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The larger Calendar below will show you where we are, with some of these notes split up into smaller chunks and edited slightly.
Chapter 16 - Electrostatics, Coulomb's law and E-fields (all combined in one file)
Chapter 17 - Electric Potential (Voltage, and potential energy) ("" "")
Chapter 18 - Electric Currents (Ohm's law, resistance, power) ("" "")
Chapter 19 - DC Circuits (Direct current, Kirchhoff's rules)
Chapter 20 - Magnetism
Chapter 21 Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's law
Chapter 22 Electromagnetic Waves
Chapter 23-25 Light and optics
Chapter 24 Wave nature of light
That's it!
Week |
Dates |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
| 1 | Jan 12-16 |
Introduction to Electrostatics
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Electrostatics |
Coulomb's Law Read Giancoli 16.5 |
| 2 | Jan 19-23 |
Holiday! |
Coulomb's law in 2D Read Giancoi 16.6 |
Read Giancoli 16.7-8 |
| 3 | Jan 26-30 |
Superposition of E-Fields, E-fields and conductors Read Giancoli 16.9 (Skip 16.10! 16.11-12 are fun, but optional) |
More on E-fields in and near conductors. Intro to Electric Potential Read Giancoli 17.1 |
Read Giancoli 17.2-3 |
| 4 | Feb 2-6 |
Equipotentials (See the mathematic sim!) (Read Giancoli 17.4-5) |
More on voltage, brief intro to Capacitors (Read Giancoli 17.7, and .9) (Skip 17.8! 17.10-11 are fun, but optional) |
More on Capacitors and "Capacitance" |
| 5 | Feb 9-13 |
Wrap up Ch 17 (Energy in capacitors). Then, intro to Current and Batteries (Read Giancoli 18.1-3) |
(Read Giancoli 18.4-6) |
Power, and intro to Circuits (No new Giancoli reading) |
| 6 | Feb 16-20 |
Resistivity, intro to Resistors in Series | Series and Parallel | More DC Circuits, home circuits |
| 7 | Feb 23-27 |
Circuit Analysis, Meters I will skip the mathy aspects of AC (alternating) Currents (we'll treat it "lightly") |
More practice with circuits, and "Kirchoff's laws", wrapping up circuits. |
Starting on Magnetism .(Giancoli 20.1) |
| 8 | Mar 2-6 |
Magnetic fields and forces (Giancoli 20.2-3) |
More Magnetism, practice with right hand rules (Giancoli 20.4-6) |
Magnets and circular motion (Giancoli 20.7, skip 20.8, we'll do 20.9 lightly, 20.10-11) |
| 9 | Mar 9-13 |
B-field of loops, and Torques on loops, (Read Giancoli 21.1) |
Wrapping up Ch 20, starting on Ch 21, Exam is tomorrow nite! (Giancoli 21.1) |
Intro to Flux and Faraday's Law (No new Giancoli reading) |
| 10 | Mar 16-20 |
Faraday Applications, Lenz' law. (Covering Giancoli 21.2-4) |
Eddy Currents and Generators (Giancoli 21.5&6) |
Generators and applications (Giancoli 21.8) |
| 11 | Mar 23-27 |
Holiday |
Sun, Rest |
Enjoy! |
| 12 | Mar 30 - Apr 3 |
Transformers (Giancoli 21.7) |
Electromagnetic Waves (Giancoli 22.1-3) |
More on light waves (22.7)
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| 13 | Apr 6-10 |
Intro to Light and Optics: Reflection (Giancoli 23.1) |
Optics and intro to Refraction
Giancoli 23.2 |
Refraction and Total Internal Reflection Giancoli 23.4-6
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| 14 | Apr 13-17 |
Lenses Giancoli 23.7 and 8 |
Lenses and Ray diagrams. Giancoli 23.8 Exam is tomorrow nite! |
Magnification and Diverging Lenses. Giancoli 23.8 and 25.2
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| 15 | Apr 20-24 |
Wrapping up geometrical optics. Giancoli 25.2 and 25.3 |
Eyes and lenses. Start Giancoli 24.1 and 2 |
Double Slit Application Giancoli 24.3 |
| 16 | Apr 27 - May 1 |
More 2-slit Diffraction/interference
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Diffraction gratings and Spectroscopy Giancoli 24.4, 6, 7 (and bits of 8, 10, and 12) |
Wrap up! Some big picture stuff.... (We are star dust!)
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