PHYS 112 - Introduction to College Physics II

3 Credit: (2 lecture, 2 lab, 0 clinical) 4 Contact Hours: [PHYS 111  or departmental approval]

Goal 1:  Understand the nature and process of doing science. 

1. Distinguish observation from measurement and list their relative merits. 
2. Describe at length the methodologies used in science and the reasons for them. 
3. Indicate that mathematical models and computer simulations are used in studying evidence from many sources in order to form a scientific account of the universe. 
4. Compare and contrast science and religion, art, and technology. 
5. Distinguish physics from other sciences. 

Goal 2:  Understand the types of heat transfer and relate it to changes in temperature. 

1. Convert between Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin temperature systems. 
2. Solve thermal expansion problems. 
3. Define specific heat capacity. 
4. Define latent heat. 
5. Solve calorimetry problems using conservation of thermal energy. 
6. Define conductive heat transfer. 
7. Define convective heat transfer. 
8. Define radiative heat transfer. 
9. Distinguish heating from cooling processes. 

Goal 3:  Understand the underlying causes of thermodynamics and relate these for ideal engines. 

1. Define the kinetic theory of gases. 
2. Define the ideal gas law and the ideal gas constant. 
3. Solve the ideal gas problems. 
4. Determine the average velocity of an ideal gas molecule. 
5. Define the zeroth law of thermodynamics. 
6. Define the first law of thermodynamics - conservation of energy.  
7. Define entropy. 
8. Define the second law of thermodynamics in general terms.  
9. Calculate efficiency in an engine. 

Goal 4:  Calculate the forces and fields of charged objects and explain their motion. 

1. Discriminate between conductor, insulators, semiconductors and superconductors. 
2. Be able to charge objects by friction, conduction, or induction and explain the microscopic process. 
3. Understand standard units of electric Charge and subatomic source of charge. 
4. Explain polarization and the interactions of polarized and charged objects. 
5. Explain what is meant by quantization of charge and charge conservation. 
6. Understand and be able to use Coulomb’s Law. 
7. Explain the nature of the Electric Field. 
8. Be able to define and predict changes in the electric potential of a charge distribution. 

Goal 5:  Explain the flow of charge in electrical circuits. 

1. Explain the flow of energy in a loaded electrical circuit. 
2. Explain electrical current microscopically. 
3. Define electrical resistance and electrical capacitance. 
4. Explain dependence of wire length and gauge on electrical resistance. 
5. Use Ohm’s law to calculate resistances.
6. Physically construct series and parallel circuits. 
7. Differentiate current and voltage across elements in series and parallel circuits. 
8. Calculate resistance for loads in series and parallel. 
9. Calculate electrical power from current and electric potential or from current and resistance. 
10. Distinguish alternating from direct current and know sources of each. 
11. Explain electrical ground and safety purposes of ground wires in electrical appliances. 

Goal 6:  Describe Magnetic fields and what causes them. 

1. Understand that electricity and magnetism are not distinct phenomena but are both caused by charge.  
2. Know that magnetic fields are produced by moving charge and be able to predict the direction of the magnetic field. 
3. Understand the definition of north and south poles and their interactions. 
4. Explain material properties in terms of magnetic domains. 
5. Predict the change in a charged particles motion in the presence of a magnetic field. 
6. Predict the direction of force on a current carrying wire in the presence of a magnetic field. 
7. Explain the source of Earth’s magnetic field and the extended magnetosphere. 
8. Use Faraday’s Law to explain how changing magnetic fields can induce a current. 
9. Use Lenz’s Law to predict the direction of the induced current. 
10. Calculate the voltage, ideal current and ideal power in the secondary coil of a transformer with AC current. 

Goal 7:  Understand the propagation of electromagnetic waves and the human perception of light.

1. Understand that light is a subset of all transverse electromagnetic waves. 
2. Understand that materials can absorb, transmit, or reflect EM waves. 
3. Understand that materials interact with different EM waves differently. 
4. Understand that in vacuum all EM waves travel in straight lines at a speed of 300,000 km/s. 
5. Predict the resolution and size of the umbral and penumbral shadow from the geometry of the object and light source. 
6. Be able to identify the location and type of light receptors in the eye. 
7. Distinguish primary, secondary and complimentary colors. 
8. Add or subtract colors and predict the resulting color. 
9. Explain how scattering affects the perceived color of objects. 

Goal 8:  Understand causes for light reflection, refraction, and polarization and model optical systems. 

1. Be able to explain and use the Law of Reflection. 
2. Under the nature of images produced in mirrors. 
3. Explain refraction in terms of the changed speed of EM waves in different media. 
4. Explain dispersion. 
5. Explain the physical cause of the following visual effects: rainbows, total internal reflection, chromatic aberration, spherical aberration. 
6. Identify the different types of lenses by their geometry or their optical effects. 
7. Use the lens law to predict the place and magnification of an image. 
8. Distinguish real from virtual images and predict which type a lens/mirror will produce. 
9. Explain interference in terms of the superposition principle. 
10. Explain polarization of light and the common uses of polarized filters. 

Goal 9:  Understand the necessity for quantum physics and its basic principles. 

1. Use Plank’s Law to determine energy of EM waves. 
2. Compare contrast Emission, Absorption and Continuous spectra and give example sources of each. 
3. Use Wien’s Law to predict change in peak frequency of emission spectra with temperature. 
4. Compare and contrast Incandescence, Fluorescence and Phosphorescence. 
5. Explain the conundrum of the photoelectric effect. 
6. Explain what is meant by wave-particle duality. 
7. Use DeBroglie’s Law to predict the wavelength of a moving particle. 
8. Use the uncertainty principle to predict the uncertainty of position, momentum, Energy or time. 
9. Explain Bohr’s hypothesis for electronic orbits. 
10. Use Bohr’s atom to predict frequency of emission or absorption spectra. 
11. State at least four distinct pieces of evidence for the validity of Quantum mechanics. 
12. Explain the correspondence principle in relation to quantum and Newtonian mechanics. 

Goal 10:  Understand the causes and process of nuclear reactions (optional-time permitting). 

1. Name the three major types of radiation and identify the product of each. 
2. Define element, isotope, protons, neutrons, and quarks. 
3. Explain the cause of radioactive nuclei. 
4. Use the half-life concept to solve radiometric dating problems. 
5. Explain artificial transmutation. 
6. Compare/contrast fission and fusion. 
7. Explain mass defect and the mass-energy equivalence. 

Goal 11:  Understand the necessity for relativity and its basic principles (optional-time permitting).

1. State the postulates of Special relativity. 
2. List the three major consequences of special relativity that violate Newtonian physics. 
3. Be able to calculate the time dilation and length contraction of a rapidly moving frame of reference. 
4. Contrast Einstein’s view of gravity to Newton’s. 
5. Explain the equivalence principle. 
6. Explain the effects of gravity on the path of light rays and light frequencies. 
7. State at least two distinct sources of evidence for the validity of Special and General Relativity.