Date

Assignment

Wed, Sep 7

Read §21-2 "Electric Charge", §21-3 "Conductors and Insulators"

Lecture notes (in .pdf)

Thu, Sep 8

Read §21-4 "Coulomb's Law"

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Fri, Sep 9

Read §21-5 "Charge is Quantized", §21-6 "Charge is Conserved”

Online HW: “Practice Assignment” and “Math Review” due

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Mon, Sep 12

Assignment #1 due (moved back from the usual Friday due to the short starting week) (solutions)

Online HW: “Electric Charge RQ” and “Electric Charge HW” due (this is the combined Ch.21 reading questions and homework problems, due date pushed off till now since last week was short and busy)

Read §22-2 "The Electric Field", §22-3 "Electric Field Lines", §22-4 "The Electric Field due to a Point Charge"

Online HW: “Electric Fields RQ #1” due

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Wed, Sep 14

Read §22-5 "The Electric Field due to an Electric Dipole", §22-6 "The Electric Field due to a Line of Charge"

Online HW: “Electric Fields RQ #2” due

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Thu, Sep 15

Read §22-7 "The Electric Field due to a Charged Disk"

Online HW: “Electric Fields RQ #3” due

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Fri, Sep 16

Read §22-8 "A Point Charge in an Electric Field", §22-9 "A Dipole in an Electric Field"

Online HW: “Electric Fields RQ #4” due

Online HW: “Electric Fields HW” due

Assignment #2 Due (solutions)

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Mon, Sep 19

Read §23-2 "Flux", §22-3 "Flux of an Electric Field", §23-4 "Gauss' Law"

Online HW: “Gauss' Law RQ #1” due

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Wed, Sep 21

Read §22-5 "Gauss' Law and Coulomb's Law", §23-6 "A Charged Isolated Conductor"

Online HW: “Gauss' Law RQ #2” due

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Thu, Sep 22

Read §23-7 "Applying Gauss' Law: Cylindrical Symmetry", §23-8 "Applying Gauss' Law: Planar Symmetry"

Online HW: “Gauss' Law RQ #3” due

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Fri, Sep 23

Read §23-9 "Applying Gauss' Law: Spherical Symmetry", §24-2 "Electric Potential Energy", §24-3 "Electric Potential", §24-4 "Equipotential Surfaces"

Online HW: “Gauss' Law RQ #4” due

Online HW: “Gauss' Law HW” due

Assignment #3 Due (solutions)

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Mon, Sep 26

Read §24-5 "Calculating the Potential from the Field", §24-6 "Potential due to a Point Charge", §24-7 "Potential due to a Group of Point Charges"

Online HW: “Electric Potential RQ #1” due (some from Friday, you get a bonus weekend on them, solutions)

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Wed, Sep 28

Read §24-8 "Potential due to an Electric Dipole", §24-9 "Potential due to a Continuous Charge Distribution"

Online HW: “Electric Potential RQ #2” due

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Thu, Sep 29

Read §24-10 "Calculating the Field from the Potential", §24-11 "Electric Potential Energy of a System of Point Charges", §24-12 "Potential of a Charged, Isolated Conductor"

Online HW: “Electric Potential RQ #3” due

Assignment #4 Due (a day early, so I can post the solutions so you can study for the test) (solutions)

Lecture notes (in .pdf)

Fri, Sep 30

Online HW: “Electric Potential HW” due

Midterm Test #1

The scores from the test. A snapshot of the current overall scores. Some solutions (white, yellow).

Mon, Oct 3

Read §25-2 "Capacitance", §25-3 "Calculating the Capacitance"

Online HW: “Capacitance RQ #1” due

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Wed, Oct 5

Read §25-4 "Capacitors in Parallel and in Series", §25-5 "Energy Stored in an Electric Field"

Online HW: “Capacitance RQ #2” due

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Thu, Oct 6

Read §25-6 "Capacitor with a Dielectric", §25-7 "Dielectrics: An Atomic View", §25-8 "Dielectrics and Gauss' Law"

Online HW: “Capacitance RQ #3” due

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Fri, Oct 7

Assignment #5 Due (solutions)

Online HW: “Capacitance HW” due

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Mon, Oct 10

Read §26-2 "Electric Current", §26-3 "Current Density"

Online HW: “Resistance RQ #1” due

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Wed, Oct 12

Read §26-4 "Resistance and Resistivity", §26-5 "Ohm's Law", §26-6 "A Microscopic View of Ohm's Law"

Online HW: “Resistance RQ #2” due

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Thu, Oct 13

Read §26-7 "Power in Electric Circuits", §26-8 "Semiconductors", §26-9 "Superconductors"

Online HW: “Resistance RQ #3” due

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Fri, Oct 14

Assignment #6 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Resistance HW” due

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Mon, Oct 17

Read §27-2 "Pumping Charges", §26-3 "Work, Energy, and Emf", §26-4 "Calculating the Current in a Single-Loop Circuit"

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Wed, Oct 19

Read §27-5 "Other Single Loop Circuits", §26-6 "Potential Difference Between Two Points"

Online HW: “Circuits RQ #1” due

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Thu, Oct 20

Read §27-7 "Multiloop Circuits"

Online HW: “Circuits RQ #2” due

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Fri, Oct 21

Assignment #7 due (solutions)

Read §27-8 "The Ammeter and the Voltmeter", §27-9 "RC Circuits"

Online HW: “Circuits HW” due

Online HW: “Circuits RQ #3” due

Review for test

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Mon, Oct 24

Midterm Test #2

The scores from the test. A snapshot of the current overall scores. Some solutions (white, yellow).

Wed, Oct 26

Read §28-2 "What Produces a Magnetic Field", §28-3 "The Definition of B", §28-4 "Crossed Fields: Discovery of the Electron", §28-5 "Crossed Fields: the Hall Effect"

Online HW: “Magnetic Fields RQ #1” due

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Thu, Oct 27

Read §28-6 "A Circulating Charged Particle", §28-7 "Cyclotrons and Synchrotrons"

Online HW: “Magnetic Fields RQ #2” due

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Fri, Oct 28

Read §28-8 "Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Wire", §28-9 "Torque on a Current Loop", §28-10 "Magnetic Dipole Moment"

Online HW: “Magnetic Fields RQ #3” due

Online HW: “Magnetic Fields HW” due

Assignment #8 due (solutions)

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Mon, Oct 31

Read §29-2 "Calculating the Magnetic Field due to a Current", §29-3 "Force Between Two Parallel Currents"

Online HW: “Magnetic Currents RQ #1” due

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Wed, Nov 2

Read §29-4 "Ampere's Law", §29-5 "Solenoids and Toroids"

Online HW: “Magnetic Currents RQ #2” due

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Thu, Nov 3

Read §29-6 "A Current-Carrying Coil as a Magnetic Dipole"

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Fri, Nov 4

Assignment #9 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Magnetic Currents HW” due

Read §30-2 "Two Experiments", §30-3 "Faraday's Law of Induction"

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Mon, Nov 7

Read §30-4 "Lenz's Law", §30-5 "Induction and Energy Transfers"

Online HW: “Induction RQ #1” due

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Wed, Nov 9

Read §30-6 "Induced Electric Fields", §30-7 "Inductors and Inductance"

Online HW: “Induction RQ #2” due

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Thu, Nov 10

Read §30-8 "Self Induction", §30-9 "RL Circuits"

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Fri, Nov 11

Read §30-10 "Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field", §30-11 "Energy Density of a Magnetic Field", §30-12 "Mutual Induction"

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Assignment #10 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Induction HW” due

Mon, Nov 14

Repaired Anemometer problem due

Read §32-2 "Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields", §32-3 "Induced Magnetic Fields"

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Wed, Nov 16

Read §32-4 "Displacement Current", §32-5 "Maxwell's Equations", §32-6 "Magnets", §32-7 "Magnetism and Electrons"

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Thu, Nov 17

Read §32-8 "Magnetic Materials", §32-9 "Diamagnetism", §32-10 "Paramagnetism", §32-11 "Ferromagnetism"

Assignment #11 due (solutions)

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Fri, Nov 18

Online HW: “Maxwell & Magnets HW” due

Midterm Test #3 The scores from the test. A snapshot of the current overall scores. Some solutions (white, yellow).

Mon, Nov 21

Read §33-2 "Maxwell's Rainbow", §33-3 "The Traveling Electromagnetic Wave, Qualitatively", §33-4 "The Traveling Electromagnetic Wave, Quantitatively"

Online HW: “EM Waves RQ #1” due

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Wed, Nov 23

Read §33-5 "Energy Transport and the Poynting Vector", §33-6 "Radiation Pressure", §33-7 "Polarization"

Online HW: “EM Waves RQ #2” due

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Thu, Nov 24

Thanksgiving!

No class.

And no homework this week is something else to be Thankful for

Fri, Nov 25

Digesting Day

Still no class.

Mon, Nov 28

Read §33-8 "Reflection and Refraction", §33-9 "Total Internal Reflection", §33-10 "Polarization by Reflection"

Online HW: “EM Waves RQ #3” due

Lecture notes (in .pdf)

Wed, Nov 30

Online HW: “EM Waves HW” due

Read §34-2 "Two Types of Image", §34-3 "Plane Mirrors"

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Thu, Dec 1

Read §34-4 "Spherical Mirrors", §34-5 "Images from Spherical Mirrors"

Online HW: “Images RQ #1” due

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Fri, Dec 2

Read §34-6 "Spherical Refracting Surfaces", §34-7 "Thin Lenses"

Assignment #12 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Images RQ #2” due

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Mon, Dec 5

Read §34-8 "Optical Instruments", §34-9 "Three Proofs"

Online HW: “Images RQ #3” due

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Wed, Dec 7

Online HW: “Images HW” due

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Thu, Dec 8

Read §35-2 "Light as a Wave", §35-3 "Diffraction", §35-4 "Young's Interference Experiment”

Online HW: “Interference RQ #1” due

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Fri, Dec 9

Read §35-5 "Coherence", §35-6 "Intensity in Double-Slit Interference", §35-7 "Interference from Thin Films", §35-8 "Michelson's Interferometer"

Assignment #13 due (solutions)

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Mon, Dec 12

Read §36-2 "Diffraction and the Wave Theory of Light", §36-3 "Diffraction by a Single Slit: Locating the Minima"

Online HW: “Interference RQ #2” due

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Wed, Dec 14

Read §36-4 "Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction, Quantitatively", §36-5 "Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction, Qualitatively"

Online HW: “Diffraction RQ #1” due

Lecture notes (in .pdf)

Thu, Dec 15

Read §36-6 "Diffraction by a Circular Aperture", §36-7 "Diffraction by a Double Slit", §36-8 "Diffraction Gratings"

Online HW: “Diffraction RQ #2” due

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Fri, Dec 16

Read §36-9 "Gratings: Dispersion and Resolving Power", §36-10 "X-ray Diffraction"

Review

Online HW: “Diffraction HW” due

Assignment #14 due (solutions)

Lecture notes (in .pdf)

Tue, Dec 20

Study/help session in MWAH249

15:00-17:00

Thu, Dec 22

Final Exam, 14:00-15:55 The scores from the final. The distribution of the overall scores.