PHYS 151 Syllabus

A. Instructor: Galen T. Pickett

Office: HSCI-260

Phone: 562 985 4934

Email: [email protected]

Office hours: Online M and W 5-6pm, Beachboard online “room”

http://www.csulb.edu/~gpickett/physonline151/physonline151.html

B. Meeting Time: Online

Location: Online

Section: Online

C. Learning Outcomes.

Welcome to PHYS 151, “Mechanics and Heat.” In this class we will explore the foundations of modern mechanics from the point of view of our current, best understanding of the physical universe. We will focus on a relatively small number of fundamental principles in the course, and how to put them together into a cohesive explanation of how and why objects move as they do. This is a course in your General Education Program, addressing Critical Thinking, Quantitative Reasoning, and Teamwork (in the laboratory and in your Koondis Team).

D. Required Texts and materials

· Matter and Interactions, Vol. 1, 3rd Edition, Chabay and Sherwood

· Smartphone or computer with internet connectivity

· WebAssign License

E. Types and sequence of assignments and basis for assigning course grade:

The course grade will be determined by: A=90-100, B=80-89, C=70-79,D=60-69,F<59

Your course grade will be determined by:

25%: WebAssign online homework assignments due online every Saturday at 9:00 am.

25%: Laboratory. Missing 2 laboratory assignments during the semester will result in you earning an F in this course. Laboratory assignments occur most weeks, and are due Saturdays at 9pm.

50%: Exams, quizzes, and final exam apportioned as follows and on the following dates:

20% Exam I: Online, week 3: Group Exam Sun-Fri. Individual Exam, Saturday June 13, 5-6pm.

20% Exam II: Online, week 6: Group Exam Sun-Fri. Individual Exam, Friday July 3,5-6pm.

10% Koondis Team Work, due Thursdays, 9pm (exceptions noted below).

Exams will become available for download at 5:00 pm on the exam date, and you will have until 6:00pm on the same date to construct your solutions to the two problems on the exam. You can take a picture of your work or scan it and upload it to the “dropbox” in Beachboard.

F. Withdrawals: No instructor or office staff can add or change a class for you. Only YOU, THE STUDENT, can add or change classes in YOUR schedule. You may either add classes on-line through your MyCSULB account or in person at Enrollment Services during the registration period. Each student is responsible to check their MyCSULB account weekly to be certain that the Class Schedule listed accurately reflects the courses s/he is enrolled in for the current semester. Students should also check for any notices the University has sent to them.

G. Any student missing class for a university-approved absence (university business, illness) is entitled to a reasonable make-up assignment.

H. Any student requiring accommodation through DSSC should see me about arranging accommodations.

I. Schedule and online resources: If your textbook came with a WebAssign license, please login at www.webassign.com with your CSULB student id number as your username, and your email address as your password. Please change your password when you first login.

Koondis Team Work (KTW). These are assignment you will complete in assigned groups throughout the term. The problems you will be solving come from the homework, and will help you to prepare for homework and exams. You will need to answer the invitation email from “learn.koondis.com” with login details. Your grade results from the number of posts you make and the number of votes you execute on the forum site.

Laboratories: There will be laboratory exercises during weeks 1, 2 and 4, 5 during the term. The first is meant to familiarize you with the mechanisms for collecting data with which to analyze the motion of real-life objects. After that, you will propose experiments in response to a “Request for Proposals,” approved experiments will be performed the following week (you may be required to perform an experiment proposed by another group). Laboratories will be performed in your Social Homework Groups.

PHYS 152 Sec 01 10956 Electricity and Magnetism - Syllabus

1. A. Instructor Information

2. B. Course Description

3. C. Learning Outcomes and Course Objectives

4. D. Teaching Philosophy

5. E. Required Texts and Materials

6. F. Selection of Key Learning Resources

7. G. Assigned Course Grade

8. H. Assessment

9. I. Course Policies and Procedures

10. J. Course Calendar and Schedule and Due Dates

11. K. Activities

12. L. Homework

13. M. Office Hours

14. N. Koondis (Team Work)

15. Laboratory

Instructor Information

· Instructor: Thomas Gredig

· Office: CSU Long Beach, HSCI-272D

· Phone: (562) 985-4922

· Email: [email protected]

· Office Hours: Online in Beachboard Illuminate Virtual Room, We 3:00pm – 4:00pm (PST)

· Meeting Time: see Office Hours, daily activities, see schedule below

· Location: Online

· Term: Summer: 2015

· Section:  TBD

Course Description

PHYS 152 “Electricity and Magnetism” completes the “Introduction to Physics” sequence started with PHYS 151.  This second part covers topics such as Coulomb's law, electrostatics, capacitors, electric circuits, introductory electronics, magnetic fields, induction and Maxwell's equations, and light. We will focus on a small number of fundamental principles. Using the fundamental principles of electricity and magnetism, we will then construct a cohesive explanation of how to understand electro-magnetic interactions.

PHYS 152 LAB “Electricity and Magnetism” complements the seminar. In a combination of individual home experiments, team design, reports, communication, and peer evaluation, the laboratory experience provides the essential connection between real life and the framework developed in the seminar.

Pre-requisite for PHYS 152 is PHYS 151; a co-requisite/pre-requisite is MATH 123.

Learning Outcomes / Course Objectives

1. Students will be able to apply the fundamental laws of E&M, such as Coulomb’s Law, Biot-Savart Law, Gauss’ Law, and Maxwell’s equations, to diverse problem sets.

2. Students will be able to measure, analyze, and evaluate resistive and capacitive circuits.

3. Students will be able to program microcontrollers to perform experiments, collect data, and write structured reports with graphs.

4. Students will be able to work and collaborate in different roles in small teams.

Teaching Philosophy

This course has a strong component in critical thinking, quantitative reasoning, problem solving, synthesis, evaluation, and teamwork. This is reinforced through context-rich problems managed in the advanced discussion forum, which incorporates Bloom’s taxonomy and Heller’s approach [Am. J. Phys. 60, 637, 1991] to cooperative teams and work in small teams (4-5 members). Team in Estonian is called Koondis, which is a platform integrated in the course to discuss, evaluate, design, and analyze course materials in a forum. Secondly, hands-on experience is an important aspect of learning and interacting with nature. This course will enable you to make basic electrical measurements, discover and evaluate experimental results with the hope to continue that practice after course completion.

Required Texts and Materials

1. Matter and Interactions, Vol. 2, 3rd Edition, R. Chabay and B. Sherwood (http://matterandinteractions.org/)

2. Computer with USB, Java, and Arduino; Smartphone with Camera.

3. E&M Lab Kit; it includes 3 items from http://www.SparkFun.com, which are DEV-11021 (Arduino UNO – R3), KIT-13147 (Moog Werkstatt), CAB-10215 (USB cable). You will also need a compass, Al foil, and possibly other household items, like Saran wrap.

4. Koondis access for homework (see http://www.koondis.com) and lab reports.

5. Photo camera and video camera (could be phone) to record experiments, share data.

6. Bound notebook with numbered pages (can be hand-numbered).

Selection of Key Learning Resources (arbitrary order)

1. Koondis, online team discussion forum: http://www.koondis.com

2. PHET Simulations: http://phet.colorado.edu

3. Arduino Microcontroller: http://www.arduino.cc/

4. GlowScript Simulation: http://www.glowscript.org/

5. Matter and Interactions Textbook : http://matterandinteractions.org/

6. Cooperative Team Problem Solving in Physics:  http://tinyurl.com/ProblemSolvingCh2

Assigned Course Grade

The course grade will be determined by total number of points (10 points ~ 1%):

A=900 and more, B=800-899, C=700-799,D=600-699,F<=599, following values outlined here: http://www.csulb.edu/divisions/aa/catalog/current/academic_regulations/

· 11 Homework, 10 points/each

· 9 Activities + 2 Assessments, 10 points/each

· 12 Quizzes, 5 points/each

· 12 Office Hours, 4 points/each

· 10 Team Tasks, 16 points/each

· 6 RFPs, 10 points/each

· 10 Lab Evaluations, 5 points/each

· 2 Team Exams, 40 points/each

· Midterm, 50 points

· Final Exam, 140 points (written + oral)

All Exams are scheduled for Friday from 7 - 8pm (PST), and the final exam from 7-9pm (PST).  You will need to have online presence at those times.

Assessment

Several different tools to assess progress in the course are used, including:

1. multiple-choice quizzes

2. open-ended questions (team exams, midterm, final exam)

3. oral evaluation (office hours, final exam)

4. standard evaluations (assessments)

5. hands-on experiments (videos, reports, evaluations)

6. quantitative text analysis (koondis)

Course Policies and Procedures

1. Withdrawals: No instructor or office staff can add or change a class for you. Only YOU, THE STUDENT, can add or change classes in YOUR schedule. You may either add classes on-line through your MyCSULB account or in person at Enrollment Services during the registration period. Each student is responsible to check their MyCSULB account weekly to be certain that the Class Schedule listed accurately reflects the courses she/he is enrolled in for the current semester. Students should also check for any notices the University has sent to them.

2. Make-up policy: All homework, activities, quizzes, and lab components (including RFPs, reports, evaluations, etc.) have definite deadlines. If the deadline is not met, 0 points are assigned, unless agreed on differently in writing.

3. Any student missing lab, team exam, midterm, or final exam for a university-approved absence (requires documentation) is entitled to a reasonable make-up task. The absence needs to be discussed with the instructor within one week of the absence. Unexcused absence from any scheduled event will be recorded as 0 points.

4. Lab Policy: two or more missing lab reports results in a failing grade for the lab component (Lab RFP, Lab Report, Lab Evaluation). A passing grade in the course is not possible with a failing grade in the lab (Lab RFP, Lab Report, Lab Evaluation).

5. Any student requiring accommodation through DSSC should contact me about arranging accommodations during the first week of class.

6. Homework logins: (A) Please register with WebAssign (webassign.net) in the first 2 days of the course beginning. Any problems must be reported within the first 2 days. (B) All registered students will receive an invitation email from Koondis (www.koondis.com) at the beginning of the course. If you do not receive it, please check your spam folder, or send an email to the instructor requesting a new invitation code within the first 2 days of the course beginning. Please sign in using a username that is useful for communication; i.e. “ThomasG”.  In particular, please note that you are not allowed to use your student ID as the username; instead choose a username that includes your name in some form. You will be using this site for both the teamwork, as well as the laboratories. It is your responsibility to secure login credentials before the due dates. Extensions will only be provided in University-approved circumstances, see CSULB policies.

7. CSULB Cheating/Plagiarism/Fabrication Policy: CSU Long Beach takes issues of academic dishonesty very seriously. If you use any deceptive or dishonest method to complete an assignment, take an exam, or gain credit in a course in any other way, or if you help someone else to do so, you are guilty of cheating. If you use someone else’s ideas or work and represent it as your own without giving credit to the source, you are guilty of plagiarism. This does not apply if the ideas are recognized as common knowledge, or if you can show that you honestly developed the ideas through your own work. Any instructor can show you the correct ways of citing your sources, and you should use quotation marks, footnotes or endnotes and bibliographic references to give credit to your sources according to the standard formatting.

8. Responses, Penalties and Student Rights: Students should consult the appropriate sections of the Catalog for examples of cheating, fabrication and plagiarism, and instructor and/or CSULB response options in such circumstances. The Catalog also outlines student rights. Any instance of academic dishonesty may result in your immediate expulsion from the class with a grade of “F” and/or other sanctions, as the instructor deems appropriate.

Course Calendar / Schedule / Due Dates

Please note that every module lasts 1 week. Changes will be noted on Beachboard. Reading Assignment A is due on Monday (except for first reading, which is due on Tuesday), and Reading Assignment B is due on Wednesdays. All deadlines are 11:59pm (PST).

Activities

Each activity includes a simulation. This is an individual task where you make predictions first, then perform a simulation (usually at http://phet.colorado.edu). The predictions along with the results from the simulations, any screenshots, and its conclusion are submitted in the Beachboard Dropbox either as a PDF or Word Document.

Homework

The weekly homework is submitted via http://www.webassign.net

Office Hours

Online in Beachboard Illuminate Virtual Room, We 3:30pm – 4:30pm (PST).

Koondis (Team Work)

Problems are solved in small teams online at http://www.koondis.com. The problems are posted on the platform and solved within the team. The grading is based on “activity”. To generate “activity”, you can post questions or answers for the team, help peers in other teams, read discussions, like and thank peers. Regular participation is strongly encouraged. Full, rich sentences and clarity are deemed “higher” activity. The full activity grade is based on the individual and team participation. Team exams will be solved in the same teams. All participating team members will get the same grade, non-participating members will get 0 points. Please follow the additional posted instructions and video on how to use the system.

Team Exams will also take place on the collaborative Koondis platform. However, the time for collaboration will be limited.

Laboratory

The lab consists of projects that you will perform at home. You will need the E&M Lab Kit to perform the labs. In addition, you should have tape, aluminum foil, and plastic wrap available.  You will turn in a total of 6 Team Proposals, 6 Individual Reports, and 10 Personal Peer Evaluations (2 per assignment).

The lab will be fun and is modeled in style similar to PHYS 151 Online lab. It was developed to imitate the professional sciences, where experiments get funded, data is collected, reports are submitted, and then peer reviewed. Not all experiments work and it is expected that some experiments will not lead to the predicted results; discoveries are made through changes. Predictions are always made before the experiment is executed. This allows for a comparison, analysis and evaluation of the experimental results. At the end, the reports will be peer-reviewed.

Initially, there is a request for proposals (RFP) on Koondis. The RFP sets the conditions for your proposal. Your team will create a proposal for the measurements that you are going to perform, include details about the setup, materials, and you make predictions. The proposal is submitted via the “ShowCase” on Koondis for your team. The instructor reviews the proposals and by Sunday night “funds” the top proposals.

On Monday, teams will choose one of the “funded” projects and perform the “lab” accordingly. Data is collected individually and individual lab reports are submitted via the Showcase on Koondis. In the title include your name and a title for the report. The report must include the following clear sections:

1. Title

2. Author

3. Abstract

4. Introduction, Prediction, Graphs

5. Experiment, Tables, Graphs

6. Analysis, Graphs

7. Conclusion

8. Acknowledgment

9. References / Bibliography

The following week, everyone is responsible to post two lab report evaluations for another showcase. Your evaluation follows the rubric learned in this course. The evaluation should be courteous, yet helpful; at the minimum it should provide two positive feedback reflections, and two reflections that will help the writer improve the report next time. The author of the report is encouraged to clarify and respond to the comments.

Approximate outline of lab topics:

Lab 1:  Electrostatics: Charges on Tape (Tapes, Measurement Tool) Lab 2:  Electric Fields (Arduino + High Resistor) Lab 3:  Magnetic Fields (Battery, Wire, Compass) Lab 4:  Building a Capacitor (Al foil, Saram wrap, Arduino) Lab 5:  Circuits with Resistors in Parallel and Series (Arduino, Resistors) Lab 6:  Analysis of an RC circuit (Arduino, Resistors, Capacitors)