PHY 2140 -
GENERAL PHYSICS
Semester: Fall 2003
Welcome to PHY 2140 (General Physics). Here you'll find all
the information you need about this course. Below is some general info;
my lecture notes can be found at the bottom of this page.
Lecturer
Prof. Alexey A. Petrov,
Room 260 Physics Building,
Phone: 313-577-2739, or 313-577-2720 (for messages)
e-mail: apetrov@physics.wayne.edu
, Web:
http://www.physics.wayne.edu/~apetrov/
Office Hours:
Tuesday 1:00-3:00 PM, on main campus, Physics Research Building, Room
260,
or by appointment.
Course Information:
Laboratory:
The laboratory is a separate part of the course, with its own grades
and procedures. These will be covered by your lab instructor. The
experiments provide tangible demonstration and reinforcement
of the ideas presented during the lectures. In addition, the laboratory
is meant to show the importance of experiments in science. Your
laboratory Manual is to be purchased separately at the University
Bookstore. For further details please inquire with Dr. Scott Payson at
313-577-3280.
Academic Dishonesty:
If you are willing to put forth the effort,
you should have no problem earning a respectable grade. Cheating and
other forms of dishonesty will not be tolerated. Anyone found
cheating on any activity will receive a zero for that part of their
grade and suffer the possibility of receiving a failing grade for
the course.
Students with disabilities:
If you have a physical or mental impairment that may interfere with
your ability to successfully complete the requirements of this course,
please contact the Education Accessibility Services (EAS) in
Room 583 of the Student Center Building to discuss appropriate
accommodations on a confidential basis. EAS can also be reached by
phone at 313-577-1851.
Lecture Notes
Here you can find my lecture notes (as MS PowerPoint presentation files
or Adobe Acrobat PDF files). Normally, these notes will appear here in
the afternoon of the next day after the lecture. You need to have
Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your
computer. See note at the bottom of this page.
Lecture 1 [September 3] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 2 [September 5] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Web-based visualizations
for lecture 2: [force
vectors]
Lecture 3 [September 8] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Web-based visualizations
for lecture 3: [unknown
charges]
Additional problems (with
solutions) for chapter 15: [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
(in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Lecture 4 [September 10] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Web-based visualizations
for lecture 4: [electric
potentials]
Additional problems (with
solutions) for chapter 16: [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
(in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Lecture 5 [September 12] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 6 [September 15] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 7 [September 17] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Web-based
visualizations
for lecture 7: [Ohm's
law] [light
bulb]
Additional problems (with
solutions) for chapter 17: [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
(in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Lecture 8 [September 19] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 9 [September 22] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 10 [September 24] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 11 [September 29] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Additional problems (with
solutions) for chapter 18: [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
(in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Lecture 12 [October 1] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 13 [October 3] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Web-based
visualizations
for lecture 13: [Circular
wire loop] [Three wires]
Additional problems (with
solutions) for chapter 19: [1]
[2]
[3]
[4]
(in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format)
Lecture 14 [October 6] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 15 [October 8] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 16 [October 10] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 17 [October 13] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 18 [October 15] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 19 [October 17] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 20 [October 20] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 21 [October 22] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 22 [October 27] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 23 [October 29] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 24 [October 31] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 25 [November 3] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 26 [November 5] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 27 [November 7] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 28 [November 10] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 29 [November 12] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 30 [November 17] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 31 [November 19] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 32 [November 21] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 33 [November 24] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 34 [November 26] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 35 [December 1] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 36 [December 3] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 37 [December 5] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 38 [December 8] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Lecture 39 [December 10] (
PowerPoint file (.ppt) or Adobe Acrobat
file (.pdf) )
Additional material:
Here you can find additional material (as MS Word documents
or Adobe Acrobat PDF files) that could be useful for you.
EXAM Information can be found HERE.
For your information, sample exams (not actual exams) can be found
below.
Samples: [reading summary] [EXAM 1] [Answers]
[EXAM 2] [Answers]
[EXAM 3] [Answers]
[Final EXAM] [Answers]
Reviews:
[vectors]
Homework
solutions by chapter:
[15]
[16]
[17]
[18]
[19]
[20] [21] [26]
[27] [28]
[29] [30]
Note:
the textbook answer for problem 21 chapter 17 is wrong. Check the
solution above for a correct answer.
EXAM
Grades can be found here: [Exam 1] [Exam 2]
[Exam 3] [Final].
EXAM
Answers can be found here: [Exam 1] [Exam 2]
[Exam 3] [Final].
NOTE:
In order to view lectures
on-line
(not only for this but also for many other courses) you have to
have either Microsoft PowerPoint or Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on
your computer. While Microsoft PowerPoint is commercially-available
software, Adobe Acrobat Reader is available free of charge (most of the
computer systems come with Acrobat Reader already installed). The
current version of Reader is 5.0.
In case that Adobe Acrobat Reader is not installed on your system, you
can download it (free of charge) from the following web address:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html Please contact
your system administrator if you have problems installing this software.
Web-based visualaizations are based on
PhysLet technology (interactive Java applications). You need to have
Java enabled on your computer. At this time, PhysLets can only be
viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer. These problems were developed
at Sir Wilfred
Grenfell College and are based on Physlets developed by Davidson
College .
Movies and additional problems are copyryright of Brooks Cole
Publishing (a division of Thomson
Learning).