Physics 114 - Spring 2006 - University of Rochester
General Physics II - E&M, Optics, Modern Physics
News:
Grades are submitted. Will try to get all the information to you shortly in WebCT. The final exam distribution and solutions are posted below. The final grade distribution is posted below.
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
Important Links:
Exam grades not as good as you would like? Try the Troubleshooting guide.
Manly's regrade and exam question policy
Final grade (BNA) distribution
Bored? Check these out:
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 2-4 or by appointment
Workshop leaders:
L to R: Elizabeth Groves, Nathan Williams, Jonathon Carroll, Shan Zhao, Ian Kleckner, Josh Symonds
Left: Dylan Pendergast, Right: Jeffrey Klein
Elizabeth Groves
egroves@pas.rochester.edu
Elizabeth's office hour: Monday 6-7pm B&L 373
Nathan Williams
nathanw@pas.rochester.edu
Nathan's office hour: Wednesday 4-5pm B&L 478
Jonathan Carroll
johannjc@pas.rochester.edu
Jonathan's off. hour: Wednesday 1-2pm B&L 405
Shan Zhao
szhao@mail.rochester.edu
Ian Kleckner
ik002m@mail.rochester.edu
Jeffrey Klein
jklein@pas.rochester.edu
Jeffrey tutors physics from 7-9 on Wed. in the POA library
Josh Symonds
joshua.symonds@rochester.edu
Dylan Prendergast
dprender@mail.rochester.edu
Laboratory:
email physlabs@pas.rochester.edu with question/issues
Project and PRS information
Lectures:
Lect 1 - Jan. 19, 2006 - intro to course, start of Coulomb's Law
Lect 2 - Jan. 24, 2006 - Coulomb's law
Lect 3 - Jan. 26, 2006 - induced charge, Coulomb's law, E field
Lect 4 - Jan. 31, 2006 - Electric field
Lect 5 - Feb. 2, 2006 - Gauss' Law
Lect 6 - Feb. 7, 2006 - More Gauss' Law
Lect 7 - Feb. 9, 2006 - Energy and potential in electrostatics
Lect 8 - Feb. 14, 2006 - Electric potential
Lect 9 - Feb. 16, 2006 - Capacitance
Lect 10 - Feb. 23, 2006 - Capacitance, energy in electric fields
Lect 11 - Feb. 28, 2006 - Dielectrics, current
Lect 12 - March 2, 2006 - Resistance, Kirchoff's Laws
Lect 13 - March 7, 2006 -Nerve impuses, RC circuits, Lorentz Force Law
Lecture 14 - March 9, 2006 - Lorentz force law, Biot-Savart
Lecture 15 - March 21, 2006 - Biot-Savart, Ampere's Law
Lecture 16 - March 23, 2006 - Ampere's law, solenoids
Lecture 17 - March 28, 2006 - Magnetic induction, inductance
Lecture 18 - March 30, 2006 - energy in B field, magnetism in materials
Lecture 19 - April 4, 2006 - Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves
Lecture 20 - April 6, 2006 - electromagnetic waves and polarization
Lecture 21 - April 11, 2006 - Geometric optics
geom. optics slides accompanying 4/11, 4/13 and 4/18 lectures
Lecture 22 - April 13, 2006 - tiny bit of geometric optics
Lecture 23 - week of April 17 - Physical optics slides, streaming video
Lecture 24 - April 18, 2006 - The rise of quantum mechanics, Bohr atom
Lecture 25 - April 25, 2006 - Part 1 - Bohr atom, Part 2 - multi-electron atoms
Lecture 26 - April 27, 2006 - magnetic spectroscopy, nuclear physics
Lecture 27 - May 2, 2006 - nuclear physics
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
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