KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS
Physics 102 - General Physics II - Summer Session 2000 - 2001 (003)
Course Schedule, Coordination and Grading Policy
A continuation of Physics 101. Topics covered include: Wave motion; Sound; Temperature; First and second laws of thermodynamics; Kinetic theory of gasses; Coulomb's law; Electric field; Gauss' law; Electric potential; Capacitors and dielectrics; Circuits; The magnetic field; Faraday's law; Ampere's law.
(Math 101) or Co-requisite (Math 102)
"Fundamentals of Physics", by Halliday,
Resnick and Walker, Fifth Edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc (1997).
The course material will be presented in lectures. Problem-solving techniques
will be shown in recitations.
Attendance in both lectures and recitations is compulsory.
(A) Course grade
The course grade will be evaluated as follows:
Class-work
20%
Laboratory 20%
First major exam
15%
Second major exam
15%
Final exam
30%
(B) Class-work shall comprise of:
Ø
A minimum
of 7 quizzes and
Ø
a certain
percentage for attendance at the discretion of the recitation instructor
Ø
Homework
problems are assigned but will not be graded.
The average
final class-work score for each section will be fixed at 12.00/20. The homework problems are assigned from the
textbook (exercise & problems).
(C) Laboratory work
The lab work score will be based on any or a combination
of the lab. reports, lab. quizzes, lab. exams, ... etc. as chosen by the lab.
instructors. The average final laboratory work score for each section will be fixed at 14.00/20 and the standard
deviation should be greater than or
equal to 1.0.
Lab sessions starts on Monday, 25 June 2001.
(D) Major and final examinations
The major exams and the final exam will be of multiple-choice type. The exams are scheduled as follows:
First major exam
Saturday, 15 July
(Chapters
17 - 20)
Second Major Exam
Saturday, 04 August
(Chapters 21 - 27)
Final Exam
14-16 August (Chapters
17 - 31)
Attendance will be enforced and evaluated according to current university regulations. A DN grade will be given to any student exceeding 12 absences (LLF + Rec.) without official excuses and/or three absences in laboratory experiments. Any student in possession of an excuse for officially authorized absence must present this excuse to his instructor no later than one week following his resumption of class attendance. Only those students who have less than 6 absences in the whole semester shall be promoted to upper grade if they reach the borderline between two grades (for example F to D or B to B+ etc.).