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PHYSICS II AND LAB - PHYS 1212K (4 Credit Hours)
Description: An introductory course that will include material from electromagnetism, optics, and modern physics. Elementary differential and integral calculus will be used. This course has a laboratory component that requires a lab kit.
Prerequisites:
- Completion of Calculus I (differentiate, integrate, simple functions).
- Completion of Physics I (includes material from mechanics, thermodynamics, and waves using elementary differential calculus).
Course Structure:
- Physics Lessons
- Lesson 1 - Electric Field and Electric Force
- Lesson 2 - Gauss's Law
- Lesson 3 - Electrical Potential
- Lesson 4 - Electrical Current and Circuits
- Lesson 5 - Magnetic Fields
- Lesson 6 - Magnetic Induction
- Lesson 7 - Alternating Current Circuits
- Lesson 8 - Light
- Lesson 9 – Modern Physics
- Physics Laboratory
- Laboratory Overview
- Using Excel to Graph Data
- Laboratory 1, Mapping Electric and Magnetic Field Lines
- Laboratory 2, The RC Time constant
- Laboratory 3, Resistance in Series and Parallel
- Laboratory 4, Multiloop Circuits: Kirchhoff’s Rules
- Laboratory 5, Ratio of charge to mass for an electron
- Laboratory 6, Alternating Current Circuits
- Laboratory 7, Building and Using a Pinhole Camera
- Laboratory 8, Spherical mirrors and lenses
- Laboratory 9, The Diffraction Grating: Measuring the Wavelengths of Light
Course Objectives:
Lesson 1 - Electric Field and Electric Force
- Recognize the fundamental nature of charge
- Determine the magnitude and direction of the forces between two charged particles using Coulomb’s law.
- Determine the magnitude and direction of the forces between a system of many charged particles using Coulomb’s law.
- Calculate the electric field due to a point charge.
- Calculate the electric field due to a system of many charged particles.
- Sketch the lines of force around a configuration of charges so that you can determine the magnitude and direction of the electric field and force.
- Determine the motion of a point charge in a uniform electric field.
- Calculate the electric field of a dipole.
- Calculate electric fields for continuous charge distributions using integral calculus.
Lesson 2 - Gauss's Law
- Calculate the electric field flux through a closed surface.
- Calculate the magnitude and direction of the electric field for symmetric distributions of charge using Gauss’s Law.
- Solve problems involving electric fields around conductors.
Lesson 3 - Electrical Potential
- Calculate the work done on a point charge due to an electric field in moving from one point to another.
- Relate electrical potential to the potential energy of a charge placed at a point.
- Calculate the electrical potential due to a point charge.
- Calculate the electrical potential due to a collection of point charges.
- Calculate the electrical potential due to a continuous charge distribution.
- Relate electric field lines and equipotential surfaces.
- State the definition of capacitance.
- Calculate the capacitance for a parallel plate capacitor.
- Recognize the role of a capacitor as a device to store energy.
- Solve simple circuit problems involving capacitors in series and parallel.
- Determine the role played by dielectrics in capacitors.
Lesson 4 - Electrical Current and Circuits
- Understand current as the macroscopic (large scale) phenomenon resulting from the directed motion of individual charged particles.
- Understand electrical resistance as a fundamental property resulting from the structure of matter.
- Apply Ohm's law to simple circuits.
- Understand the variation of current in a circuit due to the temperature dependence of resistance.
- Understand EMF as the mechanism that supplies the energy to keep an electrical current flowing in an electrical circuit.
- Apply basic techniques for the analysis of dc circuits.
- Calculate currents in various branches of single and multi-loop circuits using Kirchhoff’s laws.
- Understand basic ideas involved in electrical measurement.
- Understand the origin and behavior of transient currents in a RC circuit.
Lesson 5 - Magnetic Fields
- Apply the force that a magnetic field exerts on moving electrical charges to determine the strength of a magnetic field.
- Relate that the force applied to a moving charge has some very special properties, which results in a rather complicated motion of the charge.
- State the cyclotron frequency.
- Describe force and torque acting on a current carrying wire placed in a magnetic field.
- Calculate the potential energy of a magnetic dipole in a magnetic field.
- Generalize the quantitative relationship between a magnetic field and the current that produces it.
- State the Biot-Savart Law.
- Calculate the magnetic field produced by various current configurations.
- Apply Ampere’s law to calculate magnetic fields in situations with a high degree of symmetry.
- Determine the direction of a magnetic field produced when a current passes through a wire.
- Specify the direction and magnitude of a magnetic field due to current in a loop or a solenoid.
- Explain the magnetic properties of matter.
Lesson 6 - Magnetic Induction
- Define magnetic flux.
- Calculate the magnetic flux through an area with a simple geometry.
- State Faraday’s law.
- State Lenz’s law.
- Apply Faraday’s law to calculate induced emfs.
- Apply Lenz’s law to find the direction of the induced emf.
- Define self-inductance and mutual inductance.
- Calculate the self-inductance of a cylindrical coil (solenoid).
- Calculate the mutual inductance of two coils with a simple geometry.
- Calculate the energy stored in a region where a magnetic field is present.
Lesson 7 - Alternating Current Circuits
- Distinguish between direct and alternating currents and the manner in which they are generated.
- Understand the behavior of resistors, capacitors and inductors in alternating current circuits.
- Understand the phase relations between current and voltage in alternating circuits.
- Calculate the reactance of inductors and capacitors.
- Calculate the impedance and phase constant for series RLC circuits.
- Draw and label a phasor diagram for an RLC circuit.
- Calculate the power factor of a RLC circuit and determine the power dissipated in different circuit elements.
- Differentiate between peak and rms values for various quantities.
- Understand the concept of resonance in a circuit and determine the resonant frequency.
- Understand the role of transformers in stepping voltages up and down.
Lesson 8 – Light
- Relate light to electromagnetic waves.
- Understand electromagnetic radiation as a consequence of Maxwell's Equations.
- Identify the different portions of the electromagnetic spectrum in terms of their frequency or wavelength.
- Differentiate between specular and diffuse reflection.
- Determine relative size and position of the object and image in a plane mirror.
- Distinguish between converging and diverging lenses.
- Define the focal length and focal point of a lens.
- Relate image position to focal length and object distance for converging and diverging lenses.
- Understand rays as a tool to construct geometrical optics.
- Understand the laws of reflection and refraction at a plane surface between two optical media.
- Understand the role of total internal reflection and calculate the critical angle.
- Apply the laws of reflection and refraction to plane and curved mirrors.
- Apply the laws of reflection and refraction to image formation by systems of lenses.
- Distinguish between virtual and real images.
- Identify applications of lenses for optical devices.
- Describe the failure of geometrical optics to explain small-scale optical phenomena.
- Explain how the wave theory of light leads to the phenomena of interference and diffraction.
- State the result of Young's double slit experiment.
- Calculate maxima and minima in single and multiple slit experiments.
- Define the phenomenon of interference from thin films.
- Define how light is polarized and calculate Brewster's angle.
Lesson 9 – Modern Physics
- Distinguish between the Galilean transformation and the relativistic transformation.
- State the postulates of special relativity.
- Apply the Lorentz transformation to a simple time dilation and length contraction problem.
- Interpret the mass energy relation.
- Solve a problem involving relativistic momentum.
- Explain Planck’s theory as applied to blackbody radiation.
- Analyze Einstein’s explanation of the photoelectric effect.
- Interpret the Compton scattering of X-rays by electrons.
- Recognize that particles have wave properties and light has particle properties.
- Recognize the Schrödinger Wave Equation as the foundation of quantum mechanics.
- Determine the uncertainty in position and momentum from the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Also Required:
Physics Laboratory Materials (Commonly found household items and scientific supply house items that can be purchased for under $60.).