Physics 232 Syllabus

Class #
Day
Date
Chapter,sections
Topic
       
Electricity and Magnetism
1
Wed
Jan 14
23: 1-3
Electric Charge and Force
2
Fri
Jan 16
23: 4-5
Electric field
3
Mon
Jan 19
23: 6-7
Electric  field
4
Wed
Jan 21
24: 1-2
Electric flux
5
Fri
 Jan 23
24: 3-4
Gauss' Law
6
Mon
Jan 26
25:  1-3
Electric Potential
7
Wed
Jan 28
25: 4-6
Electric potential
8
Fri
Jan 30
26: 1-2, 4
Capacitors
9
Mon
Feb 2
26: 3-5
Capacitors
10
Wed
Feb 4
27: 1-2
Electric current
11
Fri
Feb 6
27: 6, 28: 1
Electric energy, Electromotive force
12
Mon
Feb 9
28: 2-3
Connected resistors
13
Wed
Feb 11
28: 3-4
Kirchhoff's rules, RC circuits
14
Fri
Feb 13
29: 1-2
Magnetic field
15
Mon
Feb 16
29: 3-4
Effects of magnetic field
16
Wed
Feb 18
29: 5
                 Applications
17
Fri
Feb 20
30: 1-2
Biot-Savart Law
18
Mon
Feb 23
EXAM I
Chapters 23-29
19
Wed
Feb 25
30: 3-4
Amphere's Law
20
Fri
Feb 27
30: 5-7
Gauss' law for magnetism
21
Mon
Mar 1
31: 1-3
Faraday's Law, Lennz'  Law
22
Wed
Mar 3
31: 2-4
Motional EMF, Induced EMF
23
Fri
Mar 5
32: 1,4
Inductance



      SPRING BREAK

24
Mon
Mar 15
32: 3, 33: 8
Magnetic energy, Transformers
25
Wed
Mar 17
32: 2, 5-6
Circuit Oscillations
 (treated lightly)
26
Fri
Mar 19
33: 2-5, 34: 1-3
Driven RLC Circuits, Maxwell's equations, EM waves
27
Mon
Mar 22
34: 5-6
EM waves
28
Wed
Mar 24
Chapters 29-32
Review
29
Fri
Mar 26
EXAM II
Chapters 29, 30, 31 and 32




                  Light
       30
Mon
Mar 29
37: 1-3
Interference
31
Wed
Mar 31
38: 1-3
Diffraction
      32
   Fri
      Apr 2
                38: 6
                  Polarization
       
Modern Physics
33
Mon
Apr 5
39: 1-4
Special Relativity
34
Wed
Apr 7
39:  5-7
             Special Relativity
35
Fri
Apr 9
39: 7-9
Relativistic momentum  and        energy
36
Mon
Apr 12
40 : 1-3
             Quantum theory
37
Wed
Apr 14
40: 4-5, 7-8
              Quantum theory
38
Fri
Apr 16
41: 1-3
            Quantum Mechanics
39
Mon
Apr 19
41: 4-5
            Quantum mechanics
40
Wed
Apr 21
41: 6-8
             Quantum mechanics
41
Fri
Apr 23
                42: 1-4
               Atomic Physics
42
Mon
Apr 26
                44: 1-7
               Nuclear structure
 
   
FINAL EXAM
 


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