PHY 131 LECTURE SCHEDULE - 2:00 MW - INSTRUCTOR G.B. ADAMS
Lecture Day Date Topic
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1. M 8/23 Coulomb's Law; The Electric Field
2. W 8/25 Continuous Charge Distributions
3. M 8/30 Point Charges and Dipoles in an External E Field
4. W 9/01 Gauss' Law
M 9/06 LABOR DAY MONDAY
5. W 9/08 Conductors
6. M 9/13 Electric Potential Energy
W 9/15 TEST #1 - lectures 1-5
Returned in Recitation beginning 9/20
7. M 9/20 Electric Potential
8. W 9/22 Conductors and Potentials
9. M 9/27 Capacitance
10. W 9/29 Dielectrics
11. M 10/04 Induced Charge in a Dielectric; Current
12. W 10/06 Resistance; Electric Power; EMF
13. M 10/11 Kirchhoff's Rules for Circuits; Magnetism
W 10/13 TEST #2 - lectures 6-12
Returned in Recitation beginning 10/18
14. M 10/18 Magnetic Forces on Moving Charges and Currents
15. W 10/20 The Biot-Savart Law
16. M 10/25 Ampere's Law
17. W 10/27 Solenoids and Toroids; Magnetism and Relativity
18. M 11/01 Faraday's Law; Motional EMF; Eddy Currents
19. W 11/03 Induced E Fields; Generators
20. M 11/08 Inductance
W 11/10 TEST #3 - lectures 13-19
Returned in Recitation beginning 11/15
21. M 11/15 Ampere-Maxwell Law
22. W 11/17 Differential Equations; RC Circuits; LR Circuits
23. M 11/22 AC Circuits
24. W 11/24 Power and Resonance in AC Circuits
25. M 11/29 Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
26. W 12/01 Intensity and Polarization; Evaluations
M 12/06 TEST #4 (lectures 20-26)
Available from your Recitation Instructor
on Reading Day Dec 8.
FINAL EXAM (40 Multiple Choice Questions) MON DEC 13 12:10-2:00 PM