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General Physics II SyllabusGeneral Physics II, PHYS-UA 12Tuesday, ThursdaySpring 2018Dr. Andre AdlerDepartment of PhysicsSkirball Theatre9:30 – 10:45 a.m.Email: andre.adler@nyu.eduOffice: 726 Broadway, Room 832Course DescriptionThis course is an introduction to electricity and magnetism, light, resistive and capacitive circuits;electromagnetic induction; electromagnetic waves; geometrical optics; interference, diffraction, andpolarization of light. Many concepts from General Physics I will be used in this course such as:position, velocity, acceleration, force, Newton’s laws of motion, work and energy. The course useshigh school algebra, geometry and trigonometry, vectors and vector arithmetic, and some calculus.Required MaterialsThree eLearning tools:1. MasteringPhysics standalone,2. Perusall, with the e-text of Fundamentals of Physics, 10th edition, by Halliday, Resnick and Walker;3. Learning CatalyticsLaboratory Experiment Descriptions can be found by going tohttp://physics.nyu.edu/ physlab/GenPhysII PhysIII/genphys2.html. Do not use lab write ups obtainedfrom any other source. They are occasionally updated.Electronic Learning ResourcesWe will use three cloud-based learning resources: MasteringPhysics (MP), Perusall and LearningCatalytics (LC). On MP you will find the, typically, weekly homework to do outside of the lecturehall. Perusall transforms the text to a place you can read, and engage fellow students in understandingand overcome inevitable confusion that accompanies learning. Finally, LC is the system we will usefor you to work with fellow students on problems in the lecture hall.MasteringPhysics is a homework and tutorial system, providing feedback to your answers, andextensive hints for many problems. Most of the problems you will see on MP are conceptual,requiring input in a variety of forms to accommodate the type of problem, whether it be a ranking,sorting, graphing, vector-drawing, symbolic or numeric. Typically, you will have one assignment perweek.Perusall is a platform for you to do the assigned readings, annotate text, figures and equations, andprepare for class. It transforms the readings into a collective experience, allows you to learn fromfellow students through their comments, questions and answers. You can start a new thread by makinga comment or asking a question, or contribute to a pre-existing thread. This also provides you with asystematic way to prepare for the active-learning you will experience in the classroom, through theLearning Catalytics platform.Learning Catalytics is a tool to build an active-learning class experience. It provides a way to deliverproblems to work on, collaboratively, during class, while providing real-time compilation of results.Every class will include problems for you to work on with your neighbors. It also provides a way foryou to send me questions during class. You must bring a laptop, tablet or smartphone to participate inclass.Perusall helps you prepare for lecture and is a different form of assessment from others used in thecourse.-1-

General Physics II SyllabusAll assignments on MasteringPhysics, Perusall and Learning Catalytics are computer-graded.Exam Schedule, Assessment Weightings and Letter GradeThere will be examinations, three during the semester and one cumulative final examination. The fourexams will be based on the homework, readings, and lectures. All examinations are in multiple-choiceformat. Both quantitative and conceptual questions will appear on the examinations, as this reflects thecontent of the course. A formula sheet will be provided with the exam. You will need to bring acalculator to all exams. Sharing calculators with other students during examinations is not allowed.You may not use a cell-phone, or any other communication device, during the exams.AssessmentPerusall assignmentsLearning Catalytics assignmentsMasteringPhysics assignmentsLabExam 1 – Friday, April 6; 2:00 to 3:50 pmExam 2 – Friday, May 4; 2:00 to 3:50 pmFinal Exam (Cumulative) – May 11 - 10:00 to 11:50 amPercentage6%7%7%20%15%15%30%# Dropped5 Lowest5 LowestLowestLowestNo Exams DroppedExam Replacement Policy The grade on the final exam will replace your lowest in-class midterm examprovided your final exam score is higher (on a percentage basis). In other words, your lowest midtermscore will become equal to your final exam score provided your final is higher.Your total numerical score, calculated from the components listed above, correspond to the followingletter grades:If your total percent score is at least:90 86 82 72 68 64 54 45 40 Below 40then you will receive a grade no lower than: A A- B B B- C C C- D FThe cutoffs for each letter grade might be lowered but they will not be raised. All students within onepoint of the cutoffs will receive consideration for receiving the next higher letter grade.Missed Exam Policy If you are excused from one of the mid-term exams due to a documented medicalor other reason, all other exams will count for more, and a letter grade assigned at the end of thesemester. An incomplete will not be assigned. If you are ill and cannot appear, you must produceverifiable documentation from a physician, with physician’s letterhead, that explaining that you weretoo ill to attend the examination. Students who are absent from a test during the semester without anexcuse will receive a grade of zero on that test.Missed Final Exam Policy If you miss the final exam and you provide acceptable documentation, yourgrade will be an incomplete (I). You are then required to take the final examination the next time thecourse is given. In this case, that is during the second summer session, usually a date in mid-August.If you cannot make that date, then the next opportunity to take the make-up exam is in August 2018.If you miss an exam due to medical reasons, give your medical documentation to me in person. Pleasedo not send it to me via email.Laboratory SessionsYou will attend laboratory weekly; laboratory sessions will be held in Rooms 222 or 223 of Meyer

General Physics II SyllabusHall. Some periods have two lab sections running simultaneously, so make sure you go to the correctroom to do your experiments. The schedule of lab experiments is part of the weekly schedule, which isshown below. The laboratory grade will be based on an average over all labs, but the lowest lab gradewill be dropped before the average is calculated. Any lab missed without a doctor’s note or priorarrangement with the instructor counts as a zero. There are no make-up sessions for missedlaboratories. You may not attend a laboratory that you are not registered for.It is important to bring a calculator and your laboratory experiment description to the laboratorysessions. Your laboratory instructor will provide more information regarding the policy for handing inlab reports.If you miss more than two lab experiments or fail to hand in more than two reports, your grade for thecourse will be and F or an I (assuming that you are passing the other components of the course and thatyou provide medical documentation to explain your absence). To make up the lab requirement, youwill have to complete the entire set of labs, not just the ones you missed. This can be done in thefollowing summer session or in the next academic year, space permitting.MasteringPhysicsAccess homework by going to www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com. The mastering course ID for theSpring 2018 semester of General Physics II is posted to the General Physics II NYU Classes homepage. You will not be able to access homework without this course ID.Important: When you register for Mastering,1. enter your netID when you are prompted to enter a Student ID (Do Not Enter Your N-number)2. enter your NYU email address.If you have never used MasteringPhysics before it is highly recommended that you do the assignmentcalled “Introduction to MasteringPhysics.” While it will not contribute to your grade, it is stronglyrecommended that you complete this assignment. Doing so may prevent you from losing credit onhomework assignments. You should familiarize yourself with the grading policy as it pertains tohomework.Learning CatalyticsAfter you arrive in the classroom, log onto www.pearsonmylabandmastering.com and click on theLearning Catalytics button. Once completed, you can join the running session for that morning’s class.Scores for Learning Catalytics sessions appear in the MasteringPhysics “Scores” page, usually, within24 hours. The lowest 5 sessions will be dropped. If you have any connectivity issues, see Prof. Adlerwithin one week of the date of the class meeting during which you had a problem.Annotating in PerusallPerusall helps you master readings faster, understand the material better, and get more out of yourclasses. To achieve this goal, you will be collaboratively annotating the textbook with others in yourclass. The help you’ll get and provide your classmates (even if you don’t know anyone personally)will get you past confusions quickly, and will make the process more fun. While you read, you’llreceive rapid answers to your questions, help others resolve their questions (which also helps youlearn), and advise the instructor how to make class time most productive. You can start a newannotation thread in Perusall by highlighting text, asking a question, or posting a comment; you canalso add a reply or comment to an existing thread. Each thread is like a chat with one or moremembers of your class. Your goals in annotating each reading assignment are to stimulate discussionby posting good questions or comments and to help others by answering their questions.-3-

General Physics II SyllabusResearch shows that by annotating thoughtfully, you’ll learn more and get better grades; so here’swhat “annotating thoughtfully” means: Effective annotations deeply engage points in the readings,stimulate discussion, offer informative questions or comments, and help others by addressing theirquestions or confusions. To this end your annotations are evaluated on the basis of quality,timeliness, quantity, and distribution:QualityThe reading replaces the lectures so that you can engage in more useful activities inclass. Therefore it is important that you read the text thoughtfully and attempt to laythe foundation for the work in class. Each of your annotations is assigned one of thefollowing evaluations:2 Demonstrates thorough and thoughtful reading AND insightful interpretation ofthe reading1 Demonstrates reading, but no (or only superficial) interpretation of the reading0 Does not demonstrate any thoughtful reading or interpretationSee the examples on the next page to see the quality criterion applied to sampleannotations.QuantityWe compute your overall score using your 4 highest-quality annotations for eachassignment, so be sure to write at least this number to ensure the best score.Because we want you to engage in a natural conversation with your classmatesthrough your annotations, your overall score only depends only on these 4 highestquality annotations. So, as long as you have 5 high-quality annotations, a briefresponse to another student (e.g., answering “Yes” to what is just a yes or noquestion) won’t hurt your overall score, even though by itself that response isnominally a “0.”TimelinessThe work done in class depends on you having done the reading in advance, socompleting the reading and posting your annotations before the posted deadline isrequired to receive credit. You have a one-day late annotation period during which thecredit for your annotations linearly decreases from 100% at the deadline to 0% at theend of the late annotation period.To encourage discourse, there is always a 12-hour reply window after each posteddeadline during which you can continue to reply, for full credit, to questions posted byothers. However, you cannot earn more credit after the deadline than you earnedbefore it. If you completely miss the deadline, you can earn no credit on thatassignment.Distribution To lay the foundation for understanding the in-class activities, you must at leastfamiliarize yourself with each assignment in its entirety. Annotating only part of thetext and/or failing to distribute your annotations throughout the document lowers youroverall score.Overall Evaluation: You will receive an overall evaluation for each reading assignment based onthe criteria above as follows: 3 exceptional (rarely given), 2 meets expectations, 1 needsimprovement, 0 insufficientA sample of how Perusall scores your annotations is given below.

General Physics II SyllabusThe lowest 5 Perusall assignments will be dropped.Optional Help1. Free physics review sessions by upper-level undergraduate physics majors in the 726Broadway. The sessions run Monday through Friday, at many different times during the day. Thephysics majors will be able to help you with the course concepts, readings and problems. This is agreat place to go for help. You can go to as many sessions as you wish. Ideally, you should go on aweekly g2. Free peer tutoring, Study Slams, group reviews, workshops, and more!!University Learning Centerwww.nyu.edu/ulcULC@Academic Resource Center, 18 Washington Place, Lower LevelULC@UHall, 110 East 14th Street, top of stairs by UHall CommonsAchieve Excellence!-5-

General Physics II SyllabusSchedule of Class Topics / ReadingsExam Dates: 4/6 (2:00 – 3:50), 5/4 (2:00 – 3:50), 5/11 (10:00 to 11:50)DateLecture TopicCh.Weekly LaboratoryT Jan 23Coulomb’s Law21No labs the week of Jan. 22R Jan 25Electric Fields22T Jan 30Electric Fields22R Feb 1Gauss’ Law23T Feb 6Electric Potential24R Feb 8Electric Potential24T Feb 13Capacitance25R Feb 15Capacitance25T Feb 20Current and Resistance26R Feb 22Current and Resistance26T Feb 27Circuits27R Mar 1Circuits27T Mar 6Circuits27R Mar 8Magnetic Fields28T Mar 13Spring BreakR Mar 15Spring BreakT Mar 20Magnetic Fields28R Mar 22Magnetic Fields28T Mar 27Magnetic Fields due to Currents29R Mar 29Magnetic Fields due to Currents29T Apr 3Induction and Inductance30R Apr 5Maxwell’s Equations; Magnetism of Matter32T Apr 10Electromagnetic Waves33R Apr 12Electromagnetic Waves33T Apr 17Electromagnetic Waves33R Apr 19Images34T Apr 24Images34R Apr 26Images34T May 1Interference35R May 3Interference35See NYU Classes for a list of sections that are skipped.Resonance TubeSonometerE Field MappingNo labs the week of Feb. 19Oscilloscope and EKG SensorVoltage, Current, and Resistance IVoltage, Current, and Resistance IIRC CircuitCurrent BalanceCharge to mass ratio of ElectronElectromagnetic InductionSnell’s LawThe Human Eye

Exam 1 – Friday, April 6; 2:00 to 3:50 pm 15% Exam 2 – Friday, May 4; 2:00 to 3:50 pm 15% No Exams Dropped Final Exam (Cumulative) – May 11 - 10:00 to 11:50 am 30% Exam Replacement Policy The grade on the final exam will replace your lowest in-class midterm exam provided

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