Updated day-to-day topics schedule:

 

Note: Attendance will be taken, including the problem solving session. The latter will function as a review

for the course and exams!

 

Date

Reading Assignment (Giancoli 6th)

Topic

 

 

 

Jan 27

Chp 23 Sects 1, 2

Course Introduction and Policies

Intro to Geometrical Optics

 

 

 

Feb 1

Chp 23 Sects 2, 4                                

Reflection, Image Formation in Mirrors

Feb 3

Chp 23 Sects 5, 6                                

Refraction, Total Internal Reflection

 

 

 

Feb 8

Chp 23 Sects 7, 8, 9

Lenses and Image Formation

Feb 10

Chp 16 Sects 1, 2, 3, 4

Electric Charge, Insulators and Conductors, Electroscope

 

 

 

Feb 15

Chp 16 Sects 5, 6

Coulomb’s Law, Vectors

Feb 17

Chp 16 Sects 7, 8

Electric Field and Field Lines

 

 

 

Feb 22

Chp 16 Sects 8, 9

Electric Fields and Conductors

Feb 24

Chp 17 Sects 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Electric Potential Energy, Electric Potential, Equipotential Lines

 

 

 

Mar 1

Chp 17 Sects 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Electric Potential Energy, Electric Potential, Equipotential Lines

Mar 3

EXAM 1

 

 

 

Mar 8

Chp 17 Sects 6, 7, 8, 9

Electric Dipole Moment, Capacitance, Dielectrics, Storage of Electric Energy

Mar 10

Chp 18 Sects 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Electric Currents, Resistance, Ohm’s Law, Electric Power

Mar 15

Chp 18 Sect 7, Chp 19 Sects 1, 2

Alternative Current, Electric Circuits

Mar 17

Chp 20 Sects 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Magnetic Field

 

Mar 22

Chp 20 Sects 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Magnetic Field

Mar 24

Chp 21 Sects 1, 2, 3

Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday’s Law

 

 

 

Mar 29

Spring Break

Mar 31

Spring Break

Apr 5

Chp 21 Sects 1, 2, 3, 4

Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday’s Law

Apr 7

EXAM 2

 

 

 

Apr 12

Chp 27 Sects 1, 2

Intro to Modern Physics, Blackbody Radiation, Planck’s Quantum Hypothesis

Apr 14

Chp 27 Sects 3

Photon Theory of Light, and the  Photoelectric Effect

 

 

 

Apr 19

Chp 27 Sects 4, 7, 8

Photons, Wave-Particle Duality

Apr 21

Chp 27 Sects 10, 11, 12, 13

Early Models of the Atom

 

Apr 26

Chp 30 Sects 1, 2, 3

Nuclear Physics, Structure of Nucleus, Binding Energy, Radioactivity

Apr 28

Chp 30 Sects 4, 5, 6, Chp 31 Sects 1, 2, 3

Nuclear Decay, Nuclear Reactions, Fission, Fusion

May 3 (last day)

Chp 30 Sects 4, 5, 6, Chp 31 Sects 1, 2, 3

Nuclear Decay, Nuclear Reactions, Fission, Fusion

May 7 (Saturday) 8:00-10:00am         

FINAL (cumulative)