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Here are the lecture notes all in one place!
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!
At the end of each chapter of Giancoli there are some good questions. In the 7th edition he added some "Misconceptual" question which I think are very helpful. If you don't have that edition, here is a link to scans of those pages.
If you don't have that edition, here is a link to scans of those pages.
Week |
Dates |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Friday |
| 1 | Jan 11-15 |
Introduction to Electrostatics
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Electrostatics |
Coulomb's Law Read Giancoli 16.5 |
| 2 | Jan 18-22 |
Holiday! |
Charging things, and Coulomb's law in 2D (quick vector review - study this on your own if you need it) Read Giancoli 16.6 |
Read Giancoli 16.7-8 |
| 3 | Jan 25-29 |
Superposition of E-Fields, E-fields and conductors Read Giancoli 16.9 (You may skip 16.10-12. The sections on DNA and copy machines are fun, useful, interesting - but optional) |
More on E-fields in and near conductors. Intro to Electric Potential Read Giancoli 17.1 |
Read Giancoli 17.2-3 for today |
| 4 | Feb 1-5 |
Equipotentials (Read Giancoli 17.4-5, skip 17.6) |
More on voltage, intro to Capacitors (Read Giancoli 17.7, and .9) (Skip 17.8! 17.10-11 are fun, but optional) |
More on Capacitors and "Capacitance" (Nearly Wrapping up Ch 17) |
| 5 | Feb 8-12 |
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 15-19 |
Resistivity, intro to Resistors in Series (Giancoli 19.1-2) |
Series and Parallel Home circuits. |
More DC Circuits. (Giancoli 19.3) |
| 7 | Feb 22-26 |
Circuit Analysis, Meters I will skip the mathy aspects of AC (alternating) Currents (we'll treat it "lightly") (19.8) |
More practice with circuits, and "Kirchoff's laws", wrapping up circuits. (No new readings. We have done 18.1-6, 19.1-3, .7-8) |
Starting on Magnetism (Giancoli 20.1) |
| 8 | Feb 29 - Mar 4 |
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 7-11 |
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 14-18 |
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 21-25 |
Holiday |
Sun, Rest |
Enjoy! |
| 12 | Mar 28 - Apr 1 |
Transformers (Giancoli 21.7) |
(Giancoli 22.1-2) |
EM waves, light waves and the spectrum (22.3)
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| 13 | Apr 4-8 |
Power and Intensity Intro to Light and Optics: Reflection Giancoli 22.5 (mostly qualitative, not all those formuas!) Starting 23.1 and 2 |
Optics and intro to Refraction
Giancoli 23.2 |
Refraction and Total Internal Reflection Giancoli 23.4-6
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| 14 | Apr 11-14 |
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 Class activity (on paper) today.
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| 15 | Apr 18-22 |
Mostly 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 25 - Apr 29 |
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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FINAL EXAM is Thursday, May 5, 7:30 AM (location and information will be in the Course Info -> Exam Info tab above)