• There is much more general course information available here.

• Note! More specific reading assignments, lecture by lecture, will be provided in class, and on my daily lecture summaries . (We will cover approximately one chapter of Giancoli every week, on average.)
• Lab weeks always run from Mon to Friday.
• Note: You are responsible for any material we covered in Physics 2010, Giancoli Ch. 1-12. (We will begin with Giancoli Ch. 16 right in the first class. )
• As discussed in the syllabus, all reading assignments should be finished BEFORE the lectures!

Most of the material we will cover this semester involves discoveries no more than 150 years old (of course, even the ancients knew some things about magnetism and light). We are so comfortable with technologies like television and home computers, that it is easy to forget just how recent these developments are: Some of you have relatives old enough to remember the days before radio (the first licensed broadcast station opened in 1920). We live radically more convenient and perhaps longer and more enjoyable lives due to the revolution in electric-based technology. Modern health-care, industrial, and home tools are almost entirely based upon the existence of electrical power and electronic circuitry. We will cover the physics of electricity, magnetism, and electronics. By the time we are finished, you will have a base of knowledge that will allow you to better understand how many modern electronic instruments work.