Syllabus

Last Updated: January 30, 2014

Instructor :	Dr. Douglas E. Fields
Office Location :	Room 1148, Physics and Astronomy Building (Northwest Wing)
Office Phone :	277-1466
Office Hours :	Mon. 1:00 - 2:00pm (CAPS, 3rd floor Zimmerman), Tues. 11:00 - 12:00pm (CAPS, 3rd floor Zimmerman), Wed. 2:00 - 3:00pm (CAPS, 3rd floor Zimmerman), Thur. 1:00 - 2:00pm (CAPS, 3rd floor Zimmerman)
Email :	fields@unm.edu
Class Web Page :	http://panda.unm.edu/courses/fields/phys161/Phys161_SP14.html
Class Times :	Monday, Wednesday, Friday  10:00 - 10:50am
Class Location :	Regener Hall, Room 103
Graders:	Zhang (zmjiang@unm.edu)
Special Instructor :	Jim Davis (jchdavis@unm.edu)
SI’s Problem Sessions :	Mon. 8:00pm - 9:00pm (Regener Hall 111) Tues. & Thurs. 4:00pm - 5:00pm (Regener Hall 111)
Problems Class Times :	Section 1: Mon.  11:00 - 11:50 (Fields) Section 3: Tues. 12:30 - 1:20 (Fields)
Text Book :	Young and Friedman University Physics 13th Edition, Pierson, Addison, Wesley
Grading :	See: Grades Page

Schedule of Classes:

Week/ Lecture	Date	Reading Assignment (sections in book)	Mastering Physics Due Before Class	Written Homework Due Before Class	Problems Class Schedule		Section Topics	Demonstrations
	Mon. Jan. 20	No classes, MLK day
	Tues. Jan. 21
1/1	Wed. Jan. 22	Introduction					Class policies, CPS, and Physics 160 Review
1/2	Fri. Jan. 24	17.1 - 17.4	#1				Temperature and Thermal Expansion	Bi-metal strip, water thermometer, ball and rings.
2/3	Mon. Jan. 27	17.5 - 17.7	#2		Ideal Gas Law		Heat, Heat Capacity and Transfer	Thermal conductivity and thermal conductivity of different metals.
	Tues. Jan. 28				Ideal Gas Law
2/4	Wed. Jan. 29	18.1, 18.2	#3				Ideal Gas Equation, P-V Diagrams	Ideal Gas Law
2/5	Fri. Jan. 31	18.3 - 18.6	#4				Kinetic-Molecular Model	Molecular Motion Kit
3/6	Mon. Feb. 3	19.1 - 19.4	#5	#1	1^st Law of Thermo		First Law of Thermodynamics
	Tues. Feb. 4				1^st Law of Thermo
3/7	Wed. Feb. 5	19.5 - 19.8	#6				Thermodynamic Processes
3/8	Fri. Feb. 7	20.1 - 20.5	#7	#2			Heat Engines and the Second Law of Thermodynamics	Stirling Engines
4/9	Mon. Feb. 10	20.6 - 20.8	#8		Exam 1 Review		Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
	Tues. Feb. 11				Exam 1 Review
	Wed. Feb. 12	17-20	#9	#3			Exam 1
4/10	Fri. Feb. 14	21.1 - 21.3	#10				Electric Charge, Insulators and Conductors, Coulomb`s Law	Glass and Plastic Rods with Silk and Fur, Suspended Copper Rod, Braun Electroscope
5/11	Mon. Feb. 17	21.4 - 21.5	#11		E-Field & Flux		Electric Fields and Calculating Electric Fields
	Tues. Feb. 18				E-Field & Flux
5/12	Wed. Feb. 19	21.6 - 21.7	#12				Electric Field Lines and Dipoles	Grass Seed Electric Field with Van de Graaff Generator
5/13	Fri. Feb. 21	22.1 - 22.2	#13	#4			Electric Flux
6/14	Mon. Feb. 24	22.3	#14		Gauss`s Law		Gauss`s Law	Balloon, Butterfly Net
	Tues. Feb. 25				Gauss`s Law
6/15	Wed. Feb. 26	22.4 - 22.5	#15				Applications of Gauss`s Law and Charged Conductors
6/16	Fri. Feb. 28	23.1 - 23.2	#16	#5			Electric Potential Energy
7/17	Mon. Mar. 3	23.3	#17		Electric Potential		Electric Potential and Calculations
	Tues. Mar. 4				Electric Potential
7/18	Wed. Mar. 5	23.4 - 23.5	#18				Equipotential Surfaces and Gradients
7/19	Fri. Mar. 7	24.1 - 24.2	#19	#6			Capacitance and Capacitors	Parallel Plate Capacitor
8/20	Mon. Mar. 10	24.3	#20		Capacitance		Energy in Capacitors	Big Bang
	Tues. Mar. 11				Capacitance
8/21	Wed. Mar. 12	24.4 - 24.6	#21				Dielectrics	Capacitor with Dielectric Sheet
	Fri. Mar. 14	21-24	#22	#7			Exam 2
Mar. 16 - Mar. 23 Spring Break
9/22	Mon. Mar. 24	25.1 - 25.3	#23		Post-test Review		Current and Resistance
	Tues. Mar. 25				Post-test Review
9/23	Wed. Mar. 26	25.4 - 25.5	#24				Electromotive Force and Power	Battery and light bulbs.
9/24	Fri. Mar. 28	26.1 - 26.2	#25	#8			Resistors & Kirchhoff's Rules	Series and Parallel Circuits and Big Circuit Board
10/25	Mon. Mar. 31	26.3	#26		Circuits 2		Electrical Measuring Instruments	Galvonometer, Ammeter and Voltmeter
	Tues. Apr. 1				Circuits 2
10/26	Wed. Apr. 2	26.4	#27				R-C Circuits	RC Circuit
10/27	Fri. Apr. 4	27.1 - 27.3	#28	#9			Magnetic Fields & Magnetic Flux	Magnetic Field Lines and Magnetic Field from Currents
11/28	Mon. Apr. 7	27.4 - 27.9	#29		RC Circuits		Magnetic Force & Torque	Jumping Wire in Magnetic Field and E/M Tube
	Tues. Apr. 8				RC Circuits
11/29	Wed. Apr. 9	28.1 - 28.2	#30	#10			Magnetic Fields from Moving Charges
11/30	Fri. Apr. 11	28.3 - 28.5	#31				Magnetic Fields from Currents & Loops	Magnetic Field from Currents
12/31	Mon. Apr. 14	28.6 - 28.8	#32		Magnetic Interactions		Ampere`s Law
	Tues. Apr. 15				Magnetic Interactions
	Wed. Apr. 16	25-28	#33	#11			Exam 3
12/32	Fri. Apr. 18	29.1 - 29.3	#34				Induction & Faraday`s Law	Induced EMF
13/33	Mon. Apr. 21	29.4 - 29.6	#35		Lenz`s Law		Induced EMF	Induction Coil with Magnet & Galvanometer and AC and DC Motors
	Tues. Apr. 22				Lenz`s Law
13/34	Wed. Apr. 23	29.7	#36				Maxwell's Equations
13/35	Fri. Apr. 25	30.1 - 30.2	#37	#12			Mutual & Self Inductance	Open Transformer
14/36	Mon. Apr. 28	30.3 - 30.4	#38		Faraday`s Law		Magnetic Field Energy & R-L Circuits	LCR Circuit
	Tues. Apr. 29				Faraday`s Law
14/37	Wed. Apr. 30	30.5 - 30.6	#39				L-C & L-R-C Circuits	LCR Circuit
14/38	Fri. May 2	31.1 - 31.2	#40	#13			Phasors & Alternating Current	LCR Circuit
15/39	Mon. May 5	31.3 - 31.5	#41				AC Circuits	LCR Circuit
	Tues. May 6
15/40	Wed. May 7	31.6	#42				Transformers	Transformer
	Fri. May 9	29-31	#43	#14			Exam 4
	Fri. May 16					Final Exam 7:30 - 9:30am, Regener Hall Rm. 103

For comments or changes contact Douglas Fields.