Textbook: Physics, Giambatista, Giambatista, Richardson 2nd ed.
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Tentative Calendar of Coverage. Changes announced in class. Updated 7/5/2012
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Week 1 |
Coverage |
Lab |
M |
Intro 16.1-16.6 |
Intro material Safety |
T |
17.1-17.7 |
1 Electric Potential |
W |
18.1-18.7 |
2 E-Field Mapping |
Th |
18.8, 18.10-18.11 |
3 Ohm’s Law |
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Week 2 |
Coverage |
Lab |
M |
19.1-19.4 |
4 Magnetic Materials |
T |
19.5-19.8 |
5 Electromagnetism |
W |
Finish & review |
various |
Th |
Test 1 (16,17,18,19) |
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Week 3 |
Coverage |
Lab |
M |
20.1-20.4 |
6 Lenz's and Faraday's Law and transformers |
T |
20.5-20.6, 20.9-20.10 |
interactive examples |
W |
21.1-21.2 22.1 |
7 EM Waves |
Th |
22.3-22.6 |
8 Reflection |
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Week 4 |
Coverage |
Lab |
M |
23.1-23.4, 23.6-23.9 |
9 Refraction |
T |
24.1, 24.3-24.6 |
10 Lenses |
W |
Finish & review |
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Th |
Test 2 (20,21,22,23,24) |
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Week 5 |
Coverage |
Lab |
M |
25.1, 25.3-25.8 |
11 Physical Optics |
T |
26.1, 26.7-26.8 |
12 Ohm's Law Review and Internal Resistance |
W |
27.1-27.3, 27.6-27.7 |
Lab Review |
Th |
28.1-28.2 |
Lab Exam |
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Week 6 |
Coverage |
Lab |
M |
29.1-29.4, 29.6-29.8 |
Various |
T |
Review |
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W |
Final Exam (comprehensive) |
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Physics 1402 |
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Chapter 16: Electric Forces and Fields |
Required |
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Section# |
Topic |
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16.1 |
Electric Charge |
Yes |
16.2 |
Electric Conductors and Insulators |
Yes |
16.3 |
Coulomb's Law |
Yes |
16.4 |
The Electric Field |
Yes |
16.5 |
Motion of a Point Charge in a Uniform Electric Field |
Yes |
16.6 |
Conductors in Electrostatic Equilibrium |
Yes |
16.7 |
Gauss' Law for Electric Fields |
Optional |
Chapter 17: Electric Potential |
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Section# |
Topic |
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17.1 |
Electric Potential Energy |
Yes |
17.2 |
Electric Potential |
Yes |
17.3 |
The Relationship Between Electric Field and Potential |
Yes |
17.4 |
Conservation of Energy for Moving Charges |
Yes |
17.5 |
Capacitors |
Yes |
17.6 |
Dielectrics |
Yes |
17.7 |
Energy Stored in a Capacitor |
Yes |
Chapter 18: Electric current and Circuits |
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Section# |
Topic |
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18.1 |
Electric Current |
Yes |
18.2 |
Emf and Circuits |
Yes |
18.3 |
Microscopic View of Current in a Metal: The Free-Electron Model |
Yes |
18.4 |
Resistance and Resistivity |
Yes |
18.5 |
Kirchhoff's Rules |
Yes |
18.6 |
Series and Parallel Circuits |
Yes |
18.7 |
Circuit Analysis Using Kirchhoff's Rules |
Yes |
18.8 |
Power and Energy in Circuits |
Yes |
18.9 |
Measuring Currents and Voltages |
Optional |
18.10 |
RC Circuits |
Yes |
18.11 |
Electrical Safety |
Yes |
Chapter 19: Magnetic Forces and Fields |
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Section# |
Topic |
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19.1 |
Magnetic Fields |
Yes |
19.2 |
Magnetic Force on a Point Charge |
Yes |
19.3 |
Charged Particle Moving Perpendicularly to a Uniform Magnetic Field |
Yes |
19.4 |
Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform Magnetic Field: General |
Yes |
19.5 |
A Charged Particle in Crossed E and B Fields |
Yes |
19.6 |
Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire |
Yes |
19.7 |
Torque on a Current Loop |
Yes |
19.8 |
Magnetic Field due to an Electric Current |
Yes |
19.9 |
Ampere's Law |
Optional |
19.10 |
Magnetic Materials |
Optional |
Chapter 20: Electromagnetic Induction |
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Section# |
Topic |
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20.1 |
Motional Emf |
Yes |
20.2 |
Electric Generators |
Yes |
20.3 |
Faraday's Law |
Yes |
20.4 |
Lenz's Law |
Yes |
20.5 |
Back Emf in a Motor |
Yes |
20.6 |
Transformers |
Yes |
20.7 |
Eddy Currents |
Optional |
20.8 |
Induced Electric Fields |
Optional |
20.9 |
Inductance |
Yes |
20.10 |
LR Circuits |
Yes |
Chapter 21: Alternating Current |
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Section# |
Topic |
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21.1 |
Sinusoidal Currents and Voltages; Resistors in ac Circuits |
Yes |
21.2 |
Electricity in the Home |
Yes |
21.3 |
Capacitors in ac Circuits |
Optional |
21.4 |
Inductors in ac Circuits |
Optional |
21.5 |
RLC Series Circuits |
Optional |
21.6 |
Resonance in an RLC Circuit |
Optional |
21.7 |
Converting ac to dc; Filters |
Optional |
Chapter 22: Electromagnetic Waves |
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Section# |
Topic |
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22.1 |
Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves |
Yes |
22.2 |
Antennas |
Optional |
22.3 |
The Electromagnetic Spectrum |
Yes |
22.4 |
Speed of EM Waves in Vacuum and in Matter |
Yes |
22.5 |
Characteristics of Traveling Electromagnetic Waves in Vacuum |
Yes |
22.6 |
Energy Transport by EM Waves |
Yes |
22.7 |
Polarization |
Optional |
22.8 |
The Doppler Effect for EM Waves |
Optional |
Chapter 23: Reflection and Refraction of Light |
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Section# |
Topic |
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23.1 |
Wavefronts, Rays, and Huygen's Principle |
Yes |
23.2 |
The Reflection of Light |
Yes |
23.3 |
The Refraction of Light: Snell's Law |
Yes |
23.4 |
Total Internal Reflection |
Yes |
23.5 |
Polarization by Reflection |
Optional |
23.6 |
The Formation of Images Through Reflection or Refraction |
Yes |
23.7 |
Plane Mirrors |
Yes |
23.8 |
Spherical Mirrors |
Yes |
23.9 |
Thin Lenses |
Yes |
Chapter 24: Optical Instruments |
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Section# |
Topic |
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24.1 |
Lenses in Combination |
Yes |
24.2 |
Cameras |
Optional |
24.3 |
The Eye |
Yes |
24.4 |
Angular Magnification and the Simple Magnifier |
Yes |
24.5 |
Compound Microscopes |
Yes |
24.6 |
Telescopes |
Yes |
24.7 |
Aberrations of Lenses and Mirrors |
Optional |
Chapter 25: Interference and Diffraction |
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Section# |
Topic |
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25.1 |
Constructive and Destructive Interference |
Yes |
25.2 |
The Michelson Interferometer |
Optional |
25.3 |
Thin Films |
Yes |
25.4 |
Young's Double-Slit Experiment |
Yes |
25.5 |
Gratings |
Yes |
25.6 |
Diffraction and Huygen's Principle |
Yes |
25.7 |
Diffraction by a Single Slit |
Yes |
25.8 |
Diffraction and the Resolution of Optical Instruments |
Yes |
25.9 |
X-Ray Diffraction |
Optional |
25.10 |
Holography |
Optional |
Chapter 26: Relativity |
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Section# |
Topic |
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26.1 |
Postulates of Relativity |
Yes |
26.2 |
Simultaneity and Ideal Observers |
Optional |
26.3 |
Time Dilation |
Optional |
26.4 |
Length Contraction |
Optional |
26.5 |
Velocities in Different Reference Frames |
Optional |
26.6 |
Relativistic Momentum |
Optional |
26.7 |
Mass and Energy |
Yes |
26.8 |
Relativistic Kinetic Energy |
Yes |
Chapter 27: Early Quantum Physics and the Photon |
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Section# |
Topic |
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27.1 |
Quantization |
Yes |
27.2 |
Blackbody Radiation |
Yes |
27.3 |
The Photoelectric Effect |
Yes |
27.4 |
X-Ray Production |
Optional |
27.5 |
Compton Scattering |
Optional |
27.6 |
Spectroscopy and Early Models of the Atom |
Yes |
27.7 |
The Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom; Atomic Energy Levels |
Yes |
27.8 |
Pair Annihilation and Pair Production |
Optional |
Chapter 28: Quantum Physics |
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Section# |
Topic |
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28.1 |
The Wave-Particle Duality |
Yes |
28.2 |
Matter Waves |
Yes |
28.3 |
Electron Microscope |
Optional |
28.4 |
The Uncertainty Principle |
Optional |
28.5 |
Wave Functions for a Confined Particle |
Optional |
28.6 |
The Hydrogen Atom: Wave Functions and Quantum Numbers |
Optional |
28.7 |
The Exclusion Principle; Electron Configurations for Atoms Other than Hydrogen |
Optional |
28.8 |
Electron Energy Levels in a Solid |
Optional |
28.9 |
Lasers |
Optional |
28.10 |
Tunneling |
Optional |
Chapter 29: Nuclear Physics |
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Section# |
Topic |
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29.1 |
Nuclear Structure |
Yes |
29.2 |
Binding Energy |
Yes |
29.3 |
Radioactivity |
Yes |
29.4 |
Radioactive Decay Rates and Half-Lives |
Yes |
29.5 |
Biological Effects of Radiation |
Optional |
29.6 |
Induced Nuclear Reactions |
Yes |
29.7 |
Fission |
Yes |
29.8 |
Fusion |
Yes |
Chapter 30: Particle Physics |
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Section# |
Topic |
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30.1 |
Fundamental Particles |
Optional |
30.2 |
Fundamental Interactions |
Optional |
30.3 |
Unification |
Optional |
30.4 |
Particle Accelerators |
Optional |
30.5 |
Twenty-First Century Particle Physics |
Optional |