Classes will be on M W F 12:00-12:50 in Lewis Room
101
See also
http://cwx.prenhall.com/cgi-bin/binder/syl.cgi?site=giancoli for an
update calendar of events.
- 01/07/2004 - Lecture I: Introduction. [Textbook Sections 16.1 & 16.3]
- 01/09/2004 - Lecture II: Particles and charge, conservation of charge,
structure of atoms, insulators and conductors, Coulomb law, concept of
electric field. [Textbook Sections 16.1 - 16.9]
- 01/12/2004 - Lecture III: Summary of Chapter 16. Electric force and
electric field problems.
- 01/14/2004 - Lecture IV: Field of an infinite charged plate. Field
of a capacitor. Electric potential energy. Electric potential (capacitor
and single charge). [Textbook Sections 17.1-17.5]
- 01/16/2004 - Lecture V: Summary of previous class. Equipotential
lines. Definition of electron Volt. Potential of a dipole. Capacitors
and capacitance. Storage of electric energy and charge. [Textbook
Sections 17.1-17.9]
- 01/21/2004 - Lecture VI: Brief review of first assignment. Quiz
examples. Batteries, electric current and Ohm's law. [Textbook
Sections 18.1-18.3]
- 01/23/2004 - Lecture VII: Electric power. Microscopic view of electric current.
[Textbook Sections 18.6-18.7 & 18.9]
- 01/26/2004 - Lecture VIII: Alternating current. Summary of Chapter
18. Problems. [Textbook Sections 18.1-18.9]
- 01/28/2004 - Lecture IX: Revision of assignment no. 2. Introduction
to DC circuits.
- 01/30/2004 - Lecture X: Kirchoff laws, resistors in series and
parallel. [Textbook Sections 19.1-19.4]
- 02/02/2004 - Lecture XI: Resistors and capacitors in series and in
parallel. Designing a hair dryer. [Textbook Sections 19.1-19.6]
- 02/04/2004 - Quiz No. 2 and Lecture XII: Brief review of batteries
in series and in parallel. Ammeters, Voltmeters and Ohmmeters.
Emf. Brief discussion of RC circuits. [Textbook Sections 19.5, 19.7, 19.10]
- 02/06/2004 - Lecture XIII: Revision of Quiz no. 2 and
Assignment no. 3. Introduction to magnetism. [Textbook
Sections 20.1-20.2,20.13].
- 02/09/2004 - Lecture XIV: Magnetism and currents.
Force on electric charges in a magnetic field. Magnetic field
of a wire. Ampere law. [Textbook Sections 20.3-20.8].
- 02/11/2004 - Lecture XV: Review of Textbook Chapters 16-19.
- 02/13/2004 - In-class test.
- 02/16/2004 - Lecture XVI: More on magnetism and currents.
Ampere law. [Textbook Sections 20.1-20.8,20.13].
- 02/18/2004 - Lecture XVII: Discussion of the first in-class test.
Applications of electromagnetism. [Textbook Section 20.10, 20.12, 20.14]
- 02/20/2004 - Lecture XVIII: Induced EMF, Faraday's and Lenz's laws,
Electric generators, Transformers. [Textbook Sections 21.1-21.5, 21.7].
- 02/23/2004 - Lecture XIX: Inductance. Energy of the
magnetic field. [Textbook Sections 21.9, 21.10]
- 02/25/2004 - Quiz No. 3 and Lecture XX:
Electromagnetic waves. [Textbook Sections 22.1, 22.5, 22.8].
- 02/27/2004 - Lecture XXI: Introduction to optics. Light propagation.
Reflection. [Textbook Sections 23.1-22.3].
- 03/01/2004 - Lecture XXII: Refraction. Snell's law.
Lenses. [Textbook Sections 23.4-23.8].
- 03/03/2004 - Lecture XXIII: More on refraction. Thin lenses.
[Textbook Sections 23.4-23.8].
- 03/05/2004 - Lecture XXIV: Video: Physics demonstrations with
light.
- 03/15/2004 - Lecture XXV: Interference and other light phenomena.
[Textbook Sections 24.1-24.8].
- 03/17/2004 - Lecture XXVI: More on interference and other light
phenomena. Polarization. [Textbook Sections 24.3-24.8,
24.10, 24.11].
- 03/19/2004 - Lecture XXVII: Problems on Chapter 23 and 24.
- 03/22/2004 - Lecture XXVIII: Optical instruments. [Textbook
Sections 25.1-25.7]
- 03/24/2004 - Lecture XXIX: Problems on Chapter 23 and 24.
- 03/26/2004 - In-class Test No. 2.
- 03/29/2004 - Lecture XXX: Introduction to Special
Relativity. [Textbook Sections 26.1-26.4].
- 03/31/2004 - Lecture XXXI: Discussion of Assignment No. 6 and
second in-class test.
- 04/02/2004 - Lecture XXXII: Special relativity: time dilation, the twin
paradox [Textbook Sections 26.1-26.4].
- 04/05/2004 - Lecture XXXIII: Special relativity: contraction of length,
mass and energy [Textbook Sections 26.5-26.11].
- 04/07/2004 - Lecture XXXIV: A bit more on special relativity.
A "special" cartoon.
- 04/12/2004 - Lecture XXXV: Electrons and blackbody radiation.
Photons. [Textbook Sections 27.1-27.3].
- 04/14/2004 - Lecture XXXVI: Notions of quantum mechanics.
[Textbook Sections 27.4-27.6, 28.1-28.2, 28.4-28.5].
- 04/16/2004 - Lecture XXXVII: Quantum mechanics.
[Textbook Sections 28.1-28.2, 28.4-28.5].
- 04/19/2004 - Lecture XXXVIII: The atom. Fluorescence and
phosphorescence. Lasers. [Textbook Sections 27.7-27.9, 28.10-18.11,
30.1].
- 04/21/2004 - Quiz and Lecture XXXIX: Radioactivity and decay.
[Textbook Sections 30.3-30.6, 31.4, 31.6-31.8].
- 04/21/2004 - Review I: Electrostatics. [Textbook
Chapters 16-18].
- 04/23/2004 - Review II: Circuits and Magnetism. [Textbook
Chapters 19-20].
- 04/26/2004 - Review IV: Electromagnetism and waves. [Textbook
Chapters 21-22].
- 04/28/2004 - Review V: Geometric optics. [Textbook
Chapters 23].
- 04/30/2004 - Review VI: Wave nature of light, special relativity
and quantum mechanics. [Textbook Chapters 24, 26-28].
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