Lectures:	11am-noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in Henn 201
Tutorials:	Tutorials start January 10. Everyone should be registered in one section of the tutorials. T2A: Tuesdays 12:30-1:30pm in Hebb 31B T2B: Wednesdays 2:00-3:00pm in Hebb 31B T2C: Wednesdays 3:00-4:00pm in Hebb 31B
Professor:	Janis McKenna (janis@physics.ubc.ca) email caveat: I read my email only once or twice during the day and I don't normally have time to get through all of it when I'm busy during the day. I typically read/answer email 11pm-1am. Put "PHYS 108" in your email subject header if you want high priority for your email, or phone me if you have an urgent problem (I check my phone messages 9-5.)
Phone:	604-822-4337
Teaching Assistants:	Dan Mazur and Tegan MacDonald: Dan (mazur@phas.ubc.ca) and Tegan (tdmacd@phas.ubc.ca) Our TAs are Physics Graduate students
UBC Calendar entry:	PHYS 108
Webpage:	www.physics.ubc.ca/~janis/Courses/108 (this is it)
Vista:	WEBCT/VISTA a: www.vista.ubc.ca
	I will be posting my lecture slides and course materials in VISTA. My lecture notes will be posted as soon as I've finished them - usually around midnight the night before each lecture. Class discussion boards, simulations, links to videos and fun resources, announcements, your grades, weekly chapter reading assessments, weekly homework assignments, course calendar, help/links are all in WEBCT/VISTA
Janis' Office Hours:	Mondays 2-3pm, Wednesdays 4-5pm, in my office, Hennings 262, or drop in at the end of tutorials T2A or T2C: I'm at all of the tutorials and I stay in Hebb 31B afterwards until your questions are answered. If these times don't work for you, please make an appointment to meet with me.
TA's Office Hours:	Dan: 1-2 Thursdays in Hebb 31B Tegan 1-2 Wednesdays in Hebb 31B Each TA has one office hour per week
Text:	Physics, Volume 2, 5th edition by Halliday, Resnick and Krane. PHYS 107 students likely bought PHYS 107 and PHYS 108 course materials as a package from the UBC Bookstore, including both textbooks plus WebAssign. We will only be using Volume 2 or Halliday, Resnick and Krane in PHYS 108. Volume 2 can also be bought as a single book, new or used from the UBC Bookstore.
Clickers:	Most of you already have clickers, if you don't have one, they may be bought new or used from the UBC Bookstore. Whether you buy a new or used clicker, be sure to register it (in the UBC system) using the link on our VISTA page.
Labs:	There are no labs in PHYS 108. Most of you are registered for PHYS 109, a separate, accompanying 1 credit laboratory course. Many programs (but not all) in the Faculty of Science will require you to take the PHYS 109 lab - if you are not sure, please consult the UBC Calendar or Science Advising for specific requirements for the 2nd year programs which interest you. If you are not sure which program you plan to enter next year, you are strongly encouraged to take the PHYS 109 lab in order to keep many more options open for next year. For info on labs, see http://www.physics.ubc.ca/~phys109. You can look up lab sections from the UBC Courses listings . Labs will start meeting the second week of classes.

Grading

• Midterm Exams: Midterms will be 50-minutes, in class, 14% each, tentatively on Friday February 17 and Friday March 16
• Homework: Your best 10 of the 12 assignments will be used for your homework grade.
• Peer Discussion Questions in class ("clickers"): In order to encourage you to participate, you get 2 points for each correct PRS answer, 1 point for each incorrect answer, and 0 points for not trying at all. Only the best 85% of your interactive discussion ("clicker") questions will be used to determine your mark. (ie you can forget your clicker a couple of times, have a dead battery, miss a class or two, or select incorrect answers 30% of the time, yet still get a perfect 5% for your PRS clicker mark)
• Quizpal was developed by 2 current UBC students: a PHYS 107/108 graduate and a senior Honours physics student. I'm using it as a BONUS because this will be a trial year. Each student must submit at least 2 questions and answer at least 2 questions for the bonus mark.
• Final Exam will 2.5 hours (but you can stay for 3 hours if you like) scheduled by Student Services in the April 11 - 25 Exam Period. (Just like you, I have no say in when my final exams are scheduled.)

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Learning Goals

1. We'll appreciate the beauty of physics and how, starting with a few fundamenal principles, much of the world can be understood with astonishing accuracy.
2. We will realize that the "laws of physics" are just models, all of which must be compared to observations and none of whihc may be true in absolutely all circumstances.
3. We will develop skill at making appropriate approximations and learn to use mathematics, including calculus, with increasing sophisticaion as a tool to help understand the workd quantitively.
4. We will develop learning skills involving:
   • discussing with colleagues, and in tutorial sessions,
   • working together to solve problems (especially in tutorials)
   • considering questions from many points of view, including both mathematical and intuitive ones, always performing checks to see if results "make sense".
   • you will be comfortable with thinking hard about fundamental issues.

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Tentative Course Outline

Week	Topics	Chapter in HRK Volume 2
1	Administrivia, Electric Charge and Forces/Coulomb's Law	25
2	Electric Field, Electric Flux	26, 27
3	Gauss' Law, Electric Potential and Potential Energy	27, 28
4	Capacitance, Conductance, Resistors	29, 30
5	Current and DC Circuits	31
6	Circuits and Applications	25-31
7	Magnetic Field, Midterm Exam 1	32
-	Spring Break- no classes- but we'll have "Mechanical Universe" movie showings and TRIUMF tours for those of us who can't take a week without physics
8	Magnetic Field, Ampere's Law, Biot-Savart Law	33
9	Faraday's Law, Electromagnetic Induction, Magnetic Materials	34, 35
10	Inductance, RL circuits	36
11	AC Circuits, Midterm Exam 2	37
12	Electromagnetic Fields and Waves	38
13	Electromagnetic Waves and Maxwell's Equations and wrapup	38

We'll have demos and applications throughout the course

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Please read corresponding sections in your text, my notes in class, tutorial problems, and examples. Enjoy!

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PHYS 108 Resources

• PHYS 108 WEBCT Vista The prepared slides in my lecture notes will appear VISTA, as they become available. For the examples, demos, exams and extras worked thru in class and tutorials, you'll have to come to class and tutorials.

  The first lecture is here, other lectures and all course materials, links to homework, syllabus, class calendar and bulletin board and various other weblinks are in WEBCT.

  • Lecture 1 Adminstrivia, Course Overview, Intro to E&M (Lecture 1 will be posted here by Jan 2, 2012)

Subsequent lecture notes, class discussion boards, formula sheets, discussion boards, your grades, course calendar, help/links - you'll have to log into VISTA

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Resources

I have a dozen or so linked in our VISTA pages, but here are some good ones:
• PHET (Physics Education Technology) simulations, by UBC's Prof Carl Wieman. (fun, interactive and instructive)
• Interactive E&M Applets by Falstad check out the Electrostatics applets - start out with the 2D Electrostatics and 2D Electric Fields
• Electrostatics visualizations by Belcher at MIT (also check out his "Vector Fields", "Magnetostatics" and "Faraday's Law" visualizations.
• How the world works, from the American Physical Society

Fun Stuff

• Take a TRIUMF Tour. TRIUMF is Canada's National Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics, offering tours Wednesdays and Fridays at 1pm ( more info, UBC/TRIUMF map ) I will lead a few class tours of TRIUMF for interested students. We'll have signup info in VISTA/WEBCT.
• Songs about Electricity and Magnetism (for your amusement and enjoyment! - Some of you may be interested in performing one of these pieces at the Physics and Astronomy Department's annual Concert, sometime in February 2011, in the Music Recital Hall)
Janis McKenna, UBC Department of Physics and Astronomy, December 2011.