PHYSICS 20400MM Spring 2006 (MR4) TTh 11:00-12:15 (MR408) F 11:00-11:50

Professor: Mark Shattuck (shattuck@ccny.cuny.edu)

Office: Steinman Hall T1M-16 x8161, (Marshak 309A)

Office Hours:  TTh 10:00-11:00

Website: http://gibbs.engr.ccny.cuny.edu/teaching.html

Textbook: Cutnell & Johnson - “Physics”, 6th edition, Volumes 1 and 2.

Physics Lab Manual: http://mail.sci.ccny.cuny.edu/~physdept/AltLabMan/TOC.html

 

·         15 min. quiz every Tuesday (first quiz will be Tue. Jan. 31)

·         Three tests and Final.

·         All Labs MUST be completed to pass the course!

10%     Quizzes

15%     Tests (x3)

45%     Final (cumulative)

 

 

 

 

Week Beginning

Topic

Reading

Homework

Jan. 23 (ThF)

Waves and Sound

16.1-10

16: 5,15,17,24,31,42,78,90,98

Jan. 30

Interference

17:1-6

17: 8,20,27,36

Feb. 6

Electric Forces and Fields

18.1-8

18: 1,3,5, 7,11,12,13,16,27,29,44

Feb. 13

Electric Potential

19.1-5

19: 19,23,24,34,39,40,52

Feb. 20 (ThF)

Electric Circuits

20.1-9,11-12

20: 6,10,17,23,33,45,55,60,63,87,100

 Fri. Feb. 24

Test 1 (16-19)

Feb. 27

Magnetic Forces and Fields

21.1-8

21: 2,17,20,32,33,41,45,54,55,72

Mar. 6

Electromagnetic Induction

22

22: 3,25,28,31,38,51,62,69

Mar. 13

AC Circuits

Electromagnetic Waves

23.1-4

24.1-3

23: 2,6,13,19,22,28,32,42

24: 3,19,46

Mar. 20

Reflection of Light

Refraction of Light

25

26.1,3,5,8

25: 5,9,19,34

26: 14,28,42,51,104

Fri. Mar. 24

Test 2 (20-23)

Mar. 27

Interference of Light

27.1-7

27: 3,11,12,19,27,44,50

Apr. 3

Special Relativity

28

28: 5,8,12,23,31,33,34,38,39,40

Apr. 10 (T)

Particles and Waves

29

29: 6,8,9,16,24,32,42,43

Apr. 24 (TThF)

Nature of Atoms

30

30: 4,5,14,18,19,24,31,33,39,50

Tues. Apr. 25

Test 3 (24-29)

May 1

Nuclear Physics

31

31: 4,14,18,19,31,33,39,50

May 8

Elementary Particles

32

32: 13,20,24,28,44,45

May 15 (T)

Review

 

 

May 19-26

FINALS

 

 

M = Guest Lecturer: TBA or Prof. Hernan Makse, T1M-12, x6847, makse@mailaps.org