Physics 232 Syllabus

 
 
Class #
Day
Date
Chapter,sections
Topic
       
Electricity and Magnetism
1
Wed
Jan 15
23: 1-3
Electric Charge and Force
2
Fri
Jan 17
23: 4-5
Electric field
3
Mon
Jan 20
23: 6-7
Electric  field
4
Wed
Jan 22
24: 1-2
Electric flux
          5
     Fri
       Jan 24
24: 3-4
Gauss' Law
6
Mon
Jan 27
25:  1-3
Electric Potential
 
Wed
Jan 29
DROP DEADLINE
 
7
Wed
Jan 29
25: 4-6
Electric potential
8
Fri
Jan 31
26: 1-2, 4
Capacitors
9
Mon
Feb 3
26: 3-5
Capacitors
10
Wed
Feb 5
27: 1-2
Electric current
11
Fri
Feb 7
27: 6, 28: 1
Electric energy, Electromotive force
12
Mon
Feb 10
28: 2-3
Connected resistors
13
Wed
Feb 12
28: 3-4
Kirchhoff's rules, RC circuits
14
Fri
Feb 14
29: 1-2
Magnetic field
15
Mon
Feb 17
29: 3-4
Effects of magnetic field
16
Wed
Feb 19
30: 3-4
Amphere's Law
17
Fri
Feb 21
30: 3-4
Amphere's Law
18
Mon
Feb 24
EXAM I
Chapters 23-29
19
Wed
Feb 26
30: 1
Biot-Savart Law
20
Fri
Feb 28
30: 5-7
Gauss' law for magnetism
 
   
SPRING BREAK 
 
21
Mon
Mar 10
31: 1-3
Faraday's Law, Lennz'  Law
22
Wed
Mar 12
31: 2-4
Motional EMF, Induced EMF
23
Fri
Mar 14
32: 1,4; 33: 8
Inductance, Transformers
24
Mon
Mar 17
32: 3
Magnetic energy
 
Wed
Mar 19
W'DRAW DEADLINE 
 
25
Wed
Mar 19
32: 5-6
Circuit Oscillations (treated lightly)
26
Fri
Mar 21
34: 1-2, 7
Maxwell's equations, EM waves
       
Light
27
Mon
Mar 24
37: 1-3
Interference
28
Wed
Mar 26
38: 1, 4-5
Diffraction
29
Fri
Mar 28
38: 2-3
Diffraction
30
Mon
Mar 31
38: 6
Polarization of light
31
Wed
Apr 2
EXAM II
Chapters 29-34
       
Modern Physics
32
Fri
Apr 4
39: 1-4
Special Relativity
33
Mon
Apr 7
39: 5-6
Special Relativity
34
Wed
Apr 9
39:  7-8
Mass and Energy
35
Fri
Apr 11
40: 1-3
Quantum theory
36
Mon
Apr 14
40 : 4-5,7
Quantum theory 
37
Wed
Apr 16
41: 1-3
Quantum mechanics
38
Fri
Apr 18
41: 4-5
Quantum mechanics
39
Mon
Apr 21
41: 5-7
Quantum mechanics
40
Wed
Apr 23
43
Selected topics
41
Fri
Apr 25
43
Selected topics
42
Mon
Apr 28 
 
Review
 
   
FINAL EXAM