Course Syllabus

PHY2054c Section 0001: College Physics II

Physics Department, College of Science

4 Credit hours

Table of Contents

General Course Information
Course Description
Course Materials and Resources
Student Learning Outcomes
Course Activities
Grading Information
Course Schedule
Policy Statements

Instructor Information

Instructor: Prof. Abdelkader Kara
Office Location: Physical Science Building Rm 303. No face to face appointments. This may change during the semester.
Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:30, or by appointment. Office hours will be virtual, on Zoom
Phone: 407-668-0135
Digital Contact: Abdelkader.Kara@ucf.edu or Webcourses@UCF messaging

Teaching Assistants

GTA: Nusaiba Zaman
Email: nusaibazaman@knights.ucf.edu

Course Information

Term: Fall 2021
Course Number & Section: PHY2054C 0001
Course Name: College Physics II
Credit Hours: 4 Credit Hours
Class Meeting Days: MW
Class Meeting Time: 4.30-7.20pm
The class will be divided in two groups: Group1 and Group2.
This arrangement is due to the Covid situation and may change during the semester, resulting in going back to all F2F.
While one group is attending face-2-face (F2F) sessions for discussions, labs, worksheets, quizzes and exams; the other group is attending remotely lectures via zoom. All lectures will be recorded and made available to you.
GROUP1 will attend remotely the lectures via zoom every Monday, and F2F sessions in room MSB350 every Wednesday
GROUP2 will attend remotely the lectures via zoom every Wednesday, and F2F sessions in room MSB350 every Monday

Enrollment Requirements

Course Prerequisites (if applicable): College Physics I
Course Co-requisites (if applicable): None
Other Enrollment Requirements (if applicable): None

Course Description

PHY2054C is the second of two-semester sequence in introductory physics offered primarily for students majoring in information technology, the biological science and pre-health professions. Emphasis is placed on understanding major principles and concepts. Algebra with simple Trigonometry is used to clarify them. Students should have a good working knowledge of Algebra and Trigonometry at the level of MAC1104 and MAC1114 or equivalent. This is a very fast paced course. The content of this course is selected to match nation-wide standards for Physics courses, which are often used to prepare students for careers in Medicine and Life Sciences.

Course Materials and Resources

COLLEGE PHYSICS Openstax Chapter 18-27
Free access :https://pressbooks.online.ucf.edu/phy2054lt/
A computer with webcam and microphone: the lecture part of the course will be held remotely via zoom. To participate in the discussions, a webcam and microphone are recommended.

Optional Materials/Resources

Shaum’s Outline College Physics. Frederic Bueche, Eugene Hecht. A very useful aid for both Physics I and II, especially in the clarification of concepts. Contains the basic theory (in form of notes) and a large number of solved and unsolved exercises.
3,000 Solved problems in Physics. (Shaum’s solved problem series) Alvin Halpern. It contains no theory but only solved exercises covering the material of both Physics I and Physics II. Very useful in the clarification of techniques and methods for solving exercises from basic up to intermediate to advanced level.

Third-Party Accessibility and Privacy Statements

None

Student Learning Outcomes

Aside from the practical matter that this course is likely a requirement to get your degree, there are actually many advantages in learning the material for you! Physics is, in many ways, a much simpler scientific discipline than the one you may be majoring in. In class, we will focus on fundamental principles. It is an excellent test case for the scientific method and for quantitative thinking and reasoning, which is important for all careers, even as a medical doctor or other health related professions. For those going into the medical profession, the experiments you will perform in life sciences – on real humans – will, in fact, be much more difficult to interpret than those we do in the Physics class. Thus, this is an opportunity for you to start your training with simple quantitative reasoning. In the course of the semester, we will apply the concepts to real-world situations and see them work at high precision. Many physics concepts will apply to medicine or any discipline involving “real-life”!

The Student Learning Outcomes for each module are listed below.

Module 1 – Vectors

Students will be able to carry out simple operation with vectors in 2D and 3D.

Module 2 – Electric charge and electric field

Students will be able to describe the concept of electric charge, and simple phenomena such as attraction and repulsion of charges and polarization.
Students will be able to describe Coulomb’s law, calculate the force between two simple charged objects and describe the resulting motion of the objects.
Students will be able to describe the electric field created by a charge.

Module 3 – Electric potential energy and electric potential

Students will be able to describe the concept of electric potential energy, and situations involving conservation of energy.
Students will be able to describe the concept of electric potential and its relation to electric potential energy.
Students will be able to define a capacitor, its capacitance, the electric potential and the energy stored in the capacitor and the effect of working with capacitors in series or parallel on the capacitance.

Module 4 – Current, Resistance and Ohm’s Law

Students will be able to define and calculate electric current, resistivity and resistance in a material.
Students will be able to describe and apply Ohm’s law in a DC circuit with a resistor.
Students will be able to calculate electric power.

Module 5 – Circuits and DC Instruments

Students will be able to differentiate resistors in series and resistors in parallel, and understand the behavior of these configurations.
Students will be able to understand the flow of charges in a circuit with multiple branches, and calculate the voltage across resistors.
Students will be able to understand the charge and discharge of a capacitor in a RC circuit with a DC source.

Module 6 – Magnetism

Students will be able to determine the magnetic field created by a magnet, a current-carrying straight wire, a current-carrying loop with 1 turn or more, and a solenoid.
Students will be able to determine the magnetic force experienced by a moving point charge or by a current-carrying wire in a magnetic field.

Module 7 – Electromagnetic Induction, AC Circuits and Electrical Technologies

Students will be able to calculate magnetic flux.
Students will learn Lenz’s law, the concept of inducing a current in a loop of wire with a varying magnetic flux.
Students will learn the concept of induced emf and apply it to motional emf.
Students will learn the concept of mutual and self-inductance.
Students will learn the function of transformers and the voltage and current conversion process within them.
Students will learn and work with AC circuits with up to 3 components.

Module 8 – Electromagnetic Waves

Students will be able define the relationship between electric field, magnetic field and speed of light for an electric wave propagating in air.
Students will be able define the average intensity and peak intensity of an electromagnetic wave.
Students will be able define the average power.

Module 9 – Wave Optics

Students will be able understand and describe the propagation of light in a medium.
Students will be able understand the concept of interference.
Students will be able solve problems related to different cases of interference, including a double slit aperture, a diffraction grating, a single slit, a circular aperture and a thin film interference.
Students will be able solve problems related to light polarization.

Module 10 – Geometric Optics

Students will be able define the principles of reflection, refraction and critical angles.
Students will be able define the thin lens equation and magnification for lenses and mirrors.

In addition to the concept of physics II and their applications, students will develop the following Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to operate a calculator for the level of algebra required for the course.
Students will be able to work in groups, including for efficient communication, reporting and critical discussion
Students will develop problem solving skills

The Student Learning Outcomes will be evaluated by various methods: short quiz for each module, three midterm exams, and one final exam. The weight of each assignment and the letter grade attributed in this course are described below.

Course Activities

The course material covers Electricity, Magnetism and Optics. In the "studio" format we will combine lectures, recitation, and laboratory experiments together on the material which will be covered for each module. The main objective is to understand basic fundamentals of electricity, magnetism and optics and their applications in real life experiences. This class will help you to think, interpret them in terms of theories and verify them by performing experiments.

The activities for this section of PHY2054 will be organized in Modules. For each module, the activities will include:

Reading and watching videos for each modules
Completing worksheets to practice the material covered in the module. This is open-book and can be done as a group. For each worksheet, there will be a small part that needs to be done in class.
Completing Labs and Lab reports. This will be done as a group.
Completing the Quiz for each module. This will be done individually.

At the specified times on the Course Schedule, you will also be required to:

Complete three Midterms. Each Midterm will be a combination of 16 Multiple Choice questions and 1 open problem to solve, for a total of 100 points.
Complete the final exam . The final exam will be comprehensive, and will include 25 Multiple Choice questions and 2 open problems for a total of 200 points.
In preparation for each exam, a set of practice problems will be provided with limited keys.
Extra credits: the instructor will provide a few opportunities for extra credit during the semester.
You should have regular access to the internet and plan on logging into the course daily.
This is a fast paced course. You should plan to dedicate 14-15 hours of work to this course on a weekly basis (~ 3 hours for reading/videos, ~5 hours for worksheets and practice problems, ~ 6 hours for lectures, discussions, problem solving sessions and labs).

It is extremely important NOT to get behind! Physics builds on itself inexorably, and once you are behind, it becomes very difficult to catch up with it again.

One very important thing to remember is that Physics requires a lot of practice. Reading a section, does not mean that you fully understand it. Until you can consistently do the problems successfully, you should continue to solve problems until you understand the concept. We will work together on this aspect.

Activity Submissions

All submissions will be done via Webcourses using "Assignments".

Attendance/Participation

Attendance and participation is strongly recommended. For any absence, please inform the instructor or the GTA.

Students are required to work in groups (approximately 3 students in each group). Each student in a group is expected to participate actively in discussions, performing experiments, solving problems and short presentations. Groups will be formed via Webcourses.

Students will be required to participate:

in group-labs during the course hours. Except for “acceptable absence”, absent students for the Lab component will receive a reduced grade that will be determined by their participation in the final report of the Lab.
in group sessions to work on the worksheets problems. These session will be supervised by the TA and the LA.
Quizzes, mid-terms and the final exam Except for “acceptable absence”, students are required to be present during tests time. Any non-acceptable absence will result with a zero for that test. Students registered with SAS will have extended test time according to SAS recommendations.

The Undergraduate Catalog states, “Reasons for acceptable absences may include illness, serious family emergencies, special curricular requirements (e.g., judging trips, field trips, professional conferences), military obligations, severe weather conditions, and religious holidays.”

Make-up Exams and Assignments

Per university policy, you are allowed to submit make-up work (or an equivalent, alternate assignment) for authorized university-sponsored activities, religious observances, or legal obligations (such as jury duty). If this participation conflicts with your course assignments, I will offer a reasonable opportunity for you to complete missed assignments and/or exams. The make-up assignment and grading scale will be equivalent to the missed assignment and its grading scale. In the case of an authorized university activity, it is your responsibility to show me a signed copy of the Program Verification Form for which you will be absent, prior to the class in which the absence occurs. In any of these cases, please contact me ahead of time to notify me of upcoming needs.

Assessment and Grading Procedures

The table shows the weight distribution for each assignment.
Assignment	Percentage of Grade
Midterm 1	40% (lowest grade is dropped)
Midterm 2
Midterm 3
Worksheets	10%
Quizzes	10%
Lab	15%
Final	25%
Total	100%

The table shows the range for each letter grade and uses an A,B,C,D,F grading system.
Letter Grade	Points
A	85 – 100 %
B	75 - 84.99 %
C	60 - 74.99 %
D	50 - 59.99 %
F	below 50

Consult the latest Undergraduate or Graduate catalog for regulations and procedures regarding grading such as Incomplete grades, grade changes, and grade forgiveness.

Course Schedule

The course schedule is provided HERE

University Services and Resources

Academic Services and Resources

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Non-Academic Services and Resources

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If you are a UCF Online student, please consult the UCF Online Student Guidelines for more information about your access to non-academic services.

Policy Statements

Academic Integrity

Students should familiarize themselves with UCF’s Rules of Conduct. According to Section 1, "Academic Misconduct," students are prohibited from engaging in:

Unauthorized assistance: Using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise unless specifically authorized by the instructor of record. The unauthorized possession of examination or course-related material also constitutes cheating.
Communication to another through written, visual, electronic, or oral means: The presentation of material which has not been studied or learned, but rather was obtained through someone else’s efforts and used as part of an examination, course assignment, or project.
Commercial Use of Academic Material: Selling of course material to another person, student, and/or uploading course material to a third-party vendor without authorization or without the express written permission of the university and the instructor. Course materials include but are not limited to class notes, Instructor’s PowerPoints, course syllabi, tests, quizzes, labs, instruction sheets, homework, study guides, handouts, etc.
Falsifying or misrepresenting the student’s own academic work.
Plagiarism: Using or appropriating another’s work without any indication of the source, thereby attempting to convey the impression that such work is the student’s own.
Multiple Submissions: Submitting the same academic work for credit more than once without the express written permission of the instructor.
Helping another violate academic behavior standards.

For more information about Academic Integrity, students may consult The Center for Academic Integrity.

For more information about plagiarism and misuse of sources, see “Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices”.

Responses to Academic Dishonesty, Plagiarism, or Cheating

Students should also familiarize themselves with the procedures for academic misconduct in UCF’s student handbook, The Golden Rule. UCF faculty members have a responsibility for students’ education and the value of a UCF degree, and so seek to prevent unethical behavior and when necessary respond to academic misconduct. Penalties can include a failing grade in an assignment or in the course, suspension or expulsion from the university, and/or a "Z Designation" on a student’s official transcript indicating academic dishonesty, where the final grade for this course will be preceded by the letter Z. For more information about the Z Designation, see http://goldenrule.sdes.ucf.edu/zgrade.

Course Accessibility Statement

The University of Central Florida is committed to providing access and inclusion for all persons with disabilities. This syllabus is available in alternate formats upon request. Students with disabilities who need specific access in this course, such as accommodations, should contact the professor as soon as possible to discuss various access options. Students should also connect with Student Accessibility Services (Ferrell Commons, 7F, Room 185, sas@ucf.edu, phone (407) 823-2371). Through Student Accessibility Services, a Course Accessibility Letter may be created and sent to professors, which informs faculty of potential access and accommodations that might be reasonable.

COVID-19 and Illness Notification

Students who believe they may have been exposed to COVID-19 or who test positive must contact UCF Student Health Services (407-823-2509) so proper contact tracing procedures can take place. Students should not come to campus if they are ill, are experiencing any symptoms of COVID-19 or have tested positive for COVID-19.

Students should contact their instructor(s) as soon as possible if they miss class for any illness to discuss reasonable adjustments that might need to be made. When possible, students should contact their instructor(s) before missing class.

Campus Safety Statement

Fully online course sections (W, V)

Though most emergency situations are primarily relevant to courses that meet in person, such incidents can also impact online students, either when they are on or near campus to participate in other courses or activities or when their course work is affected by off-campus emergencies. The following policies apply to courses in online modalities.

To stay informed about emergency situations, students can sign up to receive UCF text alerts by going to <https://my.ucf.eduLinks to an external site.> and logging in. Click on “Student Self Service” located on the left side of the screen in the toolbar, scroll down to the blue “Personal Information” heading on the Student Center screen, click on “UCF Alert”, fill out the information, including e-mail address, cell phone number, and cell phone provider, click “Apply” to save the changes, and then click “OK.”
Students with special needs related to emergency situations should speak with their instructors outside of class.

Sections with face-to-face components (M, RA, RV)

Emergencies on campus are rare, but if one should arise during class, everyone needs to work together. Students should be aware of their surroundings and familiar with some basic safety and security concepts.

In case of an emergency, dial 911 for assistance.
Every UCF classroom contains an emergency procedure guide posted on a wall near the door. Students should make a note of the guide’s physical location and review the online version at <http://emergency.ucf.edu/emergency_guide.htmlLinks to an external site.>.
Students should know the evacuation routes from each of their classrooms and have a plan for finding safety in case of an emergency.
If there is a medical emergency during class, students may need to access a first-aid kit or AED (Automated External Defibrillator). To learn where those are located, see <http://www.ehs.ucf.edu/AEDlocations-UCFLinks to an external site.> (click on link from menu on left).
To stay informed about emergency situations, students can sign up to receive UCF text alerts by going to <https://my.ucf.eduLinks to an external site.> and logging in. Click on “Student Self Service” located on the left side of the screen in the toolbar, scroll down to the blue “Personal Information” heading on the Student Center screen, click on “UCF Alert”, fill out the information, including e-mail address, cell phone number, and cell phone provider, click “Apply” to save the changes, and then click “OK.”
Students with special needs related to emergency situations should speak with their instructors outside of class.
To learn about how to manage an active-shooter situation on campus or elsewhere, consider viewing this video You CAN Survive an Active Shooter

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Copyright

This course may contain copyright protected materials such as audio or video clips, images, text materials, etc. These items are being used with regard to the Fair Use doctrine in order to enhance the learning environment. Please do not copy, duplicate, download or distribute these items. The use of these materials is strictly reserved for this online classroom environment and your use only. All copyright materials are credited to the copyright holder.

Optional In-Class Recording Statement

Suggested syllabus language (updated July 28, 2021):

Students may, without prior notice, record video or audio of a class lecture for a class in which the student is enrolled for their own personal educational use. A class lecture is defined as a formal or methodical oral presentation as part of a university course intended to present information or teach students about a particular subject. Recording classroom activities other than class lectures, including but not limited to lab sessions, student presentations (whether individually or part of a group), class discussion (except when incidental to and incorporated within a class lecture), clinical presentations such as patient history, academic exercises involving student participation, test or examination administrations, field trips, and private conversations is prohibited. Recordings may not be used as a substitute for class participation and class attendance, and may not be published or shared without the written consent of the faculty member. Failure to adhere to these requirements may constitute a violation of the University’s Student Code of Conduct as described in the Golden Rule.

Third-Party Software and FERPA

During this course you might have the opportunity to use public online services and/or software applications sometimes called third-party software such as a blog or wiki. While some of these could be required assignments, you need not make any personally identifying information on a public site. Do not post or provide any private information about yourself or your classmates. Where appropriate you may use a pseudonym or nickname. Some written assignments posted publicly may require personal reflection/comments, but the assignments will not require you to disclose any personally identity-sensitive information. If you have any concerns about this, please contact your instructor.