Course Calandar

 Week

 Monday

 Wednesday

 Friday

1

Lectures: Chapter 23, Electric charge, force and field.

Reading: Chapter 23, Static charge. Chapter 24, Gauss's Law.

2

Labor Day

Lectures: Chapter 24, Electric flux and using Gauss's Law.

Reading: Chapter 25, Electric potential

3

Lectures: Chapter 24, Gauss's Law and conductors and Chapter 25, Electric potential, potential difference.

Reading: Chapter 26, Electrostatic energy and capacitors.

4

Exam 1 on Tues. Sept. 18

Lectures: Chapter 26, Electrostatic energy and capacitors. Capacitors are the first electronic device we consider.

Reading: Chapter 27, Electric currents.

5

Lectures: Chapter 27, Electric currents and the behavior of metals and resistors. Ohm's Law.

Reading: Chapter 28, Electric circuits

6

Lectures: Chapter 28, Electric circuits, especially the behavior of batteries, series and parallel resistors.

Reading: Chapter 29, The Magnetic Field

Fall Break

7

Lectures: Chapter 28, Kirchhoff's Laws and circuit analysis. Capacitor and resistor circuits. Then Chapter 29 on the magnetic field

Reading: Chapter 30, Sources of magnetic field. Biot-Savart Law.

8

Exam 2 on Tues. Oct. 16

Lectures: Chapter 30

Reading: Chapter 31, Electromagnetic Induction.

9

Lectures: Chapter 31

Reading: Chapter 32, Inductance and Magnetic Energy.

10

Lectures: Chapter 32

Reading: Chapter 33, Alternating-Current Circuits.

11

Lectures: Chapter 33

Reading: Chapter 34, Maxwell's Equations and EM Waves

12

Exam 3 on Tues. Nov. 13

Lectures: Chapter 34

Reading: Chapter 35, Reflection and Refraction.

13

Lectures: Chapter 35

Reading: Chapter 36, Image Formation

Thanksgiving Holiday

14

Lectures: Chapter 36

Reading: Chapter 37, Interference and Diffraction

15

Lectures: Chapter 37

Reading: Review for final exam

16

Lectures: Review of the whole course  NO CLASSES

Final Exam is Tuesday Dec. 18, 4:30-7:00 pm, location to be announced.

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