Physics 204: Intermediate Physics II

Course Schedule Spring 2008

Week

Date

Day

Topic

Text Reading

Studio

Quiz

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

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

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)

 

 

2

Feb 15

Fri.

Interaction of charged and neutral matter; conductors and insulators

Due: Ch14 HW1

14.3-14.4

Charge on Invisible Tape

 

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)

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)

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

4

Feb 29

Fri.

Potential difference in a varying field; path independence; round trip potential difference

Due: Ch15 HW 4

16.4-16.7

 

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

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

 

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)

 

 

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

 

 

 

8

Mar 26

Wed.

Current in parts of a circuit; the Drude model

Due: Ch17 HW4

18.1-18.3

 

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

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

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

 

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

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

 

13

Apr 28

Mon.

Faraday's law

Due: Ch22 HW1

22.2

Faraday's Law

Download: Faraday_scope.ds

13

Apr 30

Wed.

Faraday's law and motional emf

Due: Ch22 HW2

22.3

 

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

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