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Brief summary of lectures and readings | ||
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| (Click below for lecture notes) | Brief summary | Reading assignment for next class |
| Lecture 1: (and in-class questions ) Mon, Jan 14, 2002 |
Discussion of
administrative stuff.
Review Phys 1110, what is physics 1120 about? Intro to electrostatics | For next time, read the syllabus , and read Ch. 23.1-4 |
| Lecture 2: (and in-class questions ) Wed, Jan 16, 2002 | Coulomb's Law, superposition, intro to Electric fields | For next time, read: Ch. 23.5-6 |
| Lecture 3: (and in-class questions ) Fri, Jan 18, 2002 | Charge distributions, and more on E fields. | For next, read Ch. 24.1-2 |
| MLK holiday | Enjoy your break. | (We'll be starting Ch. 24 on Wed) |
| Lecture 4: (and in-class questions ) Wed Jan 23, 2002 | Electric fields, dielectric breakdown, and field lines | For next, Read Ch. 24.3-4 |
| Lecture 5: (and in-class questions ) Fri Jan 25, 2002 | Electric field lines and flux. | For next, read 24.5, and 6 |
| Lecture 6: (and in-class questions ) Mon Jan 28, 2002 | Gauss' law | For next, just catch up. (We're going to Ch. 25 next, of course) |
| Lecture 7: (and in-class questions ) Wed Jan 30, 2002 | Applications of Gauss' law | For next, read 25.1 and 2 |
| Lecture 8: (and in-class questions ) Fri Feb 1, 2002 | Gauss' law and conductors. | For next, read 25.3 |
| Lecture 9: (and in-class questions ) Mon Feb 4, 2002 | Electrical potential, voltage | For next, read 25.4, and 26.1 (we'll come right back to the rest of 25) |
| Lecture 10: (and in-class questions ) Wed Feb 6, 2002 | Voltage from pt charges, superposition. | For next read 25.5, 26.2 |
| Lecture 11: (and in-class questions ) Fri Feb 8, 2002 | Equipotentials, voltage and E-fields | For next, Read 26.3 |
| Lecture 12: (and in-class questions ) Mon Feb 11, 2002 | Conductors and voltage. Some brief exam review. | For next, No reading, no quiz tomorrow - Exam on Tuesday! |
| Lecture 13: (and in-class questions ) Wed Feb 13, 2002 | Building up charge configurations. Capacitors, energy. | For next: read 26.4, 26.5, 26.6 |
| Lecture 14: (and in-class questions ) Fri Feb 15, 2002 | Energy density, combining capacitors | For next: read 26.7, 27.1 |
| Lecture 15: (and in-class questions ) Mon Feb. 18, 2002 | Dielectrics and capacitors |
For next: Read 27.2**, 27.3. (**You can skip pp. 693-697 if you want, I won't be testing you on that material, but it's very interesting and important stuff, especially if you've ever wondered how semiconductors and superconductors work!) |
| Lecture 16: (and in-class questions ) Wed Feb. 20, 2002 | Currents and resistivity | For next read 27-4, 28.1 (super short!) 28.2, start 28.3 (up to P. 715) |
| Lecture 17: (and in-class questions ) Fri Feb 22, 2002 | Ohm's law, power, intro to circuits | For next read (all of) 28.3 |
| Lecture 18: (and in-class questions ) Mon Feb 25, 2002 | Electrical Circuits. | For next: read 28.4, 28.5 |
| Lecture 19: (and in-class questions ) Wed Feb 27, 2002 | More circuits, ammeters and voltmeters | For next: Read 28.7 (28.6 is next) |
| Lecture 20: (and in-class questions ) Fri Mar 1, 2002 | More complex (but reducable) circuits | For next: Finish reading Ch. 28 (catch up if you're behind!) |
| Lecture 21: (and in-class questions ) Mon Mar 4, 2002 | Kirchhoff's laws, and introduction to RC circuits | For next: Read Ch. 29.1-2 |
| Lecture 22: (and in-class questions ) Wed Mar 6, 2002 | RC circuits. | For next, read 29.3 |
| Lecture 23: (and in-class questions ) Fri Mar 8, 2002 | Electricity in your home, introduction to magnetism, and magnetic forces | No new reading |
| Lecture 24: (and in-class questions ) Mon Mar 11, 2002 | Motion in a magnetic field, and review. | For next: No reading, no quiz, exam #2 tomorrow night. |
| Lecture 25: (and in-class questions Wed Mar 13, 2002 | Motion in a magnetic field, forces on currents | For next read 29.4, 29.5 |
| Lecture 26: (and in-class questions ) Fri Mar 15, 2002 | Current loops, applications | Read 30.1, 30.2 |
| Lecture 27: (and in-class questions ) Mon Mar 18, 2002. | Motors, finish up Ch. 29. How to make a magnetic field: the Biot Savart law | For next read 30.3, 30.4 |
| Lecture 28: (and in-class questions ) Wed Mar 20, 2002 | Forces between currents, and Ampere's law. | For next, finish Ch. 30 |
| Lecture 29: (and in-class questions ) Fri Mar 22, 2002 | Ampere's law, solenoids, and ordinary magnets. | For next: read 31.1, 31.2 (over the holiday) |
| Spring Break, Mar 25-29 | Enjoy your break. | (Catch up on your reading, we'll be starting Ch. 31 upon return!) |
| Lecture 30: (and in-class questions ) Mon Apr 1, 2002 | Finish up Ch 30, solenoids and magnets. Brief intro to Faraday's law. |
For next time, please read the rest of the book. (Oops, it's Apr 1. 31.3 and 4 will be plenty) |
| Lecture 31: (and in-class questions ) Wed Apr 3, 2002 | Faraday's Law, and Lenz' law. | For next read 31.5 |
| Lecture 32: (and in-class questions ) Fri Apr 5, 2002 | Applications of Faraday and Lenz: motional EMF, motors, ... | For next, read 32.1,2 |
| Lecture 33: (and in-class questions ) Mon Apr 8, 2002 | Induced electric field, and intro to inductance | For next read 32.3, 4 |
| Lecture 34: (and in-class questions ) Wed Apr 10, 2002 | Inductors, RL circuits | Read 33.1 |
| Lecture 35: (and in-class questions ) Fri Apr 12, 2002 | RL circuits, magnetic energy. Intro to AC circuits | 33-6. We'll be skipping much of the middle of Chapter 33 (sections 2-5), but please at least read page 854, then skip to P. 861, (continuing on till you get to the mathematical part), |
| Lecture 36: (and in-class questions ) Mon Apr 15, 2002 | Introduction to AC, and brief exam review. | No reading assignment, exam tomorrow. |
| Lecture 37: (and in-class questions ) Wed Apr 17, 2002 | AC, qualitative RC circuits, transformers, big sparks :-) | For next read Ch.34.1-3, and the first part of 34.4 (read the section on "plane waves") |
| Lecture 38: (and in-class questions ) Fri Apr 19, 2002 | Power distribution. Intro to Maxwell's Equations. | For next read the "plane wave" section of 34.4, and then 34.5, 6, and 7. |
| Lecture 39: (and in-class questions ) Mon Apr 22, 2002 | Maxwell's Equations, and Electromagnetic Radiation | For next, read 34.8-10 |
| Lecture 40: (and in-class questions ) Wed Apr 24, 2002 | Light, spectra, flux | For next, read 34.11, 35.1,2 |
| Lecture 41: (and in-class questions ) Fri Apr 26, 2002 | Flux, antennas, introduction to polarization | For next, read 35.3, 4, and 5 |
| Lecture 42: (and in-class questions ) Mon Apr 29, 2002 | FCQ's today. Polarization, light pressure, | No new reading required, that's it for this semester! |
| Lecture 43: (and in-class questions ) Wed May 1, 2002 | Blue sky, intro to optics. (Reflection, refraction, total internal reflection.) | For next, just catch up. (Bring questions for next time) |
| Lecture 44: (and in-class questions ) Fri May 3, 2002 | Finishing up, and review... | Last Class! Good luck on the final on Sat., 10:30 AM I've had a great time teaching you, hope you enjoyed this course! |