PHYS 112 - Electricity and Magnetism

 
Semester: Spring 2007
Instructor: Ceyhun Bulutay
Office: Room 220  Phone: 2511
Office Hours: TBA
Course Schedule:
Monday 10:40 - 12:30 Room SAZ 01
Thursday 8:40 - 10:30 Room SAZ 01
Recitation Hour:
TBA ?:40 - ?:30 Room ?
Exams & Grading (Tentative): 2 Midterms (20% each)
1st Midterm Date: Mar. 08, Thursday, 09:00-10:30
2nd Midterm Date: Apr. 19, Thursday, 09:00-10:30
Final Exam (25%)
Final Exam Date: TBA
HW+Quiz (15%)
  Lab (20%) (a minimum of 60/100 is required to pass the course)
  Computer Project (+3%)
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:
D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and K. S. Krane,"Physics", Vol. 2, 5th Edition (Wiley, 2002)

Weekly Calendar

Week Subject
#1 Jan. 31 Electric Charge & Coulomb's Law
#2 Feb. 5 Electric Field
#3 Feb. 12 Gauss' Law
#4 Feb. 19 Electric Potential Energy & Potential
#5 Feb. 26 Capacitance
#6 Mar. 5 Capacitance & Midterm-1
#7 Mar. 12 Electrical Properties of Materials
#8 Mar. 19 DC Circuits
#9 Mar. 26 The Magnetic Field
#10 Apr. 02 The Magnetic Field of a Current
Apr. 09 Spring Break
#11 Apr. 16 Magnetic Properties of Materials & Midterm-2
#12 Apr. 23 Faraday's Law of Induction
#13 Apr. 30 Inductance and RL Circuits
#14 May 7 Alternating Current Circuits
#15 May 14 Relativity -- Special & General