday 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM.
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 also be achieved in the class.
Exam #1: Feb 01, Fr, BPS 1410, lecture hour.
Exam #2: Mar 14, Fr, BPS 1410, lecture hour.
Exam #3: Apr 11, Fr, BPS 1410, lecture hour.
Final Exam: May 1st, Thursday, 8:00-10:00 PM. Location: TBA.
Percent weights and scores:
Clicker questions: 8%. Correct answer: 3 points. Incorrect answer: 1 point. Not present: zero point.
Homework: 16%. Every homework question is worth 1 point. Some of the problems have multiple parts.
Midterm exams: 16% each, 3 x 16% = 48% all three. Maximum score on each midterm: 50 points. 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: 32%. Maximum score on the final: 100 points. The final exam will not have correction.
The percent weights add up to 104%.
Grading scale:
4.0 >= 91%,
3.5 >= 83%,
3.0 >= 75%,
2.5 >= 67%,
2.0 >= 59%,
1.5 >= 51%,
1.0 >= 43%,
0.0 < 43%.
This grading scale might be lowered, but it will not be raised.
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From ------- To | Week, Chapter, Topic
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01/07 --- 01/11 | 1 Ch 15 Electric Force and Electric Field
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01/14 --- 01/18 | 2 Ch 16 Electric Energy, Capacitance
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01/21 -- Monday | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (no classes)
01/23 --- 01/25 | 3 Ch 17 Current, Resistance
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01/28 --- 01/30 | 4 Ch 18 DC Circuits
02/01 -- Friday | Exam #1 (1410 BPS)
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02/04 --- 02/08 | 5 Ch 18-19 DC Circuits, Magnetism
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02/11 --- 02/15 | 6 Ch 20 Induction and Inductance
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02/18 --- 02/22 | 7 Ch 21 AC Circuits and EM waves
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02/25 --- 02/29 | 8 Ch 22 Properties of light
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03/03 --- 03/07 | Spring break (no classes)
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03/10 --- 03/12 | 9 Ch 23, 25 Geometric Optics, Instruments
03/14 -- Friday | Exam #2 (1410 BPS)
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03/17 --- 03/21 | 10 Ch 24, 25 Wave Optics, Instruments
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03/24 --- 03/28 | 11 Ch 26 Relativity
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03/31 --- 04/04 | 12 Ch 27 Quantum Mechanics
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04/07 --- 04/09 | 13 Ch 28 Atomic Physics
04/11 -- Friday | Exam #3 (1410 BPS)
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04/16 --- 04/18 | 14 Ch 29 Nuclear Physics
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04/21 --- 04/25 | 15 Ch 30 Particle Physics, Review
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05/01 -Thursday | Final: 8:00-10:00 PM. Location: TBA
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Serway, Faughn: College Physics, Vol. 2, MSU paperback edition (equivalent to the 7th edition) with H-ITT clicker. (The official hardcover 8th, 7th, 6th or 5th editions are also fine.)