PHYS 108 - Basic Physics II

 
Semester: Spring 2008
Instructor: Ceyhun Bulutay
Office: Room 220  Phone: 2511
Office Hours: By e-mail appointment
Course Schedule:
Monday 13:40 - 15:30 Room GZ 55
Friday 13:40 - 15:30 Room GZ 55
     
Exams & Grading (Tentative): 3 Midterms (15% each)
1st Midterm Date: Mar. 14, Friday, 17:40-19:00 Room: SAZ-18
2nd Midterm Date: Apr. 11, Friday, 17:40-19:00 Room: SAZ-18
    3rd Midterm Date: May 12, Monday, 17:40-19:00 Room: SAZ-18

Final Exam (4th Midterm) (15%)

 Final Exam Date: May 28, Wednesday, 09:00-10:15 Room: GZ-54,GZ-55
HW+Quiz (20%)
  Lab (20%) (a minimum of 60/100 is required to pass the course)
   
Make-up Exam Policy:
As it is vulnerable to abuse, it has been difficult to identify a genuine make-up examinee. Make-up exam will be after the final exam date, and will be in oral.  The individual is expected to have reached a guru-level comprehension by then.
Textbook:
H. D. Young and R. M. Geller,"College Physics", 8th Edition (Pearson, 2007)

Weekly Calendar

Week Subject
#1 Feb. 11 Electric Charge & Coulomb's Law
#2 Feb. 18 Electric Field & Gauss' Law
#3 Feb. 25 Electric Potential
#4 Mar. 3 Capacitance
#5 Mar. 10 Recitation & Midterm-1
#6 Mar. 17 Current, Resistance
#7 Mar. 24 DC Circuits
#8 Mar. 31 The Magnetic Forces & Fields
#9 Apr. 7 Recitation & Midterm-2
#10 Apr. 14 Faraday's Law of Induction
#11 Apr. 21 Faraday's Law of Induction (Cont'd)
#12 Apr. 28 Alternating Current
#13 May 5 Alternating Current (Cont'd) & EM Waves (optional)
#14 May 12 Midterm-3 & Recitation