General Physics (2) (Phys2180)

Dr. Abeer Kamal Abd El-AzizEmail : Abeer_kz@yahoo.comAbeer-kz@hotmail.comak.Ali@sau.edu.sa

Course outlines:

Electrostatics, Electric charge Coulomb’s law. The Electric Field - Electric Field of a Continuous Charge

Distribution. Electric Field Lines. Electric potential. Gauss’s law and its applications. Capacitance and dielectrics. Current and resistance and Direct current circuits.

Part A: Electrostatics

Course outlines:

The Nature of Light - Measurements of the Speed of Light. Fermat's principle, Reflection of Light Sign convention in mirrors and lenses. Forming images with a plan mirror, Spherical mirror. Ray tracing and the mirror equation. Refraction law (Snell’s Law ). Refraction through lenses - Lens Aberrations. Optical instruments:

photographic camera – zoom lens – simple microscope – compound microscope – Spectrometer – Refractometer.

Part B: Optics

Teaching pattern:Total Hours : 14 Lectures Credit hours: 4 hrs, 3(3,0,1)Lecture: 42 hr, Experimental Lab: 28 hr

Schedule of Assessment Tasks for Students During the Semester:

AssessmentAssessment task (e.g., essay,

test, group project, examination etc.)

Week dueProportion of

Final Assessment

11st mid- Exam

5th week of the course

10 %

2 2nd mid-Exam

10th week of the course

10%

3 Different activities (Reports, Home Works and Quizzes)

Through the course

10 %

4The final lab exam

16 20 %

5The final term exam

16 -18 50 %

References

D. Halliday, R. Resnick, and J. Walker, Fundamental of physics, J. Wiley & Sons, (8th Ed.) (2007). R. A. Serway and R. J. Beichner, Physics for Scientists and Engineers

with Modern Physics (6th Ed.), John W. Jewett, ISBN-10: 0534408427 | ISBN-13: 978-0534408428, (2003).

F. T. Ulaby, Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics, Prentice Hall; 5th Ed., (2006)

Benjamin Crowell, Optics, 2007,www.light and matter.com.

Benjamin Crowell, Electricity and Magnetism, 2007,www.light and matter.com.

 List Electronic Materials (eg. Web Sites, Social Media, Blackboard, etc.)

http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/category/new 

http://www.lightandmatter.com/