Title	General Physics II
Term	Spring 2016
Credits	4
Time	Mon, Wed, Fri 11.30-12.50
Place	Brown Science/Sci 117A
Level	Introductory
Faculty	Sara Salimbeni
Office Hours:	by appointment (M, Tu, W, F)
Tutor	to be announced

Physics for Scientists and Engineers a Strategic Approach, vol I (Chapters 14-15)- II-III by Randall D. Knight. We will start by using Vol I chapter 14, and after we will move to Vol 3. We will use Vol 2 during the second part of the semester.

Understanding Physics by Karen Cummings, Priscilla W. Laws, Edward F. Redish, Patrick J. Cooney (on the reserve shelf)

Attendance and Participation

Attending the lessons and actively participating in class are essential to successfully pass this course. During the semester you are allowed up to 3 absences for illness, family emergencies, religious observance, etc. Your grade will drop by 2.5 points for each absence beyond the first three. You will not receive any credit for this course if you missed more than a total of 10 classes. Please, come on time to class, three late arrivals will be considered an absence.

Readings, Participation and Pre-class assignments

You are required to participate and collaborate with other students during class discussions, group work and experiments. You are expected to come to class prepared to discuss the material and ask questions. Reading the material is critical for having a productive class time, failing to prepare will affect the learning of you and your classmates. To help you with the reading I will assign pre-class questions that will be discussed during class time. Readings, quality of participation and pre-class assignments are part of your grade (15% of your final grade).

Homework

Homework will be assigned weekly (35% of your final grade). Homework is an essential tool to learn and to receive feedback. For this reason it is important that you hand in your assignments on time. Students are encouraged to work together on the homework assignments. However, your final write-up of the assignment must represent your own understanding; copying another person's work is plagiarism and will result in no credit for that assignment.

Tests and Final

In addition to the weekly assignments, there will be two Tests (30% of your grade) and an in class final (20% of your final grade). You are not allowed to collaborate while you are working on the Tests or on the final (unless I assign group work).

Late Police for Assignments, Tests and Final

This is how late work will affect your grades:

Special arrangements for late work can be obtained under very special circumstances agreed through prior discussion with me. No late work will be accepted for the Take-Home tests and Final assignments.

Plagiarism

Academic Honesty is expected of all scientists, and also of all students. Cheating on homework or the final exam will result in no credit.

If you are not sure on how to use a source, please check this link on the library webpage.

Grading

35%	Weekly homework
15%	Readings, quality of participation and pre-class assignments
30%	Tests
20%	In class final exams

Grade Letters

Highest	Lowest	Letter
100.00	93.00	A
92.99	90.00	A-
89.99	87.00	B+
86.99	83.00	B
82.99	80.00	B-
79.99	77.00	C+
76.99	73.00	C
72.99	70.00	C-
69.99	67.00	D+
66.99	60.00	D
59.99	0.00	F

After the end of classes, there will be an in class final on everything we covered during the semester.

http://cs.marlboro.edu/ courses/ spring2016/physics2/ syllabus
last modified Tuesday March 8 2016 10:18 am EST