Spring 2011
Lecture Date
Topics
Subtopics
HW due --
Laboratory
Jan 25
separation & conservation of charge Coulomb's electric force law electric field
Feb 1 2 Feb 8
snowstorm cancellation electric potential electric flux and Gauss's law electric potential & energy electric potential & field relationship capacitance and dielectrics currents and electromotive force resistance and Ohm's law series & parallel circuit analysis Kirchhoff's rules for simple circuits electric power & energy in circuits RC circuits Review Session: Sunday, Feb 27 lecture hall D, 6-8 pm magnetic forces on moving charges magnetic torque on a current loop Oersted's & Ampre's laws magnetic materials --Chapt 19 pp 693-728 -Chapt 16 & 17 pp 584-612 Chapt 17 & 18 pp 612-654 #1 Feb 10 #2 Feb 17 1 electrostatics (a home experiment)
Feb 15
Feb 22
electric circuits
Chapt 18 pp 654-774
#3 Feb 24
March 1
EXAM #1: 6-8 pm (material from chapt 16 18) magnetic forces & fields
2 dc circuits
March 8
SPRING VACATION
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March 13 19 6 March 22 electromagnetic induction motional emf Faradays law of induction Lenzs law, back emf, eddy currents inductance & LR circuits Chapt 20 pp 741-769 #4 Mar 24 3 ac circuits, part I
Subtopics sinusoidal currents and voltages reactances of capacitors & inductors applications RLC circuits and electrical resonance Maxwell's equations E&M waves & dipole radiation polarization of E&M waves polarization processes of visible light Review Session: Sunday, April 10 lecture hall D, 6-8 pm imaging by reflection (mirrors) imaging by refraction (lenses)
HW #5 Mar 31
April 5
electromagnetic waves
Chapt 22 pp 811-841
#6 Apr 7
4 ac circuits, part II
April 12
April 19
Chapt 23 pp 849-881
10
April 26
optical instruments
lenses in combination cameras and eyes magnifiers, microscopes, and telescopes thin film interference interference of light double slit multiple-slit diffraction, gratings single-slit diffraction resolution & Rayleigh's criterion Review Session: Sunday, May 8 lecture hall D, 6-8 pm
Chapt 24 pp 891-914
5 optics
11
May 3
wave optics
Chapt 25 pp 922-954
May 10
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