PHY 131 LECTURE SCHEDULE - 1:40 MWF - LECTURER G.B. ADAMS
Lecture Day Date Topic
1. W 1/18 Coulomb's Law
2. F 1/20 The Electric Field
3. M 1/23 Continuous Charge Distributions
4. W 1/25 Motion in an Electric Field
5. F 1/27 Dipole in an Electric Field; Volume Flux
6. M 1/30 Gauss' Law; Spherical Symmetry
7. W 2/01 Other Symmetries; Conductors
8. F 2/03 Surface Charges on Conductors
9. M 2/06 Electric Potential Energy
W 2/08 TEST #1 THE ELECTRIC FIELD (lectures 1-8)
10. F 2/10 Electric Potential
11. M 2/13 Fields from Potentials
12. W 2/15 Conductors and Potentials
13. F 2/17 Capacitance; Energy of Capacitors
14. M 2/20 Combinations of Capacitors
15 W 2/22 Dielectrics
16. F 2/24 Induced Charge in a Dielectric
17. M 2/27 Current and Resistance
W 3/01 TEST #2 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL (lectures 9-16)
18. F 3/03 Electric Power; EMF
19. M 3/06 Kirchhoff's Rules for Circuits
20. W 3/08 Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge
21. F 3/10 Magnetic Force on Currents and Dipoles
3/13-3/17 Spring Break
22. M 3/20 The Biot-Savart Law
23. W 3/22 Ampere's Law
24. F 3/24 Solenoids and Toroids
25. M 3/27 Faraday's Law - Qualitative; Eddy Currents
W 3/29 TEST #3 MAGNETISM DUE TO CURRENTS (lectures 17-24)
26. F 3/31 Faraday's Law; Magnetism and Relativity
27. M 4/03 Motional EMF; Induced E Fields
28. W 4/05 Generators and Motors; Self-Inductance
29. F 4/07 Mutual Inductance; Energy in the B Field
30. M 4/10 Ampere-Maxwell Law; Displacement Current
31. W 4/12 RC and LR Circuits; Exponential Decay
F 4/14 TEST #4 INDUCED E and B FIELDS (lectures 25-30)
32. M 4/17 Asymptotic Growth in RC and LR Circuits;
33. W 4/19 LC Circuits; LRC Circuits
34. F 4/21 Transformers; AC Circuits
35. M 4/24 Power in AC Circuits; Resonance
36. W 4/26 Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
37. F 4/28 Intensity of EM Waves; Evaluations
M 5/01 TEST #5 TIME-VARYING CURRENTS; EM WAVES (lectures 31-37)
FINAL EXAM (40 Multiple Choice Questions) WED May 10 2:40-4:30 PM