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Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias Básicas, Tecnología e

Academic Unit Ingeniería
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación interdisciplinar básica común
Course Name Teoria electromagnética y ondas
Course Code 203058
Course Type Theoretical Can be yes ☒ No ☐
enabled
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ of 4
activity:
weeks
Moment of Unit 2
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Monitoring and evaluation
activity: 110
environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity: April 12th
March 18th 2018 2018
Competence to develop:
The student identifies the propagation and polarization mods in
electromagnetic waves, looking for the suitable mod, according to the
analyzed application and the student understands the waves behavior
in different transmission mediums used in telecommunications.

Topics to develop:
- Propagation modes of Electromagnetic waves.
- Polarization modes.
- Incidence on a normal plane.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
Step 3 – Understand the waves behavior in open and enclosure
mediums

The group will have to follow the next steps to accomplish the activity
goals.

Step 1: Make an academic research about the topics defined for this
unit.

Step 2: Answer the given questions using academic resources.

Step 3: Each member of the group has to select and solve one
problem; if all members don’t select the problem, the group has to
ensure that all problems are solved and delivered in the forum.

Step 4: Solve the practical exercises in group, taking into account that
it is necessary to explain each value and step.

Step 5: Compile the group contributions from the collaborative forum

and ensure the accomplish of the rubric items.

Step 6: Deliver the work in the monitoring and evaluation

environment.

Activities to develop

Each student in the group has to answer the following

questions using academic references to support the research:

1. Explain how refraction and reflection phenomenon could be used

in transmission systems.
2. Explain the Snell law, the critical angle and practical applications
where it could be used.
3. Explain the physics behind lenses for optical diseases.
4. What is the importance of the index of refraction?
5. Is it possible that a single light beam be refracted into several
beans? Explain.
6. How is it possible to use the Brewster angle in practical
applications?
Choose one of the following problems, taken from “Cutnell, J.
D., & Johnson, K. W. (2009). Physics. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.,
New York. doi, 10, S0142-9612” solve it and share the solution
in the forum. Perform a critical analysis on the group members’
contributions and reply this in the forum.

1. When red light in vacuum is incident at the Brewster angle on a

certain glass slab, the angle of refraction is 43𝑜 What are (a) the
index of refraction of the glass and (b) the Brewster angle?

2. In the following figure 𝑛1 = 1.7, 𝑛1 = 1.5, and 𝑛3 = 1.3, light refracts

from material 1 into material 2. If it is incident at point A at the
critical angle for the interface between materials 2 and 3, what
are (a) the angle of refraction at point B and (b) the initial angle
𝜃? If, instead, light is incident at B at the critical angle for the
interface between materials 2 and 3, what are (c) the angle of
refraction at point A and (d) the initial angle 𝜃? If, instead of all
that, light is incident at point A at Brewster’s angle for the
interface between materials 2 and 3, what are (e) the angle of
refraction at point B and (f) the initial angle 𝜃?

3. In about A.D. 150, Claudius Ptolemy gave the following

measured values for the angle of incidence 𝜃1 and the angle of
refraction 𝜃2 for a light beam passing from air to water:

Assuming these data are consistent with the law of refraction, use
 them to find the index of refraction of water. These data are
interesting as perhaps the oldest recorded physical
measurements.

4. In the following figure a 2 m-long vertical pole extends from the

bottom of a swimming pool to a point 50.0 cm above the water.
Sunlight is incident at angle 𝜃 = 60𝑜 . What is the length of the
shadow of the pole on the level bottom of the pool?

5. In the following figure, light from ray A refracts from material 1

(𝑛1 = 1.6) into a thin layer of material 2 (𝑛2 = 1.8), crosses that
layer, and is then incident at the critical angle on the interface
between materials 2 and 3 (𝑛3 = 1.3). (a) What is the value of
incident angle 𝜃𝐴 ? (b) If 𝜃𝐴 is decreased, does part of the light
refract into material 3?
Light from ray B refracts from material 1 into the thin layer,
crosses that layer, and is then incident at the critical angle on the
interface between materials 2 and 3. (c) What is the value of
incident angle 𝜃𝐵 ? (d) If 𝜃𝐵 is decreased, does part of the light
refract into material 3?

In group solve the following practical exercise

a. Design an Excel workbook that using the Snell law and giving an
incident angle for four different precious materials; return the
angle of refraction and let us to know if it is genuine.
 Collaborative learning environment: In this
environment, there is a forum where the student is
going to share information with his/her fellow
classmates in order to understand the conceptual
bases in Electrodynamic and waves and to solve the
proposed problems.
Environment
for the
Monitoring and evaluation environment: In this
development
environment, the student will have to deliver the
collaborative activity, according to the course agenda.

Practical learning environment: In this

environment, the student will find information to
develop the proposed practical activities.
Individual:
The student will have to answer the conceptual
questions using academic sources, to solve a chosen
problem and to make a review in the forum about the
delivered problems.

Collaborative:
The collaborative group will have to choose the best
analyses about the given concepts and to consolidate
Products to each part of the proposed activity, including the
deliver by practical exercises, where everyone has to participate.
student
The deliver document should contain the following:
- Cover page (It contains the title, authors’
name, course, university and date)
- Introduction (The group will explain the
practical application associate to the unit topics)
- Developed activity (according to the activity
guidelines)
- Conclusions
- References

General guidelines for the collaborative work

 Each contribution has to be posted in the forum
associated to this step, one important responsibility is
Planning of
to analyze and to discuss about his/her fellow’s
activities for
contributions.
the
development
Before the three last days of the activity, the final
of
document has to be consolidated according to the
collaborative
proposed activity and each student has to analyze it
work
according to the rubric, looking for deliver an excellent
activity.
Roles to
Choose the role to perform within the group. Taking
perform by
into account, that no matter the role that the student
the student
chooses, it’s very important to evidence significant
in the
contributions.
collaborative
group
In this activity, each student in the group will have to
choose a role, but it is important to recognize each of
the following, that will be assumed from the following
step on.

Roles Function
Compiler To consolidate the document, as the
final product from the discussion,
taking into account that it will include
Roles and the contributions from all participants
responsibilit and that it will only include the
y for the members whom participate in the
progress of the work. To inform the
delivery of
one who is in charge of the alerts in
products by order to inform to the students whom
students did not make the contributions that
they are not going to be include in the
product that will be delivered.
Reviewer To ensure that the document
accomplish the presentation required
rules.
Evaluator To ensure that the document contains
the established criteria in the rubric.
To alert the one who are playing that
role, to inform the others members
 when it is necessary to make some
change.

Deliverer To alert about the time on the

delivered products and to send the
document in the defined time, using
the resources for the delivery and to
inform the other students when the
deliver will be made.
Alert To inform the group members about
the work news and to inform to the
teacher using the forum course and
the internal delivered message service
about the final document deliver.

Use of
Always cite the references using APA style.
references
Students must be aware of severe sanctions in the
case of plagiarism.

In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article

99, are considered as faults that violate the academic
order, among others, the following: literal e)
"Plagiarism, that means, to present as his own
authorship all or Part of a work, work, document or
invention made by another person. It also implies the
Plagiarism use of wrong citations or references, or propose
policy citations where there is no coincidence between it and
the reference "and liberal f)" Reproducing, or copying
for profit, educational materials or results of research
products, which have Intellectual rights reserved for
the University.

The academic sanctions that the student will face are

the following:
A) In cases of academic fraud demonstrated in
academic work or respective evaluation, the grade
that will be imposed will be zero point zero (0.0)
 without prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary
sanction.
B) In cases related to plagiarism demonstrated in
academic work of any nature, the grade that will be
imposed will be zero point zero (0.0), without
prejudice to the corresponding disciplinary sanction

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric

Collabor
Activity type: Individual Activity ☐ ative ☒
Activity
Moment of Unit 2
the Initial ☐ Interme ☒ Final ☐
evaluation diate:
Performance levels of the individual
Assessed activity Score
Aspects
High score Media score Low score
The
The student
student
exposes the
The student does not
answers
analyzes the answer the
using
given concepts questions
Explain the academic
and explains or the
proposed references,
these using given 15
concepts but there
academic answer
isn’t any
references. doesn’t fit
analyze
to the
about these.
question.
(up to 15 (up to 7 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student The student The student
solves the solves the does not
Solve the
chosen problem, problem but solve the
chosen 20
explaining step there isn’t problem or
problem
by step the analyze in there is
procedure and each step. only the
 analyzing its answer,
practical without the
application. procedure.
(up to 20 (up to 10 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student
The student
limits the
does not
analysis to
The student make any
accept the
analyzes the critical
procedure
Analyze the problems solved analysis
exposed by
problems in the group and about the
the group
presented by gives a problems 15
member, but
the group professional solved by
there isn’t a
members concept. each
critical
member of
concept
the group.
about this.
(up to 15 (up to 7 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student
does not
The
make any
student
The student contribution
limits the
participates to solve the
participatio
Participate solving or exercise but
n to accept
solving the analyzing the guarantee a
the group 10
practical practical deliver
members’
exercise exercise. according to
participatio
the
n.
specifications
.
(up to 10 (up to 5 (up to 0
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed
activity Score
Aspect
High score Media score Low score
The group The group Despite
Consolidate
consolidates a delivers a the group
the final 20
document document have made
document
according to the without the contribution
 activities to given in the
develop and the structure or forum, the
given the activities work
specifications for are not wasn’t
the document to complete. consolidate
deliver. d or
delivered in
the
Monitoring
and
evaluation
environmen
t.
(Up to 20 (Up to 10 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The
Although the information
definition included in
The answers to
and analysis the deliver
the questions
are suitable document
and the analysis
to the is not
Use in each activity is
proposed referenced
academic supported in 10
activities, all or it does
references academic
the resources not come
resources.
are not from
academic. academic
resources.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Despite the
The deliver
deliver
document
document is
The deliver is not well-
Present a well-
document is organized
well- organized, it
structured and it is 10
structured isn’t
according to the difficult to
document structured
APA rules. understand
according to
the given
the APA
structure.
rules.
 (Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
The ideas
and
The ideas and explanations The ideas
explanations are have and
Use an
clear and grammar explanation
adequate
technically mistakes, are not 10
spelling and
structured. changing clear.
grammar
their real
sense.
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Final score 110