Physics 1C Summer II 2001: Radiation and Modern Physics
Course WWW page: http://casswww.ucsd.edu/physics/1c/index.html
News
2001 Sep 13: Scores and letter grades are now posted: See the Quizzes link below for final exam and lab scores.
2001 Sep 5: Week 5 homework has been set and solutions are now posted - see the Homeworks link below.
2001 Sep 4: Wednesday will be a review lecture, and there will be no lecture on Thursday. Instructor and TA office hours will continue as scheduled, or by appointment on Thursday afternoon.
2001 Aug 30: Next week's reading quiz (Tuesday): Chapter 29 through 29.9
2001 Aug 22:
Additional HW problems on thin-film interference: Ch25: 50, 53, 56. Bart will cover these at his Thursday office hours, or track down the instructor in the lab if you have trouble with these.
2001 Aug 22: Next week's reading quiz: Chapters 27 & 28: Sections 28.1-28.3 (photons), 27.5-27.6 (nuclear atom and spectra), 28.5 (atomic theory), 28.7 (atomic number), and 27.3 (X-ray diffraction). (Sections 28.4, 28.6 and the remainder of chapter 27 will not be covered).
2001 Aug 8: Quiz Policies - See the "quizzes" link below for important policy information on the Monday and Friday quizzes.
2001 Aug 8: Syllabus additions - Problem section has moved next door to a bigger classroom - WLH2205, still at 6pm on Wednesdays.
- Mike Pollack now has office hours/discussion section on Wednesdays in SERF329 from 2-3:30pm.
Quick Links:
Overview:
Physics 1C is the third of a three-quarter calculus-based lecture and
laboratory course geared toward life-science majors. Physics 1C covers electromagnetic waves, geometrical and physical optics, and modern physics.
Prerequisites:
Mathematics 10A and concurrent enrollment in Mathematics 10B; or concurrent
enrollment in Mathematics 20A. Trigonometry, some vectors, and calculus will be
used. In addition, an understanding of material presented in Physics 1A and 1B or their equivalents will be assumed.
Instruction Team:
- Lecturer and Lab Instructor: Dr. Philip Blanco, Center for
Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS).
- Office: 312 SERF Building.
Phone: 534-3718.
email: pblanco@ucsd.edu
- Teaching Assistants:
- Mr. Bart Morantte, Department of Physics.
email: b_morantte@hotmail.com
- Mr. Mike Pollack, Department of Physics.
email:mpollack@ucsd.edu
- Lab Teaching Assistants:
- Mr. Vince Cerimele, Department of
Physics.
email: fcerimele@ucsd.edu
- Mr. Sang Nam, Department of Physics.
email: sangumc@hotmail.com
- Mr. Dan Bricarello, Department of Physics.
email: dbricare@ucsd.edu
- Course coordinator: Patti Hey, Physics Student Affairs.
- Urey Hall Annex 118, Phone 822-1468,
email: plhey@physics.ucsd.edu
Required Course Materials:
Note: Many of the materials avilable on this WWW site are in Adobe Acrobat
"PDF" format. To read them, you may need to download the free Adobe Acrobat
reader from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
Free internet access and paid printing accounts are available at the UCSD
Geisel library.
Syllabus Overview:
The following is subject to change, depending on our progress through the material; check the class WWW page for updated information.
| Topics | Hecht chapters | Lab experiments |
|---|
| Light propagation and scattering | 22, 23 | Reflection/Refraction/Color |
| Geometrical Optics | 24 | Lenses/Mirrors/Images; Optical Instruments |
| Physical Optics | 25 | Polarization; Interference/Diffraction |
| Modern Physics | 27, 28 | Optical Spectroscopy |
| Quantum Theory | 29 | |
Dates, Times and Locations:
Milestones:
-
Add deadline (with $50 fee): Friday August 10
- Drop Deadline without a ``W'' and change grade option: Friday August 24
-
Drop Deadline with a ``W'' instead of an ``F'' (="fail")
on transcript: Friday, August 31
- Final Exam: Friday September 7, 9:30am-12:20pm, in WLH 2005.
Class Schedule:
| Activity | Time | Location |
| Lecture+Reading Quiz | Monday, 9:30-10:50am |
WLH2005 |
| Lecture | Tuesday, 9:30-10:50am | WLH2005 |
| Lab Section A01 | Tuesday, 11:00am-12:30pm | WLH2218 |
| Lab Section A02 | Tuesday, 12:45-2:15pm |
WLH2218 |
| Lab Section A03 | Tuesday, 2:30-4:00pm | WLH2218 |
| Lab Section A04 | Tuesday, 4:15-5:45pm | WLH2218 |
| Lecture | Wednesday, 9:30-10:50am | WLH2005 |
| Office hours | Wednesday, 11:15am-12:30pm | SERF312 |
| TA Office hours | Wednesday 2:00-3:30pm | SERF329 |
| Problem Solving | Wednesday, 6:00-7:30pm | WLH2205 |
| Lecture | Thursday, 9:30-10:50am | WLH2005 |
| Lab Section A01 | Thursday, 11:00am-12:30pm | WLH2218 |
| Lab Section A02 | Thursday, 12:45-2:15pm | WLH2218 |
| Lab Section A03 | Thursday, 2:30-4:00pm | WLH2218 |
| Lab Section A04 | Thursday, 4:15-5:45pm | WLH2218 |
| TA Office hours | Thursday 3:00-4:15pm | SERF329 |
| Weekly Quiz | Friday 9:30am-10:50am | WLH2005 |
Course Activities:
Laboratory sections (25%):
There will be 6 short lab experiments to be performed during the quarter.
All lab information can be found on the Physics 1C laboratory WWW site at
http://casswww.ucsd.edu/physics/1c/labs/index.html.
Homework:
Homework assignments will be given each week but will not
count towards the overall class grade. They should be done concurrently with
lectures and be completed before the Problem Solving sessions. In general,
if you do not at least attempt the homeworks, you will be at a severe
disadvantage in the quizzes, and in the final exam!
Quizzes (45+5%):
You will be assigned a 3-digit code number on the first Friday quiz,
which is to be entered all quizzes, lab write-ups, and the final exam. Do
not lose this number! If you forget your code number, write your name on
your work and contact the TA or proctor - please do not try to "guess" as this
causes confusion.
Monday reading quizzes (5% of your total grade), starting in week
2, will consist of multiple-choice questions to test you on material covered
in the week's textbook chapter. You will need to bring a Scantron card (form
20788 - a long blue form) and a 2B pencil.
Friday quizzes (45% of your total grade) will consist of a few short
written questions based on the week's assignment.
Note that to save printing costs, you are required to complete Friday quiz
questions in a UCSD Blue Answer Book (available from the bookstore),
which you must bring with you to each quiz. Please use a new, empty
answer book for each quiz.
There will be absolutely no make-ups for missed quizzes; instead, the best 3
quizzes out of the 4 given will count towards 50% of your overall grade.
All quizzes are ``closed book'', which means absolutely no recorded
information may be brought in from the outside. Quizzes must be completed in
pen - work done in pencil will not be graded.
Final Exam (25%): Friday September 7, 9:30am-12:20pm in WLH2005.
The final exam will cover all of the material in the lecture series. This
will also be ``closed book'', but the more complex formulae will be provided
as an aide memoire.
There will be no make-up final exams. Please check your exam schedule and
inform the instructor of any conflicts within the first two weeks of
the session.
Academic Dishonesty: your fast ticket to an "F" grade.
Please read the ``UC Policy on Integrity of Scholarship'' on page 32-34 of
the 2001 UCSD Summer Session Catalog. These rules will be strictly enforced.
Philip Blanco email: pblanco@ucsd.edu