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Instructor: Professor
Ringwald E-mail: ringwald[at]csufresno.edu and replace [at] with @ |
Phone: (559) 278-8426 |
Office: Room 11 of the J-wing of McLane Hall
(about 15 meters
east of the ground-floor Women's Room and the large lecture hall McLane
161)
Office hours (between January 20 and May 11): MoWe 3:30-5:00 p.m.
and MoWe 8:00-9:00 p.m.
If students need to see
Professor Ringwald outside office hours, please call
or email first.
Students don't need an appointment to come in
during office hours. This is time set aside for you,
when I will be in.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any problems in this course, or if you're doing well, and just want to talk. It's in my interest, and I care, that you do well!
Vaccination: In order to create a safe environment on
campus, all students must be vaccinated against the SARS-CoV-02 virus,
or obtain an exemption, in order to attend classes on campus or access
any services on campus.
Students may
request an exemption to the vaccine requirement by going to their
student portal to complete the COVID self-certification. Students with
vaccination exemptions are subject to weekly COVID testing. You are not
allowed to come to campus if any of the following is true:
Health Screening: Students who come to campus and/or are participating in off-campus in-person experiential learning will be required to complete a daily health screening before coming to campus or learning site. You are not allowed to come to campus if any of the following is true:
Safety Measures: Face coverings are required to be worn indoors on-campus and during in-person classes (vaccinated or not), and/or in accordance with learning site requirements if participating in off-campus experiential learning, to reduce the risk of community spread of COVID-19. The Student Health and Counseling Center has complimentary masks available for students who need them. The mask requirement may be modified if/when transmission rates in Fresno Country drop below the threshold identified by the CDC.
Please remember that the same student conduct rules for in-person classroom instruction also apply for virtual/online classrooms. Students are prohibited from any unauthorized recording, dissemination, or publication of any academic presentation, including any online classroom instruction, for any commercial purpose. In addition, students may not record or use virtual/online instruction in any manner that would violate copyright laws. Students are to use all online/virtual instruction exclusively for the educational purpose of the online class in which the instruction is being provided. Students may not record any online recordings or post any online recordings on any other format (e.g., electronic, video, social media, audio recording, web page, internet, hard paper copy, etc.) for any purpose without the explicit written permission of the faculty member providing the instruction. Exceptions for disability-related accommodations will be addressed by Student Disability Services working in conjunction with the student and faculty member.
Lecture meeting times and location: Schedule 35218 (Section 03), MoWe 6:30-7:45 p.m. in McLane 162.
Videos of all classes have been posted to YouTube and are linked
to the Course Schedule (see
below).
Iclickers or clickers are NOT required
for Phys 4C: I never use them. I also never use
Mastering Physics.
Holidays:
January 17 (Martin Luther King Day),
February 21 (President's Day),
March 31 (César Chávez Day),
April 11-15 (Spring Break).
Required Course Text, which should be available in Kennel Bookstore (and are probably cheaper at Amazon):
Recommended Course Texts, all of which are excellent sources of worked examples:
Course webpage: http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/phys4c.html . This is not on Canvas: I do all my own web programming.
The Homework Assignments are available on the
course webpage, at:
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/hw4c.html.
Solutions to the homework assignments will be posted
to the course webpage the day after they are due.
Course grades will be awarded for the
following final percentages:
85.000-100% = A;
70.000-84.999% = B; 60.000-69.999% = C;
50.000-59.999% = D; 0-49.999% = F.
These percentages will be computed from the following:
Do the homework, even though it won't be graded this semester. If you don't, you won't know the material on the exams, which count a lot.
A favorite pastime is to try and determine a ``running'' grade (in other words, trying to figure out a grade based on a single exam or some subset of it). Since there are many contributors to the final grade, this isn't very useful. The above grading scale will not be moved: how any student's grade is determined doesn't depend on any other student's grade.
Professor Ringwald will be happy to fix any errors that occur in the grading. If after any errors are fixed, students still want to contest their grades, the students are required to do it in writing. This written request must be typed and must be a minimum of half a single-spaced page of 12-point type for exam or Final Exam questions, and a minimum of one single-spaced page of 12-point type for the overall grade. It is to be submitted one time, either to Professor Ringwald during his office hours, or to his mailbox in McLane 173.
TENTATIVE Course Schedule (updated 2022 May 17). Always do
the readings before class:
| Week | Mo | We | Read by Monday of next week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1/24:
Introduction;
Maxwell's equations
(Chapter 33) | 1/26: Electromagnetic waves (Chapter 33) | Chapter 33 |
| 3 | 1/31: Electromagnetic waves (Chapter 33) | 2/02: Electromagnetic radiation (Chapter 33) | Chapters 34 and 35 |
| 4 | 2/07:
Geometrical optics:
reflection and refraction (Chapter 34) | 2/09:
Image formation: mirrors
(Chapter 35) | Chapter 35 |
| 5 | 2/14: Image formation: lenses (Chapter 35) | 2/16:
Practical optics (microscopes and telescopes) (Chapter 35); Homework #1 due (on Chapter 33) | Chapter 36 |
| 6 | 2/21: Holiday | 2/23:
Interference of light waves (Chapter 36); Homework #2 due (on Chapter 34) | Chapters 36 and 37 |
| 7 | 2/28:
Interference of
light waves (Chapter 36) and also click here | 3/02:
Diffraction (Chapter 37); Homework #3 due (on Chapter 35) | Chapter 37; also re-read Chapters 33-35. |
| 8 | 3/07: Diffraction (Chapter 37) | 3/09: Polarization (Chapter 37) | Chapter 38 |
| 9 | 3/14:
Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (Chapter 38); Mid-Term Exam 1 to be emailed to students | 3/16:
Relativity (Chapter
38); Mid-Term Exam 1 (on Chapters 33-35) due by email to Professor Ringwald by 11:59 p.m. | Chapter 38 |
| 10 | 3/21: Relativity (Chapter 38) | 3/23:
Relativity (Chapter
38); Homework #4 due (on Chapter 36) | Chapter 39 |
| 11 | 3/28:
Quantum physics
(Chapters 39.1-39.2) (Thermal radiation and the Photoelectric Effect) | 3/30:
Quantum physics
(Chapters 39.3-39.8) (The Compton Effect, de Broglie waves, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle); Homework #5 due (on Chapter 37) | Chapter 40 |
| 12 | 4/04:
Quantum
mechanics (Chapters 40.1-40.6) (The Schroedinger equation) | 4/06:
Quantum mechanics
(Chapter 40.2) (The QM Particle in a Box); Homework #6 due (on Chapter 38) | - |
| - | 4/11: Spring Break | 4/13: Spring Break | Chapter 43 |
| 13 | 4/18: Nuclear physics (Chapter 43) | 4/20:
Nuclear
physics (Chapter 43); Homework #7 due (on Chapter 39) | Chapters 43 and 41 |
| 14 | 4/25: Nuclear physics (Chapter 43) | 4/27:
The Bohr model of
the H atom (Chapters 41.1-41.3); Homework #8 due (on Chapter 40) | Chapter 41; also re-read Chapters 36-40. |
| 15 | 5/02:
Atoms (Chapter 41.6-41.7) (Angular momentum and spectra); Mid-Term Exam 2 to be emailed to students | 5/04:
Many-electron atoms (Chapters 41.7-41.8); Mid-Term Exam 2 (on Chapters 36-40) due by email to Professor Ringwald by 11:59 p.m. | Chapters 41 and 42 |
| 16 | 5/09: Many-electron atoms (Chapters 41.7-41.8) | 5/11:
Molecules and solids (Chapter 42); Applications: Lasers (41.9-41.10); Homework #9 due (on Chapter 43); Homework #10 due (on Chapter 41) | Re-read Chapters 33-41 and 43. |
Sorry, but Professor Ringwald will under no circumstances give make-ups for Mid-Term Exams, nor will Professor Ringwald give Mid-Term or Final Exams in advance, not even for students who have legitimate reasons for being absent (including job interviews, illness documented by a physician's note, deaths in the immediate family that can be documented), or for students who are participating in University-sponsored activities, such as athletics or theatre. If any student must miss a Mid-Term Exam, the part of the course grade for which that Mid-Term Exam would have counted will be voided, and the rest of the grade will be counted as 100%.
This is really the only possible solution, since it takes about eight hours of Professor Ringwald's time to prepare one of his cheat-proof exams, each of which must be different for every student who wants a make-up exam or an exam in advance. Scheduling make-up exams or exams in advance, in classes as large as Phys 4C, is also not humanly possible: during Professor Ringwald's first semesters at Fresno State he did allow make-up and advance exams, and quickly found it impossible to accomodate every student who wanted them, because there simply aren't enough hours in the week for it: this left no choice but to end the practice altogether of giving make-up exams and exams in advance. Even with smaller classes, one can never be sure that a makeup or advance exam was really fair, since it must be different from the regular exam.
If any student must miss the Final Exam for a very compelling reason (such as an illness documented by a physician's note), that student will receive a grade of I (incomplete) for Phys 4C for the semester. It will then be that student's responsibility to contact the university administration within the first 15 working days of the next semester to make the necessary arrangements to remove the I grade. See the California State University, Fresno General Catalog for regulations concerning the Incomplete (I) grade. Only students who can document very compelling reasons to miss Final Exams (such as with a physician's note) will be eligible for incompletes: other students missing the final exam will get a 0% on the Final Exam.
The above paragraph means that if anyone buys that student a plane ticket or otherwise arranges for that student to leave the Fresno area at the end of the term, whoever bought the ticket or make these arrangements is responsible for knowing when the Final Exam for this course is (listed above), and that students are not allowed to miss the Final Exam for this course for any reason other than an illness documented by a physician's note, or else that student will get a 0% on the Final Exam.
University Policies -- The following University policies can be found at:
Last updated 2022 May 17. Webpage by Professor Ringwald
(ringwald[at]csufresno.edu and replace [at] with @)
Department of Physics,
California State University,
Fresno. Please read this disclaimer.