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Physics
180BInstructor: Tony DiMauro
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Office: P-236
Lab: P144
Email: tdimauro@sciences.sdsu.edu
Office Hrs: M-W(9-10 & 2-3) F(9-11)
Dates: Jan. 7 to May 10, 2006
Required Text: Physics, Giancoli, 6th ed.
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"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation or social standards never can bring about reform. Those who are really in earnest are willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation, and publicly and privately, in season and out, avow their sympathies with despised ideas and their advocates, and bear the consequences." Susan B. Anthony
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Instruction
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Requirements
8 Homework Assignments
75 points each (525 pts)
Assigned problems from the chapter
plus readings.
Only, five randomly
chosen problems will graded.
Drop
lowest Homework grade. No
late homework. Due
by Noon.
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8 Quizzes
80 points each (560 pts)
(55 minutes)
4 of 6 basic problems/2
problems fully answered.
Drop lowest Quiz grade. Absolutely,
no makeups.
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Pod
Debate or Research
Paper
150 points
Research
Paper due: April 17, 2006
The winning group of each Pod debate Topic can can choose
to
debate in May
--- OR ---
take the Comprehensive Final!
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1 Comprehensive Final
150 points (100 minutes)
5
of 7 problems fully answered.
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Total Class Points - 1385
Spring 2006 Total Points 1385
Letter Grade / A 1239 pts(90%) / A- 1170 pts(85%)
B+ 1101 pts(80%) / B 1031 pts(75%) / B- 962 pts(70%)
C+ 893 pts(65%) / C 824 pts(60%) / C- 754 pts(55%)
Unit I Unit II Unit III
Chapter 16
Jan.20-23-25
Electric Charge and Field
Sections 1,2,3,5,7,8,9,11,12
Jan. 27-30
Electric Potential Energy
Sections 1,2,3,4,7,9,10,11
HW 16/17 Due: Wed. Feb. 1, 2006
QUIZ 1
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Chapter 18
Feb. 3-6
Electric Currents
Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10
Chapter 19
Feb. 8-10
Electric Currents
Sections 2,3,6,7.8
HW 18/19 Due: Mon. Feb. 13, 2006
QUIZ 2
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Chapter 20
Feb. 15-17
Magnetism
Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11
Chapter 21
Feb. 20-22
Electromagnetic Induction
Sections 1,2,3,4,5,7,8
HW 20/21 Due: Fri. Feb. 24, 2006
QUIZ 3
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March 3-6
Light:Geometric Optics
Sections 1,2,3,4,5.6,7,8,9,10
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HW 22/23 HW Due: Fri. Mar. 10, 2006
QUIZ 4
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Chapter 24
Mar. 20
Optical Instruments
Sections 1,2,3,4,5,10,11,1
Spring Recess
Mar. 13-17
Chapter 25
Mar. 22-24
Optical Instruments
Sections 1,2,3,4,5,10,11,12
HW 24/25 Due: Mon. Mar. 27, 2006
QUIZ 5
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Chapter 26
Mar. 29 - April 3-5
Special Relativity
Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11
HW 26 Due: Fri. Apr. 7, 2006
QUIZ 6
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Chapter 27
Apr. 10-12-14
Quantum Theory
Sections 1,2,3,4,7,8,9,10,11
Chapter
28
Apr.
17-19
Quantum Mechanics
of Atoms
Sections 1,2,3,4,5,8,9,10,11,12
HW
27/28 Due:
Fri. Apr. 21, 2006
QUIZ
7
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Chapter 30
Apr. 24-26
Nuclear Physics
and Radioactivity
Sections 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13
Problems: ,63,45
Chapter 31
Apr. 28 - May 1
Nuclear Energy
Sections 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
HW 30/31 Due: Fri. May 5, 2006
QUIZ 8
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Chapter 33
May 8-10
Astrophysics and Cosmology
Sections 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10
1) Quantum Theory Looks at Time Travel
2) Retina Adapts To Seek The Unexpected, Ignore The Commonplace
3) Physics and the Real World
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