PHY 131 LECTURE SCHEDULE - 2:40 MWF - INSTRUCTOR G.B. ADAMS
Lecture Day Date Topics
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1. M 8/20 Coulomb's Law
2. W 8/22 Continuous Charge Distributions
3. F 8/24 Electric Field Lines
4. M 8/27 Motion in an Electric Field
5. W 8/29 Electric Dipole in an Electric Field
6. F 8/31 Gauss' Law
M 9/3 LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
7. W 9/5 Applications of Gauss' Law
8. F 9/7 Conductors
9. M 9/10 Electric Potential Energy
W 9/12 EXAMINATION #1 (lectures 1-8)
Returned in Recitation beginning 9/17
10. F 9/14 Electric Potential
11. M 9/17 Fields from Potentials
12. W 9/19 Conductors and Potentials
13. F 9/21 Capacitance
14. M 9/24 Combinations of Capacitors
15. W 9/26 Dielectrics
16. F 9/28 Induced Charge in a Dielectric
17. M 10/1 Current and Resistance
W 10/3 EXAMINATION #2 (lectures 9-16)
Returned in Recitation beginning 10/8
18. F 10/5 Electric Power; EMF
19. M 10/8 Kirchoff's Rules for Circuits
20. W 10/10 Meters; RC Circuits
21. F 10/12 Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge
22. M 10/15 Magnetic Force on Currents
23. W 10/17 Ampere's Law
24. F 10/19 Solenoids
25. M 10/22 The Biot-Savart Law
W 10/24 EXAMINATION #3 (lectures 17-24)
Returned in Recitation beginning 10/29
26. F 10/26 Displacement Current
27. M 10/29 Faraday's Law
28. W 10/31 Motional EMF
29. F 11/2 Generators and Motors
30. M 11/5 Inductance
31. W 11/7 Energy in Inductors
32. F 11/9 RL Circuits; LC Circuits
M 11/12 VETERANS' DAY HOLIDAY
W 11/14 EXAMINATION #4 (lectures 25-31)
Returned in Recitation beginning 11/19
33. F 11/16 RLC Circuits
34. M 11/19 Single Elements in AC Circuits
35. W 11/21 AC in Series RLC Circuits; Resonance
F 11/23 THANKSGIVING FRIDAY
36. M 11/26 Maxwell's Equations; Properties of Waves
37. W 11/28 Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
38. F 11/30 Polarization; Evaluations
M 12/3 EXAMINATION #5 (lectures 32-38)
You may retrieve your graded TEST 5
from your recitation instructor during
his office hours.
FINAL EXAM (40 Multiple Choice Questions) Tue 12/11 10:00-11:50