| DATE |
TOPICS |
TEXT REF |
| Week 1 (Jan. 9) |
Electric charge: charge conservation; Coulomb's
law |
Chapter 21 |
| Week 2 (Jan. 16) |
Electric field: field of a point charge;
superposition |
Chapter 22 |
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Martin Luther King Holiday: January 16
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| Week 3 (Jan. 23) |
Gauss' Law: electric flux; electrostatic properties of
conductors |
Chapter 23 |
| Week 4 (Jan. 30) |
Electrostatic energy: electric potential; energy stored
by charges |
Chapter 24 |
| Week 5 (Feb. 6) |
Capacitance: electric polarization and dielectrics;
series and parallel capacitors |
Chapter 25 |
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EXAM 1: FEBRUARY 8 |
Chapters 21 thru 24 |
| Week 6 (Feb. 13) |
Current and resistance: current density; resistivity
and Ohm's law |
Chapter 26 |
| Week 7 (Feb. 20) |
DC circuits: Kirchoff's rules; series and parallel
resistors; ammeters and voltmeters; RC circuits |
Chapter 27 |
| Week 8 (Feb. 27) |
Magnetic fields and forces: force on a moving charge;
crossed fields and the Hall effect; forces and torques on
current-carrying wires |
Chapter 28 |
| Week 9 (Mar. 5) |
Magnetic fields due to currents: Biot-Savart law;
Ampere's law; solenoids |
Chapter 29 |
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EXAM 2: MARCH 7 |
Chapters 25 thru 28 |
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Spring Break: March 10-18
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| Week 10 (Mar. 19) |
Magnetic induction: Faraday's law; Lenz's law;
inductors; RL circuits |
Chapter 30 |
| Week 11 (Mar. 26) |
Electromagnetic oscillations and alternating current:
LC circuits; RLC circuits; reactance; transformers |
Chapter 31 |
| Week 12 (Apr. 2) |
Maxwell's Equations: Gauss' law for magnetism;
Maxwell's displacement current; spin and orbital magnetism |
Chapters 32, 33 |
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Easter Holiday: April 5-8
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| Week 13 (Apr. 9) |
Electromagnetic waves: polarization; Snell's law; total
internal reflection; image formation |
Chapters 33, 34 |
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EXAM 3: APRIL 11 |
Chapters 29 thru 32 |
| Week 14 (Apr. 16) |
Interference: Young's experiment; multi-slit
interference; thin films |
Chapter 35 |
| Week 15 (Apr. 23) |
Diffraction: phasor analysis of single-slit intensity;
gratings |
Chapter 36 |
| Week 16 (Apr. 30) |
Relativity: length contraction; time dilation; Lorentz
transformation; mass and energy |
Chapter 37 |
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FINAL EXAM: MAY 2, 11:30 am |
Comprehensive |