PHY 172 - College Physics II Course Department: Science Last Date of Approval: fall 2021
4 Credits Total Lecture Hours: 45 Total Lab Hours: 30 Total Clinical Hours: 0 Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description: This course is a continuation of PHY 162 - College Physics I . Topics covered include waves; electric forces and fields; direct and alternating currents; magnetic forces and fields; ray optics and image formation; and atomic structure. This course will help students refine their critical thinking skills as they evaluate various topics and concepts while searching for underlying connections between the concepts, which is a skill that should be beneficial in any/all types of careers. This course will also help students gain scientific literacy which will be of vital significance when making important life decisions.
Prerequisites: PHY 162 - College Physics I with a C grade or better Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives: - Create a graphical organizer to describe a physical situation such as a force diagram or energy diagram. Then use the graphical organizer to generate a set of equations describing the physical situation.
- Evaluate a physical situation in terms of applicable conservation laws with specific reference to an appropriate graphical organizer and/or set of equations describing the situation.
- Design a laboratory procedure to examine and assess data within the context of an accepted physical model.
Course Objectives Outcome 1: Use the concepts related to wave motion. Task 1: Identify the two main types of waves and provide an example of each. Task 2: Compute the amplitude, wavelength, and period of a wave when given the equation describing the wave. Task 3: Identify the difference between intensity and intensity level and perform calculations using the equation for each. Task 4: Describe the Doppler effect in words and perform calculations using the equation. Task 5: Use the principle of superposition to describe constructive and destructive interference. Task 4: Describe resonance and perform calculations using the equations for open-end and closed-end sound wave resonance in tubes. Outcome 2: Use the concepts of electric charge, interaction of charge, electric field, and relationship of charge and force. Task 1: Use Coulomb’s law to solve problems involving force between two or more charges of like or different sign. Task 2: Define electric field and calculate the field of a point charge, and a system of point charges. Outcome 3: Use concepts of electric flux and its relationship to Gauss’ Law. Task 1: Use electric field lines and electric flux to describe the magnitude and direction of the electric field in a small region of space. Task 2: Define Gauss’ Law and use it to calculate the electric fields that result from highly symmetric distributions of electric charge (near the surface of a charged conductor, near a sheet of charge, and inside and outside a spherical shell). Outcome 4: Use concepts of electrical potential and its relationship to electric field. Task 1: Use electric field lines and electric flux to describe the magnitude and direction of the electric field in a small region in space. Task 2: Determine electric field lines from equipotential surfaces and vice versa. Task 3: Calculate electric potential due to a point charge or a group of point charges. Task 4: Map equipotentials in a plane resulting from two point charges. Outcome 5: Use concepts of current electricity within direct current circuits. Task 1: Use symbols to draw circuit diagrams and wire simple circuits. Task 2: Define current, voltage and resistance and apply the relationship between them for a resistance with negligible temperature dependence (Ohm’s Law). Task 3: Calculate current, voltage, resistance, and capacitance within series and parallel circuits. Task 4: Use Kirchhoff’s laws to solve problems involving multiloop circuits. Task 5: Define capacitance and calculate the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor. Task 6: Solve problems involving RC circuits. Outcome 6: Use concepts of magnetic fields and the sources of magnetic fields. Task 1: Use a galvanometer to construct an ammeter and a voltmeter by adding appropriate resistors to the circuit. Task 2: Use forces on an electron moving in a magnetic field to measure the ratio of its charge to its mass, e/m. Task 3: Calculate the magnetic force on a current carrying wire and between two parallel conductors. Task 4: Calculate the magnetic field of a solenoid and due to a long straight wire. Task 5: Solve problems involving torque on a current loop. Outcome 7: Use concepts of magnetic induction and AC circuits. Task 1: Interpret the meaning of Lenz’s Law and energy conservation. Task 2: Calculate the potential difference, current and the inductive time constant for RL circuits. Task 3: Calculate the energy stored in a magnetic field. Task 4: Calculate inductive reactance in an RL circuit. Task 5: Calculate capacitive reactance in an RC circuit. Task 6: Interpret the meaning of “ELI the ICE man.” Task 7: Solve for phase constant, power factor, and power in AC circuits. Task 8: Calculate input and output currents and voltages in transformer circuits. Outcome 8: Use concepts of electromagnetic waves. Task 1: Use concepts of electromagnetic waves. Task 2: Solve problems involving the equation E/B = C. Task 3: Compare polarized light with non-polarized light. Outcome 9: Use concepts of geometrical optics. Task 1: Compare reflection and refraction and solve problems using the laws of reflection and refraction. Task 2: Solve for the index of refraction using Snell’s Law. Task 3: Compare reflection in plane, concave and convex mirrors. Task 4: Calculate object and image distance and magnification in all mirror types. Task 5: Compare image formation in convex and concave lenses. Task 6: Solve problems dealing with image and object formation and magnification in thin lenses. Task 7: Solve problems using the lens maker’s equation.
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