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Brief summary of lectures and readings | ||
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| (Click below for lecture notes) | Brief summary | Reading assignment for next class |
| Lecture 1: (and in-class questions ) Mon, Aug 27, 2001 |
Discussion of
administrative stuff.
Review 2010, what is physics 2020 about? Intro to electrostatics | For next time, read Ch. 16.1-16.4. (Also, read syllabus) |
| Lecture 2: (and in-class questions ) Wed, Aug 29, 2001 | Electrostatics, charging by induction, intro to Coulomb's law. |
For next time, read: 16.5, 16.6, (start 16.7: p. 486) Print out lab intro and lab manual #1 for next week. |
| Lecture 3: (and in-class questions ) Fri, Aug 31, 2000 | Coulombs law, vector addition. Intro to E-field | For next, read all of 16.7-9 (16.10 is optional, but pretty cool) |
| Lecture 4: (and in-class questions ) Wed Sept 5, 2001 | Electric fields, and field lines. | For next read 17.1-4, but please see my lecture notes. (The first part of 17.1, before the example, is rather confusing, my notes are better!) |
| Lecture 5: (and in-class questions ) Fri Sept 7, 2001 | Lightning, Electric work, Review of work. | For next, read 17.4-5, but note: 17.6 is *optional*. |
| Lecture 6: (and in-class questions ) Mon Sept 10, 2001 | Potential, voltage | For next, read 17.7-9 |
| Lecture 7: (and in-class questions ) Wed Sep 12, 2001 | Equipotentials, The "eV unit" | For next, read the rest of Ch. 17. (Note: We'll do a simple EKG lab later this semester) |
| Lecture 8: (and in-class questions ) Fri Sep 14, 2001 | Capacitors and dielectrics, stored energy. | For next, read 18.1, 18.2 |
| Lecture 9: (and in-class questions ) Mon Sep 17, 2001 | Finish up Ch. 17 (Capacitors, CRT's) Introduce batteries and currents | For next, read 18.3 - 18.5 |
| Lecture 10: (and in-class questions ) Wed Sep 19, 2001 | Resistors and resistivity | For next read 18.6-8. (Note: 18.9 is optional. 18.10 is optional but fun!) |
| Lecture 11: (and in-class questions ) Fri Sep 21, 2001 | Resistivity, and Power. | For next, Read 19.1-2 (It'll be o.k. as long as you read it by next Wed) |
| Lecture 12: (and in-class questions ) Mon Sep 24, 2001 | AC circuits, some brief exam review. | For next, No reading - Exam on Tuesday! |
| Lecture 13: (and in-class questions ) Wed Sep 26, 2001 | Finish up AC. Intro to circuits, parallel and series. | For next: read 19.3-19.5 (19.6 and 7 is optional. 19.8 is optional but cool! We WILL do 19.9 and 19.10 next, but 19.11 is optional) |
| Lecture 14: (and in-class questions ) Fri Sep 28, 2001 | More circuits. | For next: read 19.9, and 10 (we're skipping 19.6-8, and 11) |
| Lecture 15: (and in-class questions ) Mon Oct 1, 200 | Kirchoff's laws. | For next: Catch up! (Read 20.1-20.4 by Monday after break.) |
| Lecture 16: (and in-class questions ) Wed Oct 3, 2001 | Finish up Ch. 19. | For next read Ch. 20.1-20.4 |
| Fall Break Thur-Fri Oct 4-5, 2001 | Enjoy your break. | (Catch up on your reading) |
| Lecture 17: (and in-class questions ) Mon Oct 8, 2001 | Finish up on "real life circuits". Introduction to magnetism, and magnetic forces | For next read 20.5-7 |
| Lecture 18: (and in-class questions ) Wed Oct 10, 2001 | Magnetic forces, right hand rules. | For next: Catch up (20.1-7) and 20.9. 20.8 is MOSTLY optional. Read the first paragraph up to formula 20-7. You won't need to use that formula in any homework problems, but the IDEA that you can figure out B if you know the currents is what matters. Look at figure 20-27: convince yourself qualitatively that the pictures make sense to you. |
| Lecture 19: (and in-class questions ) Fri Oct 12, 2001 | Magnetic fields from wires, and forces | For next: Read 20.10, 20.12, 20.13, 20.14. |
| Lecture 20: (and in-class questions ) Mon Oct 15, 2001 | Magnetic torque, devices | For next: Read 21.1-21.3 |
| Lecture 21: (and in-class questions ) Wed Oct 17, 2001 | Crossed E and B fields, magnetic defices, finish up Ch 20 | For next: Read 21.4-21.6 |
| Lecture 22: (and in-class questions ) Fri Oct 19, 2001 | Faraday's law, Lenz's law. EMF | For next, read 21.7 -8 |
| Lecture 23: (and in-class questions ) Mon Oct 22, 2001 | More on Lenz, EMF, Electric generators. Brief exam review | No new reading (exam on tuesday) |
| Lecture 24: (and in-class questions ) Wed oct 24, 2001 | Eddy current, transformers. | For next read 22.1, 22.3, 22.5 |
| Lecture 25: (and in-class questions Fri Oct 26, 2001 | Discussed exam II, Transformers. | For next read 22.8 |
| Lecture 26: (and in-class questions ) Mon Oct 29, 2001 | Electromagnetic radiation | Read 23.1, 23.2 (23.3 is optional) |
| Lecture 27: (and in-class questions ) Wed Oct 31, 2001. Boo! | EM spectrum | For next read 23.4-6 |
| Lecture 28: (and in-class questions ) Fri Nov 2, 2001 | Finish up spectrum, speed of light. Intro to optics | For next, read 23.7-9 (Those are useful for the lab next week!!) (Note: 23.10 and 11 will be purely optional) |
| Lecture 29: (and in-class questions ) Mon Nov 5, 2001 | Light rays and mirrors, Snell's Law. | For next: Just catch up. We'll be jumping to the first couple of sections of 25, next. |
| Lecture 30: (and in-class questions ) Wed Nov 7, 2001 | Snell's Law and total internal reflection | For next read Ch. 25.1-3 |
| Lecture 31: (and in-class questions ) Fri Nov 9, 2001 | Lenses and ray diagrams. | For next read Ch. 25.4. (Summary, if you've gotten confused since I'm skipping around a little: for Exam 3, you should have read 23.1,2,4-9, and 25.1-4) Coming up next will be Ch. 24... but that won't be on Exam 3. |
| Lecture 32: (and in-class questions ) Mon Nov 12, 2001 | More examples of lenses and ray diagrams. | For next, read 24.1-2 |
| Lecture 33: (and in-class questions ) Wed Nov 14, 2001 | Finishing up geometrical optics, telescopes. | For next read Ch.24.3-4 |
| Lecture 34: (and in-class questions ) Fri Nov 16 | Intro to wave properties of light Diffraction and interference | Catch up! |
| Lecture 35: (and in-class questions ) Mon Nov 19 | Exam review with John Taylor. | No reading assignment, there's an exam tomorrow. |
| Lecture 36: (and in-class questions ) Wed Nov 21, 2001 | No class, have a nice break. | For next (i.e. for after the holiday) read Ch. 24.5-7 (Note: 8 and 9 will be totally optional) |
| Thanksgiving Th-Fri Nov 22-23, 200 | Enjoy your break. | (Catch up on your reading) |
| Lecture 37: (and in-class questions ) Mon Nov 26, 2001 | Interference, double slits. | For next catch up - 24.1-7 (10 and 11 coming up next) |
| Lecture 38: (and in-class questions ) Wed Nov 28, 2001 | Double slits and diffraction gratings. | For next read Ch. 24.10 and 11. |
| Lecture 39: (and in-class questions ) Fri Nov 30, 2001 | Emission and absorption spectra. Single slits. Double slits that have "real" size. | For next, read Ch. 25.7, and 27.8-10 |
| Lecture 40: (and in-class questions ) Mon Dec 3, 2001 | "real" slits, Polarization. | For next, read my lecture notes on "modern physics" (not all for next time, just about 4 pages at a time...) You might also look at 27.5-7 |
| Lecture 41: (and in-class questions ) Wed Dec 5, 2001 | Polarization: law of Malus. Why is the sky blue? | For the rest - catch up, (read my lecture notes...) |
| Lecture 42: (and in-class questions ) Fri Dec 7, 2001 | Modern physics, The Bohr model. (+ FCQ's) | No new reading assignments |
| Lecture 43: (and in-class questions ) Mon Dec 10, 2001 | Bohr model, and nuclear weapons. | For next, catch up, we're done with reading assignments! (Bring questions for next time) |
| Lecture 44: (and in-class questions ) Wed Dec 12, 2001 | Finishing up, and review... | Last Class! Good luck on the final on Wed, 7:30PM. I've had a great time teaching you, hope you enjoyed this course! |
NOTE: If you want to read ahead, we are just going to be following Giancoli straight through, at a rate of approximately 1 chapter every 3-4 lectures. The sections you can skip are 18.9, 18.10 (although if you're into biology, 18.10 is very useful and interesting), 19.6-19.7, 19.11, 20.8 (we'll talk about the beginning qualitative aspects of 20.8, but not the hairy math stuff), 20.11, 20.15, 21.9 through 21.15, 22.42, 22.4, 22.7, 23.3, 23.11, 24.9, 24.11 (but, read it if you want to know why the sky is blue), 25.5 till the end of Ch. 25. After this, we'll see if we have time for anything else!
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