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

Tentative Course Schedule


Date

Topic

Reading

May

14

Mon

Introduction, 3D Vectors, Electric field and electric force

Website, 13.1-13.3

 

16

Wed

Field of a point particle, superposition, dipoles

13.3-13.4

 

18

Fri

Interactions of charged objects

13.3-13.4


 

21

Mon

Tape experiments, polarization

14.1-14.3

 

23

Wed

Interaction of charged and neutral matter, insulators and conductors

14.4-14.6

 

25

Fri

Static equilibrium, charging and discharging

14.6


 

28

Mon

NO CLASS

 

 

30

Wed

Calculating electric fields of distributed charges

15.1-15.4

Jun

1

Fri

Test 1

 


 

4

Mon

Field of a charged rod 15.4

 

6

Wed

Field of a ring, disk, capacitor, sphere

15.5-15.7

 

8

Fri

Potential energy and electric potential, sign of potential difference and direction of field

16.1-16.4


 

11

Mon

Potential difference in nonuniform field, Potential at one location

16.5-16.8

 

13

Wed

Moving charges and magnetic field, Biot-Savart Law.

17.1-17.3

 

15

Fri

Electron current and conventional current, Magnetic field of a wire

17.5-17.7


 

18

Mon

Test 2

 

 

20

Wed

Magnetic field of a current-carrying loop, magnetic dipoles, bar magnets

17.8-17.10

 

22

Fri

Steady state current, node rule, electric fields in circuits, electron current

18.1-18.4


 

25

Mon

Surface charge, Loop rule

18.5-18.8

 

27

Wed

Solving circuit problems, Macroscopic analysis of circuits

18.10, 19.10-19.13

 

29

Fri

Capacitance, transients, circuit analysis

19.1-19.9


July

2

Mon

Test 3

 

 

4

Wed

NO CLASS

 

 

6

Fri

Magnetic forces on charged particles and current-carrying wires, electric and magnetic forces, velocity selector

20.1-20.3


 

9

Mon

The Hall effect

20.4

 

11

Wed

Gauss's Law

21.1-21.5

 

13

Fri

Ampere's Law; Faraday's Law

21.7, 22.1


 

16

Mon

Solving problems with Faraday's law

22.1-22.2

 

19

Wed

Motional EMF

20.5, 22.3

 

20

Fri

Test 4

 


 

23

Mon

Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic radiation,

23.1-23.2

 

25

Wed

Accelerated charges and radiation

23.3-23.5

 

27

Fri

Energy and momentum in radiation, Polarization of radiation(LAST DAY)

23.6



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