Date

Lecture topics

Reading (Serway & Jewett, 4^th ed.)

8/23 W

Electric charge, conductors, Coulomb's law

Ch 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4

8/25 F

Electric fields, field lines

Ch 19.5, 19.6

8/28 M

Electric flux, Gauss' law and applications

Ch 19.7, 19.8, 19.9, 19.10

8/30

Conductors, electric potential and pot. difference

Ch 19.11, 20.1, 20.2

9/1

Electric potential and potential energy

Ch 20.3, 20.4, 20.5, 20.6

9/4 M

Capacitance, combinations of capacitors

Ch 20.7, 20.8

9/6

Energy of capacitor, dielectrics, electric current

Ch 20.9, 20.10, 21.1

9/8

Resistance, Ohm's law, superconductors

Ch 21.2, 21.3, 21.4

9/11 M

Electric power, resistors in series / parallel

Ch 21.5, 21.6, 21.7

9/13

Kirchhoff's rules, RC circuits

Ch 21.8, 21.9

9/15

Test #1

9/18 M

Magnetic field

Ch 22.1, 22.2

9/20

Moving charges in B-field, magnetic force & torque

Ch 22.3, 22.4, 22.5, 22.6

9/22

Biot-Savart law, Ampere's law

Ch 22.7, 22.8, 22.9

9/25 M

Solenoid, magnetism in matter, magn. levitation

Ch 22.10, 22.11, 22.12, 23.1

9/27

Faraday's law, Lenz's law

Ch 23.2, 23.3

9/29

Inductance, RL circuits, energy of magnetic field

Ch 23.4, 23.5, 23.6, 23.7

10/2 M

Maxwell's equations, EM waves

Ch 23.8, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3

10/4

Radio waves, energy of EM waves

Ch. 24.4, 24.5

10/6

Radiat. pressure, EM spectrum, polarization, lasers

Ch 24.6, 24.7, 24.8, 24.9

10/9 M

Light rays, reflection & refraction

Ch 25.1, 25.2, 25.3, 25.4

10/11

Dispersion, internal reflection, optical fibers

Ch 25.5, 25.6, 25.7, 25.8

10/13

Test #2

10/16 M

**** October break ****

10/18

Images formed by mirrors (reflection)

Ch 26.1, 26.2

10/20

Images formed by lenses (refraction)

Ch 26.3, 26.4

10/23 M

Double-slit interference

Ch 27.1, 27.2, 27.3

10/25

Phase change, thin film interference, diffraction

Ch 27.4, 27.5, 27.6

10/27

optical resolution, diffraction grating

Ch 27.7, 27.8, 27.9

10/30 M

Holography, blackbody radiation & Planck's theory

Ch 27.10, 28.1

11/1

Photoelectric & Compton effect, photons

Ch 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 28.5

11/3

Quantum particles, uncertainty principle

Ch 28.6, 28.7, 28.8

11/6 M

Quantum mechanics, Schroedinger equation

Ch 28.9, 28.10, 28.11, 28.12

11/8

Barrier tunneling, atomic models

Ch 28.13, 28.14, 29.1, 29.2

11/10

Test #3

11/13 M

H-atom: wave functions and quantum numbers

Ch 29.3, 29.4

11/15

Pauli principle, periodic table, atomic spectra

Ch 29.5, 29.6

11/17

Atoms in space, properties of atomic nuclei

Ch 29.7, 30.1

11/20-24

**** Thanksgiving Holidays ****

11/27 M

Nuclear binding energy, radioactivity

Ch 30.2, 30.3

11/29

Alpha-, beta-, gamma decay, fission and fusion

Ch 30.4, 30.5, 30.6

12/1

4 fundamental forces, antimatter, leptons & hadrons

Ch 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4

12/4 M

Quarks with color and flavor, standard model

Ch 31.9, 31.10, 31.11

12/6

Review

12/12 Tue

PRIMARY FINAL EXAM, 9:00 - 11:00 am

12/15 Fri

ALTERNATE FINAL EXAM, 12:00 - 2:00 pm