| Lightning |
Michael Faraday |
Waves on a pond |
| Benjamin Franklin |
Lines of Force,
Sunspot |
James C
Maxwell |
Rutgers
Physics and Astronomy
Physics 227
Analytical Physics IIA
Fall 2008
Lecturer: Karin Rabe
Administrator: Piers Coleman
Latest Course News
The first class meeting is the lecture on Thursday, September 4, 2008. There are NO recitations the week of September 1. Recitations begin the week of September 8.
Before the first lecture, Thursday September 4, 2008, you will need to get an Iclicker (if you don't already have one), a copy of the book AND a license for the online homework software Mastering Physics (otherwise you will not be able to do the homework! Note: if you already have a MP license and login ID from a previous course, you do not need to buy another; just enroll in this year's course PCFALL2008). These are available at the Rutgers bookstore as well as other sources. For Physics 227, you need only Vol 2 as specified here. If you continue to Physics 228, you also will need Vol 3 (Chapters 37-44) in the spring. The book is
University Physics Vol 2 (Chapters 21-37) with MasteringPhysics™, 12/E
Young, Freedman & Ford © 2008 | Addison-Wesley | Paper Bound with PIN; 648 pages | Instock ISBN-10: 0321500393 | ISBN-13: 9780321500397<>
The Mastering Physics course ID is PCFALL2008.
For Student ID, use your 9-digit Rutgers student ID number.
NOTE: The 2008 course web page is in the process of being developed. If a link of interest appears to be broken, check back again the first day of class before contacting me to complain--KR.
Analytical Physics IIA
Fall 2008
Lecturer: Karin Rabe
Administrator: Piers Coleman
Latest Course News
The first class meeting is the lecture on Thursday, September 4, 2008. There are NO recitations the week of September 1. Recitations begin the week of September 8.
Before the first lecture, Thursday September 4, 2008, you will need to get an Iclicker (if you don't already have one), a copy of the book AND a license for the online homework software Mastering Physics (otherwise you will not be able to do the homework! Note: if you already have a MP license and login ID from a previous course, you do not need to buy another; just enroll in this year's course PCFALL2008). These are available at the Rutgers bookstore as well as other sources. For Physics 227, you need only Vol 2 as specified here. If you continue to Physics 228, you also will need Vol 3 (Chapters 37-44) in the spring. The book is
University Physics Vol 2 (Chapters 21-37) with MasteringPhysics™, 12/E
Young, Freedman & Ford © 2008 | Addison-Wesley | Paper Bound with PIN; 648 pages | Instock ISBN-10: 0321500393 | ISBN-13: 9780321500397<>
The Mastering Physics course ID is PCFALL2008.
For Student ID, use your 9-digit Rutgers student ID number.
NOTE: The 2008 course web page is in the process of being developed. If a link of interest appears to be broken, check back again the first day of class before contacting me to complain--KR.
We live in a wireless age, in which almost every activity in our lives - from our toothbrush to our cell phone - everything depends on our on our mastery of the forces of electricity and magnetism. Anyone hoping to prosper in the wireless world needs to know about the concepts and principles of electromagnetism that keep our world afloat.
In this course you will learn these concepts and principles. You will learn that electromagnetism isn't just a nerdy paradise, but rather, its discovery, understanding and mastery was one of the crowning cultural and 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 4th, 2008.
Karin Rabe and Piers Coleman.