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Physics 227
Analytical Physics IIA
Electricity & Magnetism
Fall 2011
Lecturer: Prof. Ronald Gilman
Administrator: Prof. Jolie Cizewski
Course News: posted Nov 28, 2011
Final Exam: Tuesday Dec 20, 4:00
- 7:00 PM
Coverage: chapters 21 - 32 (about 2/3 on the last four chapters)
Please bring: your student ID, number 2 pencils, three 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper with notes, formulas, etc.
NO ELECTRONICS ALLOWED: NO CELL PHONE, NO CALCULATOR!
Exam rooms will be College Ave gym and gym annex, distribution TBD.
The makeup/conflict exam is tentatively scheduled for Friday, Dec 16 from 4:00 - 7:00 PM in SEC 203. You must have permission from Prof. Cizewski in advance to take this exam.
If you have a conflict, accident, illness, etc., and cannot make the regular exam, please contact Prof. Cizewski ASAP.
Practice exams are available - see the Exams link at the top of this page.
The book is Young and Freedman, University Physics, 13th edition. Physics 227 covers Chapters 21-32, contained in Volume 2. If you are continuing with Physics 228 in the spring (covers Chapters 33-44), you should consider buying a package that includes Volume 3. Note that the 12th edition has been used in previous years and used copies should be widely available. An ebook version is also available (see next paragraph).
All students need a valid license for the online homework Mastering Physics. If you took Analytical Physics I last year, your license is still valid and you do not need to buy a new one. If you didn't take Analytical Physics I last year, you can get the Mastering Physics license bundled with a new copy of the text. If you have a used copy, you can buy the MP license online for $50. The online purchase includes the option to buy the ebook version of the full text for an additional $94.75. THE COURSE ID IS RUPHYS2272011.
All students also need an iclicker, starting at the first lecture. If you don't have one already, they can be purchased at the university bookstore.
The first lecture is Thursday, September 1, 2011. It will cover sections 21.1 and 21.2. The second lecture is Thursday, September 8, 2011. It will cover sections 21.3-6. Note there are no classes Monday September 5, 2011.
The first recitations meet the week of September 12, 2011. A quiz is given at every recitation, so please be sure to attend the recitation for which you are registered.
If you are having registration problems and need a special permission number, you should send an email to Ms. Stacey Jacobs, sljacobs@physics.rutgers.edu, with your name, student ID, the course name and number (Analytical Physics IIa 750:227), the nature of your conflict, and at least two choices, if possible, of recitations for which you would like to register.
For other questions, contact the lecturer Prof. Gilman (rgilman@physics.rutgers.edu) or the course administrator Prof. Cizewski (cizewski@physics.rutgers.edu)
Coverage: chapters 21 - 32 (about 2/3 on the last four chapters)
Please bring: your student ID, number 2 pencils, three 8.5 x 11 inch sheet of paper with notes, formulas, etc.
NO ELECTRONICS ALLOWED: NO CELL PHONE, NO CALCULATOR!
Exam rooms will be College Ave gym and gym annex, distribution TBD.
The makeup/conflict exam is tentatively scheduled for Friday, Dec 16 from 4:00 - 7:00 PM in SEC 203. You must have permission from Prof. Cizewski in advance to take this exam.
If you have a conflict, accident, illness, etc., and cannot make the regular exam, please contact Prof. Cizewski ASAP.
Practice exams are available - see the Exams link at the top of this page.
The book is Young and Freedman, University Physics, 13th edition. Physics 227 covers Chapters 21-32, contained in Volume 2. If you are continuing with Physics 228 in the spring (covers Chapters 33-44), you should consider buying a package that includes Volume 3. Note that the 12th edition has been used in previous years and used copies should be widely available. An ebook version is also available (see next paragraph).
All students need a valid license for the online homework Mastering Physics. If you took Analytical Physics I last year, your license is still valid and you do not need to buy a new one. If you didn't take Analytical Physics I last year, you can get the Mastering Physics license bundled with a new copy of the text. If you have a used copy, you can buy the MP license online for $50. The online purchase includes the option to buy the ebook version of the full text for an additional $94.75. THE COURSE ID IS RUPHYS2272011.
All students also need an iclicker, starting at the first lecture. If you don't have one already, they can be purchased at the university bookstore.
The first lecture is Thursday, September 1, 2011. It will cover sections 21.1 and 21.2. The second lecture is Thursday, September 8, 2011. It will cover sections 21.3-6. Note there are no classes Monday September 5, 2011.
The first recitations meet the week of September 12, 2011. A quiz is given at every recitation, so please be sure to attend the recitation for which you are registered.
If you are having registration problems and need a special permission number, you should send an email to Ms. Stacey Jacobs, sljacobs@physics.rutgers.edu, with your name, student ID, the course name and number (Analytical Physics IIa 750:227), the nature of your conflict, and at least two choices, if possible, of recitations for which you would like to register.
For other questions, contact the lecturer Prof. Gilman (rgilman@physics.rutgers.edu) or the course administrator Prof. Cizewski (cizewski@physics.rutgers.edu)
In this course you will learn these concepts and principles. You will learn that electromagnetism isn't just a nerdy paradise. Rather, the discovery, understanding and mastery of classical electromagnetism was one of the crowning intellectual triumphs of the Victorian era. We'll talk about how an American revolutionary invented the concept of charge and tested his concept with experiments on lightning, how a young bookbinder in London came up with the extraordinary idea that space is not empty, but absolutely filled with seething, fluctuating lines of force - the electromagnetic field - and showed how to use these ideas to invent an electric motor, and how a young Scotsman embodied these principles in four simple and beautiful equations.
This will be a tough, yet we hope, rewarding course in which we shall expect you to think conceptually, in which we will ask you not just to accumulate a list of equations into which you plug numbers, but to develop a familiarity with and ability to visualize the behavior of systems of charges, currents and electric and magnetic fields. We look forward to having you in our class and to our first meeting at the Physics Lecture Hall, Busch Campus, on Thursday, September 1, 2011.
Ronald Gilman and Jolie Cizewski.