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PHYS 2212 K-INTRO. PHYSICS II (Matter & Interactions version)

Tentative Course Schedule


Date

Topic

Reading

Jan

8

Mon

Introduction, 3D Vectors

Website

 

10

Wed

Electric field and electric force, field of a point particle

13.1-13.3

 

12

Fri

Field of a point particle, superposition, dipoles

13.3-13.4


 

15

Mon

School Holiday, no class

 

 

17

Wed

Dipoles

13.4-13.6

 

19

Fri

Interactions of charged objects, tape experiments, polarization

14.1-14.3


 

22

Mon

Polarization, interaction of charged and neutral matter, insulators and conductors

14.3-14.4

 

24

Wed

Insulators and conductors, static equilibrium, charging and discharging

14.4-14.5

 

26

Fri

Charging and discharging

14.5-14.6


 

29

Mon

Sparks in air

14.7

 

31

Wed

Calculating electric fields of distributed charges, field of a charged rod

15.1-15.3

Feb

2

Fri

Field of a ring, disk, capacitor

15.4-15.6


 

5

Mon

Field of a sphere

15.7-15.8

 

6

Tues

TEST 1 (6:05 PM)

 

 

7

Wed

Potential energy and electric potential

16.1-16.3

 

9

Fri

Sign of potential difference and direction of field, potential difference in nonuniform field

16.4-16.5


 

12

Mon

Potential at one location, path independence, round trip potential difference

16.6-16.8

 

14

Wed

Electric field and potential in an insulator

16.9

 

16

Fri

Class cancelled

 


 

19

Mon

Moving charges and magnetic field, Biot-Savart Law

17.1-17.3

 

21

Wed

Moving charges, electron current and conventional current

17.3-17.4

 

23

Fri

Magnetic field of a wire

17.4-17.7


 

26

Mon

Magnetic field of a current-carrying loop, magnetic dipoles

17.8-17.9

 

27

Tues

TEST 2 (6:05 PM)

 

 

28

Wed

Atomic structure of magnets

17.10-17.11

Mar

2

Fri

Steady state current, node rule

18.1-18.3


 

5

Mon

Electric fields in circuits, electron motion in wires, surface charge

18.3-18.7

 

7

Wed

Energy conservation in circuits

18.8-18.9

 

9

Fri

Solving circuit problems

18.9-18.10


 

12

Mon

Macroscopic analysis of circuits

19.8-19.15

 

14

Wed

Electric field and potential in capacitor circuits

19.1-19.7

 

16

Fri

Magnetic forces on charged particles and current-carrying wires

20.1-20.2


 

19

Mon

Spring break, no class

 

 

21

Wed

Spring break, no class

 

 

23

Fri

Spring break, no class

 


 

26

Mon

Electric and magnetic forces, velocity selector

20.3

 

27

Tues

TEST 3 (6:05 PM)

 

 

28

Wed

The Hall effect

20.4

 

30

Fri

Motional emf

20.5


Apr

2

Mon

Magnetic torque, magnetic potential energy

20.8-20.9

 

4

Wed

Magnetic force and relativity

20.6-20.7

 

6

Fri

Gauss's Law

21.1-21.3


 

9

Mon

Reasoning with Gauss's Law, Ampere's Law

21.4-21.6

 

11

Wed

Ampere's law, Faraday's law

21.7,22.1-22.2

 

13

Fri

Faraday's law

22.2


 

16

Mon

Solving problems with Faraday's law

22.2-22.5

 

17

Tues

TEST 4 (6:05 PM)

 

 

18

Wed

Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic radiation

23.1-23.2

 

20

Fri

Accelerated charges and radiation

23.3-23.4


 

23

Mon

Energy and momentum in radiation

23.5

 

25

Wed

Polarization of radiation

23.6

 

27

Fri

Review

 



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