SPSP 312-03/389-04 University Physics II/IIA                        Fall 2009.1

Instructor

Prof. Anne G. Young     This quarter's class schedule.
Office: Gosnell-3218
Phone: 475-2089
E-mail: agysps at ritdotedu

Student assistant: ??

Class hours

Required Materials

• Walker, Jearl. Halliday/Resnick, Fundamentals of Physics, 8th Edition, Volume 1 and Part 4.
  You should already have Volume 1 -- it was the text used in University Physics I at RIT.
  You should purchase Part 4 right away (within 10 days of the beginning of the quarter) because it contains the WebAssign code you will need in order to do the on-line assignments.
  If you purchase the complete book or volumes 1 and 2, you will have all of the necessary pages ... BUT   You will need to purchase WebAssign access codes separately each quarter, and Vol. 2 includes about 200 pages (8 chapters) which are not used in the University Physics I, II, III sequence.
• WebAssign Plus access card -- on-line with a credit card (~$22 / quarter), or included with your new copy of the textbook. Click here for more info: Brief WebAssign notes.
• UNIVERSITY PHYSICS II 1017-312 and UNIVERSITY PHYSICS IIA 1017-389 Activities Manual, Effective September 2009. Please bring this to all class meetings beginning with the first day!
  

Schedule (tentative)

Week	Topic	Chapter(s) in Text
1	Rotation, angular quantities, moment of inertia, parallel-axis theorem, rotational kinetic energy	10
2	Cross products, vector torque, angular momentum	11
3	Conservation of angular momentum, gyroscopes	11, 12
22 Sept 09	First Hour Test	Ch. 10-11
4	Moment of inertia integrals, static equilibrium, elasticity	12
5	Elasticity & Oscillations , resonance	12, 15
6	Wave equations	16; 33-3,4
13 Oct 09	Second Hour Test	Ch. 12, 15-16
7	Sound velocity, Doppler effect	17
8	Light reflection, refraction	33-8,9; 34
9	Waves, Diffraction, interference, phasors	34-7, 8; 35; 36
3 Nov 09	Third Hour Test	Ch. 17, 33, 34, 35/36
10	Thin films, polarization	35-7; 33-7,10
18 Nov 09	Final Exam     Wed 2:45-4:45 pm	cumulative

Other resources

There is a College of Science Study Center [Bates Study Center] at the front of the building on the first floor [08-1200]. A schedule of hours for tutors is posted outside the room. The tutoring schedule will also be available at the link in the "table" at the top of the page. You may also contact the Academic Support Center, in the Eastman Building, second floor for extra help. The Office of Special Services can arrange one-on-one tutorial sessions for qualified students.

If you have any special needs, you should inform me during the first week of classes. Please contact me after class or at my office.

Grading Scheme (probably): 

3 Hour tests (10%, 15%, 15%)	40%
Final Exam	25%
Quizzes & Assignments	20%
Quizzes	5%
Problem Sets / web	7%
Problem Sets / paper	5%
Assignments / class	3%
Assignments / web	3%
Lab Reports	12%

If you are ill or have an emergency situation and miss class or a test.

• Inform me as soon as possible of the problem.
• Labs and activities done in workshop can be made up on Friday between noon and 1:45 pm in Room 3178. A Teaching Assistant (Tim Bald) will be present, but he may not be familiar with the specific activity being performed. You must bring the worksheet for the missed activity. See me to get a copy of the worksheet. The TA will not have worksheets available. At most two activities may be made up on one Friday.  Any graded lab done as a make-up automatically receives a 10% reduction in grade. The make-up must be completed within three weeks of its original date and no make-ups will be allowed after the last day of classes: Friday November 13, 2009.
• There will be NO make-up tests; your lowest test grade will be replaced by your final exam grade and the zero on your missed test will therefore be replaced by your final exam grade.

Problems will be assigned every week [Problem Set Requirements], some on paper to hand in and some on WebAssign. Solutions to some of the paper problem sets (and some of the WebAssign problems) will be available after the due date. It is critically important to do problems in order to learn the material and do well on the tests. Do work with others on the problem sets, but turn in your own work. If possible, come ask questions about material you don't understand before you turn in the problem set. Quizzes will be approximately weekly [on Thursdays], and I will try to remember to announce them.

In addition, there will be "assignments". These will be exercises that we work on in class or conceptual questions that are posted to WebAssign. As long as you make a serious effort to answer these questions or to work on these exercises, you will receive full credit (whether your answer is right or wrong). Usually, there will be Pre-Class "assignments" due 1 hour before class every Monday and Thursday.

In order to take SPSP 312 Univ Phys II, you are required to have received A/B/C in 1017-311 Univ Phys I or “A” in 1017-369 Univ Phys IA, and to have completed 1016-281, 1016-282 Calculus I and II.

In order to take SPSP 389 Univ Phys IIA, you are required
   • to have received A/B/C in 1017-369 Univ Phys IA, or D/F/W in a previous attempt at 1017-312,
   • to have completed 1016-271, 1016-272 Calculus A and B, and
   • to have completed or be registered in 1016-273 Calculus C.

 If you do not meet these requirements, you will be dropped from the class.