Prof. Michael S. Vogeley
Department of Physics
Office: 811 Disque Hall
Phone: 215-895-2710
Email: vogeley@drexel.edu

Grad Student: Travis Hoppe
Department of Physics
Office: 705 Disque Hall
Email: hoppe@drexel.edu

Announcements
Welcome to Physics 115: Contemporary Physics III! Get started by reading chapter 17 in MI2 (that's Matter & Interactions II - sorry Tom Cruise).

Course Meetings
Lecture times: Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 9:00-9:50 a.m. in Stratton 219. Please be on time (yes, we know it's early - bring coffee). Recitations: Wednesday 2:00-3:50 p.m. in Disque 704

Homework
Homework assignments will be due at the beginning of class on each Friday (except the first week and on the day of the midterm). Solutions will be available on the web page on that same day, so late homework will not be accepted. The computer assignments will count as one-third of your total homework grade and are due at recitation on the Wednesday following their assignment.

Grading
Homework: 30% (2/3 problems and 1/3 computer assignments)
Midterm: 25% (Midterm exam on Friday of week 5)
Final Exam: 35% (during exam week)
Class Participation: 10% (recitation!)

Description of this Course
In this final, and most fun of all, part of Contemporary Physics, we'll delve into further properties of electricity and magnetism. Topics include

   1. Magnetic Fields
   2. Electric Circuits
   3. Magnetic force (including the Hall Effect)
   4. Patterns of EM fields (focus on Gauss's Law)
   5. Faraday's Law
   6. Electromagnetic Radiation (yeah!)
   7. Waves and Particles (EM waves are also particles!)
   8. (if there's time) Semiconductor Physics

Reading
Chabay and Sherwood, Matter & Interactions II, 2nd Ed. In Physics 115, we will cover chapters 17-24 and, if time, discuss some topics in chapter 25.