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COURSE INFORMATION
PHYS 2O1-PHYSICS III
Summer 2009-10
Course Director: Prof. S.M. Bose
Office: Disque 905, Email: bose@drexel.edu, Phone: 215-895-2718, Fax: 215-895-5934
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday:
12:30 pm-2:00 pm or by appointment
Recitation Instructors: Ben Coy, Joey Lambert, John Schreck
Lab Instructors:
Ben Coy, Joey Lambert, Runcong Liu, John Schreck
Course Objective:
- An understanding of the basics of oscillatory motion and propagation of mechanical waves and electromagnetic waves in vacuum and material medium
- An understanding of the nature of light, phenomena of interference and diffraction
- An understanding of the basics of special theory of relativity, mass-energy equivalence
- An understanding of the basics of quantum physics including energy quantization, Bohr model of hydrogen atoms, particle-wave description, photons and matter waves
- The Schroedinger equation and simple applications
Recitation problems:
See the course syllabus. The recitation schedule is listed here.
Syllabus:
The course covers chapters 13, 15, 32, 35-40 of the textbook. Reading
assignments for the lectures and the problems for recitations are listed
on the Course Syllabus. You may download all the recitation problems
and the syllabus here.
Course Format: Similar
to Phys 101, 102
Exams:
- 2 Midterms (7/20 and 8/17, Tuesdays, 8-8:50 am, Disque 103),
- 1 cumulative Final Exam.
No make-up exams.
Lectures
and Recitations: Lectures and recitations will be held as
shown on the Syllabus. The students are expected to attend all
lectures and recitations, work on assignments, ask questions and participate
in discussions. Attendance in lectures and recitations will be taken
on a regular basis. In the recitations, the material presented
in the lecture is studied in detail by solving problems. To take
full advantage of the recitation, students should work the assigned
recitation problems before going to each session.
Homework:
Course
ID: MPBOSE09999
HW
out Monday, 12 pm, due Tuesday, 12 pm in 2 weeks.
Labs:
4 Standard Labs required to pass course
No labs during Week 1. Labs every other week.
Week 2,4,6,8: Even #'d Sections
Week
3,5,7,9: Odd #'d Sections
Grading Scheme:
Two Midterms 30%
Homework 14%
Four LABS 16%
Lecture Attendance 5%
Recitation Attendance 3%
Final Exam 32%
Total
100%
Academics:
The course director and teaching assistants will be working closely
with the students to achieve the objectives of the course. The work
(exams and homework assignments) submitted should be the exclusive work
of the individual. Departmental and university policies will be strictly
followed in dealing with academic dishonesty.
Dropping
a Course: University regulations require that courses cannot be
dropped after the 6th week of the term.
Website: http://www.physics.drexel.edu/