Physics 1204 Assignments and Reading
Date |
Assignment |
Wed, Sep 5 |
Read §22-1 "Electric Charge", §22-2 "Conductors and Insulators" |
Thu, Sep 6 |
Read §22-3 "Coulomb's Law", §22-4 "The Electric Field" |
Fri, Sep 7 |
Read §22-5 "Electric Field Lines", §22-6 "Motion of Point Charges in Electric Fields", §22-7 "Electric Dipoles in Electric Fields" |
Mon, Sep 10 |
Read §23-1 "Calculating E from Coulomb's Law" |
Wed, Sep 12 |
Read §23-2 "Gauss's Law" |
Thu, Sep 13 |
Read §23-3 "Calculating E from Gauss's Law" |
Fri, Sep 14 |
Read §23-4 "Discontinuity of En", §23-5 "Charge and Field at Conductor Surfaces" |
Mon, Sep 17 |
Read §24-1 "Potential Difference" |
Wed, Sep 19 |
Read §24-2 "Potential Due to a System of Point Charges" |
Thu, Sep 20 |
Read §24-3 "Finding the Electric Field from the Potential", §24-4 "Calculation of V for Continuous Charge Distributions" |
Fri, Sep 21 |
Read §24-4 "Equipotential Surfaces" |
Mon, Sep 24 |
Test #1, (solutions) |
Wed, Sep 26 |
Read §25-1 "Electrostatic Potential Energy", §25-2 "Capacitance" |
Thu, Sep 27 |
Read §25-3 "The Storage of Electrical Energy", §25-4 "Combinations of Capacitors" |
Fri, Sep 28 |
Read §25-5 "Dielectrics" |
Mon, Oct 1 |
Read §26-1 "Current and the Motion of Charges" |
Wed, Oct 3 |
Read §26-2 "Resistance and Ohm's Law" |
Thu, Oct 4 |
Read §26-3 "Energy in Electric Circuits" |
Fri, Oct 5 |
Read §26-4 "Combinations of Resistors"
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Mon, Oct 8 |
Read §26-5 "Kirchoff's Rules" Assignment #5 due, (solutions) |
Wed, Oct 10 |
Read §26-5 "Kirchoff's Rules" |
Thu, Oct 11 |
Read §26-6 "RC Circuits" |
Fri, Oct 12 |
Test Review Assignment #6 due, (solutions) |
Mon, Oct 15 |
Test #2, (solutions)
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Wed, Oct 17 |
Read §28-1 "The Force Exerted by a Magnetic Field" |
Thu, Oct 18 |
Read §28-2 "Motion of a Point Charge in a Magnetic Field" |
Fri, Oct 19 |
Read §28-3 "Torques on Current Loops and Magnets", §28-4 "The Hall Effect" |
Mon, Oct 22 |
Read §29-1 "The Magnetic Field of Moving Point Charges", §29-2 "The Magnetic Law of Currents: The Biot-Savart Law" Assignment #7 due, (solutions) |
Wed, Oct 24 |
Read §29-2 "The Magnetic Law of Currents: The Biot-Savart Law" |
Thu, Oct 25 |
Read §29-3 "Gauss' Law for Magnetism", §29-4 "Ampere's Law" |
Fri, Oct 26 |
Read §29-5 "Magnetism in Matter" (informational - not on test) Assignment #8 due, (solutions) |
Mon, Oct 29 |
Read §30-1 "Magnetic Flux" Read §30-2 "Induced emf and Faraday's Law" |
Wed, Oct 31 |
Read §30-3 "Lenz's Law" |
Thu, Nov 1 |
Read §30-4 "Motional emf" Read §30-5 "Eddy Currents" |
Fri, Nov 2 |
Read §30-6 "Inductance" Assignment #9 due, (solutions) |
Mon, Nov 5 |
Read §30-7 "Magnetic Energy" |
Wed, Nov 7 |
Read §30-8 "RL Circuits"
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Thu, Nov 8 |
Neutrino Oscillations |
Fri, Nov 9 |
Assignment #10 due, (solutions) Test Review |
Mon, Nov 12 |
Test #3, (solutions) |
Wed, Nov 14 |
Read §14-1 "Simple Harmonic Motion", §14-2 "Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion" |
Thu, Nov 15 |
Read §32-1 "Maxwell's Displacement Current", §32-2 "Maxwell's Equations" |
Fri, Nov 16 |
Read §32-3 "Electromagnetic Waves" |
Mon, Nov 19 |
Read §33-1 "Wave-Particle Duality", §33-2 "Light Spectra", §33-3 "Sources of Light" |
Wed, Nov 21 |
Read §33-4 "Speed of Light" Assignment 11 due, (solutions) |
Thu, Nov 22 |
Thanksgiving, no class |
Fri, Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving, no class |
Mon, Nov 26 |
Read §33-5 "Propagation of Light" |
Wed, Nov 28 |
Read §33-6 "Reflection and Refraction" |
Thu, Nov 29 |
Read §33-7 "Polarization" |
Fri, Nov 30 |
Read §33-8 "Derivation of the Laws of Reflection and Refraction" Assignment 12 due, (solutions) |
Mon, Dec 3 |
Read §34-1 "Mirrors" |
Wed, Dec 5 |
Read §34-2 "Lenses" |
Thu, Dec 6 |
Read §34-3 "Aberrations", §34-4 "Optical Instruments" |
Fri, Dec 7 |
Read §34-4 "Optical Instruments" Assignment 13 due, (solutions) |
Mon, Dec 10 |
Read §35-1 "Phase Difference and Coherence", §35-2 "Interference in Thin Films" |
Wed, Dec 12 |
Read §35-3 "The Two-Slit Interference Pattern" |
Sun, Dec 23 |
Read §35-1 "Diffraction Pattern of a Single Slit" |
Fri, Dec 14 |
Review for Final Assignment 14 due, (solutions) |
Tue, Dec 18 |
Final Exam, 10:00-11:55am |