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General Physics II

Spring 2021

PHYS-UA 12

Lecture

Tuesday/Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 am Zoom (Links are available on NYUClasses.)

Lecturer

Dr. Jayme Kim email: [email protected] Office hours: Wednesday 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (No appointment is required.) Extra hours: Monday 11:00 am - 1:00 pm (An appointment is required.) Zoom (Links are available on NYUClasses.)

Course Description This course is an introduction to mechanical waves, electricity and magnetism, light and optics. Many concepts from General Physics I will be used in this course such as: vectors, position, velocity, acceleration, force, Newton’s laws of motion, work and energy. The course uses high school algebra, geometry and trigonometry, vectors and vector arithmetic, and some calculus. Calculus will be used in class but sparingly on exams. The algebra, geometry, and trigonometry are absolutely essential. If some time has elapsed since your last math course, or you feel a lack of confidence in this area, you are strongly urged to study math intensively before we get too deeply into the physics course. The course has lecture, homework, and laboratory portions. Required Materials The NYU Bookstore sells two items (either will do) Halliday, Resnick, Walker 11th edition New WileyPLUS access: 9781119492009 Halliday, Resnick, Walker 11th edition New WileyPLUS access with print text: 9781119492023 You can also purchase at www.WileyPlus.com, and see their other purchasing options. Laboratory Experiment Descriptions can be found by going to https://physics.nyu.edu/ ~physlab/GenPhysII_PhysIII/genphys2.html and clicking on General Physics II. Assessments Assessment Reading Assignments (WileyPLUS) Homework Assignments (WileyPLUS) Lab Exam 1 Exam 2 Exam 3 Final Exam

Weight # of dropped 10% 1 Lowest 10% 1 Lowest 20% 1 Lowest 10% Friday, Feb. 19, 2:00 to 4:00 pm 10% Thursday, Mar. 18, 9:30 to 10:45 am NO EXAMS 10% Friday, Apr. 30, 2:00 to 4:00 pm DROPPED 30% TBA

No alternative examination dates (i.e. no make-up dates) will be offered. The final examination will be cumulative. All exams will be in multiple-choice format. You will need to bring a calculator to all exams. You may not use a cell-phone, or any other communication device, during the exams. • A formula sheet will be provided. • If you are ill and cannot appear, a medical certificate is required within 48 hours of the examination date.

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· If you miss exam 1, exam 2, or exam 3, the grade of the missed exam(s) will be calculated based on the grades of other examinations. · If you miss the final exam, an incomplete will be assigned, and you are required to take the final examination the next time the course is given, on the date and at the time assigned for that semester. • Students who are absent from a test during the semester without an excuse will receive a grade of zero on that test. Course Grade Your total numerical score, calculated from the components listed above, correspond to the following letter grades: Score ≥ 90 = A 90 > Score ≥ 86 = A86 > Score ≥ 82 = B+ 82 > Score ≥ 72 = B 72 > Score ≥ 68 = B68 > Score ≥ 64 = C+ 64 > Score ≥ 54 = C 54 > Score ≥ 50 = C50 > Score ≥ 40 = D 40 > Score =F • • • • •

There is no extra credit in this course. There are no curves in this course. The cutoffs for each letter grade might be lowered but they will not be raised. Lab grades will not be altered to fit a common average or standard deviation. Scores will be rounded to two decimal places at the end of the semester.

WileyPLUS • Assignments will be delivered through the WileyPLUS platform. Please see NYU Classes, in the syllabus section, for the WileyPLUS course ID for PHYS-UA 12 in Spring 2021. • Each chapter will have a reading assignment and a homework assignment. Reading assignments Reading assignments are assessed on the basis of your performance answering questions based on what you read. You have 3 attempts to answer each question. It is best to do the reading assignment for a given chapter, before the chapter is covered in lecture. You are responsible for material in the reading assignments, which may not be every section within a chapter. Homework assignments Homework assignments assess your skill in doing extended, quantitative physics problems. Most problems have links to hints and sample problems to assist you. You can also consult the Students Solutions Manual, within WileyPLUS, for further assistance and to check your work. You have 6 attempts to answer each homework question. Adaptive practices WileyPLUS also includes an adaptive practice system. Adaptive practices are designed to build and test your proficiency in course material. These are optional, and it is recommended to work on after completing homework assignments to test your general understanding. However, questions are provided by WileyPLUS system, and contents of questions could be different from lecture materials. Laboratory You will attend laboratory weekly.

• The laboratory grade is based on an average over all labs. • Any laboratory missed without a doctor’s note or prior arrangement with the instructor counts as a zero. • Lab experiment descriptions must be read before attending each experiment. • It is important to bring a calculator and your laboratory experiment description to the laboratory sessions. • Your laboratory instructor will provide more information regarding the policy for handing in lab reports. Regarding labs please note: • in order to get a grade, a lab report must be submitted. It’s not enough to just do the experiment, • the minimum number of labs a student must complete in order to get a grade is 8. An excused lab will not be considered as a completed lab. • There are no make-up sessions for laboratories. • If you take the course remotely and cannot attend your lab section, you will be allowed to complete labs using recorded versions of labs. Your laboratory instructor will provide more information regarding remote labs. Policies 1. WileyPLUS Policies (a) The grade of the first Reading assignment will not count towards the course grade. (b) The grade of the last Homework assignment will not count towards the course grade. (c) Late reading and homework assignments will be subjected to 10% deduction of grade per day. (d) Grading Policy - see on WileyPLUS for details. 2. Laboratory Policies (a) To get a grade, a lab report must be submitted. It is not enough to just do the experiment. (b) A lab report cannot be submitted for an experiment if you were absent from the lab session; in other words, you cannot take someone else’s data and submit a lab report for an experiment you never did. If you complete labs using recorded version, you must use data provided by your lab instructor. (c) Any lab missed without a doctor’s note or prior arrangement with the instructor counts as a zero. (d) You may not attend a laboratory section you are not registered for. (e) The minimum number of labs a student must complete in order to get a grade is 8. An excused lab will not be considered as a completed lab. (f) If you miss more than two lab experiments or fail to hand in more than two reports, your grade for the course will be an F or an I (assuming you are passing the other components of the course and that you provide medical documentation to explain your absence). To make up the lab requirement, you will have to complete the entire set of labs, not just the ones you missed. This can be done the next time the course is offered, space permitting.

3. Exam Replacement Policy (a) The grade on the final exam will replace the lowest of the three scores earned on earlier exams, provided that your final exam score is higher (on a percentage basis). (b) This policy only applies to exams taken, not missed exams. 4. Missed Midterm Exam Policy (a) If you are excused from one of the midterm exams, due to a documented medical or other reason, the other two exams and the final exam will count for more, and a letter grade will be assigned at the end of the semester. An incomplete will not be assigned. There are no make-up exams. (b) If you are ill and cannot appear, you must produce verifiable documentation from a physician, with physician’s letterhead, that explaining that you were too ill to attend the examination. (c) Students who are absent from a test without documentation will receive a grade of zero on that test. (d) If you miss one or more than one of the midterm exams and have medical documentation then the grade of the missed exam(s) will be calculated from grades of other midterm exam(s) and the final exam. An incomplete will not be assigned. Missed exams grades: In the following, • Exam A (B, C) is the percentage grade of exam A (B, C), where A (B, C) ∈ {1, 2, 3}, and • Final Exam is the percentage grade of the final exam. i. Missing Exam A (missing one midterm exam): (Exam A) = 0.2 × (Exam B) + 0.2 × (Exam C) + 0.6 × (Final Exam) ii. Missing Exam A and Exam B (missing two midterm exams): (Exam A) = (Exam B) = 0.25 × (Exam C) + 0.75 × (Final Exam) iii. Missing three midterm exams: (Exam A) = (Exam B) = (Exam C) = (Final Exam) (e) The exam replacement policy still applies for students who miss an exam(s) and provide appropriate medical documentation(s). In this case, the exam replacement policy will be applied after calculating the grade of the missed exam(s) based on the grades of other examinations. 5. Missed Final Exam Policy (a) If you miss the final exam due to illness and you provide acceptable documentation, your grade will be an incomplete (I). (b) You are then required to take the final examination the next time the course is given, on the date and at the time assigned for that semester. (c) If you miss an exam due to medical reasons, give your medical documentation to the instructor. Optional Help

1. Free physics review sessions by upper-level undergraduate physics majors via Zoom. The sessions run Monday through Friday, at many different times during the day. Sessions begin the second week of class and a schedule will be posted to NYU Classes the first week of classes. The physics majors will be able to help you with the course concepts, readings and problems. This is a great place to go for help. You can go to as many sessions as you wish. Ideally, you should go on a weekly basis and prepare questions in advance. 2. Free peer tutoring, Study Slams, group reviews, workshops, and more!! University Learning Center www.nyu.edu/ulc ULC@Academic Resource Center, 18 Washington Place, Lower Level ULC@UHall, 110 East 14th Street, top of stairs by UHall Commons Achieve Excellence!

Course Schedule Date R Jan. 28 T Feb. 02 R Feb. 04 T Feb. 09 R Feb. 11 T Feb. 16 R Feb. 18 F Feb. 19 T Feb. 23 R Feb. 25 T Mar. 02 R Mar. 04 T Mar. 09 R Mar. 11 T Mar. 16 R Mar. 18 T Mar. 23 R Mar. 25 T Mar. 30 R Apr. 01 T Apr. 06 R Apr. 08 T Apr. 13 R Apr. 15 T Apr. 20 R Apr. 22 T Apr. 27 R Apr. 29 F Apr. 30 T May. 04 R May. 06 TBA ⋆

Lecture Topic Waves - I Waves - II Coulomb’s Law

Textbook Readings 16.1, 16.2, 16.3, (16.4), 16.5, 16.7 17.1, 17.2, (17.3), 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 17.7, (17.8) 21.1, 21.2, 21.3

Laboratory No labs No labs the week of Feb. 01 Lab 1: Sonometer

No labs the week of Feb. 15 No Class:classes will meet according to a Monday schedule. Exam 1 (Ch: 16, 17) Electric Fields 22.1, 22.2, 22.3, 22.4, Lab 2: Resonance Tube 22.5, 22.6, 22.7 Electric Potential 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, Lab 3: Electrostatics 24.5, 24.6, 24.7, 24.8 Capacitance 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4, Lab 4: E-Field Mapping 25.5 Current and Resistance 26.1, 26.2, 26.3 No labs the week of Mar. 15 Exam 2 (Ch: 21, 22, 24, 25) Resistance and Circuits 26.4, 26.5, 27.1, 27.2, Lab 5: VCR 27.3 Magnetic Fields 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, Lab 6: Charge to Mass Ratio (28.5), 28.6, 28.7, 28.8 Magnetic Fields due to 29.1, 29.2, 29.3, 29.4, Lab 7: Current Balance Currents 29.5 Induction and Inductance 30.1, 30.2, 30.3, 30.4, Lab 8: Induction 30.5, 30.7, 30.8, (30.9) Electromagnetic Waves - I (31.1), (23.1-2), (32.1-3), No labs the week of Apr. 19 33.1, (35.1), 33.5, 33.6 Images 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 34.4, Lab 9: Snell’s Law 34.5, (34.6) Exam 3 (Ch: 26, 27, 28, 29, 30) Electromagnetic Waves - II 33.2, 33.3, 33.4, 34.7 Lab 10: Human Eye Final Exam (CUMULATIVE)

Textbook Readings • The number in front of a period refers to a chapter, and the number following the period refers to a section. For example, 16.1 refers to section 1 of chapter 16. • It is strongly recommended to read boldfaced sections prior to lectures. • The sections in parentheses are optional: contents of those sections may or may not be discussed in lectures. which will provide sufficient information to prepare exams....