Physics 232            General Physics II               Spring 2017

Schedule (subject to change)

 links to materials for future days' lectures lead to materials from a previous year, using an older edition of the text and do not perfectly map on to the new edition's sections. Links to materials for past days' lectures lead to materials that have been updated for the current offering.

Day          

Readings and Activities

 Assignment Due

Mon., 1/9
Wed., 1/11

Thurs., 1/12

Fri., 1/13

13.1 -.4 Intros & Electric Fields and a Point Charge

13.5 - .8 Superposition, Electric Dipoles, more Field Basics
Lab 1: VPython Review, E Proton, E Dipole

14.1-4 Charges & E. Interactions; Insulators

RE1
RE2

RE3; HW13

Mon., 1/16

Wed., 1/18

Thurs.,1/19

 Fri., 1/20		 14.5-8 Conductors, Charge Transfer
 15.1-3 E field of Distributions: Rod, Ring; Quiz Ch 13,

Lab 2: Force and Charge

15.4-5 Electric Fields of Disc, Capacitors

RE4

RE5

 

RE5; HW14

Mon., 1/23
Wed., 1/25
Thurs., 1/26

Fri., 1/27

15.6-8, .10 E Field of a Sphere
16.1-4 Potential Energy & Electric Potential  Quiz Ch 14

15.9, Lab 3: E Fields of Q Distributions

16.5-7 Non-Uniform, Path Independence, At a Point

RE6

RE8

RE9; HW15

Mon., 1/30

Wed., 2/1
Fri., 2/3

Review Ch 13-15
16.9 - 10 Insulators and Energy; Quiz Ch 15

Exam 1 (13-15) Electric Field and Stationary Charges

RE10

Mon., 2/6
Wed., 2/8
Thurs., 2/9

Fri., 2/10

16.11-16.13 Potential for Charge Distributions
17.1-5 Current, Magnetic Field, “Biot-Savart Law” Point
16.8, Lab 4: Electric Potentials and Fields

17.6-.8, .14 Biot-Savart Law for Current, Distributions		 RE11
RE12

RE13; HW16

Mon., 2/13

Wed., 2/15
Thurs., 2/16

Fri., 2/17

17.10-12 Field For Distributions, Permanent Magnets
18.1-4  Micro. View of Electric Circuits; Quiz Ch 16

17.9, Lab 5: Biot-Savart – B fields of moving charges
18.5-8 E. Field of Surface Charges, Transients, Feedback

RE14
RE15

RE16; HW17

Mon., 2/20
Wed., 2/22
Thurs., 2/23

Fri., 2/24

18.9-12 Energy, App’s of the Theory, Detecting Surface Q
19.1-3 Capacitors, Resistors, Lingo; Quiz Ch 17

Lab 6: E. Field of Surface Charge

19.4-.6, 19.11 Work, Power, Batteries, Meters, Circuits

RE17
RE18

RE19; HW18
Spring Recess

Mon., 3/6

Wed., 3/8
Fri., 3/10

Review Ch 16-18
19.7-.10 RC Circuits, AC, Electrons in Metal Quiz Ch 18

Exam 2 (16-18)

 

RE20                        

                                 

Mon., 3/13
Wed., 3/15
Thurs., 3/16

Fri., 3/ 17

20.1-3 Magnetic Force, E & B Force

20.4-6 Hall Effect, Motional Emf, B Force in moving frame

Lab 7 Simple DC and RC Circuits

20.7-9 Torque, Potential Energy for Dipole, Motors

RE21
RE22

RE23; HW19

Mon., 3/20
Wed., 3/22
Thurs., 3/23

Fri., 3/24

21.1-4 E Flux and Gauss’s Law

21.5-6 Gauss’s & Ampere’s for B Field; Quiz Ch 19

Lab 8 Cyclotron & Electron Mass Lab

21.7, 9-10 Maxwell’s, Differential Gauss’s & Ampere

RE24
RE25

RE26; HW20

Mon., 3/27
Wed., 3/29
Thurs., 3/30

Fri., 3/31

22.1-2,10 Intro to Faraday’s & Lenz’s
22.3-5,.9 Faraday & Emf , Superconductor; Quiz Ch 21

Lab 9 Ampere’s Law

22.6 – 7 Inductance & Inductor Circuits

RE27
RE28

RE29; HW21

Mon., 4/3

Wed., 4/5
Thurs., 4/6
Fri., 4/7

Review Ch 19-21
 23.1-2 Ampere- Maxwell, Traveling Fields;  Quiz Ch 22

Lab 10 Faraday’s Law

Exam 3 (Ch 19-21)

 

RE30
Mon., 4/10
Wed., 4/12
Fri., 4/14

23.3-4 Accelerating Charges Radiating (Faraday Revisit)
23.5-7 Radiation Energy, Momentum, through a Medium
Review

RE31; HW22

HW23

Tuesday April 20th @ 9am                        Final Exam (mostly conceptual section on 13-21, a separate section on 22-23)

 

This schedule is subject to change.