PHY 131 LECTURE SCHEDULE - 1:40 MWF - INSTRUCTOR G.B. ADAMS
Lecture Day Date Topics
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1. M 8/23 Coulomb's Law
2. W 8/25 Continuous Charge Distributions
3. F 8/27 Electric Field Lines
4. M 8/30 Motion in an Electric Field
5. W 9/1 Electric Dipole in an Electric Field
6. F 9/3 Gauss' Law
M 9/6 LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
7. W 9/8 Applications of Gauss' Law
8. F 9/10 Conductors
9. M 9/13 Electric Potential Energy
W 9/15 EXAMINATION #1 (lectures 1-8)
Returned in Recitation beginning 9/20
10. F 9/17 Electric Potential
11. M 9/20 Fields from Potentials
12. W 9/22 Conductors and Potentials
13. F 9/24 Capacitance
14. M 9/27 Combinations of Capacitors
15. W 9/29 Dielectrics
16. F 10/1 Induced Charge in a Dielectric
17. M 10/4 Current and Resistance
W 10/6 EXAMINATION #2 (lectures 9-16)
Returned in Recitation beginning 10/11
18. F 10/8 Electric Power; EMF
19. M 10/11 Kirchoff's Rules for Circuits
20. W 10/13 Meters; RC Circuits
21. F 10/15 Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge
22. M 10/18 Magnetic Force on Currents
23. W 10/20 Ampere's Law
24. F 10/22 Solenoids
25. M 10/25 The Biot-Savart Law
W 10/27 EXAMINATION #3 (lectures 17-24)
Returned in Recitation beginning 11/1
26. F 10/29 Displacement Current
27. M 11/1 Faraday's Law
28. W 11/3 Motional EMF
29. F 11/5 Generators and Motors
30. M 11/8 Atoms as Magnets; Inductance
31. W 11/10 Mutual Inductance
32. F 11/12 Energy in Inductors
33. M 11/15 RL Circuits; LC Circuits
W 11/17 EXAMINATION #4 (lectures 25-32)
Returned in Recitation beginning 11/22
34. F 11/19 RLC Circuits
35. M 11/22 Single Elements in AC Circuits
36. W 11/24 AC in Series RLC Circuits;
Properties of Waves
F 11/26 THANKSGIVING FRIDAY
37. M 11/29 Maxwell's Equations; EM Waves
38. W 12/1 Energy and Momentum in EM Waves
39. F 12/3 Dipole Radiation; Polarization
M 12/6 Evaluations; Review
W 12/8 EXAMINATION #5 (lectures 33-39)
You may retrieve your graded TEST 5
from your recitation instructor during
his office hours.
FINAL EXAM (40 Multiple Choice Questions) Wed 12/15 2:40-4:30
Homework Schedule