Textbook:Textbook: Halliday, Resnick, & Walker; Fundamentals of Physics, Extended Fifth Edition.
| Week | Topics | Chapters |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 31 |
| 3/20-4/4 | Spring Break | - |
| 4/5 | 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 I | 39 |
| May 5 (Wed.) | EXAM 3 | - |
| 5/10 | Topics in quantum physics | 40 |
| Thursday, May 20 at 9:00am | Final Exam | - |
Grading: Your course grade will be based upon three exams, weekly problem sets
and labs, and a final:
Hour exams (@ 15%): 4.5%
Problem sets: 15%
Labs: 15%
Final exam 25%
Problem sets will usually be due at the start of class on Friday. Solutions
will be posted on the bulletin board outside the workshop physics lab and put
on 2-hour reserve in Burling library soon thereafter. I encourage you to work
together on the solving of problems, but not on their solutions; to maintain
academic honesty, write up the results by yourself. (Refer to the section on
Academic Honesty in the 1998-99 Student Handbook. If you are in doubt about
how these pages apply to physics assignments, please consult me.)
You should all be enrolled in a lab section which begins the week of February
1. Refer to the separate handout on laboratory procedures and requirements.
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