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(Revised Aug 25, 2015)
Instructor: Prof. Charles C. H. Jui (pronounced “RAY”) Please address the instructor Professor “Ray”
Electronically communicate with instructor via CANVAS messaging Office Phone: 801-581-7186
Office Hours (held at JFB Rotunda) Wed. 11.00 AM – 12:30 PM
Fri. 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
This presentation posted on CANVAS page for PHYS 2210-01 and 2201-10 And also at http://www.physics.utah.edu/~jui/Introduction-phys2210-01-10.pdf
Physics 2210-01 and -10, Fall 2015 Course Web Page:
Go to http://www.physics.utah.edu Select the link to “courses”, look for
2210-01 and/or 2210-10
VERY LIMITED USE OF CANVAS
PHYS 2210-01 and -10 will be run out of a course web page and SmartPhysics
PHYS 2210-01 and -10 will NOT be using CANVAS (i.e. NO CONTENT on CANVAS), Except for
– posting midterm, final exam, and final grades (SmartPhysics has no facility for importing exam grades)
– Communications with the instructor (via CANVAS message system)
– In class Canvas Poll on you IOS or Android phone or tablet … sorry windows not supported (yet?)
– Posting Lecture Notes
Physics Dept. Course Page
http://www.physics.utah.edu/index.php/courses
PHYS 2210-01 and -10 Course Web Page
http://www.physics.utah.edu/~woolf/2210_jui.html
PHYS 2210-01 and 10 Discussion Sections
TA Discussion Section Time (Tue Thu) Room
Philip Beltracchi 2210-002 02:00 PM – 02:50 PM JFB B-1
Philip Beltracchi 2210-003/012 07:30 AM – 08:20 AM WEB L112
Emile Hatem 2210-004/011 07:30 PM – 08:20 AM WEB L120
Adnan Nahlawi 2210-005/014 09:40 AM – 10:30 AM LCB 225
Adnan Nahlawi 2210-007/016 10:45 AM – 11:35 AM WEB L114
Henna Popli 2210-008/017 02:00 PM – 02:50 PM WEB L110
Henna Popli 2210-009/018 02:00 PM – 02:50 PM LCB 219
Emile Hatem 2210-028/029 9:40 AM – 10:30 AM WEB L110
You MUST be enrolled in one of the discussion sections, section 2-9 or 11-18. The only way to enroll in Physics 2210-01 or 2210-10 is through enrollment in a discussion section. You are required to attend the discussion section in which you are enrolled. Discussion sections meet on both Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Topics to be Covered Part I: Linear Dynamics: 1. 1-D Kinematics 2. Vectors and 2-D Kinematics 3. Relative and Circular Motion 4. Newton's Laws 5. Forces and Free-Body Diagrams 6. Friction
Part II: Conservation Laws 7. Work and Kinetic Energy 8. Conservative Forces and Potential Energy 9. Work and Potential Energy: Part II 10. Center of Mass 11. Conservation of Momentum 12. Elastic Collisions 13. Collisions, Impulse, and Reference Frames
Part III Rotational Dynamics: 14. Rotational Kinematics and Moment of Inertia 15. Parallel Axis Theorem and Torque 16. Rotational Dynamics 17. Rotational Statics 18. Rotational Statics: Part II 19. Angular Momentum 20. Angular Momentum Vector and Precession
Part IV: Oscillations and Waves 21. Simple Harmonic Motion 22. Simple and Physical Pendula 23. Harmonic Waves and the Wave Equation 24. Waves and Superposition
• At the request of the Dept. of Physics, The TA’s will administer short assessments during Discussion Section on Tue. Aug 25, and will be returned to you on Thu. Aug 27.
• There will be a PHYSICS test and a MATH test • I will discuss the results in class later this week. • Based on the result of this test you may wish to drop this class and
take PHYS 1500 as preparation for 2210 instead.
• If you never had a high-school physics course or equivalent then the Dept. of Physics recommends that you take PHYS 1500 instead.
• If you never took calculus you SHOULD NOT be taking this class. • Taking both 2210 and 2220 at the same time is academically suicidal.
Assessment Test on Tue. Aug 25
Help Labs and Sunpplemental Instruction Additional help: Help Lab. (JFB Rotunda) One-on-one help with TA’s of this course (updated Aug 25, 2015)
Check the Course Web Page regularly! Supplemental Instruction: SI leader Parker Holzer. Schedule and Location: TBA
Your letter grade in this class will be determined individually and automatically by the best one of three combinations of numerical grades. 1. 5% pre-lecture + 5% checkpoints + 30% homeworks + 30% midterms + 30%
final exam 2. 50% midterms + 50% final exam 3. 100% final exam *** pre-lectures, checkpoints, and homework are administered via online
system of smartPhysics
WARNING: Typical Exam Average in this class is 55-60%
Default Grading Scale:
Physics 2210-01 and 2210-10 Final Grade
cutoffs 0-39.9% 40.0-44.9% 45.0-49.9% 50.0-54.9% 55.0-59.9% 60.0-64.9% Letter E D- D D+ C- C
GP 0.0 0.7 1.0 1.3 1.7 2.0 cutoffs 65.0-69.9% 70.0-74.9% 75.0-79.9% 80.0-84.9% 85.0-89.9% 90.0-100% Letter C+ B- B B+ A- A
GP 2.3 2.7 3.0 3.3 3.7 4.0
Midterm Exams
MIDTERM EXAMS Dates Midterm Exam 1 Fri, Sep 18 Midterm Exam 2 Fri, Oct. 09 Midterm Exam 3 Fri, Nov. 06 Midterm Exam 4 Fri, Dec. 04
• All midterm exams are in FMAB during regular class time (50 minutes).
• You must take the exam during your registered lecture time.
• We will take the best 3 of 4 midterms. • NO make-up exams. Missing an exam
counts as zero score.
• The final exam for this course is NOT given by the usual class-time table
• The final for PHYS 2210, Fall 2015 is on
Tue, Dec. 15 at 3:30-5:30 p.m. • Locations: TBA (the University does not let us schedule
final exam rooms until well into the semester).
This is a University departmental scheduled exam with separate scheduling from the usual exam schedule given at http://registrar.utah.edu/academic-calendars/final-exams-fall2015.php (see bottom of that page)
Final Exam
Allowed: •Ordinary (including graphing) calculators •One 3” × 5” index card of formulae (both sides) for midterms, one 8.5” × 11” sheet (both sides) for the final exam Not allowed: •Any electronic device with communications capabilities, •Any textbook, notes, or any document printed or written.
Midterm Exam regrading: You must fill out a regrade form (downloadable from Course Web Page) for each problem you want to have regraded. Submit this with the original exam page to your discussion TA. The original grader will then receive it and regrade the whole problem
Beware that we randomly scan exam papers for comparison
Exam Rules
For PHYS 2210, we use: 1. Online Pre-Lectures (animated lessons, completed
before lecture)
2. Online Check-Points (quizzes to check knowledge, completed after lecture)
3. Lectures (derivations, examples, demos)
4. Online homework exercises
5. Printed textbook
smartPhysics Course
Use of smartPhysics
Next, you’ll complete a CheckPoint quiz after lecture to CHECK your understanding of the PreLecture.
How we’ll use smartPhysics
Next, you must complete assigned homework problems.
*Each assignment contains multiple problems, and each problem can contain multiple parts
Printed Textbook
READ the Textbook as needed for review. It is designed to compliment the smartPhysics web site (www.smartphysics.com).
There are two volumes available: Mechanics ISBN: 1-4292-7270-6 Electricity and Magnetism: ISBN: 1-4292-7239-2
• My Lecture Notes for PHYS 2210 from 2003 (handwritten, based on Wolfson and Pasachoff, Physics for Scientists and Engineers) http://www.physics.utah.edu/~jui/notes-phys2210-2003.zip
• “College Physics” from “Openstax College” – Algebra based open-source textbook (none exists yet for
calculus-based) – Google search “openstax college physics” https://openstaxcollege.org/textbooks/college-physics
Possibly Useful Online References
Go to half.com or other used book vendor and order a used, ~10 year old edition of one of the following standard textbooks 1. Tipler and Mosca, Physics for
Scientists and Engineers (vol. 1 example shown)
2. Serway and Jewett, Physics for Scientists and Engineers
3. R. Wolfson and J. Pasachoff, Physics for Scientists and Engineers.
4. Halliday, Resnick and Walker, Fundamentals of Physics
5. D. Knight, Physics for Scientists and Engineers .
Supplemental Textbook
You should be able to get a reasonably good volume for less than $20.
Tentative Course Schedule
Tentative Course Schedule (subject to change) is centered around the first 24 units of the Mechanics part of SmartPhysics See Course Calendar (in smartPhysics) for deadlines of: 1. Pre-lectures (blue) 2. Check-Points (Green) 3. Homeworks (Red)
There is one of each for every unit
https://www.smartphysics.com/Course/Calendar
• We will be using “Polls for Canvas” (early release) for in-class polls – Available for ANDROID and IOS phones and tablets https://guides.instructure.com/m/22678/l/237896-what-is-the-polls-for-canvas-app
Polls for Canvas
• In this course I will be working some of the examples using a computer algebra system called “Maxima” – Created in the late 1960’s – early
1970’s by the Department of Energy by a team that included Stephen Wolfram (founder of Mathematica)
• Students are encouraged to try “Maxima” – Current version is a free package
available for: • Windows, Linux, MacOS • Android but NOT IOS (iphone and ipad) • Online version for almost any browser
Computer Algebra System
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Google search for “maxima algebra”
Downloading Maxima
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/download.html
The installation programs will install two programs 1. xmaxima 2. wxmaxima
For simple tasks like what we do in this class: xmaxima is the one we want to use.
Online version of Maxima
http://maxima-online.org/
Google search for “maxima online”
Required course material:
smartPhysics
http://www.smartphysics.com by Gary Gladding, Mats Selen, and Tim Stelzer
(W.H. Freeman & Company)
smartPhysics companion book
Physics 2210-01 and 2210-10
To access to smartPhysics: – Create a smartPhysics account – Join PHYS 2210 (Fall 2015) course so you can see
my assignments and get credit for your work
– Purchase access - purchase online OR by activating a printed activation code purchased through the bookstore (or elsewhere)
Getting started with smartPhysics
Create a smartPhysics Account
1. Go to http://www.smartphysics.com 2. Click the “Students” button to begin the registration process OR register for smartPhysics using your Facebook account.
Create a smartPhysics account
3. Begin the process of registering for the site. Enter your email address (your institutional email address) and choose a password. 4. Complete the Captcha Image 5. Click “Register”
Create a smartPhysics account
6. Set up your profile (first name, last name, institution) (Connect your Facebook Account if you want) 7. Re-enter your password, then click “Save”
To be sure: Unique Identifier Format
The UNIQUE IDENTIFIER you should use for this course is:
UNID: numeric only, EXACTLY 8 digits starting with zero instead of “u”
e.g. 09123456
Access smartPhysics
Congratulations! You are now enrolled in your course!
You will be given 30 days in which to access smartPhysics before having to purchase access or redeem an access code. This will provide
you with a grace period should you opt to drop the course.
Access smartPhysics
After the 30 days (or before, if you’d like), you must either buy access online with a credit card OR redeem an activation code (housed in a
printed booklet purchased at the campus bookstore).
Purchase Access (Online)
1. Complete the billing
information and click “Continue.”
From the “Purchase Access” link
**This is the address in which your credit card bill is sent each month. This is often different than your school address, so please check before entering that information.
Purchase Access (Online)
2. Complete the second portion of the online form (credit card information) and click “Purchase Access.”
**Depending on your state of residence, you may be subjected to a tax for your online purchase. The system will determine your tax rate based on your billing address.
Purchase Access (Online)
3. You’ll be taken to a confirmation page with your purchase details. Click “Go to Course” to return to your course.
Redeem Access (Activation Code)
Your activation code is located inside the booklet. 1. Scratch off your code (from your access card booklet) and enter
it into the fields on the screen (Option 1 in image below) 2. Click “Submit Code” after you’ve entered the code. Once
finished, you can return to your course.
**Activation codes are valid for one use only and cannot be shared. They do allow you to switch courses or request a refund. Check the FAQs (smartphysics.com > Help > Student FAQs) for more information.
Need live help?
The smartPhysics technical support team is ready and able to help you and is available 7 days a week by
phone and email.
Write this down in your notes: I cannot find it anywhere online or in the textbook!!!!