Lectures:	11:00-11:50am Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays in HENN 201. Classes/lectures start on Monday January 6. --------
Tutorials:	Tutorials will start Tuesday January 7, in HEBB 314 Everyone should be registered in one section of the tutorials. I'm at all tutorials, with one of our TA's in each tutorial. All tutorials are in HEBB 314. T2A: Wednesdays 15:00-16:00 T2B: Tuesdays 12:30-13:30 T2C: Wednesdays 13:00-14:00 --------
Professor:	Janis McKenna (janis@physics.ubc.ca) email caveat: I read my email only once or twice during the day and I typically read/answer most email 9pm-11pm. Put "PHYS 108" in your email subject header if you want higher priority. --------
Teaching Assistants:	Our TAs are all graduate students in our Physics and Astronomy Department: Kathryn Crowter, Aram Lee, and Hrishabh Srivastava Kathryn: Tutorial T2A, Wed 3pm ( email to Kathryn ) Hrishabh: Tutorial T2B, Tues 12:30pm ( email to Hrishabh ) Aram Tutorial T2C, Wed 1pm ( email to Aram ) --------
UBC Calendar entry, timetable, lectures, tutorials, and outline:	PHYS 108
External Webpage:	www.physics.ubc.ca/~janis/Courses/108 (this is it)
UBC CANVAS:	Online UBC Canvas: http://canvas.ubc.ca/
	I will be posting my lecture slides and course materials in UBC's Canvas the night before. My lecture notes are posted as soon as I've finished them, before I go to bed - hopefully before midnight the night before each lecture. Class discussion boards, simulations, links to videos and fun resources, announcements, your grades, online weekly chapter reading assessments, weekly homework assignments, course calendar, help/links are all in Canvas. --------
Janis' Office Hours:	Wednesdays 2-3pm, in HEBB 314. This is between the 2 Wednesday tutorials, and I also stay in the tutorial room for "office hours"/help immediately following each of the tutorials: 1:30-2pm Tuesdays, and 4-4:30pm Wednesdays all in HEBB 314. You can come to any or all of these office hours, regardless of which tutorial section you are in. I'm at all of the tutorials and I'm available immediately following each one, afterwards until your questions are answered. You can drop by after any of the tutorials, (not just the one in which you are registered). I also hang around for at least 10 minutes out in the back hallway after each lecture for short questions. If none of these times work for you, email me to make an appointment to meet either in my office or online. --------
Wednesday PHYS 108 Help Sessions:	HELP SESSIONS every Wednesday, 5-7pm starting next week January 15. (I've requested HENN 201 - our usual classroom - it looks like it's free then) You are also welcome to come and work on homework in these PHYS 108 Help Sessions. Our PHYS 108 TA Kathryn will be running the Help Sessions, and I occasionally drop in. If you want to join others to work on homework in groups, meet your classmates and/or drop in, feel free to drop in. I'll post in Canvas when we get confirmation of the HENN 201 room booking. --------
Physics & Astronomy Drop-In Center :	HEBB 112: Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy Drop-In Center Open while the building is open You are welcome to come and work on homework in this drop-in center/lounge. Meet with your classmates for homework and/or studying. Unlike the Library, you are free to talk, eat, drink coffee/tea, dance, etc. --------
PHYSSOC Lounge:	HENN 307 PHYSSOC If you'd like to get involved in academic and/or social activities with students specializing in Physics, Astronomy or Biophysics, or just want a quiet place to work (and cheapest pop on campus) I think it's still $10 to join for the year, but you don't have to be a member to participate in many of their academic or social events. --------
TA's Office Hours:	We'll set up extra office hours with TAs just before each midterm exam and just before the final exam. --------
Textbook:	Electronic Textbook: Fundamentals of Physics by Halliday, Resnick and Jearl Walker. Electronic Textbook activation code is available from the UBC Bookstore. (includes full electronic textbook, plus WileyPlus online homework, plus online study resources and practice problems). This all-electronic version is $70 CDN with the activation code from the UBC Bookstore, which is much, much less than the price of the hardcopy textbook + WileyPlus. THe UBC Bookstore price is ~30% cheaper if you buy it from the UBC Bookstore with the code they give you, rather than direct from the WileyPlus website. You can start with the free 2-week trial, then convert it into your WileyPlus. Instructions are in Canvas. -- Note: if you want to have a hardcopy, ANY first year calculus-based Physics textbook with the Electricity and Magnetism is fine. Older editions of our textbook are also great, and often you can find inexpensive second hand older hardcopy editions. UBC Library has several copies of older editions which you can borrow. My hardcopy is several editions old. this physics has not changed much in the past 100 years - although the applications have been changing rapidly - we'll look at some applications as well and demos. --------
Clickers:	I'll be using the online iClicker Cloud. You don't need to buy anything, just use your own smartphone/mobile device, and set up a free UBC iClicker account, see: iClicker Cloud Student Guide --------
Labs:	There are no labs in PHYS 108. All programs/specializations in Physics, Astronomy, Biophysics require you to have the PHYS 119 lab just to be eligible to apply for any of our specializations for 2nd year. A few other specializations in the Faculty of Science will also require you to take the PHYS 119 lab - if you are not sure, please consult the UBC Calendar or Science Second year specialization guide for specific requirements for the 2nd year BSc 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 119 Lab in order to keep many more options open for next year. All BSc degrees have a Laboratory Science Requirement, and PHYS 119 satisfies it. If you took PHYS 119 lab last term, you might be interested in the optional/fun/extra PHYS 129 lab (it's an advanced continuation of the PHYS 119 lab), and helps prepare you for 2nd year PHYS labs, but is not required in any Physics/Astronomy/Biophysics specializations. If you want to take PHYS 129 and it looks full, email me - apparently the L0C and L0D sections can each take up to 2 more students, even though they are currently listed as full in Workday (due to seats saved for Science One which were not filled)

Grading

• Midterm Exams: Midterm Exams 1 and 2 will be two-stage exams held in the evening.
• Each is a one-hour conventional exam, followed by a 45-minute collaborative exam in the evening - Exact room will be confirmed when we finalize dates.
• Please let me know if you have conflicts with other exams or classes on these dates - we are a 1-section "small" class, so we'd move and find an alternate date if these have many conflicts.
  • MIDTERM EXAM 1: Tentatively Monday Feb 10, 6-7:45pm
  • MIDTERM EXAM 2: Tentatively Monday March 24, 6-7:45pm
• Homework: Your best 10 of the 11 homework assignments (for hand-in and for WileyPlus) will be used for your homework grade.
  Each Friday 2 components of homework are due: 1. Exercises in WileyPlus and 2. Written solutions to problems which you will upload into Canvas.
• Peer Discussion Questions in class ("clickers"): In order to encourage you to participate, you get 2 points for each correct clicker answer, 1 point for each incorrect answer(eg just for trying), and 0 points for not trying at all. Only the best 85% of your interactive discussion ("clicker") questions will be used to determine your clicker mark. i.e. you can attempt every question, and select incorrect answers 30% of the time, yet still get a perfect 5% for your clicker mark.
• Final Exam will be scheduled by Student Services in the April 12-27 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 fundamental 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 which 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 HRW
1	Administrivia, Electric Charge and Forces/Coulomb's Law,	21
2	Electric Field, Electric Flux	22, 23
3	Gauss' Law, Electric Potential and Potential Energy	23, 24
4	Capacitance, Conductance, Dielectrics, Resistors	25, 26
5	Current and DC Circuits	26, 27
6	RC Circuits and Applications, Midterm Exam 1	26, 27
7	Spring Break- no classes
8	Electrostatics Wrapup, Magnetic Fields	21-27, 28
9	Magnetic Field, Ampere's Law, Biot-Savart Law	28, 29
10	Faraday's Law, Electromagnetic Induction	30
11	Inductance, RL circuits	30
12	Oscillating and AC Circuits, Magnetic Materials, Midterm Exam 2	31, 32
13	Maxwell's Equations, Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, Electromagnetic Waves, wrapup	32, 33

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 CANVAS The prepared slides in my lecture notes will appear in Canvas, 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 Canvas.

  • Lecture 1 Adminstrivia, Course Overview, Intro to E&M (Lecture 1 will be posted here before first class on Jan 6, 2025) and in Canvas

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

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Resources

I have a dozen or so linked in our Canvas pages, but here are some good ones:
• PHET (Physics Education Technology) simulations, by former UBC 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.
• Minute Physics Cool, fun physics, in short snippets.

Fun Stuff

• The 3 volumes of the Feynman lectures are online and free! Material relevant to this course is in Volume 2. Enjoy!
• Songs about Electricity and Magnetism for your amusement and enjoyment! (UBC Physics and Astronomy Department's annual Concert is normally held in February )
• TRIUMF is Canada's National Laboratory for Nuclear and Particle Physics.
• See TRIUMF's virtual tours
• I sometimes run a couple of TRIUMF Tours for our class in the middle/end of the term (I need to redo my safety training first..)
• Check out our former UBC President Santa Ono's 3-minute TRIUMF mini-overview/tour video.
• or checkout TRIUMF public Tours
Janis McKenna, UBC Department of Physics and Astronomy, January 4, 2025