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


Quiz 1 Goals and Resources
[Cutnell/Johnson/Young/Stadler, Physics, 11/e, Chapters 24-26]
[Quiz 1 worksheet questions (*.pdf)]
  • Student Learning Outcomes
    • Recognize and use common Système International d'unités metric prefixes interchangeably with powers of ten.
    • (Recognize and use proper significant figures in expressing and calculating measurements.)

    • Relate the speed of light in a medium relative to the speed in vacuum, using the index of refraction.
    • Understand how the dependent wavelength parameter is related to the independent parameters (frequency and speed) of a light wave.
    • Understand how the transverse nature of light waves results from radiation by unpolarized sources or transmission from dipole antennae, and the effects of ideal polarizers and scattering on the polarization of these types of light.
    • Understand how Huygens' principle can geometrically model the propagation of spherical and planar wavefronts, and the reflection and refraction of waves.
    • Describe and analyze reflection, refraction, and total internal reflection using the law of reflection and Snell's law.
    • Describe and analyze polarization by reflection (Brewster's angle).

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