Syllabus for Physics 181 - Engineering Physics II MW 1:00-2:15 PM, BPB 102

Instructor Dr. Zygelman BPB 217, Phone 51321

Office Hours MW BPB 227, 3-4 PM

Text: Physics , Resnick, Halliday, Krane,

5th Edition, Volume II, John Wiley and Sons.

Course Policy on Grading: Final Exam - cumulative 2 hour exam determines 37.5% of final grade, there will be 5 in-class examinations that  determine the remainder (62.5 %) of your grade.  Exams are closed book,  calculators are not allowed, the lowest in-class exam grade will be dropped, there will be  no make-up exams.  To get credit for an exam the student must (a) take the exam at scheduled time, (b) pick up the graded exam from the instructor within 2 weeks.  Students are responsible for homework  assignments  and exam dates which will be posted at  http://www.physics.unlv.edu/~bernard/phy181/outline1.html  and announced in class.
Co-requisite Phy181L, pre-requisite integral calculus.

Course Outline
 
Week Topic Text Chapter
1 Coulomb's law 25
2 The electric field 26
3 Gauss's Law 27
4 Electric potential 28
5 Materials I 29
6 Capacitance 30
7 DC circuits 31
8 The magnetic field 32
9 Currents and fields 33
10 Faraday's Law 34
11 Materials II 35
12 Inductance 36
13 AC circuits 37
14 Maxwell's equations 38

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Week of 1/16    Chap 25:   Exercises 3,5,7,17,19
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Week of 1/23    Chap 26:  Exercises 3,5,7,10,12,17
 
Week  of  1/30   Exam I Wed. Feb. 2; 
Chapter 27;  Exercises 1,2,5,12,14,20,25 <>

Week of  2/6     Chapter 28; Exercises 1,4,8,12,13,21,23,28,37,42;

Week of 2/13    Exam II  Wed  Feb. 16  Chap. 29, Exercises 1,2,3,9,11,12,13,19,22,24,30

Week of 2/20     Chap. 30 Exercises 3,4,7,9,10,12,20,21,24,28,30<>

Week of 2/27     Chap. 31 Exercises 1,3,5,7,11,13,19,33,45,48

Week of 3/6       Chap. 32; 2,3,8,9,12,25,26,29,35

Week of  3/13   ExamIII  Mon.  March  14,  Chaps. 33 ; 4,6,7,9,16,21,26,33,34,35;

Week of  3/20    Spring Break

Week of  3/27   Chap 34; 2,3,4,10,14,16,23,26,30,31;

Week of  4/3     Exam IV  Chap 35 1,3,4,10,12,14,15,16

Week of  4/10   Chap. 36; 1,4,7,8,9,10,11,12,15,17

Week of  4/17   Chap 36; 24,33,34,41,42,48,52

Week of  4/24   Exam V Mon. 4/25  Chap. 34,35,36  Chaps. 37;  1,2,3,5,13,14,16,20,22,24

Week  of  5/1    Chap 38; 2,3,5,9,16,17,21,23,28,36

Week of  5/11   Final Exam, Monday May 9, 1-3 PM, BPB 102