Physics for the Life Sciences II Fall 2006

Physics 122 (Phy124=Lab) is the second half of a two semester introductory physics course intended for students
in the life sciences. The material covered largely overlaps  with  what  is  covered  in  Phy127 (part of a three -semester
sequence) and Phy 251 intended for majors in physics and engineering. In the 121/122 sequence we work at at a faster
pace than in the three semester sequence, and with less mathematics. Note: You must register for Phy 122 and
Phy124 (Lab).
                                                You receive the same grade for both courses !!!
1. Course Organization:
The Phy 122/124 course is under the direction of   R. Engelmann: office: D-106, phone: 2-8087, e-mail:
                                                     engelmann@sbhep.physics.sunysb.edu
and consists of Pre-Workshop Quiz, Workshop (at “lecture time”), Help room, exams, Lab and Pre-Lab Quiz..
In general, the material covered in the lecture videos and lecture notes, discussed in the Workshop at “lecture” time,
available on the Phy122 CD1 and CD2, with the notes to be printed out by you, and the laboratory
constitute the material you are responsible for in the exams.

2. Schedule:               
The course is comprised of:
Workshop: Old Chem. 116,  Tue,Thu 3:50 to 5:10 PM
Recitation: changed into helproom hours (schedule to be done in week of  9/4)
Laboratory: Grad-Physics A-124  2 hours weekly. 

Section Type Days Start End TA Bldg Room
01 Laboratory Mon 11:45 01:45 am  Abhijit Gadde PHYSICS A124
02 Laboratory Mon 02:20 04:20 pm  Megan Juszkiewicz PHYSICS A124
03 Laboratory Tue 12:50 02:50 pm  Manas Kulkarni PHYSICS A124
04 Laboratory Tue 06:00 08:00 pm Manas Kulkarni PHYSICS A124
05 Laboratory Wed 02:20 04:20 pm  Megan Juszkiewicz PHYSICS A124
06 Laboratory Thu 12:50 02:50 pm  Abhijit Gadde PHYSICS A124
          see phone, office, e-mail in "Staff"    

Lab Intro by TA.

                                            All Phy122 communication is via the web:
                                            www.sinc.sunysb.edu/Class/phy122/site.html
                                       Read the announcements on the web entry page!!

Your weekly routine looks as follows:

You study the material listening to the lecture videos and/or reading the material in the backup text. You do a Pre-Workshop Quiz on the web (click “Assignments”) due 2 hours after the “lecture” time workshop.
In the workshop the concepts in the Lecture Notes (and Pre -Quizzes) are reviewed and you take a series of quizzes using remote controls (like a TV remote) in multiple choice question format.
                                You work with your printed lecture notes by yourself !!!.
If you rely on the lecture notes without doing the Pre-Quiz you will do very badly in the workshop for which you get a sizeable fraction of your course credit (see "9. Grades" below). You will not be able to do all quizzes in the 2 hours after the workshop, you must do them before the workshop and just brush them up a bit after the workshop if needed.

Before each lab session you do a Pre-Lab Quiz on the web (click"LAB") which is due 1 hour before the start of the lab
session.
The “rhythm” of the course (syllabus):

NOTE: Chapters are Lecture Notes Chapters
See under 3. below the text key for sheet #'s treated in the weekly workshops
Week
    of		 Tue Workshop
Prequiz due
       8 pm		 Thu Workshop
Prequiz due
      8 pm		         Lab
Lab Quiz due
1 hour before lab session		      Exams  etc. 
    9/4                ---
   Introduction,     
        Ch15-1
     (sheet 14)
Prequiz due 9/11 noon		          ---
  		 Mon 9/4 Labor Day
    9/11        Ch15-2
        Ch16_1
     (sheet 20)		   Labquiz: Error
due Fri 9/15
midnight   
      Lab 1.
Oscilloscope
Labquiz 1
    9/18       Ch16-2        Ch17_1
     (sheet 22)		         2.
Electric Potent.
Labquiz 2		 Sat, Sun 9/23,24 Rosh Hashanah
    9/25       Ch17_2       Ch18_1
     (sheet 21)		        3.
    DC Circuit
Labquiz 3 
    10/2      Ch18_2   
     		          ---
 
   No workshop
    MAKEUP
lab 1,2,3   		 Mon 10/2 Yom Kippur

Midterm I 
Thu 10/5     8:30-10pm  
Ch 15 -18 
room:TBA
Review for Midterm I
Mon 10/2  6:00-8:30pm
room:TBA
    10/9       Ch19_1
      (sheet 15)  		         Ch19_2            5.
      e/m
Labquiz 5
NOTE! Lab 5. before Lab 4.
   10/16          Ch20_1
     (sheet 21')		         Ch20_2           4.
  Magn. Force
   Induction
Labquiz 4
 
   10/23         Ch21_1
     (sheet 18)    
     		         Ch21_2
         6.
  AC Circuit
Labquiz 6
   10/30        Ch22_1
     (sheet 19) 		         Ch22_2         7.
Interf., Diffrac.
Labquiz 7		   
   11/6  

            ---

    No work shop

 		         Ch23_1
      (sheet 19)      		    MAKEUP
lab 4,5,6,7		 Midterm II  Tue 11/7  8:30-10pm   
Ch 19 -22
room:Old Chem 116
Review for Midterm II
Mon 11/6
6:00-8:30 pm
room:TBA
   11/13     
       Ch23_2

    

        Ch24_1
      (sheet 20') 		         8.
  Refl.,..,Instr.
Labquiz 8 
  11/20        Ch24_2
     		          ---
  		         --- 11/23-26 
 Thanksgiving
  11/27       Ch25_1  
    (sheet 20) 		       Ch25_2           10.
  Nucl. Decay
Labquiz 10		 NOTE! Lab 10. before Lab 9.
  12/4
      Ch26_1 
    (sheet 35')      
        Ch26_2            9.
Atomic Spectra
Labquiz 9
  12/11       Ch27_1     
    (sheet 18)       
 		        Ch27_2         MAKEUP
lab 8, 9,10       		 Wed 12/13 = Mon
Fri 12/15 last day of classes

Review of "Midterm3"
 part of final exam
Thu 12/14  6:00-8:30 pm 
TBA
  12/18              ---               ---   Final Exam
Mon 12/18
11:00am-1:30pm
Ch 23 -27   
Midterm  I+II  Concepts listed under announcement
pad#*** Jav 101??
pad#***  Jav 102?? 

3. Material:
(1) 2 CDs (for Windows only!! ) with lectures videos and lecture notes (required),
            CD1: Electricity, Magnetism, Optics     
            CD2: Modern Physics: Realativity, Quantum Mechanics,
                                                  Atomic and Nuclear Physics 
            You print the lecture notes for use in the workshops.
                     Lab Manuals and Report Sheets for Lab 1-10
            You print the lab manuals and report sheets for use in the labs - you need the lab manuals for the
             prelab quizzes too. You can print the lab manuals from the web too.
You purchase the CDs on the web at 
                                                                    www.edusofd.com

with a credit card and pick it up in D106 (Graduate Physics) Wed 9/6  from 9 am to 8 pm,  Thu 9/7  from 9 am to 3 pm and 6 pm to 8 pm, Fri 9/8  from 9 am to 4 pm, Mon 9/11 9 am to 8 pm. You can get help with reading the CD there too.
(2) Textbook: Physics, 5th edition, Giancoli, Prentice Hall (optional)
( Any non calculus Intro Physics text is OK , however you will not have a key as the one shown
below).
If you have edition 6, you find the Table of Contents of Edition 5 here, which allows you to very quickly find the
appropriate section in edition 6 – the section numbers are very close, off by about 1 occasionally)
Key to text chapters for edition 5:                                           

Notes Ch_quiz        Text Ch;section Notes Ch_quiz:      Text Ch;section
                                 - Ch15_1(sheet 14)   16;1-3,5,6                   
Ch15_2(sheet 32):       16;7-9
Dipole energy  in Notes only.		 Ch16_1(sheet 20):    17;1-5
Ch16_2(sheet 34):        17;7,9-11 Ch17_1(sheet 22):    18;1-4,6,7 | 19;2
Ch17_2(sheet 34):       19;1-5 Ch18_1(sheet 21):     20;1-5,12
Ch18_2(sheet 38):      20;8,9
Dipole energy in Notes only		 Ch19_1(sheet 15):     21;1-3,5 
                             --                             --
Ch19_2(sheet 36'):      21;7,9 | 22;1,3,4                                                      | 21;4 Ch20_1(sheet 21'):    19;7,8 | 18;7,8       
Ch20_2(sheet 37'):      21;12-14 Ch21_1(sheet 18):     22;5 | 23;4-6 | 24;4  
Ch21_2(sheet 35):       24;1-3,5,6,10
                                                    | 25;7		 Ch22_1(sheet 19):     23;1-3,7-9,11
Ch22_2(sheet 35'):      25;1-5
Ch23_1(sheet 19):     26;1,3,5,6,8 Ch23_2(36'):              26;9,10
Ch24_1(sheet 20'):     13;1,10 | 25;11
                                     | 27;1 | 30;3		 Ch24_2(sheet 35)      30;8,9,11 | 27;8 | 17;1
Ch25_1(sheet 20):      27;2-5(skip (27-7)) Ch25_2(sheet 43)      27;6-11 | 28;9
Ch26_1(sheet 35')     28;1-3 | 26;12 | 27;7
                              (Tunneling Microscope)		 Ch26_2(sheet 55)      28;5-8
Ch27_1(sheet 18)     30;1-7 Ch27_2(sheet 43)      30;2,12 | 31;2-5

(3) Phy124 Laboratory Manuals and Report Sheets for Lab 1-10 on the class web under "LAB".
     (The lab TA will assume that you are familiar with the lab when you start it. )
    Scientific calculator (simple version): for Pre-Workshop and Pre-Lab quizzes, workshop, lab work and exams.

(4) Remote ("TV") control: available in the bookstore, required (needed for workshop and exams! - see "5. Exams" below). You register on the web for a fee with the company which manufactured the workshop quiz system (Class Performance System - CPS - by eInstruction ( http://www.eInstruction.com ). There you enter also your e-mail address - the one you actually use like "genius@aol.com" etc....Details on how to register are given on the class web under "Lectures" - go to "Workshop". You have to be registered for the remote control before Tue 9/12 noon in order to participate in the workshop of that day for credit.

4. Homework:
The Pre – Workshop and Pre - Lab Quizzes with individualized input numbers are posted on the Phy122 website.
Makeup of homework is only possible if you have a written excuse (infirmery, organizer of extra curricular activity,
parent, dorm assistent etc. .....)

5. Exams:
There will be two 1 1/2 hour midterm exams and one 2 1/2 hour final exam.
                    You have to make sure that there are no conflicts in your schedule !!!.
The dates are shown in the table above  (“rhythm” of the course), and are repeated below:
Midterm-I Exam: Thu Oct. 5,  8:30--10:00 pm.  Locations and split up of class posted on the Phy122 web.
Midterm-II Exam: Tue  Nov. 7,  8:30--10:00 pm.                                      "
Final Exam: Mon Dec. 18 , 11:00-1:30 pm                                                 "
You have to take all exams. The only acceptable excuses are illness (as documented by a written note signed by an
MD or designated social worker at the university infirmary) or death in the immediate family (provide
documentary evidence). This excuse has to be in our hands within 24 hours after the exam. As always in life there may
be special circumstances. You should bring these to the attention of  R.E. as soon as they arise. If one midterm exam
is missed with a valid excuse, all of the other grades will count proportionally more; if the final exam is missed (with a
valid excuse), you will get an incomplete (I) for the course and a make-up exam at the beginning of the next semester.

All exams will be in Multiple Choice format and you answer the questions on line with your remotes !!!

6. Recitation: moved into the helproom - no formal attendence required - see helproom schedule below under "Help".

7. Laboratory:
Starting in the week of 9/5, you will perform and analyze 10 laboratory experiments illustrating the workshop
material . (See the schedule above under "Schedule".)
You have to do a Pre - Lab Quiz on the web which is due 1 hour before your lab session. Note that there are no labs in the exam weeks. These time periods are to be used to make up a lab if you missed it due to illness or special circumstances (to be discussed with your lab TA ). Register your make up lab with the TA in the week prior to the makeup week. You have to perform and hand in reports for all 10 experiments.

8. Help:
To help you with questions related to your homework problems and the laboratory a Help Room is set up
in A-129 (Grad-Physics). Schedule, to be done at the begin of the week of 9/4, is here. 

Questions involving physics concepts and problem solving have priority in the help room.   All faculty and teaching assistants associated with this course will have help room hours to assist you . The lab TAs are best equipped to discuss the lab which has priority during their help room hours.
R.E. will be available for help via e-mail in pre quiz problem solving and lecture notes concepts. You must start out and
show that you dug a bit into a problem before you get this help for problem solving.
If you have trouble, seek help early. We are aware that the material is not easy and the pace of the course is quite
fast. Your best guarantee for a good grade is steady work, attendance at all classes, and usage of the help
mechanisms we have set up for you.
Good luck !

9. Grade:
Your final grade will be determined by weighting the various portions of the course as follows:
Pre-Workshop Quiz                    10%
Workshop                                   10%
Midterm I                                    16%
Midterm II                                   16%
Final exam                                   23%
Laboratory                                  25%  (20% of that comes out of the Pre-Lab Quiz)

10. Disabilities:
If you have a physical, psychiatric, medical or learning disability that may mpact on your ability to carry out
assigned course work, I would urge that you ontact the staff in the Disabled Student Services office (DSS),
Room 133 Humanities, 632-6748.   DSS will review your concerns and determine, with you, what
accommodations are necessary and appropriate.  All information and documentation of disability is confidential.