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PHY 112 Course Outline Spring 2025

The document outlines the course details for Physics 112: Principles of Physics II for Spring 2025, including prerequisites, instructor information, and lecture schedule. Key topics covered include electric charge, circuits, magnetic fields, and electromagnetic induction. Assessment methods consist of attendance, quizzes, lab work, assignments, a midterm, and a final exam.

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PHY 112 Course Outline Spring 2025

The document outlines the course details for Physics 112: Principles of Physics II for Spring 2025, including prerequisites, instructor information, and lecture schedule. Key topics covered include electric charge, circuits, magnetic fields, and electromagnetic induction. Assessment methods consist of attendance, quizzes, lab work, assignments, a midterm, and a final exam.

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PHY 112 FALL Spring 2025 Course Outline

For Sections 10 and 31

Sadat Husain
February 4, 2025

1 Basic Information
Course title: Physics 112: Principles of Physics II
Semester: Spring 2025
Course Credits: 3
Prerequisites: PHY 111
Instructor: Mr. Sadat Husain (SADT)
Instructor email: [Link]@[Link]
Lecture hours: Sun - Tues 11 am - 1220 am (Section 10) and Sun - Tues 2
pm - 320 pm (Section 31)
Lecture Room: 10F-29C (Section 10) and 10F - 31C (Section 31)
Consultation: 330 pm to 6 pm Sundays and Tuesdays, Fifth Floor MNS De-
partment. Look for me and if you can’t find me, wait or text me.
Discord: Everyone must be enrolled in the Discord group. It is our only method
of communication.

2 Syllabus in brief
Electric charge, Coulomb’s Law, electric field and flux density, Gauss’s Law,
electric potential, capacitors, steady current, Ohm’s law, Kirchhoff’s Laws.
Magnetic field, Biot-Savart Law, Ampere’s Law, electromagnetic induction,
Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s Law, self inductance and mutual inductance, alternating
current.

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3 Lecture Schedule (flexible)
Number Content
1 Vectors, vector fields, and basis vectors.
Coulomb’s law and electric fields. Electric fields due to
2
discrete and continuous charge distributions.
3 Electric Fields (continued), Electric Dipoles
4 Gauss’ law
5 Gauss’ law (continued), Quiz 1
Electric Potential: Electric Potential due to various charge
6 configurations, the relationship between potential and field,
Electrical Potential Energy
7 Electrical Potential (continued)
8 Electrical Potential and Capacitors
9 Circuits: resistivity, current, and potential difference
10 Circuits: Kirchhoff’s laws
11 RC circuits
12 Magnetic Fields, the Lorentz force law
13 Magnetic Force on current carrying wires
14 Torque, Magnetic Moments, Quiz 2
Magnetic Fields due to charges and current-carrying wires,
15
Biot-Savart law.
16 Ampere’s Law
17 Ampere’s Law (Continued )
18 Faraday’s Law and Lenz’s Law, Quiz 3
19 Induction, Mutual Induction and Inductance
20 RLC circuits, AC currents.
21 Maxwell’s Equations
22 Review

4 Textbooks
The following textbooks are more than sufficient for a first year course in cal-
culus.
• David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker - Fundamentals of Physics,
12th Edition, Volume 2

• Hugh Young and Roger Freedman - University Physics, 15th Edition


Click here to find the textbooks listed above.

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5 Assessment
Form of Assessment Weight (percentage)
Attendance 5
Quizzes 15
Lab 10
Assignments 15
Midterm 20
Final Exam 35
Total Score 100

6 Weekly Problems
Every week, I will give you a list of suggested problems on Discord. The quiz/
midterm / final problems will be based on the suggested problems.

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