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Intro/Logistics

Content Survey

Begin Electricity Review

Electricity Review

Start Photocopiers

Reading before class

Review reading:

10.1 Static Electricity

10.3 Flashlights

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More photocopiers

10.2 Copiers

12.1 p 393-398

Finish copiers,

Start Power Distribution I

11.1 Electro-magnets

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Power Distribution II

LAB 1: Transformers

11.2 Electric Power Distribution

Finish Power Dist/Gen

11.3 Electric Power Generation

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Review

Exam IN CLASS (elect - power)

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Start Sound, Speakers, Radios, Amps I
Speakers and Audio Amps II

LAB 2: EKGs, Oscopes

Review reading;

9.2 Sound (p.283-5)

12.1Semiconductor, diodes, capacitors, (p396-402)

Speakers and Audio Amps III

12.2 Audio Amps (skip digital for now)

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Diodes & Transistors, TV I

12.1Semiconductor, diodes, capacitors, (p396-402)[review]

TVs, Plasma Displays

Physics 2000 site: TVs (flat pannel optional)

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Sunlight

LAB 3: H-lamps spectra

14.1 Sunlight

Light and Color: UV light/ozone

14.2 Discharge Lamps

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Review

Exam IN CLASS (sound - light)

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3/10-3/12

Cameras

LAB 4: Ray Optics

15.1 Cameras

Digital Cameras

optional reading:
how stuff works

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3/17-3/19

Optical Storage and Communication

Paper topics due (instructions)

15.2 Optical Recording and communication

CD's, DVD's and digital media

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3/23-3/27

SPRING BREAK

SPRING BREAK

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3/31-4/2

Makeup Lab week

13

4/7-4/9

14

4/14-4/16

15

4/21-4/23

Cosmology III

Final Paper due (instructions)

In Lab: Presentation of paper

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