Syllabus for Physics 181 - Engineering Physics II TR-4:00-5:15 PM, BPB 102

Instructor Dr. Zygelman BPB 217, Phone 51321

Office Hours TR BPB 227, 3-4 PM

Text: Physics for Scientists and Engineers Volume 4, 

Randall D. Knight

2th Edition, Volume 4 ,  Pearson/Addison-Wesley

Course Policy on Grading: Final Exam - cumulative 2 hour exam determines 37.5% of final grade, there will be 6 in-class examinations which 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.
Co-requisite Phy181L, pre-requisite integral calculus.

Course Outline
 

Week

Topic

Text Chapter

1

Electric Charges and Forces

26

2

The Electric Field

27

3

Gauss's Law

28

4

The Electric Potential

29

5

Potential and Field

30

6

Current and Resistance

31

7

Fundamentals of Circuits

32

8

The Magnetic Field

33

9

Electromagnetic Induction

34

10

"

34

11

Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

35

12

"

35

13

AC circuits

36

14

"

36

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Week of  1/11  Homework Chap 26  Odd # exercises for sections 26.2, 26.4, 26.5  due 1/20

Week of  1/18   Read Chap 27;  Odd # exercises for sections 27.2 - 27.6 

Week of  1/25   Read Chap 28; Odd # exercises for sections 28.1-28.5;  Exam I (chaps 26-27) 1/29.

Week of  2/1    Read Chap 29;  Odd # exercises for sections 29.1 – 29.7

Week of  2/8     Read Chap 30;  Odd # exercise for sections 30.1 – 30.7;  Exam II    2/12

Week of  2/15   Read Chap 31; Odd # exercises for sections 31.1-5;

Week of 2/22    Read Chap 32; Odd # exercises for section  32.1-8;  Exam III  2/26

Week of  3/1     Chap 32 continued, begin reading Chap 33; 

Week of  3/8    Read Chap. 33 Odd # exercises for all sections

Week of  3/15  Chap 33 & Chap 34   Exam IV (Chaps. 32-33) 3/19

Week of  3/22   Chap 34 & Chap 35 Odd exercises Chaps. 34-35

Week of  3/29   Chap 35   Exam V  Chaps 34-35 (up to 35.5)  4/2

Week of  4/5    Spring Break

Week of  4/12  All odd exercises Chap. 35;

Week of  4/19  Chap 36 odd excercises; Exam VI April 23, Chaps. 35-36.6

Week of  4/26  Chap 36

Week of  5/3  FINAL EXAM May 5, 6 PM (2 hours)