<p>Allan Taylor Email: [email protected] Office: RVC HEC 301 (p/t suites) Office Hours: Tu, Th 9:20 – 10:00, and by appointment GS 104 Physical Science Winter Term 2015</p><p>Course Description: Presents an integrated study of forces and motions in the physical world.</p><p>Prerequisites: MTH 60, WR 115 but MTH 65 highly recommended.</p><p>Intended Outcomes: Selected ILO Indicator Assessment Methods: 1. Students will show up on time and use the time provided as well as come to office hours as needed.</p><p>2. Students will work together in the laboratory Assessment rubric and discussion of in-class conceptual questions COM3 - Collaborate for COM3 will be used to measure with an emphasis on explaining one’s effectively to achieve student progress thoughtful reasoning for a given choice, course/learning goals. toward mastery of considering other’s opinions and safety. COM3. 3. Students will apply physical models to unknown situations. Examples of physical models for GS 104 would be Conservation of Momentum, Conservation of Energy and Newton’s Three Laws of Motion. Students are expected to apply these laws to new situations for nearly every homework problem, quiz question, test question and/or laboratory exercise.</p><p>4. Students will incorporate new physical models into previous ones. Examples of this in GS 104 would be using momentum in kinetic energy and using kinetic energy and potential energy to motion, orbits, thermal systems and electricity and magnetism.</p><p>5. Students will create a body of work (homework, quizzes, lab reports, exams, etc.) that represents their skills and abilities. Week 1: 6 & 8 January Prologue Review (exercises at the end of the chapter): 6, 17 Ch 1: Patterns of Motion and Equilibrium Review: 14, 36, 44, 45, 46, 48, 55, 58, 61, 79 Turn-in: 54, 59, 72, 78, 91 Lab: Graph Matching (p. 5); Back and Forth Motion (p. 11)</p><p>Week 2: 13 & 15 January Finish Chapter 1 and start Chapter 2 Ch 2: Newton’s Laws of Motion Review: 4, 12, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 72, 80, 87, 98 Turn-in: 34, 35, 42, 53, 72, 88 Lab: Newton’s Second Law (p. 19); Newton’s Third Law (p. 23)</p><p>Week 3: 20 & 22 January Finish Chapter 2 and start Chapter 3</p><p>Lab: Static and Kinetic Friction (p. 27); Air Resistance (p. 35)</p><p>Week 4: 27 & 29 January Ch 3: Momentum and Energy Review: 3, 9, 19, 37, 41, 49, 68, 72, 129 Turn-in: 45, 46, 52, 55, 57, 64, 89 Lab: Impulse and Momentum (p. 39); Energy of a Tossed Ball (p. 47)</p><p>Week 5: 3 & 5 February Ch 4: Gravity, Projectiles, and Satellites Review: 19, 39, 56, 59, 60, 61, 95, 109 Turn-in: 40, 67, 79, 110 Lab: Picket Fence Free Fall (p. 51); Projectile Motion (p. 57)</p><p>Week 6: 10 & 12 February Ch 6: Thermal Energy and Thermodynamics Review: 8, 26, 33, 45, 47, 67, 77 Turn-in: 38, 39, 40, 42, 43 Lab: Specific Heat Capacity of Various Metals (p. 63)</p><p>Midterm Exam Chapters Prologue, 1-4 13 Feb.</p><p>Week 7: 17 & 19 February Ch 8: Static and Current Electricity Review: 22, 26, 27, 35, 40, 41, 63, 66, 67, 77, 105 Turn-in: 35, 37, 51, 56, 58, 104 Labs: Qualitative and Quantitative Series and Parallel Circuits (p. 75) Week 8: 24 & 26 February </p><p>Ch 9: Magnetism and Electromagnetic Induction Review: 13, 44, 45, 46, 53, 59, 71, 90 Turn-in: 36, 37, 42, 44 Labs: Magnetic Field of a Slinky ™ (p. 89)</p><p>Week 9: 3 & 5 March Ch 10: Waves and Sound Review: 50, 60, 63, 74, 91, 96 Turn-in: 42, 45, 50, Labs: Speed of Sound (p. 95); Tones, Vowels and Telephones (p. 99)</p><p>Week 10: 10 & 12 March Ch 11: Light Waves Review: 48, 50, 51, 52, 67, 76, 80, 89 Turn-in: 38, 41, 42, 43, 44 Labs: Light, Brightness and Distance (p. 105); Thin Lenses and Real Images (p. 111)</p><p>Week 11: 17 & 19 March</p><p>Final Exam Chapters 6, 8-11 20 March Required Texts/Supplies: Scientific Calculator Ruler Protractor Mechanical Pencil Good Eraser “Conceptual Physical Science” (5th Ed.) by Hewitt, et. al. Optional but suggested Texts/Supplies “Practice Book for Conceptual Physical Science” (5th Ed.) by Hewitt, et. al. Graph Paper (the green engineering paper from the bookstore is an excellent choice) </p><p>Lab reports: Each of the lab reports will be graded out of one hundred (100) points. Please note that labs are nearly a third of your grade and, if good effort is put into them, the best way to get a high percentage for the course. That is, well done labs can easily get over 90% while it’s hard to pull that off every time with quizzes or tests.</p><p>While you are strongly encourage you to work with others for the collection of your laboratory data, each lab report should be a unique work prepared by you. Any indication that this is not the case will initiate academic honesty policies. If sufficient evidence of academic dishonesty is found, the consequences are things like failing the class, being expelled from college, not being able to get financial aid at other institutions, etc.</p><p>Exercises and Problems: In the syllabus, you can see that there are suggested problems and exercises for each chapter. To be best prepared for the quizzes and tests, do all the problems at the end of the chapter. But you can be pretty well prepared by doing the suggested problems and understanding the general concepts covered in each of them, although you may still want to at least glance at the other problems and have an idea of how to solve them before your take a quiz or test on that chapter. Doing the practice sheets are also a good idea, as some of the quiz and test questions come from there too.</p><p>While it’s better than doing nothing at all, not much is learned by looking at the question and then looking at the answer. Thinking and struggling with the problems is where you learn the concepts. Most of this material isn’t stuff you can just memorize; you have to learn how to use it.</p><p>Quizzes and Tests: Quizzes will be given in the last 15 minutes of the Thursday lecture classes. The quizzes will be open notes but closed book. The two exams, a midterm and a final, will be 50 minutes and likewise open notes but closed book. Makeups for both quizzes and exams by PRIOR ARRANGEMENT ONLY. No exceptions. Percentage Values for the Term: Labs 30% Tests 30% Quizzes 20% Homework 20%</p><p>** Note that labs count in totality the same as the two exams. Consistent lab work could raise your course grade from D to C, etc. Bottom line: don’t neglect labs!</p><p>Percentages and the Corresponding Grade: A 93.00% -- 100% A- 90.00% -- 92.99% B+ 87.00% -- 89.99% B 83.00% -- 86.99% B- 80.00% -- 82.99% C+ 77.00% -- 79.99% C 73.00% -- 76.99% C- 70.00% -- 72.99% D+ 65.00% -- 69.00% D 60.00% -- 64.99% D- 55.00% -- 59.99% F Below 55.00%</p><p>Rogue Community College is here to help you meet your goals Any student who feels that he or she may need an academic accommodation for a disability, such as vision, hearing, orthopedic, learning disabilities, psychological or other medical conditions, should make an appointment with the Support Services Office. (Located in the Wiseman Tutoring Center at the Redwood Campus or Building G/207 at the Riverside Campus.)</p><p>The Support Services web address for student referral is: http://www2.roguecc.edu/developmental/support</p><p>Student responsibilities in this course include being aware of all college procedures, such as how to add, drop, or withdraw from a class. These are found in the RCC Student Handbook available at Student Services. Students and instructors shall practice educational honesty. Dishonesty in academic work can be grounds for dismissal from the class and perhaps expulsion from the college. This syllabus is tentative and subject to change.</p>