Home Page for Physics 1120

Physics 1120, General Physics 2: Electricity, Magnetism, and Optics

Instructors: Steven Pollock snf Victor Gurarie

The most important tool for playing with ac circuits is the oscilloscope. It makes a plot of the voltage at any point in your circuit versus time. Some people have too many oscilloscopes.

Week 12 Highlights:

Lectures this week on Chapter 33 and 35 on Faraday's (and Lenz') Law, inductors, and alternating currents

Reading:

Finish Ch. 33 (skipping 33.9), and in Ch. 35 we'll only cover Section 1, and pp. 1135-1136

Home page from weeks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Special notes:

There is a new online participation survey up (it's #5 for the term) - your participation is appreciated!
Exams are graded. Please see the "Exams" link for information about how the class as a whole did. See our CULearn web page (MyGrades link) to find your own grades on the midterm (and the course so far)
Have you noticed that detailed solutions to all CAPA homework are posted after they're due? See "Homework solns" link.

I welcome your comments on the class and this website. Send them to victor dot gurarie at colorado dot edu.

(Many thanks to John Price for the original construction of this page!)