Physics 23
Fall 2008
Instructor: Jacob Morris
Office: SCI
279
Phone: 434-3520
Email:
morris_jacob@smc.edu
Office Hours: M
Course Description: This course is a calculus-based study of
fluids, waves, sound, thermodynamics, and light. (Prerequisites: Physics 21,
Math 8)
Place and Time:
Lecture:
Lab:
Text: H. Young, Roger Freedman, University Physics (with Modern Physics), 12th
edition, Addison Wesley, 2008.
Grade: Participation 5%
Homework 5%
Quizzes 10%
Lab/Tutorial 15%
Midterm
1 10% Friday 9/26
Midterm 2 15% Friday 10/24
Midterm 3 15%
Friday 11/21
Final 25% Friday 12/12,
Upon returning
each exam I will give a breakdown of the grades for that exam.
Classroom Conduct: Under no
circumstances is there to be any food or drink in either the lecture hall or
laboratory. Please make a point of
coming to class on time; doing otherwise creates a distraction to both your
classmates and the instructor. Attendance is not mandatory, however, missing
class or laboratory may adversely affect your grade.
Exam Policy: There are no
make-up exams. If you miss an exam due to an emergency or personal hardship
a note from a suitable professional will be required. All exams are closed note
and closed book. The midterm exams will consist of problems and conceptual questions based on material
from the homework, class examples, text examples, tutorial problems, and
laboratory. The midterms are of
greater scope than the homework and quizzes and will require you to think and
put ideas together. Failure to take
the final will result in an F grade for the course.
Lab: There are no make-up labs. Laboratory is
mandatory to the extent that points will be given for every lab session
regardless of whether you are required to submit written work for that session.
If there is ever any doubt, you should submit all the work you have completed
in the laboratory. Make sure you receive a graded report for every report
you have submitted. It is important to keep these reports as a record of your
graded work. In the event you do not receive a report that you submitted it is
your responsibility to bring its absence to my attention.
Quizzes: There will be several quizzes during the semester that
will consist of questions taken from the
homework, lecture, lab, and text reading. I will drop your lowest quiz. There are no make-up quizzes.
Homework: There will be an assignment each week consisting of
roughly 15 problems and 10 questions. You are not required to submit
responses to the questions but may do so if this is convenient. Each
assignment will be graded on a three-point scale based on completeness,
clarity, and organization. To receive a grade on an assignment it must be
stapled and clearly labeled. Please do not staple different assignments
to one another.
Help: I realize some of you may have trouble making my office hours. If you
need help please do not hesitate to drop by any time I am in my office. There
is a tutoring available in the LRC located in SCI 245.
Grade Guidelines: The Santa Monica College Physical Science Department
now has guidelines for the distribution of course grades. Student proficiency
among different sections is also assessed though standardized examination.
Academic
Dishonesty: The college policy regarding academic
dishonesty will be strictly enforced. In particular I will not hesitate
to inform the campus disciplinarian of any student’s dishonest conduct relating
to the course. This includes but is not limited to: cheating on a quiz or exam,
submission of an altered exam for a regrade, verbatim copying of lab
activities, falsification of laboratory attendance, and forgery of my
signature/grade or forgery of any written excuse.
Week
of: Sections: Topics:
Aug. 25 14.1-14.6 Fluid Statics Review, Continuity Eqn.,
Bernoulli Eqn., Potential Flow, Viscosity, Drag
Sept. 1 15.1-15.6 Wave
Properties, String Waves, Wave Eqn., Wave Energy, Superposition,
Interference
Sept. 8 15.7-16.3
Sept. 15 16.4-16.9 Reflection, Refraction, Standing Waves, Resonance, Doppler Effect, Shock
Waves
Sept. 22 17.1-17.7 Equilibrium,
Temperature, Thermal Expansion, Heat, Heat Capacity, Calorimetry,
Latent Heat, Heat Transfer, Midterm 1 (Chs.14-16)
Sept. 29 18.1-18.6 Eqn. of State, Ideal
Gas, pV Diagram, Kinetic Theory, Heat Capacities, Maxwell
Dist.
Oct. 6 19.1-19.5 Thermodynamic System,
Work, Heat, 1st Law, Thermodynamic Processes
Oct. 13 19.6- 20.2 Ideal Gas Internal Energy, Heat
Capacities, Adiabatic Process, Reversibility
Oct. 20 20.2-20.8 Heat
Engines, Refrigerators, 2nd Law, Carnot Cycle, Entropy, Midterm 2
(Chs.17-19)
Nov. 10 34.5-35.2 Examples, Magnification, Optical
Instruments, Interference, Coherence, Double Slits
Nov. 17 35.3-36.1 Phasors,
Intensity, Thin Films, Interferometers, Midterm 3 (Chs. 33-35.2)
Nov.
24 36.2-36.3 Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction, Single
Slit Diffraction, Vibration Curve,
Dec. 1 36.4-36.8 Multiple Slits, Diffraction Gratings,
Resolving Power, Crystal X-Ray Diffraction
Dec. 8 Final
Exam (Cumulative
exam covering all topics addressed in the course)
Special Dates:
Labor Day 9/1, Veteran’s Day
11/10, Thanksgiving 11/27, 11/28, Last Day to drop without
a W: 9/14, Last day to drop with a W: 11/16