PHYSICS 105; Spring2005

2. Understanding the basic principles governing elementary mechanics. Topics include scalar and vector quantities, rectilinear motion, equilibrium and Newton's laws of motion, friction, work and energy, impulse, and momentum.

3. Insight to the scientific process: experience with theory surrounding commonly observed phenomena, experimentation, and interpretation pertinent to the fundamental laws of mechanics and conservation laws.

COURSE MATERIAL

Textbooks: Fundamentals of Physics, Seventh Edition, Volume 1 (7^th Edition), by Halliday, Resnick and Walker, (John Wiley and Sons, 2005, ISBN = 0-471-42959-7)

Supporting Materials: Active Physics, Second Edition, by Van Heuvelen and Gautreau (Wiley Custom Svc.)

COURSE REQUISITES

LABORATORY COURSE: The associated laboratory course, Physics 105A, must be taken concurrently unless you have previously taken and passed Physics 105A. The grading for the laboratory is separate from the course/recitation/workshop and the grades are given by the laboratory instructors.

The Physics Laboratory Manual, Part I is required and it is available on the Web at http://physics.njit.edu/classes/physlab

WORKSHOP: Physics-A Workshop, Physics 105W, is an integral component of the Phys 105 course/recitation offered in the current semester and it must be taken concurrently. The grade earned in Phys 105W contributes to the final grade for the Phys 105 course. Therefore, it is the student's responsibility to register for the workshop.

YOU MUST REGISTER FOR THE LECTURE/RECITATION (Phys 105), THE PHYSICS WORKSHOP (Phys 105W), AND THE LABORATORY COURSE (Phys 105A) SEPARATELY. WITHDRAWAL FROM ANY OF THESE WILL CAUSE A SIMULTANEOUS WITHDRAWAL FROM ALL OTHER Phys 105 COURSES.

ATTENDANCE:

Attendance at lectures, recitations and workshops is mandatory.

ANY STUDENT MISSING A TOTAL OF 3 CLASSES, WHICH CAN BE ANY COMBINATION OF LECTURE, RECITATION, OR WORKSHOP, WILL BE DROPPED FROM THE COURSE.

Attendance records are periodically reported to the Dean of Freshman Studies throughout the semester. Students with absences need to discuss the reasons for their absences with the Dean.

GRADING
Commitment and preparedness are critical to success in Physics 105. Reading assigned material and working out assigned problems before they are discussed in class will positively affect your performance.

The final grade in Phys 105 will be composed of the following items:

Common Exams: (15% each; 45% total) Three common exams will be given during the semester. The test schedule is given below. The problems in the Common exams will be a combination of multiple-choice and workout type problems.

Exam Schedule:

Common Exam 1 Friday, February 11, 8:30 – 9:45 am room TBD

Common Exam 2: Friday, March 4, 8:30 – 9:55 am room TBD

Common Exam 3: Friday, April 15, 8:30 – 9:55 am room TBD

1. Lecture Quizzes: . (7%) A short lecture quiz will be given during each lecture or recitation period. These quizzes will cover the concepts of the preceding week’s lecture and related homework problems.

2. Homework: (8%).

Homework problems will be assigned at the Homework Service at Texas University: http://hw.ph.utexas.edu/roster.html. You must sign in with a course number given by your class instructor. Note that you do not need to fill up access password box. Visit Student Instructions to learn how to pick up and submit homework. The student home page is http://hw.ph.utexas.edu.

4. Workshop: (10%) The Workshop instructor will evaluate student performance at the Workshops and will report the attendance and the grades to the course instructor weekly.

5. Final Exam: (30%) A comprehensive test on the semester's work will be given during the Finals week.

The following grade scale will be used to assign percentage of points earned to a letter grade for the course: NOTE GRADES LESS THAN 50% are FAILING.

A     80+
B     70-74
B+ 75-79
C     55-64
C+   65-69
D     50-54
F      < 50

Lecture Quizzes: There is no make-up for the lecture quizzes. Students missing a Lecture quiz receive a grade of zero for that quiz. The lecture quizzes are intended to assess the study habits of the students on the new concepts and to help them stay in step with the flow of the course. Any make-up offer will give an unfair advantage to those students since it will give them extra time to study.

Homework assignments: Homework assignments must be turned in by the assigned cutoff date (Typically Mondays at midnight). All Homework must be turned in via the online service. No paper copies will be accepted. No late homework will be accepted.

MAKE-UP COMMON EXAMS
The general policy is that students who miss a common exam will receive a score of zero for that Exam.. That score will be included in the calculation of your final grade. Students that miss two common exams automatically fail the course. Students who anticipate an absence from a common exam should discuss their situation with their instructor PRIOR TO their absence. In order to be qualified to take a receive a "make-up" common exam score (a very rare occurrence), the student should present documentation for not being able to take the test as is the standard policy of the institution. This documentation should be presented to their Physics 105 instructor. Students who miss common exams that do not present documentation with 7 days of the common exam will receive a score of zero for the common exam.

Common Exams: In the event that the above qualification is met, a separate make-up test for the missed common quiz will not be offered. Instead, the part of the final exam relevant to the contents of the missed test will be considered for giving a grade for the missed test. The instructor will look at the final exam questions from those chapters and normalize this portion of the student’s grade for the missed common quiz. If a student misses more than one common quiz and has documentation, he/she should discuss the situation with the Dean of Student Services, - (973) 596-3466, 2^nd floor Campbell Entry.

Final Exam: The standard institution policy applies to the make-ups for the final exam. In order to get an incomplete (I), the student should have met all the course requirements with a C average standing for the completed part of the semester’s work. Any requests for taking the final at a different time is an anomaly and the student should be sent to the dean if he/she has a documented reason.

Honor Code Violations/Disruptive Behavior:
NJIT has a zero-tolerance policy regarding cheating of any kind and student behavior that is disruptive to a learning environment. Any incidents will be immediately reported to the Dean of Freshman Studies. In the cases the Honor Code violations are detected, the punishments range from a minimum of failure in the course plus disciplinary probation up to expulsion from NJIT with notations on students' permanent record. Avoid situations where honorable behavior could be misinterpreted.

No eating or drinking is allowed at the lectures, recitations, workshops, and laboratories.

Cellular phones must be turned off during the class hours.

RESOURCES: Students are encouraged to meet with their instructor during posted office hours. In addition, the Physics Learning Center, located in 401T, is open to all students and provides tutoring by faculty and experienced students. A schedule is posted outside of 401T.

PHYSICS 105 TEXT READING ASSIGNMENTS and RECITATION PROBLEMS

Week	Subject	Reading Assignment	Recitation Problems	Lab
Week 1 1/18 - 1/23	Introduction, Measurement	Ch 1	1, 3, 12, 20, 24, 35, 36, 44, 57,59	Intro
Week 2 1/24 - 1/30	Motion Along a Straight Line, Motion Diagrams	Ch 2, Sect 1-7, 9,10	1,4,5,13,19,21,25,27,31, 37,40,53	104
Week 3 1/31 - 2/6	Vectors	Ch 3, Sect 1-7	3,4,7,10,11,17,25,32, 55,76	103s
Week 4 2/7 - 2/13	Motion in Two and Three Dimensions - Projectile Motion	Ch 4, Sect 1-7	2,8,14,16, 18, 22,23, 34,39,41	109, pt 1
Common Exam I on Feb 11th, 8:30-9:45AM (Weeks 1 –4)
Week 5 2/14 - 2/20	Force and Motion – I Free Body Diagrams	Ch 5, Sect 1-6	Questions 1,2,3,5,7 Problems 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7	G1&G2
Week 6 2/21- 2/27	Force and Motion – I Effect of Forces on Motion; Newton’s Three Laws	Ch 5, Sect 7-9	9,11,12,16,18,25,28, 31,47,51,54	112
Week 7 2/28- 3/6	Force and Motion – II Properties of Friction	Ch 6, Sect 1-3	1,2,8,12,16,21,23,25, 28	113
Common Exam II on March 4th, 8:30-9:45AM (Weeks 5 –7)
Week 8 3/7- 3/13	Force and Motion – II Circular Motion Centripetal Forces	Ch 6, Sect 5	36,37,38,40,44,47,49, 49,51,52	105
Week 9- Spring Recess March 14th to March 20th
Week 10 3/21– 3/27	Kinetic Energy and Work (Vectors – Scalar Product)	Ch 7 & Ch 3, Sect 8	1,2,4,6,8,13,15,18,22, 23,30,41	107
Week 11 3/28 - 4/3	Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy	Ch 8, Sect 1-5	Questions 1,2,3,4,7 Problems 6,7,11,13,18 19,27,31	I OCS
Week 12 4/4 - 4/10	Conservation of Energy Problem Solving	Ch 8, Sect 7, 8	44,46,48,50,51,53,58 61,66	125
Week 13 4/11 - 4/17	System of Particles Linear Momentum	Ch 9, Sect 1-5	1,4,5,10,13,15, 18, 20, 21	128
Common Exam III on April 15th, 8:30-9:45AM (Weeks 8 –13)
Week 14 4/18 - 4/24	Collisions and Impulse Conservation of Momentum	Ch 9, Sect 6-8	23,24,25,27,29,30,33, 42,44	126
Week 15 4/25 - 5/1	Collisions in One and Two Dimensions	Ch 9, Sect 9-11	47,48,50,55,60,62,65, 67	101
Week 16 5/2 - 5/3	Review for Final	Note: May 4th is a READING Day
Final Comprehensive Exam (Time in period 5/5 - 5/11to be announced)

ONLINE HOME WORKS at University of Texas

Step#1:

Starting page with instructions: https://hw.utexas.edu/bur/studentGuestEID.html read and go to the following link

Step#2:

Create UT ID: https://utdirect.utexas.edu/nlogon/eid_suite/essentials/create_eid.WBX?portal_role=O

Step#3

Login to do the HW: https://hw.utexas.edu/

Line #1 Choose the Course ID

105 section 006 -----> UT Class Number 99802

105 section 008 -----> UT Class Number 99803

Line #2 Your Last Name and the First Name (You will be identified by this name for the final grade)

Line #3 write “none”

Step#4 press “OK” (do not be surprised by the Instructor’s Name. Prof. Trevor Tyson is our course supervisor.

Step#5 click on the link “9980x with instructor Trevor Tyson” and you should see the following:

NEED HELP? Send e-mail to Phys105 Teaching Assistant:

Chi Yu: cy25@njit.edu and copy to me: sirenko@njit.edu