University of Maryland

Department of Physics

 

Fall 2012              Prof. Carter Hall Physics 273/273H

 

Title: PHYS 273/273H Introductory Physics: Waves. Oscillations and AC circuits using complex variables, Fourier series and integrals, waves on strings, sound; electromagnetic waves from Maxwell's equations in differential form; physical optics.


Prerequisites: PHYS272 (Introductory Physics: Fields), and MATH241 (Calculus III – Multivariable Calculus).

 

Corequisite: MATH246 (Differential Equations.) or MATH414.

 

Instructor: Prof. Carter Hall, Room 4211B, Phone: 5-6103, e-mail: crhall@umd.edu.

 

Office Hours: Tuesday, and Wednesday, 10:00 am to 11:00 am, and by appointment. You are also welcome to come to my office without an appointment, however I may not be available.

 

Schedule: Four meetings weekly:  M,T,W,H....... 9:00 am - 10:00 am  (PHYS 1204)  

 

Required Texts: The Physics of Vibrations and Waves, H.J. Pain, 6th Edition (2005), ISBN 13: 978-0-470-01296-3.

 

Website: http://www.physics.umd.edu/courses/Phys273/Hall-Fall-2012/

 

Homework: The homework assignment will be posted on the course website each Thursday. It is the student's responsibility to check the website for the assignment each week.  Homework will be collected at the beginning of class each Thursday, except for exam weeks, for a total of 12 homework assignments. The homework problems will be graded on a scale from zero to three: three points if completely correct, two points if mostly correct, one point if mostly incorrect, zero points for entirely incorrect or no answer. No make-up homework will be accepted, but the lowest two homework grades will be dropped when your final grade is calculated.  Homework will not be accepted electronically. If you use a computer but you have trouble printing your results, you may copy them by hand.

 

Lecture: Class time will be spent on a mixture of lecture material and lecture demonstrations.

 

Exams: We will have two in-class exam plus a final exam. The final exam will take place on Monday December 17, from 8:00 am to 10:00 am in PHYS 1204.

 

Honors Section: Honors students will complete an honors project, to be approved by the instructor. Honors students will meet with the each other and the instructor once a month to discuss the status of their projects. Each student will prepare a presentation based on their project to be given to the other honors students at the end of the semester.  There may also be additional homework questions and exam questions for students enrolled in 273H.

 

Grading:

Phys273:

Two in-class exams

 

40%

Final Exam

 

30%

Homework

 

30%

 

Phys273H

Two in-class exams

 

30%

Final Exam

 

25%

Homework

 

25%

Honors project

 

20%