Instructor: Professor Richard Haglund — 6422 Stevenson
Telephone: 2-7964 — E-mail: richard.haglund@vanderbilt.edu
Lecture: 9:35-11:00 Tuesday-Thursday — 4327 Stevenson
Office hours in 6422 Stevenson:
1:30-3:30 p.m. Thursday
or by appointment
Secretary: Ms. Carol Soren — 6411 Stevenson — Phone 3-4431
This course is designed primarily for engineering students, and aims to develop an understanding of the fundamental principles of electricity, magnetism, optics and quantum physics at an introductory level, using elementary differential and integral calculus. Applications to engineering will be presented through case studies.
The course has as a co-requisite introductory first-year calculus. Lectures will provide illustrative, but not exhaustive, coverage of the reading assignments. (Plain text: Study the book carefully!) The syllabus, lecture and examination schedule is coordinated with Section 2 (Professor Will Johns). Downloadable copies of course materials can be found at the course site on OAK.
The text for Physics 116B is Young and Freedman, University Physics with Modern Physics, 11th edition.
ATTENDANCE: Both the College of Arts and Science and the School of Engineering expect students to attend all scheduled meetings of the classes in which they are enrolled. (See the Undergraduate Catalog, pages 153 and 516.) In this class, it is expected that students will not miss class except for the following reasons:
• Participation in sponsored University activities, such as debate team or varsity sports;
• Serious illness or a death in a student's family; or
• Matters relating to academic training (e.g., graduate or professional-school interviews).
Students whose performance in class appears to be adversely affected by poor attendance will be reported to the Dean of the College or the Dean of Engineering, who will consult with the instructor on appropriate action, which may include dropping the student from the course.
HOMEWORK: Several problems will be assigned in conjunction with every lecture. These will be submitted to and graded by the Mastering Physics automated on-line homework system. These homework assignments will count for 15% of your final grade. While you are welcome to discuss the homework with your fellow students or with the teaching assistants at the Help Desk, the homework you submit should represent substantially your own efforts. Merely copying the work of other students not only subverts the objective of helping you learn to solve problems; it is also a violation of the Honor Code.
After you have logged in, you will find your homework assignments and a link to an instruction manual. All students work the same problems; however, in many cases, the numerical data will differ from student to student so that no two answers are the same.
HONOR CODE: All examinations will be carried out in strict accordance with the Vanderbilt Honor Code. In particular, communication during examinations, programming of unauthorized material into hand-held calculators, plagiarism or cheating in any of its manifold disguises will not be tolerated. If you are unsure about what constitutes a violation of the Honor Code, please ask. Ignorance is no excuse!
GRADING: The numerical course grade will comprise the weighted average of three highest of the four in-class examinations (20% each), the final examination (25%), and homework (15%). In cases where the numerical score falls on the boundary between two letter grades, class attendance and participation in class discussions may be used to determine the final letter grade.
