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