PHYSICS 2B(b) (section id: 653673)
	   	     Electricity and Magnetism
			SPRING 2009	

Instructor: 		Kim Griest

Lecture:     	   	MWF 2:00pm -2:50pm, Warren Lecture Hall 2001
Discussion/Problems	Monday 5-7pm: room PCYNH 106

Weekly Quizzes:		Tues 8:00-8:50pm, Peterson Hall 108, starting April 7
  (Require scantron form  No. X101864-PAR (they can be green or red)
  No make-up quizzes, but your two worst scores will be dropped; if you are 
  going to miss 3 or more quizzes, do not take this course)

Griest Office:		337 SERF, 858-534-8914 
Griest Office Hours:	Monday: 3:15-4:15pm (337 SERF) or call for appointment

T.A.:			Mike Erickstad: merickstad@physics.ucsd.edu
T.A. Office hours:	Friday 12:30-1:30pm, physics tutorial center, Mayer Hall
			http://physics.ucsd.edu/students/courses/tutorialcenter/location.html

Text:			Wolfson and Pasachoff, UCSD Custom Edition, 
			Physics for Scienitists and Engineers, 3rd edition

Clicker:		PRS transmitter (RF)

Final:			Fri, June 12, 3 - 6 pm, WLH 2001 
[NOTE: NO LATE OR EARLY FINAL;  CHECK YOUR SCHEDULE NOW!]
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			GRADING POLICY
PSR Transmitter required for class participation credit; 
Purchase a transmitter from the bookstore.

Quizzes:	55% (or as little as 45%)
Final:		45% (or as little as 35%)

Optional Class Participation Credit: up to 10% as judged by daily 
transmitter activity.  This is an optional part of the grade, applying
only to your total quiz score or your final, whichever is worse.
For example, if you bomb the final 
and have 80% transmitter credit by the end, the final will only
count 45% - .8*10% = 37%, the other 8% of your final grade coming
from participation credit.  Do not bring multiple transmitters to
class; extras may be confiscated and will not be allowed.

Homework will be assigned weekly, but will not be collected or graded. 
The solutions to odd numbered problems are in the textbook supplement;  
answers to even numbers will be posted.

Note that the quizzes and final will closely resemble the homework
problems (and the examples in the book).  If you can do all the homework
on your own you will get a good grade in this course.  
If you skip doing homework, you will probably get a poor grade.  
Physics is only learned by the pain of doing the problems on your own.
You cannot memorize things at the end or just read over examples and expect to do well.
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			OUTLINE OF TOPICS
We'll cover pretty much everything in our custom book.  While the book is
short, there are many difficult topics that will require all your math skills
and substantial insight.  This is probably the most difficult of the courses
in the Physics 2 sequence, but is fundamental to understanding how the world
really works.  For example, the concept of a "field" is not easy, but is 
somehow more fundimental than our simple ideas of objects in motion.

Chap 23: Basics of electricity:  electric charge, force, electric fields
Chap 24: Gauss's law:  an important application of vector calculus
Chap 25: The electric potential
Chap 26: Electrictrostatic Energy and Capacitors
Chap 27: Electric current
Chap 28: Electric circuits 
Chap 29: The Magnetic field
Chap 30: Sources of the magnetic field
Chap 31: Electromagnetic induction
Chap 32: Inductance and magnetic energy
Chap 33: Alternating current circuits
Chap 34: Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves