Reading assignments are in:
PHYSICS by Resnick, Halliday and Krane; 4th Ed. (Wiley1992)
Chapters are shown in boldface followed by section numbers.
Homework assignments are to be handed in Monday morning before the lecture.
| Week | Lect | Date | Topics | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1-3 | Sep 29- Oct 3 |
Electric force and charge, insulators and conductors, Coulomb's law
Predicting electric fields by superposition principle Lines and sheets of charge, forces on point charges and dipole |
27:1-28:3
28:4-28:7 |
| 2 | 4-6 | Oct 6-10 | HW1 due this week Flux of the electric field and Gauss' law Applications of Gauss' law, electric shielding Electric potential energy and electric potential |
29:1-29:6
30:1-30:3 |
| 3 | 7-8 | Oct 13-17 | HW2 due this week Predicting electric potentials by superposition principle Equipotential surfaces, electric potentials and fields for conductors EXAM 1 Friday Oct. 17 |
30:4-3010 |
| 4 | 9-11 | Oct 20-24 | HW3 due this week Capacitance and energy storage in an electric field Capacitors with dielectrics, energy storage in matter Current, resistance and dissipation of electric energy by resistance |
31:1-31:6
32:1-32:6 |
| 5 | 12-14 | Oct 27- 31 | HW4 due this week EMF and potential differences in single loop circuits Resistors, series and parallel; ammeters, voltmeters, RC circuits Magnetic fields produce "extra" forces on moving charges |
33:1-33:7
34:1-34:3a |
| 6 | 15-16 | Nov 3-7 | HW5 due this week
Magnetic forces on currents and torques on current loops Predicting magnetic fields from wires using the Biot-Savart law EXAM 2 Friday Nov. 7 |
34:5-34:7
35:1-35:4 |
| 7 | 17-19 | Nov 10-14 | HW6 due this week.
Magnetic fields from solenoids and toroids using Ampere's law Magnetic fluxes, Faraday's law, and Lenz's law Motional EMF's and induced electric fields; magnetism of matter |
35:5-35:6
36:1-36:5 37:1-37:2 |
| 8 | 20-22 | Nov 17-21 | HW7 due this week.
Inductance, LR circuits, and energy storage in a magnetic field Oscillatory motion and simple harmonic motion (SHM) Energy in SHM, simple pendulum, SHM and circular motion |
38:1-38:4
15:1-15:6 |
| 9 | 23 | Nov 24-26 | HW8 due this week. Holiday Fri. Nov.29 Electromagnetic oscillations in ideal LC circuits (no damping) EXAM 3 Wednesday Nov. 26 |
38: 5-6 |
| 10 | 24-26 | Dec 1-5 | HW9 due this week.
Mechanical and electrical oscillations: damped and driven Alternating currents, Maxwell's equations and review to be announced |
15:8-9
39:1 40:1-3 |
| 11 | 27-28 | Dec 8-10 | HW10 due this week.
to be announec and REVIEW Wed. Dec 10 last day of classes |