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Spring 2012 term: Tuesday 3:00-5:50 PM in G 318, Thursday 3:00-5:50 PM in C 211 Course reference number 359753 Student work

(artifacts) in this class may be collected by the College for the purpose of assessing institutional effectiveness and measuring general education competencies. The artifacts collected and submitted for this purpose will be done so anonymously.

Contact Information Instructor: Dr. William A. Mendoza Office location: Building C Room 110 Office hours: MW 10 11 AM, 4:30 5:30PM; TR 10 11:30AM, 1:00 2:30PM Office telephone: 646-2075 Office e-mail: wmendoza@fscj.edu Assistance The instructor is the first resource to answer your questions about the work in the course and his office hours, telephone number, and e-mail address are given above. A second resource may be the Library Learning Science Lab in Building G Room 200. Their schedule is MW 8:00AM-8:00PM; TR 8:00AM-6:00PM; and 8:00AM-Noon Friday. The Information Desk telephone is 646-2174. Communication The instructor will check his e-mail and voice mail for messages every day from Monday through Thursday. It is your responsibility to check your College e-mail account daily for any important messages. Withdrawal dates A student who drops the course by Tuesday January 17, 2012 will receive a full refund. The final date to withdraw and receive the W grade is Tuesday March 27, 2012. Course tools A scientific calculator of some type will be needed as a calculation aid for the course. You will also need to have pencils, an eraser, a notebook, and possibly graph paper. Course textbook We use Physics for Scientists and Engineers, 8th edition by Raymond Serway and John Jewett, Thomson-Brooks/Cole Publishers and will review useful information in many sections of chapters 1 to 15. Please read the introductory paragraph at the start of each chapter, and review the chapter sections entitled Example, Quick Quiz, Pitfall Prevention, and Summary, if you are unable to fully read a chapter. Course co-requisite This is MAC 2312 Calculus with Analytic Geometry II. The pre-requisite for MAC 2312 is MAC 2311 Calculus with Analytic Geometry I.

Course goals Physics is a fundamental science, which focuses on properties of energy and matter. This course is specifically designed for students of physical sciences and engineering and reviews Newtonian mechanics (force methods), kinetic and potential energy (energy methods), linear and angular momentum, conservation laws in physics, rotational motion, gravitation, fluid mechanics, statics, and oscillatory motion. Since theories in physics ultimately must be verified by experiments, you will do laboratory work to confirm important principles and develop your technical skills. You will learn how to conduct experiments, analyze the results, and write technical reports describing your work. Homework problems Sets of problems for each chapter are assigned in the Academic calendar section of the syllabus and all assigned problems will be collected for grading. Doing this work should help your final grade, your understanding of the subject, and your preparation for tests. Odd numbered problems have answers in the back of the book which can verify your work. In order to receive full credit for homework, please show all calculations and include units in your final answers. Homework submitted after the due dates shown in the Academic Calendar will be considered to be late and may receive a 10% deduction. After graded homework for a chapter is returned to students, late homework from others may NOT be accepted. We will attempt to review each chapter before the dues dates. Laboratory sessions These will include an ungraded orientation, 10 formal experiments with graded reports, and several ungraded experimental demonstrations. Each formal experiment will be performed only once during regular class hours so a grade of zero (0) will result for each missed individual session. Group reports by four or fewer students are acceptable provided group members rotate their duties (such as measurement, data analysis, and writing). A lab attendance log will be used to note the participation of group members. Please note that you must be present when the data are generated or collected in the experiment in order to be counted as present and therefore receive credit for the session. Your full attention to the experiment is expected as you are part of a work group. You are NOT to do homework or other personal work while your group is involved in collecting data and writing a report. Also, it would be wise for at least two group members to have copies of the data in case one of the two becomes ill or leaves the course as sometimes happens. In general, one page of printed text (in a format specified during the orientation) with attached data tables and data plots is to be submitted 7 to 10 days after the experiment. Reports received after graded reports have been returned to other students will be considered to be late and may receive a 10% deduction. Academic calendar There are 30 class sessions in this course. Dates shown are the due dates for homework and the dates of the lab sessions, not the lab report due dates. Note that a computer presentation on each chapter will be placed on BlackBoard under Course Documents prior to the homework due date. Your Phy 2048C textbook has

objective questions (OQ), conceptual questions (CQ), and problems (P) and these letter codes appear in homework assigned. January 19 Chapter 1: OQ 1; CQ 2*; P 2, 14, 18, 31, 32, 61
*Limit consideration to nearest prefixes

Laboratory orientation January 26 February 2 February 9 February 16 February 23 March 1 March 8 March 15 March 19-23 March 29 April 5 April 12 April 19 Chapter 2: OQ 1; P 1, 4, 6, 17, 22, 25, 41 Experiment 1: Measurement and density Chapter 3: OQ 1; CQ 2; P 2, 7, 15, 23, 29, 31 Experiment 2: Addition of vectors Chapter 4: OQ 4; P 1, 3, 5, 6, 11, 12, 27, 29, 31, 40 Experiment 3: Newtons second law Chapter 5 OQ 2, 3; CQ 5; P 1, 7, 22, 24, 28, 44 Experiment 4: Measurement of friction Chapter 6 CQ 7; P 3, 4, 7, 16, 20, 26, 43 Experiment 5: Work and energy Chapter 7 OQ 8; CQ 5; P 1, 7, 9, 10, 16, 25, 31, 42, 44, 51 Experiment 6: Linear momentum Chapter 8 CQ 5; P 5, 14, 15, 23, 29, 30, 63 Experiment 7: Simple harmonic motion Chapter 9 OQ 9, 10; CQ 6; P 1, 5, 19, 33, 36, 37, 41, 49 Experiment 8: Static equilibrium Spring Break: College closed Chapter 10 CQ 1, 11; P 3, 5, 6, 13, 19, 25, 29, 35, 55 Experiment 9: Rotational motion Chapter 11 OQ 5; CQ 1; P 1, 3, 11, 15, 22, 26, 31 Experiment 10: Archimedes Principle Chapter 12 OQ 8; CQ 4; P 1, 8, 26, 27 Chapter 13 OQ 2; P 1, 10, 28, 36, 57*
*Use Keplers third law on (b), mass of Sun on (c)

Chapter 14 CQ 5; P 3, 23, 37*, 53


*Refer to page 418

April 26

Chapter 15 OQ 1; CQ 5; P 4, 5, 8, 9 Review of course

Weekly tests Short tests on individual chapters will be given weekly for as many chapters as possible. Tests may include multiple choice, true-false, fill-in-the-blank, and calculation questions. The first test question in each test will require matching parts of 5 or 6 equations. A student may retake up to three missed chapter tests before the last week of class. A student who misses 4 chapter tests will have a grade of zero (0) on at least one of them. No additional time may be available for a student who does not arrive for a test at the beginning of class. Final examination There is a comprehensive final examination on Tuesday May 1, 2012 from 1:00PM to 3:00PM. No work of any kind is accepted after this date. Grades The percentages allocated for assignments and grades are: Chapter tests Homework Formal experiment reports Final examination Laboratory attendance 40% 15% 20% 20% 5% A B C D F 90% 80 - 89% 70 - 79% 60 - 69% < 60%

A student who stops attending classes after the withdrawal date (March 27, 2012) and who does not take the final examination may receive the failure for nonattendance (FN) grade with whatever consequences that may have for the students financial aid. The exception would be those students would could statistically earn a grade of D or better absent the later work. If there are unusual circumstances which prevent a student from attending class, the student may request an incomplete (I) grade to permit the student time to complete required course work which he or she was prevented from completing in a timely way due to nonacademic reasons. However, College policy about I grades indicates students should be passing the course at the time of the request and have completed 75% of the course work. If this instructor agrees to assign an I grade, there will be a 10% lateness deduction for all subsequent work during the following semester. When the work is completed (generally by the midterm of the following semester), the instructor will submit a grade change form with the grade earned. It is not necessary to re-register for the course. If all of the missing work is not completed by the time specified, the grade reported will be based on the existing work and may be the F grade. Attendance An attendance log will be used for the 10 formal experiments. A missed lab session represents 2.5% of the final grade. With 30 class days in our semester before the final examination, one missed class day is equivalent to about 3.33% of the whole course. Please attend all non-laboratory class sessions if possible and notify the instructor if you have a planned absence.

Student feedback When you log onto your Artemis account later in this semester, you will see a reference to Student Instructional Assessment Report. This is the one opportunity you will have to evaluate this course anonymously and I do encourage students to do this. I try to review these forms the next semester and make changes as needed. Special note about repeating a course Students may repeat a course where a letter grade less than C was earned but may not repeat a course for which they have received a letter grade of C or better. You have three attempts per college credit course to achieve a letter grade of C including the original grade, repeat grades, and withdrawals at any point in the semester. The student will be permitted a maximum of two withdrawals per college credit course. Upon the third attempt, the student will not be permitted to withdraw and will receive a grade for that course. The official grade and the grade used for calculating the GPA shall be the last grade earned in the course. A fourth attempt may be allowed only through a general appeals process based on extenuating circumstances. All students may enroll in a specific college credit course only twice at the regular tuition rate. If the first two attempts are unsuccessful (F and D grades, withdrawals), the third time a student enrolls in a course he or she must pay the full cost of instruction, equivalent to the out-of-state tuition rate, about four times the cost of regular tuition. The instructor understands that "drops" submitted by the early withdrawal date (January 17, 2012) do not count as being enrolled. Special note about children The College has a day care center open until 6PM and it is College policy that children are not allowed in classrooms. Special note about cell phones, music players, and computers Please deactivate all pagers, portable music players, and cell phones during class time. Laptop computers may be used when we are working only to display chapter presentations from Blackboard. Academic conduct The student is expected to work in accordance with the highest standards of honesty. If you falsify data, or copy another student's laboratory results, homework, or test work, such actions will be appropriate grounds for assignment of a zero (0) grade with regard to that work and may result in a referral to the Dean for Student Success for appropriate administrative action. Disabilities The instructor understands that all requests for special accommodations (due to disability) are arranged through Nicole Dyer, Manager of Disabled Student Services (DSS) in the U Building. Please call 646-2191 (Voice and TDD) for assistance. Requests must be made at the beginning of the term. Specific services (such as for a note taker, tutor, reader, scribe, and interpreter) can be provided upon receipt of documentation. No special accommodations can be made without documentation from DSS.

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