1. Physics 117 Fall 2013 Electromagnetism and Optics Section 001 MWF 10AM
Instructor:
Dr. Jennifer Weinberg-Wolf – Phillips 216
Graduate Assistants:
Erik Forseyth
Arada Malekian

2. Needed for SCALE-UP Format
Recommended Text: Fundamentals of Physics, 9th Ed. by Halliday, Resnick and Walker (OK to use earlier editions)
Notebook: Quad-ruled (quadrille), 8”×10”, ~90 sheets (sewn binding)
MasteringPhysics (Course ID: MPWEINBERGWOLFFALL2013
Access to Sakai Site
Bring laptop to class

3. Save paper – use notebooks and email!
Open an to me right now:
Your preferred name
Year/Major
Which section of 116 were you in (SCALE-UP or traditional)?
Why physics?
Something interesting about yourself (this helps me learn all your names!)

4. Reasons for Taking Physics 117
You’ll always have something to do on Sat nights
Labs are good protection from the sun’s harmful rays
Multicolored figures keep you from nodding off while reading
E&M is less fattening than M&M
You get to do things math teachers told you not to
Finally answers the question “is it ok to stick a fork into the toaster”
It’s cost-effective - you get to reuse your Phys116 text
You’ll develop a magnetic personality
It’s better than Phys105
Get to use units with cool names like “Henry”

5. Course Schedule and Syllabus
Material to be covered: Chapters in Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, 9th Edition
Electrostatics, Charges at Rest
Steady Currents and Magnetism
Moving Charges, Changing Currents
Induction, and Circuits
Electromagnetic Waves
Optics
For details, see Syllabus and Schedule on Sakai
Note the due dates listed on the schedule – don’t get overwhelmed, but stay on top of the material

6. Grades Final exam (cumulative): 20% Mid-term exams (total): 20%
Quizzes %
Lab activities: %
(15% Reports and notebooks, 5% lab exam)
Other In-class work 10%
(Group worksheets, attendance, general participation, extra-credit*)
Homework (Mastering Physics): 15%
Warm-Up questions (Sakai) 5%
* Extra-credit possibilities: 1 short essay, finding typos in posted work, ing good extra resources

7. Assignments Homework Warmups
MasteringPhysics at
(online homework system):
Course ID: MPWEINBERGWOLFFALL2013
To be assigned roughly once a week – Due Tuesdays at 7AM
Warmups
On Sakai site
1-3 questions before each class period
Due 9 AM before class (1st one this Friday)

8. Lab Notebooks DAILY entry Will be collected and graded at each midterm
Possible spot checks during semester
SHORT Description of Experimental work
Date, diagrams, purpose
Record Observations
Tables
Numbers
Graphs
Mistakes
Analysis and Results – words!
Conclusions/summaries – words again!

9. Collaborative Group Learning
I’m not going to talk a lot!!!! (after today)
Work in groups of three (for the most part)
Depending on the day we will
Do a lab
Show a demo
Work on a worksheet
Work on longer ponderables
Listen to a short lecture
Run a simulation
Watch a video
All of the above!

10. Some data on SCALE-UP…

11. Electrostatics
Play with tape 
Can you get to part 3?