Physics 1B Syllabus - Fall 2011

Instructor: Anthony Hall Oce Hours: T 9:00 - 11:00am, F 11:00am - 12:00pm Knudsen 6-130B E-mail: anthall@physics.ucla.edu Discussion TA: Ivan Gadjev Oce Hours: TBA E-mail: igadjev@ucla.edu

Class: MTWF 8:00 - 8:50am in KNSY PV 1220B

Discussions: F 9:00 - 9:50am in Dodd 146, F 10:00 - 10:50am in Dodd 146, F 12:00 - 12:50pm in Boelter 2444

Please note the following days without class: Friday, November 11 (Veterans Day) Friday, November 25 (Thanksgiving Holiday)

Course Website
https://ccle.ucla.edu/course/view.php?name=11F-PHYSICS1B-1 Homework solutions and other supplementary materials are posted to our 1B course website.

Textbook
Young and Freedman, University Physics, 12th edition or UCLA Custom edition. Vols. 1 and 2. We will cover Chs. 13, 15, 16, and 21-27.

Homework
A Mastering Physics subscription for online homework is required. Your homework solutions are entered online and immediately graded. The MP assignments are due each Monday night before midnight, with the exception of the last homework assignment which is due the last Friday of class before midnight. If you have a MP subscription already, enroll in my course with the Course ID P1BHALL75525. If you do not have a subsription, please view the instructions on our 1B course website for registering with Mastering Physics. A Mastering Physics subscription can be purchased with the textbook or purchased independently of the text from masteringphysics.com.

Grading
The nal course grade is curved, and nal letter grades are assigned at the end of the course. The grading scale as a function of percentage is as follows: A-(90-92), A(93-96), A+(97-100), B-(80-82), B(83-86), B+(87-89), C-(70-72), C(73-76), C+(77-79), D-(60-62), D(63-66), D+(67-69), F(below 60). The grading scale will be shifted (curved) to put the nal course average for all students at the C+/B- boundary, at the instructors discretion.

Homework contributes 10% of your nal grade, each of the two midterms give 20%, and the nal exam is worth 50% of your nal grade.

Exams
Midterm #1: Wednesday, October 19, 2011 in class. Midterm #2: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 in class. Final Exam: Friday, December 9, 2011, 8:00am-11:00am (location TBA). There are no make-up exams. If you miss a midterm for a justied reason, by presenting a doctors note or other evidence, the Final Exam is weighted more to account for the missing midterm. In case of missing the Final Exam, advance arrangements are required to earn an Incomplete Grade instead of a Failing Grade for the course. The exams are closed-book exams. Notecards with handwritten notes are allowed, and you can use a scientic calculator with graphing capabilities. One double-sided, 3x5 notecard is allowed for each Midterm, and two such notecards may be used for the Final Exam. Cheating is not tolerated, and work must be shown in calculations to receive full credit for the exams.

Tentative Outline
First Lecture: F 9/23. Week 1: Ch.13 (Simple harmonic motion. Damped and forced oscillators.) Week 2: Ch.15 (Mechanical waves. Periodic waves. Wave superposition and interference. Standing waves on a string.) and begin Ch.16 (Sound waves.) Week 3: Finish Ch.16 (Sound wave resonance and interference. Doppler eect.) and begin Ch.21 (Electric charge. Conductors, insulators, and induced charges.) Week 4: Finish Ch.21 (Coulombs law. Electric eld.) and begin Ch.22 (Electric ux.) MT1 on W 10/19: Chs.13, 15, and 16 Week 5: Finish Ch.22 (Gausss Law.) Week 6: Ch.23 (Electric potential.) Week 7: Ch.24 (Capacitance. Capacitors in series and parallel. Energy of the electric eld. Dielectrics.) MT2 on W 11/16: Chs.21, 22, and 23 Week 8: Ch.25 (Electric current. Resistance. Circuits. Energy and power in circuits.) Week 9: Ch.26 (Direct-current circuits: resistors in series and parallel, Kirchos rules, RC circuits.) Week 10: Ch.27 (Magnetic elds and force on moving charges.) Last Lecture: Friday, December 2. Final Exam: Comprehensive. F 12/9 8:00am-11:00am location TBA.