Physics 132: General Physics II Physics Course Syllabus


Spring 1999
Instructor: Bill Case
Office: 1039 Science; Phone: 269-3019 email:case@grinnell.edu

Textbook: Halliday, Resnick & Walker Fundamentals of Physics, Extended edition.



Week Topic Chapter
1/25 Electric Charge & Field 22 & 23
2/1 Gauss' Law 24
2/8 Electric Potential 25
2/15 Capacitance & Currents 26 & 27
2/22 Circuits 28
2/24 (Wed.) EXAM 1 -
3/1 Magnetic Fields 29
3/8 Ampere's Law 30
3/15 Faraday's Law - cont. 31
4/9 (Fri.) EXAM 2 -
4/12 Inductance 31 & 32
4/19 Electromagnetic Oscillations and Waves 33 & 34
4/26 Interference & Diffraction 36 & 37
5/3 Quantum Physics 39
May 5 (Wed.) EXAM 3 -
5/10 Quantum Physics - cont. 40



3 one-hour exams @100 - with a Max. of 300
Problem sets - count as one hour exam 100
Laboratory - count as one hour exam 100
Final exam 150

TOTAL 650

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