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Syllabus for Physics 131: Classical Physics II (Spring 2015) at Stony Brook University(Revised 01/21/2015)

From the Undergraduate Academic Bulletin

PHY 131: Classical Physics IFirst part of a two-semester physics sequence for physical-sciences or engineering majors who have a strongmathematics background and are ready for a fast learning pace. It covers mechanics, wave motion, kinetic theory,and thermodynamics. Calculus is used concurrently with its development in MAT 131. Three lecture hours and onerecitation hour per week. The Laboratory component, PHY 133 (Lab 1), could be taken concurrently. Not for creditin addition to PHY 121/123, PHY 125, or PHY 141. This course has been designated as a High Demand/ControlledAccess (HD/CA) course. Students registering for HD/CA courses for the first time will have priority to do so.Prerequisite:MAT 123 or level 5 on the mathematics placement examinationCorequisite: MAT 125 or MAT 131 or MAT 141 or AMS 151DEC:

ESBC: SNW3 credits

Learning OutcomeStudents will use calculus and algebra to study motion in one and two dimensions, Newtons laws of motion and gravity,

energy, momentum, angular momentum, rigid body motion, wave motion, fluids, heat, kinetic theory and

thermodynamics.

Instructors

LecturePeter Koch:[email protected]. Office: D-144 (on the ``bridge between the D-level of the physics building and

the 5th/6thfloors of the math tower). Phone 632-8142 (no voice mail: always tryemail first).

Recitation sections (starting 2ndweek of classes)R01 (Mon, 10:00-10:53 am, P-127 physics): Prof. Dmitri Averin

R02 (Tue, 8:30-9:23 am, P-127 physics): Prof. Edward Shuryak

R03 (Wed, 10:00-10:53 am, P-127 physics): Prof. Derek Teaney

R04 (Thu 8:30-9:23 am P-127 physics): Prof Derek Teaney
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected]:[email protected].


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R04 (Thu 8:30 9:23 am P 127 physics): Prof Derek Teaney

Lecture

Lectures are held in Simons Center room 103. Class starts promptly at 9:00 AM, and ends at 9:53 AM.

Attendance is required and will be enforced with clicker questions that contribute to your final grade.

Recitation sections (R01, R02, R03, R04, R05, R06, R07)

Since ~ 102enrolled students cannot receive significant individual attention during lectures in Simons 103, the

course includes seven so-calledrecitation sections. They are taught by faculty or experienced teaching assistants (TAs)

and typically focus on helping students understand previous/present homework problems. Quizzes will be given in

many of the recitation-section meetings and contribute to each student's recitation grade. Note: there are no

recitations in the firstweek of classes.

Help Room (A-129 physics building)

Course instructors (including recitation instructors) and graduate-student TAs will have scheduled officehours

in room A-129 in the physics building. ``Your Help Room, A-129, serves students in the courses PHY 131, PHY

132, PHY 133, and PHY 134. (The other Help Room, A-131, serves students in PHY 121 + 123 and PHY 122 +

124.) The schedule (Monday-Friday during most workday hours) for the A-129 Help Room will be posted electronically on

the PHY 131.01 Blackboard area and physically on the A-129 door before the second week of classes. Make

sure you take advantage of the free assistance the Help Room provides before you find yourself getting into

trouble in PHY 131 and then, maybe, are considering hiring a tutor.Do not come to the Help Room unprepared. Expect the Help Room staff to start out by asking you to explain, in

detail, the ``preparation by you (see above!) that you did before coming to the Help Room to seek help. Do

not expect them to help you on homework problems that you have neither looked at nor attempted. Its your

job to be prepared by ``knowing what you don`t understand`` before you come for help.

Required Material

1.

Textbook: Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 4

th

edition, by D. Giancoli. The campus bookstore sells it in looseleafform, packaged along with the access code for Mastering Physics.

2. All Course Information distributed via Blackboard (such as this syllabus). Check Blackboard daily! PHY 131-related

information posted on Blackboard as ``Announcements will also be sent verbatim via email from within


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5. A ``clicker from Turning Technologies (TT) (available in the university bookstore). You dont need aseparate

one for this course; one TT clicker will serve for all Stony Brook classes.

GradesFinal grades will be calculated based upon contributions (MT = midterm exam; FE = final exam; Rec = recitation

section; HW = homework) weighted by the following percentages:

MT 1 MT2 MT3 FE Rec HW Clickers

Percentage 12 12 12 24 14 14 12

Your final score based upon the weightings listed above will be compared to the following scale todetermine the

letter grades. Note (i) that grades are not ``curved in PHY 131 and (ii), below, that, e.g., 90-

(``ninety-superscript-minus) means just below 90.00 (to 4 significant figures, e.g., no higher than 89.99), etc.

A A- B+ B B- C+ C D+ D F

Percentage 90-100 85-90- 80-85- 75-80- 70-75- 65-70- 55-65- 50-55- 45-50- < 45

You will be able to monitor your progress in the course via Blackboard.

RecitationsEach student should be sure that s/he understands how the recitation instructor will determine the `recitation

grades. The two lowest quiz grades for each student will be dropped, i.e., not used in the calculations of quiz-

grade averages. Average quiz scores will be compared among the seven recitation sections andnormalized if they

are found to have inconsistent means. Normalization is not curving since the average scores will be broughtto

the same mean as one another without an overall shift to the class as a whole.

ExamsAll four course-wide exams (three midterm exams plus the final exam see the ``Schedule Calendar on Blackboard)


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ClickersIn the lecture hall we use the electronic response system from Turning Technologies. Make sure you register

your clicker for PHY 131 before the first lecture, which begins at 9:00 am on Monday, 26 January, in Simons

Center room 103. For instructions click onhttp://it.stonybrook.edu/services/clickersand focus yourattention on the links under the ``Clickers for Students sub-heading. An active link ``Getting Started with

Clickers to the url given in the previous sentence should be available in the upper-left ``gray area of the

Blackboard PHY 131.01 home page. It is your responsibility to obtain the proper clicker and to register it

properly before the first PHY 131 lecture you attend. The course faculty cannot do this for you. (NOTE: PHY

131 does NOT use the virtual clicker app called ``ResponseWare.)

Some clicker questions, particularly those on the first day of class, will be used for the instructor to learn

more about you as students, your backgrounds, your academic strengths and weaknesses at this point ofyour career, and other such information. Therefore, please have your properly registered clicker with you

for the 26 January lecture! Answers to ``first-day questions will count toward your overall clicker score,

with any answer for each question earning credit-by-participation. Unless you are explicitly told otherwise,

expect that all ``physics-based clicker questions during the rest of the semester will be ``for credit, with

credit being given only for correct answers.

For each student the five lowest sums of clicker scores for different lecture days, including 26 January, will

be dropped. Thats the good news. The bad news is that no excuse will allow any student to have more

than five for-credit scores dropped not forgetting to take your clicker to lecture, not having a weak battery

in it, not arriving late nor leaving early or not attending at all for whatever reason: nothing. Its up to you to

make sure that your clicker is properly registered and is functioning properly. Do this right away, before the

first lecture! Remember, clicker scores contribute 12% toward your final grade.

Be aware that each student may use only his/her own clicker to submit responses. One person using two (or

more) clickers is academic dishonesty, and will cause a complaint to be filed with the Academic Judiciary for theoperator and the owners of the clickers. Nobody else besides you should use your clicker!

Warnings abo t final grades
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lecture hall at the regular lecture time, 9:00-9:53 am. Midterm 1 is on Monday, 22 February; Midterm 2 is on

Monday, 5 April, and Midterm 3 is on Wednesday, 29 April. For each exam additional ` not-for-credit practice

problems that cover the chapter material being examined will be made available via Mastering Physics at least

several days before the exam. These practice problems will be similar to the for-credit problems previously assigned

via Mastering Physics. All these problems, plus ``clicker questions from the lectures, plus ``worked-example

textbook problems, which are especially good in this regard, will provide useful, reasonable indicators for the kinds of

problems that will be on the exams. Exam problems will cover a range from `èasy to ``difficult.

Recordings of lecturesThough the lecture hall, Simons Center 103, is not equipped with the `smart podium and Ècho 360 video capture

equipment used in some lecture halls on campus, the lecture instructor will use commercial software that ``pairs his iPad

and laptop computer in the lecture room. This enables the iPad to record a `screencast (digital movie of all that appears

on the projected screen image along with the audio track of the lecturers voice). This `pairing operation uses wireless

connections on both devices. Knowing that wifi connections are not always reliable, we also know that the more `load

that is put on the wifi network, the less reliable it becomes. Please be patient if there are occasional problems.

Because of the above, no student will be permitted to connect any electronic device to the internet during the lecture

meeting. This prohibition applies not only to connection via the campus `WolfieNet wifi networks but also to connection

via a (commercial) cellular network. Your attention in the lecture hall must be focused on the physics being covered in

PHY 131, not on an electronic world elsewhere.After a processing delay of a day or two, occasionally more, the screencast of each lecture will be uploaded into the Echo

360 system on Blackboard so that PHY 131 students will be able to access it and the videos from lectures earlier in the

semester. Images of the slides shown by the instructor in each lecture will also be posted on Blackboard.

Recitation section meetings will not be recorded.

Religious ObservancesNote that the academic calendar does not have any religious holidays; this is a significant change from previous years at

Stony Brook. See the policy statement regarding religious holidays at

http://www.stonybrook.edu/registrar/forms/RelHolPol%20081612%20cr.pdf . Students will be expected to notify the

lecture and/or recitation instructor(s) by email, in advance, definitely before the `àdd/drop/withdraw deadline of 4:00
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Americans with Disabilities ActIf you have a physical, psychiatric/emotional, medical or learning disability that may impact on your ability to carry out

assigned course work, you should contact the staff in the Disability Support Services office [DSS], ECC (Educational

Communications Center) Building, Room 128, (631)632-6748. They will determine with you what accommodations, if

any, are necessary and appropriate. All information and documentation is confidential.

https://web.stonybrook.edu/newfaculty/StudentResources/Pages/DisabilitySupportServices.aspx

Students who require assistance during emergency evacuation are encouraged to discuss their needs with their

professors and Disability Support Services. For procedures and information go to the website

http://www.sunysb.edu/ehs/fire/disabilities.shtml .

Critical Incident Management

Stony Brook University expects students to respect the rights, privileges, and property of other people. Faculty are

required to report to the Office of University Community Standards any disruptive behavior that interrupts their

ability to teach, compromises the safety of the learning environment, or inhibits students' ability to learn.

Schedule Calendar

The schedule calendar is attached below and posted on Blackboard.
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Course Admin; beginChap 1: Intro,Measurement,

Estimating

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Finish Chap 1;begin Chap 2:Describing Motion;

1d Kinematics


Chap 2:Describing Motion;1d Kinematics

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homework deadlinefor Chap 1:10:00 pm

Notes:PHY 131 lectures are in Simons Center, room 103: M,W,F at 9:00 9:53 am. Arrive on time with your student ID,

calculator, Turning Technologies clicker, and textbook (D. Giancoli, Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 4thedition).
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January ~ February 2015 ~ MarchSun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

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THIS WEEKALL RECITATIONSECTIONS MEET AT

THEIR SHEDULEDTIMES

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PHY 131 Class 4Chap 2:Describing Motion;

1d Kinematics

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1d Kinematics

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1d Kinematics

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Mastering Physicshomework deadline forChap 2:

10:00 pm

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ALL RECITATIONSECTIONS MEET AT

THEIR SHEDULEDTIMES

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Chap 3:2d, 3d Kinematics;

Vectors



Vectors



Vectors

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homework deadline forChap 3:

10:00 pm

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THEIR SHEDULEDTIMES

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Chap 4:Dynamics; Newtons

Laws of Motion

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Laws of Motion

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Laws of Motion

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10:00 pm

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THEIR SHEDULED

TIMES

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Midterm 1

Chaps 1-4

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Chap 5: UsingNewtons Laws;

Friction, Circ. Motion;

Drag Forces

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Chap 5: UsingNewtons Laws;

Friction, Circ. Motion;

Drag Forces

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February ~ March 2015 ~ April

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THEIR SHEDULEDTIMES

2PHY 131 Class 16

Chap 6:Gravitation and

Newtons Synthesis

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Chap 6:Gravitation and

Newtons Synthesis

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Chap 7:Work and Energy

4:00 pm:PHY drop-down

deadline

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10:00 pm

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THEIR SHEDULEDTIMES

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Chap 7:Work and Energy

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Chap 8:Conservation

of Energy

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Chap 8:Conservation

of Energy

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homework deadline forChaps 7 and 8:

10:00 pm

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Spring Break

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Spring Break

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Spring Break

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Spring Break

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THEIR SHEDULEDTIMES

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Chap 9:Linear Momentum

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THEIR SHEDULEDTIMES

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Chap 10:Rotational Motion

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PHY 131 Class 27Chap 10:Rotational Motion

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Angular Momentum,General Rotation,

Torque

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Angular Momentum,General Rotation,

Torque

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Mastering Physicshomework deadline

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SECTIONS MEET ATTHEIR SHEDULED

TIMES

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PHY 131 Class 31Ch 12 (abbreviated):Static Equilibrium,

Elasticity andFracture

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PHY 131 Class 32

Chap 13:Fluids

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PHY 131 Class 33

Chap 13:Fluids

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Oscillationsand Resonance

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Wave Motion

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Ch 15: Wave Motion;

Ch 16 (abbreviated):Sound

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Kinetic Theoryof Gases

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