General Physics II (NSC262)
Credits: 4.00
Level: Introductory
Faculty: Jim Mahoney
When: Tu/Thu 10-11:30am
Where: Jim's office, Sci201
Second semester of the introductory physics class, suitable for students considering a plan in physics, science students or non-science students who want a physics foundation. Topics include fluids, thermodynamics, oscillations, waves and optics.
Knight's Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 3rd edition (amazon)
Expect this to change as needed as we go along.
week dates chapter topic textbook
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1 Jan 22, 25 14 Oscillations Part III
2 29, 1
3 Feb 5, 8 15 Fluids
4 12, 15 16 Macroscopic Matter Part IV
5 19, 22 17 Work, Heat, First Law
6 26, 1 18 Micro/Macro connection
7 Mar 5, 8 19 Heat Engines & 'fridges
8 12, 15
spring break
9 26, 29 20 Traveling Waves Part V
10 Apr 2, 5 21 Superposition
11 9, 12 22 Wave optics
12 16, 19 23 Ray Optics
13 23, 26 24 Optical Instruments
14 30
There will be three letter grades for the term:
Each weekly assignment will get a numeric score based on evidence of effort with 1.0 meaning full credit. Your semester homework grade will be based on the sum of those numeric scores
Your final grade will be an equally weighted average of all those, along with an additional class participation fudge factor as I see fit.