Physics 227H: Honors Analytical Physics II
Fall 2020



IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO, ENROLL IN THE CLASS ON WEBASSIGN
https://www.webassign.net/login.html
our class key is 
rutgers 9188 7020
The first assignment will be due TUESDAY September 9 at 11:59 PM.

The syllabus and exam dates are coming. Some of the information on this page needs to be checked and will be corrected as we go.
 

Course Information

The course meets with a live lecture Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:55-2:50 PM on Zoom (meeting information has been distributed to enrolled students by email). The lectures will be recorded and available the same day for review and study. There will be one recitation session per week, also on Zoom.  Weekly homework on Webassign will be due on Tuesdays at 11:59 PM. Professor Rabe will have Zoom office hours twice a week, on Sundays 6:00-7:30 and on Mondays.

The main goal of the course is to give students a solid grounding in electromagnetism at an elementary level, combining an understanding of the main principles and techniques, the ability to solve problems, and mastery of relevant mathematics appropriate to an honors level course. We will accomplish this through systematic study of the required textbookRecitations will review the material in the previous two lectures, focusing on problem solving. Before each recitation, you will have 2-3 warm-up problems to prepare. At the end of each recitation, there will be a ten-minute quiz on the material discussed.
Homeworks will be assigned weekly in WebAssign. There will be two hour exams and a closed-book final exam. Grades are computed using 20% for homework (lowest 2 dropped), 15% for recitation quizzes (lowest 2 dropped), 15% for the first hour exam, 20% for the second hour exam and 30% for the final exam. You will be able to access your grades for hw, quizzes and exams in the physics department gradebook.

Necessary materials for the course are the same as those for Honors Analytical Physics I:

1) a copy of the book Halliday, Resnick, Walker: Fundamentals of Physics (earlier editions are fine)
2) a license for the online homework software WebAssign (otherwise you will not be able to do the homework! )
Webassign class key is

rutgers 9188 7020

Instructors

Prof. Karin Rabe (lectures)
kmrabe@physics.rutgers.edu
office hours:

Sundays 6PM-7:30 PM on Zoom
Mondays 11AM-noon on Zoom
Tuesdays 11AM-noon on Zoom

recitation instructors:
Siddhartha Saha ss2948@scarletmail.rutgers.edu

office hour: TBA
Gavin Rockwood gavin.rockwood@physics.rutgers.edu
office hour: TBA



This page is maintained by Karin Rabe.