Date

Assignment

Mon, Aug 27

Read §23-1 "Another Fundamental Force", §23-2 "Models of Electrical Phenomena", §23-3 "A Qualitative Look at the Electrostatic Force", §23-4 "Insulators and Conductors", §23-5 "Coulomb's Law", §23-6 "Applications of Coulomb's Law" (lecture notes)

Wed, Aug 29

Read §24-1 "What are Fields”, §24-2 "Special Case: Electric Field of a Charged Sphere", §24-3 "Electric Field Lines"

(lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch23 RQ” due. This is the only set of “RQ” that are due after the actual class, to give people a chance to get set up. If you can, do it before Monday's class anyway.

Online HW: “Ch24 RQ-1” due.

Mon, Sep 3

Labor Day, no class

Wed, Sep 5

Read §24-4 "Electric Field of a Collection of Charged Particles", §24-5 "Electric Field of a Continuous Charge Distribution", §24-6 "Special Cases of Continuous Charge Distributions”

(lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch24 RQ-2” due.

Assignment #1 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Ch23 HW” due.

Mon, Sep 10

Read §24-7 "Case Study: The Shape of Lightning Rods", §24-8 "Charged Particle in an Electric Field", §24-9 "Special Case: Dipole in an Electric Field" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch24 RQ-3” due.

Wed, Sep 12

Read §25-1 "Qualitative Look at Gauss's Law", §25-2 "Flux", §25-3 "Gauss's Law", §25-4 "Special Case: Linear Symmetry" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch24 HW” due.

Assignment #2 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Ch25 RQ-1” due

Mon, Sep 17

Read §25-5 "Special Case: Spherical Symmetry", §25-6 "Special Case: Planar Symmetry", §25-7 "Special Case: Conductors" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch25 RQ-2” due

Wed, Sep 19

Online HW: “Ch25 HW” due.

Assignment #3 due (solutions)

Read §26-1 "Scalars vs. Vectors", §26-2 "Gravity Analogy", §26-3 "Electric Potential Energy U_E", §26-4 "Electric Potential V" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch26 RQ-1” due

Mon, Sep 24

Read §26-5 "Special Case: Electric Potential due to a collection of charged particles", §26-6 "Electric Potential due to a continuous distribution", §26-7 "Connection between electric field and electric potential", §26-8 "Finding E from V", §26-9 "Graphing E and V" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch26 RQ-2” due

Wed, Sep 26

Midterm Test #1 (Ch.23-26). The solutions (white, yellow)

A sample test (blank, solutions) from a previous year, so you can see what it will be like.

You might also check out the WebAssign “Personal Study Plan” area, where there are example quizes you can take to practice on this stuff.

Assignment #4 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Ch26 HW” due

(Wait, what kind of monster assigns homework due on a test day? One who knows that doing the HW is the best form of studying. You can always do it early if this bugs you).

The scores from the test. A snapshot of the current overall scores.

Mon, Oct 1

Read §27-1 "The Leyden jar", §27-2 "Capacitors", §27-3 "Batteries", §27-4 "Capacitors in parallel and series", §27-5 "Capacitance: Special cases", §27-6 "Dielectrics" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch27 RQ-1” due

Wed, Oct 3

Read §27-7 "Energy stored by a capacitor with a dielectric", §27-8 "Gauss' law in a dielectric", §28-1 "Microscopic model of charge flow", §28-2 "Current", §28-3 "Current density" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch27 RQ-2” due

Online HW: “Ch28 RQ-1” due

Assignment #5 due (solutions)

Mon, Oct 8

Read §28-4 "Resistivity and conductivity", §28-5 "Resistance and resistors", §28-6 "Ohm's Law", §28-7 "Power in a circuit" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch27 HW” due

Online HW: “Ch28 RQ-2” due

Wed, Oct 10

Read §29-1 "Measuring potential difference between two points", §29-2 "Kirchoff's loop rule", §29-3 "Resistors in series", §29-4 "Kirchoff's junction rule" (lecture notes)

Assignment #6 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Ch28 HW” due

Online HW: “Ch29 RQ-1” due

Mon, Oct 15

Read §29-5 "Resistors in parallel", §29-6 "Circuit analysis", §29-7 "DC Multimeters", §29-8 "RC circuits" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch29 RQ-2” due

Wed, Oct 17

Midterm Test #2 (Ch.27-29). The solutions (white, yellow)

A sample test (blank, solutions) from a previous year, so you can see what it will be like.

Assignment #7 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Ch29 HW” due

The scores from the test. A snapshot of the current overall scores.

Mon, Oct 22

Read §30-1 "Another Fundamental Force", §30-2 "Revealing Magnetic Fields", §30-3 "Orsted's Discovery", §30-4 "The Biot-Savart Law", §30-5 "Using the Biot-Savart Law", §30-6 "The Magnetic Dipole Moment", §30-7 "Ferromagnetic Materials" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch30 RQ-1” due

Wed, Oct 24

Read §30-8 "Magnetic Force on a Charged Particle", §30-9 "Motion of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field", §30-10 "Case Study: The Hall Effect" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch30 RQ-2” due

Assignment #8 due (solutions)

Mon, Oct 29

Read §30-11 "Magnetic Force on a Current Carrying Wire", §30-12 "Force between Two Long, Straight Parallel Wires", §30-13 "Current Loop in a Uniform Magnetic Field" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch30 RQ-3” due

Wed, Oct 31

Read §31-1 "Measuring the Magnetic Field", §31-2 "Gauss' Law for Magnetism", §31-3 "Ampere's Law", §31-4 through §31-7 "Special Cases" (lecture notes)

Assignment #9 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Ch31 RQ” due

Online HW: “Ch30 HW” due

Mon, Nov 5

Read §32-1 "Another Kind of EMF", §32-2 "Faraday's Law", §32-3 "Lenz's Law", §32-4 “Lenz's Law and Conservation of Energy” (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch31 HW” due

Online HW: “Ch32 RQ-1” due

Wed, Nov 7

Read §32-5 "Case Study: Slide Generator", §32-6 "Case Study: AC Generators", §32-7 "Case Study: Faraday's Generator and other DC Generators", §32-8 “Case Study: Power Transmission and Transformers (Autobots: Roll Out!)” (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch32 RQ-2” due

Mon, Nov 12

Midterm Test #3 (Ch.30-32). The solutions (white, yellow)

A sample test (blank, solutions) from a previous year, so you can see what it will be like. Note that we used to cover “inductors” (so they're on this sample test), but we're skipping them this semester so they're not on your test.

The scores from the test. A snapshot of the current overall scores.

Assignment #10 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Ch32 HW” due

Wed, Nov 14

NOTE: Skipping AC Circuits, Chapter 33.

Also: we'll hit Chapters 34, 35, & 36 more lightly than previous chapters, hence one 2hr class per chapter (the consequence of using 2hr class times for midterms).

Read §34-1 "Light: One Last Classical Topic", §34-2 “Generalized form of Faraday's Law”, §34-3 “Five Equations of Electromagnetism”, §34-4 “Electromagnetic Waves”, §34-5 "The Electromagnetic Spectrum", §34-6 “Energy and Intensity”, §34-7 “Momentum and Radiation Pressure”, §34-8 “Polarizaton” (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch34 RQ” due

Mon, Nov 19

Read §35-1 "Light is a Wave", §35-2 “Sound Wave Interference Revisited”, §35-3 “Young's Experiment: Position of the Fringes”, §34-4 “Single-slit Diffraction”, §34-5 "Young's Experiment: Intensity", §35-6 “Single-slit Diffraction Intensity”, §35-7 “Double-slit Diffraction” (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch35 RQ” due

Online HW: “Ch34 HW” due

Wed, Nov 21

Read §36-1 "Implications of the Wave Model", §36-2 "Circular Apeture Diffraction", §36-3 "Thin Film Interference", §36-4 "Diffraction Gratings", §36-5 "Dispersion and Resolving Power", §36-6 "Case Study: Michaelson's Interferometer" (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch36 RQ” due

Online HW: “Ch35 HW” due

Mon, Nov 26

Read §37-1 "Geometric Optics", §37-2 “Law of Reflection”, §37-3 “Images Formed by Plane Mirrors”, §37-4 “Spherical Mirrors” (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch36 HW” due

Online HW: “Ch37 RQ-1” due

Assignment #11 due (solutions)

Wed, Nov 28

Read §37-5 "Images Formed by Convex Mirrors", §35-7 “Images Formed by Concave Mirrors”, §37-7 “Spherical Aberration” (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch37 RQ-2” due

Mon, Dec 3

Read §38-1 "Law of Refraction", §38-2 “Total Internal Reflection”, §37-3 “Dispersion”, §37-4 “Refraction at Spherical Surfaces”, §37-5 “Thin Lenses” (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch37 HW” due

Online HW: “Ch38 RQ-1” due

Assignment #12 due (solutions)

Wed, Dec 5

Read §38-6 "Images Formed by Diverging Lenses", §38-7 “Images Formed by Converging Lenses”, §37-8 “The Human Eye”, §37-9 “One-lens systems”, §37-10 “Multiple-lens Systems” (lecture notes)

Online HW: “Ch38 RQ-2” due

Wed, Dec 12

Final Exam, 14:00-15:55.

A sample test (blank, solutions) from a previous year, so you can see what it will be like.

The scores from the final. A histogram of the final overall scores.

Assignment #13 due (solutions)

Online HW: “Ch38 HW” due