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Physics 1308 : General Physics - Electricity and Magnetism
Spring 2024 Course Information
- Lecturer:
Professor Randall J. Scalise
- Lecture meeting times and place: TTh 2:00-3:20PM Fondren Science Building 0123
- Office hours: before and after lecture, and by appointment in room 107 Fondren Science Building.
- Contact:
- Graduate Teaching Assistant: Mr. Yingnan Xu
TA office hours: Wednesdays 3-4pm in FOSC 7 (downstairs)
- Text: Halliday, Resnick, and Walker
Fundamentals of Physics, 12th edition, (HRW12) Volume 2.
This is the official textbook for the course, but you are welcome to
use any calculus-based physics text that you like. We will cover chapters 21-36.
The version listed includes Wiley Plus which gives you access to an
electronic version of the book and online learning tools. The
homework problems are listed below and will not require Wiley Plus or HWR12.
- Plagiarism
- Objective:
Upon completion of this course students will be able to demonstrate
basic facility with the methods and approaches of scientific
inquiry. In particular, 1) Students will demonstrate basic facility
with the problem-solving methods related to electric fields, magnetic
fields, Maxwell's equations, circuits, and optics.
2) Students will be able to explain how the concepts and findings of
physics shape our world.
- Lecture Notes:
- Practice Exams:
- Exam Dates: Closed book, closed notes, closed other humans, closed Google, closed Chegg, etc. All work must be your own.
- Exam 1 - Tuesday 13 February 2024 in lecture
- Exam 2 - Tuesday 26 March 2024 in lecture
- Final Exam (Cumulative) - Wednesday 8 May 2024 11:30AM-2:30PM
- Make-up Exams: You must present me with a verifiable excuse in writing.
- Homework Quizzes: 20 minutes long, at the beginning of lecture,
closed book, closed notes, closed other humans, closed Google, closed Chegg, etc. All work must be your own.
- Reading Quizzes: Unannounced, based on the assigned reading,
very short, very easy (if you have done the assigned reading)
- Homework: Due on the day of the quiz at the beginning of lecture.
- Laboratory: If you need the one-credit laboratory course, you
must register separately for Physics 1106.
- Grading: (Absolute, not curved)
Letter Grade Break Points
- Exam 1 - 27%
- Exam 2 - 27%
- Final - 26%
- Homework Quizzes - 10% (Drop lowest)
- Homework - 5% (Drop lowest)
- Reading Quizzes - 5% (Drop lowest)
- Syllabus
- Disability Accommodations, Religious Observance, Excused Absences, Covid-19, Campus Carry, etc.
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Official University Calendar
- Homework Assignments (Click the links; these are NOT from HRW10.)
Q=Question, P=Problem, X=Extra problem (not for credit, but for practice)
- Ch21 - Q: 3, 4, 10; P: 2, 6, 11, 13, 19, 23, 57; X: 7, 12, 33, 41.
- Ch22 - Q: 3g, 4, 5, 10, 11; P: 7, 9, 22, 24, 39; X: 33.
- Ch23 - Q: 2, 6, 8, 9; P: 5, 7, 12, 20, 34, 44, 49; X: 40, 48, 50, 73.
- Ch24 - Q: 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10; P: 1, 4, 11, 13, 15, 19, 24, 28, 37, 43, 62; X: 8, 27, 35.
- Ch25 - Q: 2, 7, 8, 9, 10; P: 4, 6, 14, 19, 25, 32, 33, 37, 50; X: 26, 27, 34, 39.
- Ch26 - Q: 3, 6; P: 2, 16, 25, 28, Solve the "Chocolate Crumb Mystery": Ch23-P60, Ch24-P70, Ch25-P60, Ch26-P60.
- Ch27 - Q: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11; XQ: 6, 8; P:15, 17, 19, 20, 22, 30, 63; X: 33, 35.
- Ch28 - Q: 1, 3, 4, 7, 11; P: 2, 14, 17, 42, 58; X: 22.
- Ch29 - Q: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; XQ: 6; P: 4, 5, 20, 23, 29, 43, 53; X: 77, 87.
- Ch30 - Q: 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10; P: 2, 8, 19, 26b), 29, 34, 37, 54; X: 26a), 95.
- Ch31 - Q: 1, 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12; P: 1, 15, 29, 30, 44, 45, 56; X: 87.
- Ch32 - Q: 1, 2, 9; P: 5, 9, 13, 56.
- Ch33 - Q: 1, 3, 4, 7, 9; P: 8, 11, 20, 32, 39, 48, 58, 93; X: 29,
Can the electromagnetic fields from transmission lines
cause cancer? How about fields from mobile phones?
- Ch34 - Q: 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10; XQ: 7; P: 7, 41, 43, 45, 106; X: 101, 111, 112,
In William Golding's Lord of the Flies the
character Piggy uses his glasses to focus the sun's rays and kindle a
fire. Later, the boys abuse Piggy and break his glasses. He is unable
to identify them even at close range because he is nearsighted. Find the
flaw in this narrative. It is still possible to start a fire with
Piggy's (unbroken) glasses; how could this have been done?
- Ch35 - Q: 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12; P: 6, 14, 23, 35, 80, 100.
- Ch36 - Q: 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; XQ: 12; P: 1, 4, 22, 25, 45, 64; X: 16, 77.
- Homework Solutions
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
- The Feynman Lectures
- 8.02x - MIT Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism by Walter Lewin
- MIT Open Courseware (Physics)
- Yale University Opencourseware -
Prof. Ramamurti Shankar - Fundamentals of Physics II
- Khan Academy
- Circuit Construction Kit: DC - PhET
- Lenses and Mirrors applet
- Demonstrations
by Professor Julius Sumner Miller
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