Physics 232 Syllabus

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



      SPRING BREAK

21
Mon
Mar 14
31: 1-3
Faraday's Law, Lennz'  Law
22
Wed
Mar 16
31: 2-4
Motional EMF, Induced EMF
23
Fri
Mar 18
32: 1,4
Inductance
       24
  Mon
     Mar 21
               32: 3, 33:8
 Magnetic energy, transformers
25
Wed
Mar 23
32: 2, 5-6
Circuit Oscillations
 (treated lightly)
26
Fri
Mar 25
34: 1-3
Maxwell's equations, EM waves
27
Mon
Mar 28
34: 5-6
EM waves
28
Wed
Mar 30
Chapters 29-34
Review
29
Fri
Apr 1
EXAM II
Chapters 29-34




                  Light
       30
Mon
      Apr 4
37: 1-3
Interference
31
Wed
      Apr 6
38: 1-3
Diffraction
      32
   Fri
      Apr 8
                38: 6
                  Polarization
33
Mon
Apr 11
 38: 1-3
Diffraction
34
Wed
Apr 13
38: 5-6
Diffraction and Polarization
       
Modern Physics
35
Fri
Apr 15
39
 Relativity
36
Mon
Apr 18
39
Relativity
37
Wed
Apr 20
40
              Quantum theory
38
Fri
Apr 22
40 and 41
       Quantum theory and      Quantum Mechanics
39
Mon
Apr 25
42
Atomic Physics
40
Wed
Apr 27
42
Atomic Physics
41
Fri
Apr 29
              44 and 46 Sub-Atomic Physics
42
Mon
May 02
                
              Exam Review
 
   
FINAL EXAM
 


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