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"

Assignment #1 due (solutions)

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 E_n", §23-5 "Charge and Field at Conductor Surfaces"

Assignment #2 due, (solutions)

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"

Assignment #3 due, (solutions)

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"

Assignment #4 due, (solutions)

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"

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)

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"

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