Phone: 719 255 3560
Class Hours: m & w (12:35 pm 4:20 pm) Engr. Bldg. 105
e-mail: rtirado@uccs.edu
class website: www.uccs.edu/~rtirado
Course Description:
Topics covered include electrostatics, the electric field, Gauss’s law, electric potential, capacitors and dielectrics, current and resistance, the magnetic field, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, inductance, oscillations, and electromagnetic waves. Prer., PES 111, Coreq., MATH 136
Textbook:
Fundamentals of Physics, Volume 2, (Chapters 21- 44), 8th Edition, Regular Edition
by David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Jearl Walker
ISBN 978-0-470-04474-2
April 2007, ©2008
Hardcover, 752 pagesPART 3Electric Charge
Electric Fields
Gauss' Law
Electric Potential
Capacitance
Current and Resistance
Circuits
Magnetic Fields
Magnetic Fields Due to Currents
Induction and Inductance
Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current
Maxwell's Equations;
Magnetism of Matter
Murray R. Spiegel, John M. Liu
Scientific Calculators:Hewlett Packard HP 35 SHewlett Packard HP 33 S
If you can program and apply calculators to assist you in your problem solving, you are increasing your skill set. Calculators will be necessary for homework and will be allowed to be used during exams; HOWEVER, enough INTERMEDIATE STEPS MUST BE SHOWN to show you understand how to solve the problem.
Computers, Apple I-Touch and PDA's are not allowed to be used for exams.
Homework:
Homework will be graded. Please show your work or you will not receive credit. Please late homework will not be accepted once the solutions have been posted on the web.
Exams:
There will be four exams given during the Summer Term 2010. The final or test 4 will be comprehensive, but mostly will emphasize the material covered after the third exam.
Unless arrangements have been made PRIOR to any exam, THERE WILL BE NO MAKE-UP EXAMS. MISSED EXAMS WILL RECEIVE A SCORE OF ZERO. Since the material in this class is foundation for many subsequent classes, no exam scores will be dropped.
Grading Policy:Homework 20% Exams (4) 80%
94-100 % A
93-90 % A-
89-87 % B+
86-83 % B
82-80 % B-
79-77 % C+
76-73 % C
72-70 % C-
69-67 % D+
66-63 % D
62-59 % D-
below 58 % F
Miscellaneous:Student Conduct:
Students enrolled in this course are expected to conform to university rules of Student Conduct. These may be found online at: http://web.uccs.edu/studentconduct/
Any student eligible for and requesting academic accommodations due to a disability is required to provide a letter from Disability Services within the first two weeks of class.
Disability Services is located in: Cragmor Hall #104, 719 262-3354 http://web.uccs.edu/dss/
Cell phones, Pagers, & Talking:
Please show respect to the other members of the class by turning off the sound on cell phones and pagers. Imperative phone calls should be taken outside the classroom. Also, keep conversation to a minimum during the lecture so that others can hear clearly.