• Lectures start from Tuesday January 9, 2024

  -> Wed, Thurs, Fri 14:00-15:00, Venue: TH325 [Check Timetable]

  -> Weekly quiz: Tues 14:00-15:00, Venue: TH325

• This course uses Brightspace to accept your completed homework and lab reports. For latest announcements, up-to-date information, and course materials, monitor the Brightspace page.
• To help you plan, the important dates of the current academic year are listed here.
• The course uses a free online textbook from OpenStax.

What Brock calendar entry says:

Statics and dynamics of fluids; heat and thermodynamics; geometrical and wave optics; electric and magnetic forces; DC circuits and special relativity.

What do I need to bring into the course?

This course is suitable for students with a high school science background. High school calculus or Physics are not required, but strong skills in elementary algebra, geometry, and trigonometry are necessary: the course is quantitative in nature. A non-graphing scientific calculator is required. PHYS 1P21/1P91 is prerequisite to this course.

Textbook

https://openstax.org/details/college-physics.

Topics to be covered

As time permits, some topics not listed below may be added, while some other topics may not be covered during lectures and tutorial sessions. The outline below is only an approximation.

• Fluid Statics: Sections 11.1-11.7.
• Fluid Dynamics: Sections 12.1-12.3.
• Temperature & Gas Laws: Sections 13.1-13.5.
• Heat: Sections 14.1-14.4.
• Thermodynamics: Sections 15.1-15.4, 15.6-15.7.
• Electric Charge & Electric Field: Sections 18.1-18.5, 18.7.
• Electric Potential & Electric Energy: Sections 19.1-19.7.
• Electric Current & Resistance: Sections 20.1-20.5.
• Circuits & DC Instruments: Section 21.1.
• Magnetism: Sections 22.1-22.5, 22.9.
• Electromagnetic Waves: Sections 24.1-24.4.
• Geometric Optics: Sections 25.1-25.7.
• Wave Optics: Sections 27.1-27.5, 27.8.
• Special Relativity: Sections 28.1-28.6.

Textbook Chapters 1-9, 16, 17 and 29 were covered in PHYS 1P21/91, and are required as mandatory background material for PHYS 1P22/92. Please make sure to review them if needed.

Component	PHYS 1P22	PHYS 1P92	Comments
Homework	20%	20%	Problem sets to be completed on the Möbius platform.
Quizzes	40%	30%	In-class quiz, every Tuesday from 2-3 pm. Please bring a non-graphing calculator.
Final Exam	40%	30%	Minimum passing grade is 50%. Please bring a non-graphing calculator.
Laboratories	-	20%	Completing all labs, and submitting written lab reports are required to complete the lab component of the course. Students receiving a lab grade that is lower than 60% overall average will be required to withdraw from PHYS 1P92, and will only be able to receive a grade in PHYS 1P22.

Final passing grade is 50%. If you fail to obtain at least 50% on the final exam, you do not obtain a credit in the course (regardless of your calculated final grade). The Registrar's Office will enter your final grade as the lower of your calculated final grade or 45F. In this case, to attain a credit for the course, you would need to repeat the course.

Here is a summary of our expectations of you, which are your responsibilities. You are expected to:

• attend each scheduled lecture and laboratory session;
• do your work honestly and maintain academic integrity
• complete each test, using only the materials that have been authorized for use, such as a non-graphics calculator and writing instruments.
• attend labs (PHYS 1P92) having prepared in advance by reading relevant parts of the lab manual, and having completed the prelab problems.

And most important of all, you must take responsibility for your own learning. The lectures are there to guide you and assist you, but only you can actually do the hard work of learning the course material. To get the most out of the course, work on it a little bit every day. Daily work is key for placing your learning in long-term memory, where it will be readily available to help you to advance your knowledge in second year and beyond - and acing the final exam, of course. Cramming on the night before may place the material in your short-term memory and you might even do fine on a weekly test, where the amount of new material is relatively small, but this approach will fail miserably on the final exam.

Your instructor will provide weekly textbook chapter references; read through those sections. The best way is to read them twice: once before the lectures, just to orient yourself in the material, to identify those parts that seem like they might need extra time and attention. Make a note of the questions that arise in your mind. The lecture should answer some of them, and if it does not, raise your hand and ask! It is likely that many others have the same question. After the lecture, read the textbook again, with a pen and paper in hand, repeating all derivations on your own, trying every solved example before looking at the solution, then solving every follow-up questions at the end of the section.

Use your time effectively. Study smart, instead of hard. Ask questions in class. Your instructor will be available during the office hours in MC E220, sending an email first is a good way to check availability. There is also a Physics Help Desk, with TAs available to help out. Find out where and when it is held, and come often. It is better to come three times with one or two questions than once with a list accumulated over the past several weeks, when things get too desperate. Asking questions is a sign of active learning, make sure to do that!