Physics 142 - Spring 2014 - University of Rochester
General Physics II - E&M, Optics, Modern Physics
News:
Ponder this:
"22,000 days. It's not a lot. It's all you got. 22,000 days."
- The Moody Blues , in Long Distance Voyager released in 1981"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
- Thomas Alva Edison, Life (1932)
Important Links:
Manly's past exams... because anticipation is always half the fun!
Grades not what you want ... Check out these tips
Exam 1 grade distribution - mean=78, median 80
Exam 2 grade distribution - mean 84, median 87, Wow!
Final exam grade distribution - mean 63, median 63
Best numerical average distribution - mean 76, median 78
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U Colorado modern physics site
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 Assistants:
Mehr Un Nisa: mehr@pas.rochester.edu - Office hour Wednesday 3-4 pm in B&L 373
Inga Koch: ikoch@u.rochester.edu - Office hour Wednesday 2-3 pm in B&L 481
Workshop sections:
DAY |
TIME |
ROOM |
TA/TI Name |
Mon |
1400-1600 (2-4 pm) |
MEL 218 |
TBA |
Mon |
1615-2015 (4:15-6:15) |
WILMT 116 |
TBA |
Tues |
1650-1850 (4:50-6:50) |
B&L 269 |
TBA |
Tues |
1815-2015 (6:15-8:15) |
HUTCH 138 |
TBA |
Wed |
1650-1850 (4:50-6:50) |
B&L 315 |
TBA |
Laboratory:
email physlabs@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)
Electromagnetic plane wave
Polarization in electromagnetic plane waves
Presentation project information
Lectures:
Lect 1 - Sept. 2, 2014 - Intro to course, Coulomb's Law - audio
Lect 2 - Sept. 4, 2014 - Coulomb's Law, Ionization energy of H - audio
Lect 3 - Sept. 9, 2014 - Electric field - audio
Lect 4 - Sept. 11, 2014 - Gauss' Law - audio
Lect 5 - Sept. 16, 2014 - curvilinear coordinates, Gauss' Law - audio
Lect 6 - Sept. 18, 2014 - Gauss' Law, energy - audio
Lect 7 - Sept. 23, 2014 - electric potential - audio
Lect 8 - Sept. 25, 2014 - electric potential and energy - audio
Lect 9 - Sept. 30, 2014 - capacitance, dielectrics - audio
Lect 10 - Oct. 2, 2014 - dielectrics, resistance - audio
Lect 11 - Oct. 9, 2014 - Kirchoff's Laws, start of RC circuits - audio
Lect 12 - Oct. 16, 2014 - RC circuits, Intro to special relativity - audio
Lect 13 - Oct. 21, 2014 - relativity - audio
Lect 14 - Oct. 23, 2014 - magnetism - audio
Lect 15 - Oct. 28, 2014 - Lorentz force law, Biot-Savart - audio
Lect 16 - Oct. 30, 2014 - Ampere's law, start of induction - audio
Lect 17 - Nov. 4, 2014 - Induction - audio
Lect 18 - Nov. 6, 2014 - induction, AC current - audio
Lect 19 - Nov. 11, 2014 - LRC circuits, B in materials- audio
Lect 20 - Nov. 13, 2014 - B in materials, Maxwell's equations - audio
Lect 21 - Nov. 18, 2014 - Maxwell's equations - audio
Lect 22 - Nov. 20, 2014 - EM plane waves - audio
Lect 23 - Nov. 25, 2014 - EM wave polarization - audio
Lect 24 - Dec. 2, 2014 - geometrical optics - audio
Problem sets:
Problem set 1 - due by 7 am on Sept. 12
Problem set 2 - due by 7 am on Sept. 19
Problem set 3 - due by 7 am on Sept. 26
Problem set 4 - due by 7 am on Oct. 3
Problem set 5 - due by 7 am on Oct. 10
Problem set 6 - due by 7 am on Oct. 17
Problem set 7 - due by 7 am on Oct. 24
Problem set 8 - due by 7 am on Oct. 31
Problem set 9 - due by 7 am on Nov. 14
Problem set 10 - due by 7 am on Nov. 21
Problem set 11 - due by 7 am on Dec. 5
Problem set 12 - due by 7 am on Dec. 12
Problem set solutions:
Workshop modules:
Workshop 1 - for week beginning September 8
Workshop 2 - for week beginning September 15
Workshop 3 - for week beginning September 22
Workshop 4 - for week beginning September 29
Workshop 5 - for week beginning October 6
Workshop 6 - for week beginning October 20
Workshop 7 - for week beginning October 27
Workshop 8 - for week beginning November 3
Workshop 9 - for week beginning November 10
Workshop 10 - for week beginning November 17
Workshop 11 - for week beginning December 1
Workshop 12 - for week beginning December 8