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WELCOME TO PHYSICS102 SEMESTER 2024-2025 (Term 242)

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Course Description & Grading Policy-Term 242

Course Description

A continuation of PHYS 101. Topics covered include wave motion and sound; temperature, first and second law of thermodynamics; kinetic theory of gases; Coulomb’s law; electric field; Gauss’ law; electric potential; capacitors and dielectrics; D.C. circuits; magnetic field; Ampere’s and Faraday’s laws.

Pre-requisite: PHYS 101

Textbook:

"Principles of Physics", by Halliday, Resnick and Walker, Tenth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc (2014).

Teaching Method:

Lectures - Three meetings per week

Recitations- One meeting per week 

Labs- One meeting per week and as per lab schedule (3 hours duration)

All classes (lectures and recitations) will start from the first day of the semester. The labs start from the second week of the semester.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1- Recognize the wave concepts, interference of waves, Doppler Effect.

2- Recognize the nature of temperature, thermal energy, zero, first and second laws of thermodynamics as well as entropy.

3- Recognize Coulomb’s law and Gauss’s Law. Recognize Kirchhoff’s laws.

4- Recognize Biot-Savart’s law and Ampere’s law. Recognize Faraday’s and Lenz laws.

5- Find electric fields of different charge distributions.

6- Find magnetic field of different current distributions.

7- Work in small teams in solving problems during recitation classes and performing experiments in the labs.

Phys 102 Lecture Schedule (Term 242)

Text Book: (Principles of Physics, Halliday, Resnick, &Walker, 10th Ed)

Phys 102 Lab Policy

• Students must bring the supplies they need such as, Lab notebook (graph notebook), pencil, ruler, calculator, eraser … etc.
• Students can download the write-up of each experiment from Phys102 webpage.
• Students will read the write-up, do the experiment, and write the report.
• Students are expected to work in groups during the data collection part. Then, every student will compile his own lab report i.e. lab reports should be written individually, and not shared with others. Any cheating, copying, and sharing attempts of the lab reports will be dealt with severe consequences according to the university policy.
• Students should finish their lab work during the lab session and submit it to the lab instructor before the end of the lab session.
• Using mobile phones is not allowed in the labs. Students should keep their mobiles in their pockets or their bags, any student showing his mobile should consider as cheating case.

• According to the Labs safety guidelines foods and beverages are not allowed in the labs.

• The instructor will spend the lab duration interacting with students, monitoring their work, and answering their questions.
• The instructor will decide whether to provide different parameters for different students to minimize cheating.
• The instructor must collect all the reports before leaving the lab​.
• Lab reports and quizzes should be graded and returned to the students by the next lab session.
• At the end of the semester, the lab instructor will send raw grades to the technical course coordinator. The technical course coordinator will average the lab grades with a section average of 14 out of 20 and post the raw and final lab grades on Blackboard.

Phys 102 Lab Schedule Term-242

 * The lab schedule may change according to the time of the major exams.

Phys 102 Office Hours Term-242

Need Help in PHYS 102?
You are encouraged to seek help from any instructor teaching phys102 even if he is not your instructor.

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