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