PHY 131 LECTURE SCHEDULE - 1:40 MWF - LECTURER G.B. ADAMS
  
       Lecture Day  Date     Topic
         1.     W   1/17     Coulomb's Law
         2.     F   1/19     The Electric Field
         3.     M   1/22     Continuous Charge Distributions
         4.     W   1/24     Motion in an Electric Field
         5.     F   1/26     Dipole in an Electric Field; Volume Flux
         6.     M   1/29     Gauss' Law; Spherical Symmetry
         7.     W   1/31     Other Symmetries; Conductors
         8.     F   2/02     Surface Charges on Conductors
         9.     M   2/05     Electric Potential Energy
                W   2/07   TEST #1 THE ELECTRIC FIELD (lectures 1-8)
                           Returned in recitation beginning 2/12
        10.     F   2/09     Electric Potential
        11.     M   2/12     Fields from Potentials
        12.     W   2/14     Conductors and Potentials
        13.     F   2/16     Capacitance; Energy of Capacitors 
        14.     M   2/19     Combinations of Capacitors
        14      W   2/21     Dielectrics
        16.     F   2/23     Induced Charge in a Dielectric
        17.     M   2/26     Current and Resistance
                W   2/28   TEST #2 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL (lectures 9-16)
                           Returned in recitation beginning 3/05
        18.     F   3/02     Electric Power; EMF
        19.     M   3/05     Kirchhoff's Rules for Circuits
        20.     W   3/07     Magnetic Force on a Moving Charge
        21.     F   3/09     Magnetic Force on Currents and Dipoles
                 3/12-3/16   Spring Break
        22.     M   3/19     The Biot-Savart Law
        23.     W   3/21     Ampere's Law
        24.     F   3/23     Solenoids and Toroids 
        25.     M   3/26     Faraday's Law - Qualitative; Eddy Currents 
                W   3/28   TEST #3 MAGNETISM DUE TO CURRENTS (lectures 17-24)
                           Returned in recitation beginning 4/02
        26.     F   3/30     Faraday's Law; Magnetism and Relativity
        27.     M   4/02     Motional EMF; Induced E Fields
        28.     W   4/04     Generators and Motors; Self-Inductance 
        29.     F   4/06     Mutual Inductance; Energy in the B Field
        30.     M   4/09     Ampere-Maxwell Law; Displacement Current 
        31.     W   4/11     Exponential Decay in RC and LR Circuits
                F   4/13   TEST #4 INDUCED E and B FIELDS (lectures 25-30)
                           Returned in recitation beginning 4/23
        32.     M   4/16     Asymptotic Growth in RC and LR Circuits 
        33.     W   4/18     LC Circuits; LRC Circuits
        34.     F   4/20     Transformers; AC Circuits
        35.     M   4/23     Power in AC Circuits; Resonance
        36.     W   4/25     Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
        37.     F   4/27     Intensity of EM Waves; Evaluations
                M   4/30   TEST #5 CHANGING CURRENTS; EM WAVES (lectures 31-37)
                           Available from your recitation instructor
                           on reading day May 2
  
          FINAL EXAM (40 Multiple Choice Questions)  WED May 09 2:40-4:30 PM