Physics 114 - Spring 2015 - University of Rochester
General Physics II - E&M, Optics, Modern Physics
News:
Have a great summer!!
Ponder this:
"22,000 days. It's not a lot. It's all you got. 22,000 days."
- The Moody Blues
Important Links:
Manly's past exams... because anticipation is always half the fun!
Grades not what you want ... Check out the Trouble-shooting guide
Exam 1 grade distribution (mean 60, median 59)
Exam 2 grade distribution (mean 74, median 74)
Exam 3 grade distribution (mean 69, median 70)
Final exam grade distribution (mean 65, median 65)
Best numerical average distribution in percent of highest possible
Bored? Check these out:
U Colorado modern physics site
University of Oregon physics applet site
A very nice online practice quiz for the use of the right-hand rule in magnetism
Instructor/office hours: 
Steve Manly, Department of Physics and Astronomy
reach via email: steven.manly@rochester.edu
reach via phone: 585-275-8473
reach via feet: B&L 203E
Manly's office hours: Tuesday 2-3 or by appointment
Teaching Assistant Office hours:
Workshop sections:
Laboratory:
email physlabs.em@pas.rochester.edu with question/issues
Applets (copyright UR and Truth & Beauty software)
Coulomb
Electric field
Electric flux
Charged particle in magnetic field
Magnetic field surrounding wire(s)Induction
Electromagnetic plane wave
Polarization in electromagnetic plane waves
Lectures:
Lect 1 - Jan. 14, 2015 - Intro to course, Coulomb's Law, audio
Lect 2 - Jan. 20, 2015 - Electric charge, Coulomb's Law, audio
Lect 3 - Jan. 22, 2015 - Electric field, audio
Lect 4 - Jan. 27, 2015 - Electric field slides (no audio because I didn't think to turn on recorder, similar lecture on same material in past can be found here, slides, audio)
Lect 5 - Jan. 29, 2015 - Electric flux, Gauss' law, audio
Lect 6 - Feb. 3, 2015 - Gauss' law, audio
Lect 7 - Feb. 5, 2015 - end Gauss' law, start of potential, audio
Lect 8 - Feb. 10, 2015 - electric potential, audio
Lect 9 - Feb. 17, 2015 - capacitance, audio
Lect 10 - Feb. 19, 2015 - Energy in E field, audio
Lect 11 - Feb. 24, 2015 - Ohm's Law, resistance, audio
Lect 12 - Feb. 26, 2015 - circuits, Kirchoff's Laws, audio
Lect 13 - March 3, 2015 - RC circuits, start of magnetism, audio
Lect 14 - March 5, 2015 - Lorentz force law, cross product, audio
Lect 15 - March 17, 2015 - Biot-Savart, No audio due to technical problem - Sorry about that, similar lecture here if you want slides, audio)
Lect 16 - March 19, 2015 - Ampere's law, audio
Lect 17 - March 24, 2015 - Induction, audio
Lect 18 - March 26, 2015 - Induction, B in materials, audio
Lect 19 - March 31, 2015 - B in materials, Maxwell's equations, audio
Lect 20 - April 2, 2015 - Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves, audio
Lect 21 - April 7, 2015 - Polarization of EM waves, start of Geometrical optics, audio
Lect 22 - April 9, 2015 - Geometrical optics file 1, file 2, audio
Lect 23 - April 14, 2015 - Physical optics, audio
Lect 24 - April 21, 2015 - Rise of quantum mechanics, audio
Lect 25 - April 23, 2015 - Quantum mechanics, audio
Lect 26 - April 28, 2015 - Quantum weirdness, nuclear physics, audio
typical P114 student at start of class in January
same student just after P114 exam after having worked hard doing all the problem sets and coming to closure with the solutions each week
same student walking out of P114 exam having not done the problem sets religiously
Problem sets:
Problem set 1 - due Jan. 23
Problem set 2 - due Jan. 30
Problem set 3 - due Feb. 6
Problem set 4 - due Feb. 13
Problem set 5 - due Feb. 20
Problem set 6 - due Feb. 27
Problem set 7 - due March 6
Problem set 8 - due March 20
Problem set 9 - due April 3
Problem set 10 - due April 10
Problem set 11 - due April 24
Problem set 12 - not to be turned in
Problem set solutions:
Workshop modules:
Workshop 1 - for week beginning January 26
Workshop 2 - for week beginning February 2
Workshop 3 - for week beginning February 9
Workshop 4 - for week beginning February 16
Workshop 5 - for week beginning February 23
Workshop 6 - for week beginning March 2
Workshop 7 - for week beginning March 16
Workshop 8 - for week beginning March 23
Workshop 9 - for week beginning March 30
Workshop 10 - for week beginning Aprl 6
Workshop 11 - for week beginning April 13
Workshop 12 - for week beginning April 20