Spring Semester 2024, Course Outline: Principles of Physics – II.

Course # PHY 112 Section #27/4

Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

Kha-224, Progati Sarani, Merul Badda, Dhaka-1212

Instructor: Dr. Alamgir Kabir

Office:
Phone: 01711978225
Email: [email protected]
Course Number: PHY 112
Course Name: Principles of Physics - II
Credit Hours: 03 (Three)
Section: 4 & 27
Lectures on: Sunday/ Tuesday (2:00 PM - 3:20 PM, and 3:30 PM-4:50 PM)
Class Meeting Place: 10F-29C
Consultation Time: Sunday /Tuesday (5:00 PM – 6:20 PM) Level-4, MNS, Cubicle Area
Lab class time:

Course description: This course is designed for the students to learn the basic principles of
electricity, magnetism, and some basic concepts in modern physics. This course includes, but not
limited to, Coulomb’s law, electric field and potential, Gauss’s law, electrostatic energy, electric
circuits, magnetic field and forces, Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws, AC circuits, magnetic materials,
Maxwell’s equations, Rutherford and Bohr atom models, special theory of relativity, time dilation,
length contraction, nuclear decays and types of nuclear radiation, nuclear reactions, etc.

Course Objective:
● To introduce the principles of electricity and magnetism at the freshmen level of the
undergraduate study for physics and engineering majors or equivalent.
● To help develop a mathematical foundation for solving electricity and magnetism problems
using qualitative and quantitative reasoning.
● Students will have the ability to communicate electricity and magnetism principles in oral and
in written form.
● Assist the students to attain the capability to experimentally verify electricity and magnetism
principles.

Course Outcomes: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
● describe the introductory electricity and magnetism principles.
● apply electricity and magnetism principles, together with logical reasoning to real life
situations.
● analyze and solve electricity and magnetism problems with the aid of mathematics.
● acquire and interpret experimental data to examine the laws of physics.

Required Textbook: (a) Principles of Physics. Author: Halliday, Resnick & Walker (10thedition,
Extended). (Any edition is sufficient. However, the topics may have different
section numbers depending on the edition)
(b) Concepts of Modern Physics by Arthur Beiser.

Recommended book: University Physics with Modern Physics. Author: Young & Freedman.

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Marks Distribution: The total mark for this course is 100. The marks will be allocated as follows:

Attendance Quiz Lab Assignments Midterm Final

5% 15% 10% 15% 20% 35%

Attendances policy: Arriving 15 minutes late or more is automatic absent. If the total attendance
(both lecture and lab classes) is less than 70% of the total number of classes, the student will not
be allowed to appear in the mid-semester and semester final exams irrespective of the reason of
absences, and he/she will be listed as an absentee. 5% of the total marks allocated for class
atendance will be awarded according to the following scheme.

Attendance Marks
90% and above 5
85% - 89% 4
80% - 84% 3
75% - 79% 2
70% - 74% 1
Less than 70% 0(Absentee
)

The grades and the grade points:The grades and grade points will be calculated as per the Brac
University grading system which is as follows:

% of marks obtained Letter grade Grade sign Grade points

97 - 100 A+ plus 4.00
90 - < 97 A plain 4.00
85 - < 90 A- minus 3.70
80 - < 85 B+ plus 3.30
75 - < 80 B plain 3.00
70 - < 75 B- minus 2.70
65 - < 70 C+ plus 2.30
60 - < 65 C plain 2.00
57 - < 60 C- minus 1.70
55 - < 57 D+ plus 1.30
52 - <55 D plain 1.00
50 - <52 D- minus 0.70
< 50 F plain 0.00

Course dispersion: It will mainly involve two lectures of 1 hour and 20 minutes durations every
week. Different teaching aids e.g. power point presentation will be used when it will be deemed
necessary. Class room discussion and problem solving sessions will supplement the lecture
presentations.

Evaluation procedure: Evaluation of the students will be done on the basis of the marks distribution
scheme described earlier. The final examination will be taken on the entire syllabus. The
mid-semester examination will be one hour long and will be held around the middle of the
semester. The quizzes are based on the lectures and there will be no make-up for missed quizzes.
During quizzes, mid-term and final exams each student must work alone.

Make up exams for mid-semester and semester final are strongly discouraged but may be allowed
under complelling situations like, serious illness supported by authentic medical certificate

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endorsed by the university medical officer. However, the candidate must pay make up exam fee
as per the university rule.

Revised Make-UP Policy: “Make-up examinations will only be allowed to the students with extreme
medical condition OR death in the immediate family during the semester”. In such cases, allowing to
sit for the make-up exam is to be recommended by the course teacher and approved by the parental
departmental heads.

Lecture Details: The tentative course/lecture schedule is given below. Note that the order of
the topics may be changed if necessary.
Lecture Delivery Plan

Lecture No. Topics

Lecture - 1 Ch 21: Introduction, Electric charge, Conductors and Insulators, Coulomb’s Law.
Lecture - 2 Examples of Coulomb’s Law, Charge is Quantized, Charge is Conserved.
Lecture - 3 Ch 22: Electric Field, Electric Field Lines, Electric Field Due to a Point Charge.
Lecture - 4 Electric Field Due to an Electric Dipole, Electric Field Due to a Line and Ring of
Charge.
Lecture - 5 Electric Field Due to a Charged Disk, A Point Charge and a Dipole in an Electric Field.
Lecture - 6 A Dipole in an Electric Field, Ch 23: Flux, Flux of an Electric Field, Gauss’ Law ,
Gauss’ Law and Coulomb’s Law .
Lecture - 7 A Charged Isolated Conductor, Applying Gauss’ Law: Cylindrical Symmetry, Planar
Symmetry, Spherical Symmetry.
Lecture - 8 Ch 24: Electric Potential Energy, Electric Potential, Equipotential Surfaces, Calculating
the Potential from the Field and to a Point Charge, Potential Due to Group of point
charge, Potential Due to a Dipole, Potential Due to a Continuous Charge Distribution.
Lecture - 9 Calculating Field from Potential, Electric Potential Energy of a System of Point Charges,
Potential of a Charged isolated Conductor.
Lecture - 10 Ch 25: Capacitance, Calculating the capacitance, Capacitors in Parallel and in series,
Energy stored in an Electric Field.
Lecture - 11 Dielectrics, Capacitor with a Dielectric, Dielectrics and Gauss’ Law.
Lecture - 12 Ch 26: Electric Current, Current density, Resistance and Resistivity, Ohm’s Law, Power
in Electric circuits.
Lecture - 13 Ch 27: emf, Kirchhoff’s Rule, Single Loop Circuits, Potential Difference, Multiloop
Circuits, RC Circuits.
Midterm Midterm Exam will be held during the midterm week. The date and time will be
Exam announced later.
Lecture - 14 Ch 28: Magnetic field, A circulating charged particle, Magnetic Force on a Current
Carrying Wire.
Lecture - 15 Torque on a Current Loop. Magnetic Dipole Moment.
Lecture - 16 Ch 29: Biot-Savart Law, Magnetic field due to a long straight and a circular arc of wire,
Force Between Parallel Currents.
Lecture - 17 Ampere’s Law and its application, Solenoids and Toroids.
Lecture - 18 Ch 30: Faraday’s Law of Induction, Lenz’s Law, Induced Electric Fields, Inductors,
Self-Induction.
Lecture - 19 RL Circuits, Energy stored in a Magnetic field, Mutual Induction, Maxwell Equations.
Lecture - 20 Ch 31: LC Oscillations, Alternating Current, Three Simple Circuits.
Lecture - 21 Series RLC Circuit, Power in Alternating-Current Circuits.
Lecture - 22 Atomic Properties, Rutherford Model, Bohr’s Model, Orbits and Energies.
Lecture - 23 Ch 37: Special Theory of relativity, Postulates, Lorentz Transformation.
Lecture - 24 Time Dilation, Length contraction.
Lecture - 25 Ch 42: Nuclear Properties, Binding Energy, Nuclear Decays, Half and Mean Lives,
Alpha, beta and gamma Radiations, Fission and Fusion.

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 Lecture - 26 Reviews (if time permits).
Final Exam Final Exam will be held during the final week.
Suggested points and problems
Note: This list is intended only for practice. The exam question could be similar but would
not be from this list.

The following chapter, problem number, etc refers to the 10th edition (Ex.) of the Resnick,
Halliday and Walker’s book.
Legend: CP = check point, SP = sample problem in the book (solved problems) on a
particular page, Pr = unsolved problems in the book at the end of the chapter.

Chapter 21:
SP: 21.01, 21.02, 21.03, 21.04.
CP: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Pr: 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 22, 38, 39, 42, 46, 54, 60, 62.

Chapter 22:
SP: 22.01, 22.03, 22.04.
CP: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Pr: 7, 8, 9, 15, 24, 32, 39, 43, 49, 64, 87.

Chapter 23:
SP: 23.01, 23.02, 23.03, 23.04, 23.05, 23.07.
CP: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Pr: 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11, 24, 25, 33, 36, 39, 69.

Chapter: 24:
SP: 24.01, 24.02, 24.03, 24.04, 24.05, 24.06.
CP: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Pr: 4, 6, 9, 14, 16, 17, 19, 23, 24, 26, 28, 43, 50, 59, 74, 83, 88.

Chapter: 25:
SP: 25.02, 25.03, 25.05, 25.06.
CP: 1, 2, 3.
Pr: 1, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19, 34, 46, 57, 59, 64, 73.

Chapter 26:
SP: 26.02, 26.03, 26.04.
CP: 1, 2, 3, 5.
Pr: 8.

Chapter 27:
SP: 27.01, 27.02, 27.04, 27.05.
CP: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
Pr: 1, 18, 22, 23, 30, 33, 36, 44, 45, 92, 103.

Chapter: 28:
SP: 28.01, 28.03, 28.04, 28.05, 28.06.
CP: 1, 2, 3, 4.

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Pr: 3, 4, 6, 18, 41, 42, 52, 61, 63, 68, 74, 77, 84, 85.

Chapter 29:
SP: 29.01, 29.02, 29.03, 29.04.
CP: 1, 2, 3.
Pr: 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 21, 23, 24, 27, 29, 31, 35, 36, 41, 45, 66, 82, 83.

Chapter 30:
SP: 30.01, 30.02, 30.04, 30.05, 30.06.
CP: 1, 2, 5, 6
Pr: 3, 5, 7, 15, 21, 26, 36, 41, 45, 55, 61, 78.

Chapter 31:
SP: 31.01, 31.02, 31.03, 31.04, 31.05, 31.06, 31.07.
CP: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.
Pr: 1, 3, 21, 29, 32, 34, 37, 39, 41, 44, 68, 69, 71, 80.

Chapter 37:
SP: 37.01, 37.02, 37.03.
CP: 1, 2.
Pr: 1, 3, 4, 9, 11, 13.

Chapter 42:
SP: 42.04, 42.05, 42.06.
CP: 1, 2.
Pr: 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, 37, 38, 42, 43, 60.

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