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