This syllabus, and other course materials for Physics 204 -- General Physics (Electricity & Magnetism) are available on the web via:
| Dr. Paul Meyer Reimer (Paul) Paul will be leaving ~1 April to lead Cuba SST. |
office: Science 005 |
| Matt Fisher (matthewjf@goshen.edu) and Luke Miller (lukelm@goshen.edu) are assisting on the labs. | |
A calculus and vector treatment of basic physics including electricity, magnetism, light and modern physics. Required of physics majors and recommended for majors in the physical sciences. Lectures and laboratory. Prerequisite or concurrent: Math 211-212 (Calculus I and II) -- Four credit hours with the lab.
Class: meets MWF 11.00-11.50am in SC 006
Lab: Section 01 T 8.00-9.50am or Section 02 T 11.00-12.15pm in SC 001
REQUIRED: Physics (With Modern Physics*) For Scientists and Engineers,
Third Edition, Addison-Wesley, 1999,
by R. Wolfson and J. M. Pasachoff.
OPTIONAL: Study Guide (second half) for the text above
REQUIRED: course lab packet
Obtain this from Doris Yoder, science secretary. There is a small fee (about
$6) that to defray photocopying costs.
AVAILABLE: At least a partial copy of class notes will be available in a binder in the Physics reading room.
*There are several flavors of this text. Almost all of you took PHYS 203 last term, and probably have the version without the modern physics. Don't get a new textbook! But if you don't yet own the textbook, find the edition with modern physics.
We'll start the semester off with assigned 'study groups'. You may spend a lot of time with others in your group, or less time. Groups will be assigned to present problems or discussion questions from time to time. You may work the assigned problems together, but will enter your WebAssign problems individually.
Labs meet on Tuesdays. There will be approximately seven sets of lab experiments over the course of the semester. You'll each purchase a xeroxed lab packet. You'll record data and answers to intermediate questions directly in the lab packet, occasionally attaching supplementary material.
For each lab, you'll write an abstract of no more than two paragraphs summarizing what you've done and the physics generalizations you can make from the lab experiments.
Each week there will be problems assigned. See the "calendar" link on the website for a schedule. These will generally be due before each Friday (or Wednesday when there's a test).
Many of these use webassign.net. To access these, point a browser at http://www.webassign.net/student. To login you'll need:
| Quizzes/problem sets | 12% | |
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| Test 1 | 22% | ||
| Test 2 | 26% | ||
| Test 3 (final) | 18% | ||
| Labs | 22% |
You can keep track of how you're doing by looking at the on-line
gradebook. To see which line in the gradebook is yours, you'll need a "grade
ID" (sort of a PIN) that Paul will send by e-mail.
Scale for semester grade:
| 100-85 | A | |
| 84.9-75 | B | |
| 74.9-65 | C | |
| 64.9-55 | D | |
| 54.9-0 | F |