Physics II 29:1702
Electricity and Magnetism
29:1702
2021
Class Information
Instructor Information
- Instructor: Wayne Polyzou
- Office: 306 Van Allen Hall
- Office Hours: MWF 12:30-1:30
- E-mail: polyzou@uiowa.edu
- Phone: 319-335-1856
- TA:
- E-mail:
- Office:
- Office Hours: M
- Phone:
Grading Policy
Possible final grades are A+,A,B,C,D,F,I. The grade of A+ is for
performance that is a full grade above an A. Grades are based on
homework scores (15%), lab scores (15%), two mid term exam scores (20%
each), and the final exam (30%). All exams will be graded by hand;
all grades will be curved to a mean of seventy and a standard
deviation of fifteen.
total score =
.15 (70 + (15/sd_lab)*(lab_score - mean_lab)) +
.15 (70 + (15/sd_hw)*(hw_score - mean_hw))+
.2 (70 + (15/sd_ex1)*(ex1_score - mean_ex1))+
.2 (70 + (15/sd_ex2)*(ex2_score - mean_ex2))+
.3 (70 + (15/sd_fex)*(fex_score - mean_fex))
The College of Liberal Arts recommends the following grade distributions
for intermediate level courses: A 18%, B 36%, C 39%, D 5%, F 2%.
These guidelines will be used as a first approximation in assigning
final grades.
Homework will be due on Friday's before 5:00pm. The homework
assignments use Wiley plus. They will be made available on the
Fridays before they are due. The exams, which are responsible from
most of the course grade, will be graded by hand. You must show your
work in order to get credit for your answer. The exam questions will
involve calculations and may also involve derivations. There will be
NO multiple choice questions. Because of this I strongly suggest that
in doing the homework you get in the habit of writing out your
solutions on paper before entering them in Wiley plus. This will help
you get used to my expectations for exam solutions. As physicists, or
more generally scientists or engineers, it is also important to be able
to communicate the steps and logic used in your arguments. Writing
out your homework solutions is good practice for developing the type of
communication skills that you will need as a professional scientist or
engineer. I will post written solutions to the homework assignments on
the class web page which will serve to provide an illustration of how to
express your homework solutions.
Lectures, homework assignments, solutions, the course calendar,
and notices will appear on the web version of this syllabus
(http://www.physics.uiowa.edu/~wpolyzou/phys28/). It can also
be reached from the Physics Department's web page under course
web pages. There is also a link in ICON. The lectures will be
live streamed (see ICON) and recorded.
Participation in the laboratory portion of the course is required.
The grade of "I" will be assigned to students who miss more than one
laboratory. For students who are unable or choose to note be on campus
due to covid 19 should concact me. I will assign you a lab partner who
will supply you with data from the lab which you can use to prepare
your own report.
General Information
This course is the second of four
introductory physics courses for physics majors. It covers
electricity, magnetism, and special relativity. The material covered
is in chapters 21-33 and 37 of the text. The prerequisite are 029:027
(PHYS:1701) and 22M:026 (MATH:1860). The course is open to physics or
astronomy majors. It is approved for the natural sciences with
laboratory general education requirement.
Homework Assignments and Calendar
- Week 1
- Monday, January 25
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Lecture 1:
- Reading: 21.1-21.3: electric charge, Coulomb's law,
superposition, charge quantization
- Wednesday, January 27
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Lecture 2:
- Reading: 21.1-21.3: continuous charge distributions, charge conservation.
- Friday, January 29
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Lecture 3:
- Reading: 22.1-22.3 electric fields, field lines, superposition
principle.
-
Homework #1:
21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 21.7, 21.14, 21.24 due 2/5
- Week 2
- Lab: E1
- Monday, February 1
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Lecture 4:
- Reading: 22:4-22.6 fields due to point dipole, continuous charge
distributions
- Wednesday, February 3
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Lecture 5:
- Reading: 21.4-21.6: fields due to symmetric geometries,
forces, torques and potentials of dipoles.
- Friday, February 5
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Lecture 6:
- Reading: 23.1-23.2 electric flux, surface integrals,
Gauss' law
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Homework #2:
21.21, 21.42, 21.38, 21.63, 21.67,22.15 due 2/12
- Week 3
- Lab: E2
- Monday, February 8
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Lecture 7:
- Reading: 23.3-23.6 applications of Gauss' law
- Wednesday, February 10
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Lecture 8:
- Reading: 23.3-23.6 applications of Gauss' law
- Friday, February 12
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Lecture 9:
- Reading: 24.1-24.5 electrostatic potential,
potential due to systems of charges, potential due to continuous charge
distributions.
-
Homework #3:
Chapter 22.8, 22.15, 22.16, 22.21, 22.23, 22.48, 22.59 due 2/19
- Week 4
- Lab: E3
- Monday, February 15
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Lecture 10:
- Reading: 23.4-24.8 calculating electric field from potential,
potential energy of charge distributions
- Wednesday, February 17
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Lecture 11:
- Reading: 25.1-25.6 capacitance, geometries, capacitors in series and parallel.
- Friday, February 19
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Lecture 12:
- Reading: 25.4-25.6 energy in a capacitor, dielectrics and Gauss' law in
dielectrics.
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Homework #4:
23:15,23:21,23:30,23:38,23:51,23:59,23:76
due 2/26
- Week 5
- Lab: E4
- No homework this week: practice problems to look at for
Monday's exam:24.11,24.35, 24.44, 24.64, 25.4 25.5 25.11 25.31, 25.48.
- Monday, February 22
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Lecture 13:
- Reading: 26.1-24.3 current, current density, microscopic theory
- Wednesday, February 24
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Lecture 14:
- Reading: 26.4-26.6 Ohm's law, power, superconductors
- Friday, February 26
- Lecture: exam review
- Week 6
- Lab: No Lab this week
- Monday, March 1 - Exam 1
- sample exam:
- Wednesday, March 3
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Lecture 15:
- Reading: 27.1-27.2 Single loop circuits, EMF, energy and current conservation
- Friday, March 5
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Lecture 16:
- Reading: 27.2-27.3 Multiloop circuits,
resistors in series and parallel.
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Homework #5: 26.2, 26.5, 26.9. 26.12, 26.15
due 3/12
- Week 7
- Lab:E5
- Monday, March 8
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Lecture 17:
- Reading: 27.4 RC circuits, differential equations
- Wednesday, March 10
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Lecture 18:
- Reading: 28.3-28.5 Hall effect, cyclotrons
- Friday, March 12
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Lecture 19:
- Reading: 28.6-27.8 force on current carrying wires, torques on current
loops, magnetic dipole moment, energy of a dipole in a magnetic field.
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Homework #6:
26:25,26:33,26:45,27:16,27:23,27:62,27:80
due 3/19
- Week 8
- Lab:E6.5
- Monday, March 15
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Lecture 20:
- Reading: Dipoles in chapter 29.5 - the lecture notes cover dipoles
in considerably more detail than the text.
- Wednesday, March 17
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Lecture 21:
- Reading: 29.3-29.5 Ampere's law, solenoids and toroids
- Friday, March 19
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Lecture 22:
- Reading: 30.1-30.2 Magnetic flux, Faraday's law, Lenz's law
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Homework #7:
28:3, 28.9, 28.13, 28.14, 28.25 , 28.34, 28.35 due 3/26
- Week 9
- Lab:E7
- Monday, March 22
- Lecture 23:
- Reading: 30.3-30.6 induced fields, inductors and inductance, energy and work,
RL circuits
- Wednesday, March 24
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Lecture 24:
- Reading: 30.7-30.9 energy in a magnetic field, mutual inductance
- Friday, March 26
- Reading: Exam review
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sample exam
- No graded homework this week: suggested problems to look at for
next week's exam: 29.1,29.8, 29.16, 29.29, 29.34, 29.49, 29.56
- Week 11
- Lab:E8
- Monday, April 5
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Lecture 27:
- Reading: 31.2-31.3 damped oscillators, forced oscillators
- Wednesday, April 7
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Lecture 28:
- Reading: 31.4-31.5 AC circuits, phases, reactance, impedance.
- Friday, April 9
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Lecture 29:
- Reading: 31.5-31.6 Resonance, AC power, RMS power, transformers.
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Homework #9: 30.53, 30.57a, 30.62, 30.77, 31.4 31.9 31.10 due 4/16
- Week 12
- Lab:E9
- Monday, April 12
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Lecture 30:
- Reading: 32.1-32.2 Faraday's law - the displacement current,
Maxwell's equations
- Wednesday, April 14 [no class]
- Friday, April 16
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Lecture 31:
- Reading: 31.3 Maxwell's equations, integral form, differential form
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Homework #10: Chapter 31: 8,21,25,27,35,53,56 due 4/23
- Week 13
- Lab:OS1
- Monday, April 19
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Lecture 32:
- Reading: 33.1-33.4 electromagnetic waves, Poynting vector, polarization
- Wednesday, April 21
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Lecture 33:
- Reading: 32.4-32.7 Magnetism, spin
- Friday, April 23
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Lecture 34:
- Reading: 37.1 Relativistic invariance, time dilation
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Homework #11: Ch 31: 63,68,75,77; Ch 32: 4,7,16 due 4/30
- Week 14
- Lab:E11
- Monday, April 26
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Lecture 35:
- Reading: 37.2 Lorentz contractions, Lorentz transformations
- Wednesday, April 28
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Lecture 36:
- Reading: 37.3-37.4 velocity addition, Doppler shifts
- Friday, April 30
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Lecture 37:
- Reading: V2:37.6 Energy and momentum, relativistic conservation laws.
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Homework #12: Ch 32:8,25,38,43,48; Ch 33:9,19 due 5/7
- Week 15
- Lab:No Lab this week
- Monday, May 3
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Lecture 38:
- Reading: Covariant form of Maxwell's equations.
- Wednesday, May 5
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Lecture 39:
- Reading: Transformation properties of electric and magnetic fields.
- Friday, May 7
- Reading: Final exam review.
- Practice homework problems: 37.5, 37.7, 37.10, 37.15, 37.27,37.35
33.10, 33.13, 33.20, 33.73
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