Physics 272 (General Physics II)

Tom Browder, University of Hawaii

Useful Information for the Course

• Course Syllabus (Fall 2007 version, update in progress: reload regularly)
  Homework assignments, exam and quiz dates
  
  
• HWK Solutions (in pdf format)
  
  
• 2007 Physics Nobel Prize (Discovery of Giant Magneto Resistance)
  
  
• Schedule for Free Tutoring in Watanabe 421 (in pdf format)
  
  
• Mastering Physics: Login Information and Assignments
  (1st four HW assignments are ready, more assignments are being prepared)
  
  
• Link to Mastering Physics Website (click on the 11 edition, courseID is BROWDERPHSY272)
• Active Online Physics (Simulations for Young and Freedman)
  
  
• Overview of the final exam
  What you should learn from this course
  
  
• Practice Final Exam (pdf format) >>> Practice exam for the final <<
  Handwritten Solutions to Practice Final Exam (pdf format)
  
  
• Practice Exam I (pdf format) Practice exam for midterm 1
  
  
• Practice Exam II (pdf format) Practice exam for midterm 2
  
  
• Makeup Exam (pdf format) Makeup exam for midterm 2
  
  
• Old Midterm I (pdf format) An old midterm exam
  
  
• Another Old Midterm I Another old first midterm exam
  
  
• Old Midterm II (pdf format) The 2nd midterm exam from an old version of this course
  
  
• Old Midterm III (pdf format) The 3rd midterm exam from a past version of this class
  
  
• Old Final a not so recent final exam
  
  

  Computer Exercises

  These are fun and easy exercises designed to help develop physical intuition .
  To print out the results on a PC, go to Word, Word Pad or Paint, and hit the PrintScreen Key to save the plot from a JAVA applet. On UNIX, use the printscreen command. (If you have a problem printing it out the result, it is acceptable to hand in a sketch drawn by hand.)
  
  
• Computer exercise I
  Sketch some representative E field lines for the charge configurations shown in Figure 21.12, Figure 21.26 (b), Figure 21.33 of the Textbook
  
  
• Computer exercise II
  Flip the switch to charge up the capacitor. Flip the switch to discharge the capacitor. Sketch the voltage across the capacitor as a function of time.
  
  
• Computer exercise III
  Sketch the motion for two cases:
  (a) when E and B are perpindicular (no initial velocity). Launch in the default configuration.
  (b) for the case of no electric field (initial velocity in the x -z plane)
  
  Computer exercise IV
• Part (a)
  Map out representative field lines of a bar magnet
• Part (b) Show the field lines of a current carrying wire before and after the direction of the current is reversed.
  
  
• Computer exercise V
  Sketch the direction of the induced current for two cases:
  (a) when tugging the coil to the left
  (b) when tugging the coil to the right
  Note that the induced current vanishes when you hold the coil fixed.
  
  
• Computer exercise VI
  Sketch the incoming, transmitted, reflected rays for
  (I) air, water
  (II) water, air
  (a) for angle of incidence 30^0 (b) for angle of incidence 50^0
  
  
• Computer exercise VII
  Sketch the image and principal rays for
  (I) a converging lens
  (II) a diverging lens
  (III) a diverging mirror
  when the red arrow is placed (a) at the focal point (b) in front of the focal point (c) behind the focal point
  
  
• Computer exercise VIII
  Pick ONE modern technology (X-rays, CAT-Scans, Microwave Ovens, Lasers, TV screens or Laptop Screens).
  Do the Java Applets on this site and then write a one-page summary in your own words of the physical principles that explain how this technology works.
  
  

  Other Useful Links

• Interactive Problems from University of Illinois
  
  
• Slacker's Guide to E+M from Wikipedia
  
  
• Pedagogical E+M simulations from MIT
  
  
• Electricity and Magnetism HyperPhysics Textbook
  
  
• WEB based version of electricity and magnetism at the University of Illinois at Urbana. An entirely WEB based course at the level of the textbook of Tipler
  
  
• Physics for Students and Citzens Explore the world of physics
  
  
• JAVA simulations of electricity and magnetism Click here to see some more examples of electrostatics, electric circuits, magnetism and optics
  
  
  University of Hawaii/ teb#phys.hawaii.edu