PHYSICS 152 AND 252
College Physics II AND General PhysicsII

• Instructor: Joe Heafner
• Office: East Wing 318. Phone: 828-327-7000, ext. 4246.Office hours will be announced in class. Appointments and drop-ins are strongly encouraged.
• Course syllabus for PHY 152 in pdf format (You need a pdf viewer. I strongly recommend GhostScript and GhostView, both of which are free and also allow you to manipulate PostScript files.)
• Course syllabus for PHY 252 in pdf format
• Textbook for PHY 152: Contemporary College Physics, Second Edition by Jones and Childers
• Lab Manual for PHY 152: Laboratory Experiments in College Physics by Bernard and Epp
• Textbook for PHY 252: University Physics: Models and Applications by Crummett and Western
• Lab Manual for PHY 252: Physics Laboratory Experiments, Fifth Edition by Jerry Wilson
• Required Supplementary book for PHY 152 and PHY 252: Six Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman
• Course grading policy: exams 40%, homework and labs 15% each, final exam 30%. One homework, one lab, and one test grade will be dropped. No late work will be accepted. Make-up test will not be given.

0p-Now that you've had a taste of introductory physics, I hope you're convinced that it's not quite the horror that previous students may have made you believe it was. You may have even found certain parts...well...interesting! This semester, we'll be discussing special and general relativity (more of the former, less of the latter), and electromagnetic theory (E&M as it's typically referred to). Relativity will require us to slightly (or not so slightly depending on your point of view) modify some, but not all, ideas from classical dynamics and kinematics so that Mother Nature will be satisfied. I have placed some books containing translations of some of Einstein's original papers on relativity on reserve in the Learning Resource Center (that's the library) and you will be REQUIRED to peruse these translations so that you can say you've "read Einstein" here at CVCC. I also want you to see that Einstein's writing style is, believe it or not, much more comprehensible than Newton's. Much of the mathematics is far beyond the scope of this course, but a lot of it should make perfect sense to you.

E&M is a topic that is nearly as broad as all of the rest of physics. It encompasses electrostatics, electrodynamics, circuit theory (WARNING: E&M is NOT the same as ELECTRONICS! Electronics is an APPLIED science whereas E&M is a theoretical science. We will not do very much in the way of electronics so don't expect that.), magnetostatics, magnetodynamics (God I love big words!), electromagnetic radiation (including waves), geometrical optics, and physical optics. I plan to cover all of these this semester and that's no trival feat if we accomplish it. If you made it through the first semester, then you should be able to handle it. The pace will be a bit quicker and there will be more incentive for YOU to read and comprehend on your own. Remember, you need to see me outside of class when you need help because I'll be presenting relativity very differently from the way it's presented in your textbook. My approach, which is not original by any means...I stole it from other sources, will make it FUN! (Honest!)