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MITx 8.02x – Electricity and Magnetism 1 WELCOME to 8.02x!
8.02 is the second semester of the MIT introductory physics sequence. Passing the online version of this course will guarantee you an MIT certificate. The course covers electricity and magnetism, which are summarized by Maxwell's equations. The topics you will study include electric fields, magnetic fields, electromagnetic forces, conductors and dielectrics, electromagnetic waves, and the nature of light. This online version follows the MIT on-‐campus class as it was given by the renowned Professor Walter Lewin in the spring of 2002, and includes his video lectures and problem solving sessions. Professor Lewin, proclaimed "a Web Star" by The New York Times, has supplemented his lectures specifically for 8.02x by including interactive concept questions to help students check their understanding of the material while watching the lecture videos. Also, the course uses prize-‐winning animations and interactive simulations developed under the leadership of Professor John Belcher for MIT's Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) classroom.
In addition to the basic concepts of Electromagnetism, a vast variety of “real-‐world” topics are covered including: lightning, electric shock treatment, electrocardiograms, metal detectors, musical instruments, magnetic levitation, bullet trains, electric motors, radios, TV, car ignition coils, superconductivity, aurora borealis, rainbows, radio telescopes, interferometers, particle accelerators such as the Large Hadron Collider, mass spectrometers, red sunsets, blue skies, haloes around the Sun and Moon, human color perception, Doppler effect, Big-‐Bang cosmology…
2 COURSE STRUCTURE AND GRADING
You will complete automatically graded weekly homework problems and a series of exams using multiple choice, numerical and symbolic questions to test your understanding and to help you master the material. Lectures are interspersed with questions that must be answered before advancing to the next lecture segment. There is a moderated forum for student-‐to-‐student threaded discussions. While homework deadlines will be strictly enforced, the lowest homework grade will be dropped.
Your numerical grade will be based on: − interactive questions during the lectures (5%), − homework problems (20%), − three midterm exams (15% each), − and the final exam (30%).
Your letter grade will be based on the percentage of the total number of points available as follows: − A (more than 85%), − B (70-‐85%), − C (60-‐70%).
At least 60% of the points must be obtained to qualify for a certificate.
3 IMPORTANT DEADLINES
You can improve your performance by making sure that you prepare well for course exams: − Midterm 1 (23-‐25 March)
− Midterm 2 (27-‐29 April) − Midterm 3 (25-‐27 May) − Final Exam (15-‐17 June)
4 PREREQUISITES
Passing 8.02x requires a solid understanding of classical mechanics and single variable calculus. You can review the content of MIT OpenCourseWare courses on classical mechanics (8.01, also by Professor Lewin) and calculus (18.01) to assess whether you meet the expected level of preparation. If you have the necessary background knowledge, we estimate that it will take 9-‐12 hours weekly to take this course and finish it in the required time of 4 months.
5 TEXTBOOK
For 8.02x we will use "Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism" by Peter Dourmashkin, John Belcher, and Sen-‐Ben Liao. The book is available on line without charge. All edX courses are free. The lectures, homework, simulations, and textbook are all available online.
6 CERTIFICATION
Online learners who achieve a passing grade in 8.02x will earn for free a certificate of mastery. These certificates will indicate you have successfully completed the course, but will not include a specific grade. Certificates will be issued by edX under the name of MITx.
7 QUESTIONS
If you have any questions about 8.02x that are not answered in this section, please ask them in the discussion forum.