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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
Palompon Institute of Technology
Palompon, Leyte

UPDATED COURSE SYLLABUS

Course: Physics 2
Descriptive Title: Mechanics (Static, Kinetics, sound and wave motion)
Credit: 3 units (Lecture - 2 units, Lab - 1 unit)
Number of Hours: Lab - 54 hours and Lecture - 36 = 90 hrs
Instructor: ROMULO G. ALMIA

I. Mission, Goals and Objectives

A. PIT VISION

PIT as an institution of excellence in technological, maritime, teacher education and allied

courses in Northwestern Leyte and beyond.

B. MISSION STATEMENT

To produce morally upright, academically prepared and competent technicians, technologists, seafarers and
educators in Northwestern Leyte, the region and the country.

C. GOAL OF THE INSTITUTION

Make PIT an educational institution where students get trained to excel in their areas of specialization
through quality instruction, development-oriented research, need-oriented extension and production programs
for accelerated socio-economic development and improved quality of life educators in Northwestern Leyte
communities, the region and the country.

D. VISION OF THE COLLELGE OF EDUCATION

The College of Education as an effective producer of competent, enterprising and employable teachers in
Northwestern Leyte, the region and the country.

E. GOALS OF THE COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

The college of education, in enhancing academic excellence, shares with other colleges of the Palompon
Institute of Technology, the commitment to provide quality education along the quadruplicate functions of
instruction, research, extension and production, and pledges to make the Teacher Education responsive to the
demands of a rapidly changing society and the challenge of global competition.

F. GENERAL OBJECTIVE

To develop globally competitive educators and enterprising home managers imbued with the ideals,
aspirations and traditions of the Philippine life and equipped with the pedagogical knowledge and skills needed
in meeting the challenging demands of the time.

G. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
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1. To produce well-balanced and disciplined educators who can enhance the analytical and critical thinking
capacities of the learners;
2. to prepare teachers who can promote and facilitate learning to enable the learners to harness their
potentials;
3. to train teachers to become research-oriented enterprisers and committed humanists whose appreciations of
human ideals and values can inspire learners to attain their aspirations; and
4. to increase the passing percentage of teacher education graduates in the licensure examination.

H. COURSE CONTENT AND TIME FRAME

The students shall be able to learn . . . .

TOPICS TIME
ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY
a. Electrostatics 1st Week
Superposition, Gauss' law, solutions of Laplace's equation,
separation of variables,
Legendre polynomials, spherical and cylindrical harmonics,
methods of images,
dielectrics and polarization, boudnary-value problems
2nd Week
involving dielectrics, microscopic
theory of dielectrics, electrostatic energy, capacitance.
b. Electric Current (Optional for BS Physics)
Equation of continuity, Ohms law, DC circuits, conductivity,
theory of electric
conduction in metals.
c. Magnetism 3rd Week
Biot-Savart law, Ampere's law, vector potential, magnetic
properties of matter,
magnetization, hysteresis, diamagnetism, paramagnetism,
ferromagnetism, magnetic
energy.
d. Maxwell's Equations
Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic energy, Poynting
vector and wave equation.
e. Electromagnetic Radiation (Optional for BS Applied 4th Week
Physics)
Electromagnetic waves in conducting and nonconducting
media, reflection and
refraction of electromagnetic waves, waveguides and
radiation.
f. Optional (Optional for BS Applied Physics)
Lienard-Wiechert potentials, radiation field of a uniformly
moving point charge,
accelerated point charge, magnetohydrodynamics and 5th Week
plasma physics. Covariant
Formulation: Special relativity, four-vectors, tensors,
electromagnetic field tensors,
covariant form of electromagnetic equations, 6th Week
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transformation of electromagnetic fields
and potentials.

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Suggested textbooks/references:
The latest editions of the following books are recommended:
1. Reitz, Milford and Christy. Foundations of Electromagnetic Theory.
Addison-Wesley
2. Corson and Lorraine. Electromagnetic Fields and Waves. W. H. Freeman
3. Marion and Heald. Classical Electromagnetic Radiations. Academic Press
4. Krauss. Electromagnetics. McGraw Hill Book Company
5. Freeman and Topan. Introduction to Electromagnetic Fields and Waves.
6. Landau and Lifshitz. The Classical Theory of Fields. Pergamon
7. Landau and Lifshitz. Electrodynamics of Continuous Media Pergamon
8. Zahn. Electromagnetic Field Theory: A Problem-Solving Approach. Wiley
9. Lerner. Problems and Solutions in Electromagnetic Theory Wiley
10. Portis. Electromagnetic Fields: Sources and Media. Wiley
11. Griffiths. Introduction to Electrodynamics.
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VIII. CRITERIA FOR GRADING

Class Participation/Assignment . 10%

Exercises . 20%
Quizzes ... 30%
Term Exam . 40%
TOTAL : 100 %

Prepared by: Reviewed by:

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ROMULO G. ALMIA ANA MABEL M. MARQUEZ

Instructor Chair, Math and Science Dept.

Approved by:

JACINTO P. BALUNAN
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences