Welcome to Physics 1116 for the Spring of 2024!
Course: General Physics II Offered: MTThF 10:55 - 12:10 in MR 323 Office Hours and Dr. Sheldon's Schedule Professor: Peter Sheldon Webb 101, x8488 (office), 434-238-5681 (cell) Text: Required: Fundamentals of Physics, 9 ed, or later by Halliday, Resnick, and Walker; please note that you can also get the extended version or you can get the shortened version. The text also comes in two parts, but you need both parts for 1115 and 1116. If you purchased the complete edition for 1115, it is used for this course also. If you need the text, you may rent or purchase it from me. You may use an electronic version.
Required: In addition, you need the ExpertTA homework service. This is purchased by semester, so you will need to pay for it this spring in order to do homework.
Optional: Study Guide
Register by clicking the link in Moodle.
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Course Comments: This course is the second half of a calculus-based comprehensive survey of basic physics. This course covers topics in mechanics (gravitation, bits of other topics), electricity and magnetism (the study of forces, fields, circuits, and waves), and optics (electromagnetic waves, light) at a level appropriate for beginning physics majors, pre-medical students and science majors. We will cover approximately one chapter every week or a bit more. The goal of this course is to train your physical intuition, to give you a basic understanding of electricity and magnetism in the world around us, and to teach you the tools needed for effective problem-solving.
