Cuesta College :: Physics 205B :: Spring 2020
Calendar Policies Goals Grades
    Quiz 1
    Quiz 2
    Quiz 3
    Midterm 1
    Quiz 4
    Quiz 5
    Quiz 6
    Midterm 2
    Quiz 7
    Final Exam
    Summary


Course Goals
  • Student Learning Outcomes--after successful completion of this course, students should be able to:
    • Describe and quantify geometric and physical behavior of light. (E.g., model image formation by lenses, or interference/diffraction by slits.)
    • Describe and quantify behavior of electric forces, fields, potential energy, and potentials. (E.g., given certain materials, or configuration of point charges, apply superposition to find net result at a certain location.)
    • Describe and apply conservation laws of current and potentials to circuits. (E.g., given circuit with ideal/non-ideal emfs, resistors, capacitors, switches, determine currents and potential differences.)
    • Describe and quantify behavior of magnetic forces, fields, fluxes, and induction. (E.g., given configuration of current-carrying wires/loops, determine resulting forces, induced emfs, or induced currents on other objects, or in time-varying circuits.)
    • Describe and quantify phenomena in modern (post-19th century) physics such as relativity, atomic physics, nuclear physics, etc. (E.g., describe why certain systems demand non-classical models, and be able to quantify behaviors of these systems.)