| 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 2009
Lecturer: Prof. Karin Rabe
Administrator: Prof. Piers Coleman
Course News: posted 17 November
Class average on 2nd hour exam was 70.5
Class average course grade is curved to B
Course News: posted 13 November
Course News: posted 8 October
Course News: posted 22 August
The first class meeting is the lecture in the Physics Lecture Hall on Thursday, September 3, 2009. There are NO recitations the week of August 31. Recitations begin the week of September 7.
Before the first lecture, Thursday September 3, 2009, you will need to have three items:
1) an Iclicker (otherwise you will not get credit for class participation)
2) a copy of the book
University Physics Vol 2 (Chapters 21-37) 12/E
Young, Freedman & Ford © 2008 | Addison-Wesley AND
3) a license for the online homework software Mastering Physics (otherwise you will not be able to do the homework!
If you have an Iclicker from a previous course, great! Just put in a fresh battery or keep one with you in case the old one dies in the middle of lecture.
The book is available new at the Rutgers bookstore, both on its own and in a bundle with the Mastering Physics license. Note: if you already have a MP license and login ID from a previous course, you do not need to buy another. 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, so you can opt for Vol 2/Vol 3 bundled together.
The Mastering Physics course ID is PCFALL2009. After you log on with your userid and password, you will need to enter your Student ID: use your 9-digit Rutgers student ID number.
Course News Archive
Analytical Physics IIA
Fall 2009
Lecturer: Prof. Karin Rabe
Administrator: Prof. Piers Coleman
Course News: posted 17 November
Class average on 2nd hour exam was 70.5
Class average course grade is curved to B
Course News: posted 13 November
Extra
Exam Review Session by Prof. Coleman
Sunday, November 15, 7-9PM SEC 111
Sunday, November 15, 7-9PM SEC 111
Exam
Monday November 16 9:40PM-11PM
covers Chapters 25-28
Room Assignments:
A-K ARC 103
L-P Hill 114
Q-Z SEC 111
Room Assignments:
A-K ARC 103
L-P Hill 114
Q-Z SEC 111
Course News: posted 8 October
Exam
Monday October 12 9:40PM-11PM
covers Chapters 21-24
Room Assignments:
A-K ARC 103
L-P Hill 114
Q-Z SEC 111
covers Chapters 21-24
Room Assignments:
A-K ARC 103
L-P Hill 114
Q-Z SEC 111
Course
News: posted 27
September
There may be limited space available or
opening up in some study groups. Please email Mary Ann Cancio at
studygrp@echo.rutgers.edu to let her
know you would like to be added to one of the study groups - indicating
which course you are from.
You should include a cell phone number as well.
Course News: posted 22 August
The first class meeting is the lecture in the Physics Lecture Hall on Thursday, September 3, 2009. There are NO recitations the week of August 31. Recitations begin the week of September 7.
Before the first lecture, Thursday September 3, 2009, you will need to have three items:
1) an Iclicker (otherwise you will not get credit for class participation)
2) a copy of the book
University Physics Vol 2 (Chapters 21-37) 12/E
Young, Freedman & Ford © 2008 | Addison-Wesley AND
3) a license for the online homework software Mastering Physics (otherwise you will not be able to do the homework!
If you have an Iclicker from a previous course, great! Just put in a fresh battery or keep one with you in case the old one dies in the middle of lecture.
The book is available new at the Rutgers bookstore, both on its own and in a bundle with the Mastering Physics license. Note: if you already have a MP license and login ID from a previous course, you do not need to buy another. 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, so you can opt for Vol 2/Vol 3 bundled together.
The Mastering Physics course ID is PCFALL2009. After you log on with your userid and password, you will need to enter your Student ID: use your 9-digit Rutgers student ID number.
Course News Archive
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 3rd, 2009.
Karin Rabe and Piers Coleman.