Week |
Date |
Day |
Topic |
Text Reading |
Studio |
Quiz |
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1 |
Feb 6 |
Wed. |
Introduction; Concept of electric field and electric force; Field of a point charge; Coulomb's law |
13.1-13.3Vector Appendix |
Do: WebAssign Vector Review Read: Lab Report Guidelines |
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1 |
Feb 8 |
Fri. |
The superposition principle; Field of a dipole Due: Vector Review, Ch13 HW1 |
13.4 |
Electric Field of a Point Charge (VP) Download: VPython Reference Sheet |
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2 |
Feb 11 |
Mon. |
More on dipoles Due: Ch13 HW2; Electric Field of a Point Charge (VP) |
13.4 |
Electric Field of a Dipole (VP) |
Quiz 1 |
2 |
Feb 13 |
Wed. |
Interactions between charged objects; polarization; Interaction of charged and neutral matter Due: Ch13 HW3; Electric Field of a Dipole (VP) |
14.1-14.3 |
Experiments with Tapes (pp. 503-508)
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2 |
Feb 15 |
Fri. |
Interaction of charged and neutral matter; conductors and insulators Due: Ch14 HW1 |
14.3-14.4 |
Charge on Invisible Tape
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3 |
Feb 18 |
Mon. |
Charging and discharging conductors and insulators Due: Ch13 HW4; Ch14 HW2 |
14.5 |
Problem Solving |
Quiz 2 |
3 |
Feb 20 |
Wed. |
Field of a charged rod; procedure for calculating field of distributed charge Due: Ch14 HW3; Charge on Invisible Tape |
15.1-15.3 |
Electric Field of a Uniformly Charged Rod (VP) |
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3 |
Feb 22 |
Fri. |
Field of a ring; disk Due: Ch15 HW1; Ch13 HW5; Electric Field of a Rod (VP) |
15.4-15.5 |
Electric Field of Uniformly Charged Ring* (VP) |
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4 |
Feb 25 |
Mon. |
Field of a capacitor; sphere Due: Ch15 HW2 |
15.6-15.8 |
Problem Solving |
Quiz 3 |
4 |
Feb 27 |
Wed. |
Potential energy; relation between potential difference and electric field Due: Ch15 HW3 |
16.1-16.3 |
Measuring Potential Differences |
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4 |
Feb 29 |
Fri. |
Potential difference in a varying field; path independence; round trip potential difference Due: Ch15 HW 4 |
16.4-16.7 |
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5 |
Mar 3 |
Mon. |
Potential at one location; potential difference in insulators Due: Ch16 HW1 |
16.8-16.9 |
Problem Solving |
Quiz 4 |
5 |
Mar 5 |
Wed. |
Definition of electron current; detecting magnetic fields;Biot-Savart law for a moving charge Due: Ch15 HW5; Ch16 HW2 |
17.1-17.3 |
Magnetic field of current-carrying wires |
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5 |
Mar 7 |
Fri. |
Electron current and conventional current; Biot-Savart law; magnetic field of a straight wire Due: Ch16 HW3; Ch17 HW1 |
17.5-17.7 |
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6 |
Mar 10 |
Mon. |
Magnetic field of a wire curved into a loop; magnetic dipole moment Due: Ch17 HW2 |
17.8-17.9 |
Problem Solving |
Quiz 5 |
6 |
Mar 12 |
Wed. |
Field of a bar magnet; atomic structure of magnets Due: Ch16 HW4; Ch17 HW3 |
17.10-17.11 |
Magnetic Dipoles; Review |
|
6 |
Mar 14 |
Fri. |
EXAM I (13.1-17.11) |
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7 |
Mar 17 |
Mon. |
SPRING RECESS | |||
7 |
Mar 19 |
Wed. |
SPRING RECESS | |||
7 |
Mar 21 |
Fri. |
SPRING RECESS/GOOD FRIDAY | |||
8 |
Mar 24 |
Mon. |
EASTER MONDAY |
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8 |
Mar 26 |
Wed. |
Current in parts of a circuit; the Drude model Due: Ch17 HW4 |
18.1-18.3 |
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8 |
Mar 28 |
Fri. |
Electric field in circuits; Surface charge and resistors; Energy conservation in circuits Due: Ch18 HW1 |
18.4,18.7, 18.8 |
Problem Solving; Circuit Elements |
Quiz 6 |
9 |
Mar 31 |
Mon. |
Energy conservation in circuits; Solving larger problems involving circuits Due: Ch17 HW5; Ch18 HW2 |
18.8-18.10 |
Energy Conservation in Circuits |
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9 |
Apr 2 |
Wed. |
Electric field and potential in capacitor circuits; charging of a capacitor Due: Ch18 HW3, Ch18 HW4 |
19.1-19.3 |
Final Charge on a Capacitor |
|
9 |
Apr 4 |
Fri. |
The Radio Shack connection: macroscopic analysis of circuits Due: Ch19 HW1 |
19.4-19.12 |
Problem Solving |
Quiz 7 |
10 |
Apr 7 |
Mon. |
Power, RC circuits Due: Ch18 HW5 |
19.13,19.16 |
Macroscopic View of DC and RC Circuits |
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10 |
Apr 9 |
Wed. |
Magnetic force on a particle; circular motion (qualitative); force on a wire Due: Ch18 HW6; Ch19 HW2 |
20.1-20.2 |
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10 |
Apr 11 |
Fri. |
Electric and magnetic forces; velocity selector Due: Ch20 HW1 |
20.3,20.5 |
Problem Solving |
Quiz 8 |
11 |
Apr 14 |
Mon. |
Motional emf; magnetic force in moving reference frames (Jack and Jill and Einstein) Due: Ch20 HW2; Ch20 HW3 |
20.6,20.7* |
Motion of Charge in a Magnetic Field (VP) Download: Program Shell |
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11 |
Apr 16 |
Wed. |
Patterns of electric fields; electric flux; Gauss's law Due: Ch20 HW5 |
21.1-21.3 |
Download: Program Shell |
|
11 |
Apr 18 |
Fri. |
Reasoning from Gauss's law; Gauss's law for magnetism Due: Ch21 HW1; Motion of Charge in a Magnetic Field (VP) |
21.4-21.5 |
Problem Solving; Gauss's law Example |
Quiz 9 |
12 |
Apr 21 |
Mon. |
Ampere's law; Maxwell's equations Due: Ch21 HW2 |
21.6-21.7 |
Magnetic Field of Moving Charge (VP) |
|
12 |
Apr 23 |
Wed. |
EXAM II (18.1-21.7) | |||
12 |
Apr 25 |
Fri. |
Changing magnetic fields and curly electric fields; Faraday's law Due: Ch21 HW3; Magnetic Field of Moving Charge (VP) |
22.1-22.2 |
Problem Solving |
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13 |
Apr 28 |
Mon. |
Faraday's law Due: Ch22 HW1 |
22.2 |
Faraday's Law Download: Faraday_scope.ds |
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13 |
Apr 30 |
Wed. |
Faraday's law and motional emf Due: Ch22 HW2 |
22.3 |
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13 |
May 2 |
Fri. |
Faraday's law; solving problems Due: Ch22 HW3 |
22.2-22.3 |
Problem Solving |
Quiz 10 |
14 |
May 5 |
Mon. |
Maxwell's equations; fields traveling through space; accelerated charges produce radiation (summary); electromagnetic spectrum Due: Ch23 HW1 |
23.1-23.2 |
VP Demos on EM Waves Download: Program Shell |
|
14 |
May 7 |
Wed. |
Energy of electromagnetic radiation; effect of EM radiation on matter | 23.4-23.6 |
Physics 2000, Microwaves |
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14 |
May 9 |
Fri. |
Wave phenomena: two-slit interference and diffraction | 24.1 |
Interference of EM Waves |
Quiz 11 |
15 |
May 12 |
Mon. |
Wave-particle duality; photons and electrons Due: Ch24 HW1 |
24.2 |
Physics 2000 |
|
15 |
May 14 |
Wed. |
More on waves | 24.2-24.3 | ||
15 |
May 16 |
Fri. |
REVIEW (FINAL EXAM on May 21) | Review |