LECTURE TOPICS AND NOTES:
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Chapter 22
Lecture 1: Electric charge [C]. Coulomb's law. Other charges in nature.
Lecture 2: Adding vector forces. Expressions with small numbers. Dipole and point charge. Two dipoles.

Chapter 23
Lecture 1: Electric field. Electric field lines. Distributed charges. Charge densities.
Lecture 2: Calculating electric fields due to distributed charges using integrals.

Chapter 24
Lecture 1: Flux. Electric field flux. Gauss' law. Gauss vs. Coulomb.
Lecture 2: Calculating electric fields due to distributed charges using Gauss' law. Conductors and cavities.

Chapter 25
Lecture 1: Kinetic and potential energy. Work done by force. Potential [V] from E-field and wise versa. Potential of a point charge. Potential energy of two charges. Potential in conductors.
Lecture 2: Calculating potentials due to distributed charges using integrals. Two ways of calculating potential energy of a system of charges. [eV].

Chapter 26
Lecture 1: Capacitor. Capacitance [F]. Parallel-plate capacitor. Dielectric. Energy stored in capacitor. Energy stored in E-field.
Lecture 2: Connecting capacitors in parallel and series. Multi-capacitor circuits.

Chapter 27
Lecture 1: Electric charge current [A]. Current density. Resistivity. Resistance [Ohm]. Resistor. Ohm's law.
Lecture 2: Connecting resistors in parallel and series. Multi-resistor circuits.

Chapter 28
Lecture 1: Electromotive force Emf [V]. Power produced by Emf. Power dissipated by resistor. High voltage lines.
Lecture 2: Loop and junction Kirchhoff's rules. RC-circuit: discharging and charging up.

Chapter 29
Lecture 1: Magnetic field [T] and force on moving point charge. Circulating charged particle. Cyclotron. Contemporary accelerator. Magnetic trap: magnetic bottle and tokamak. Aurora.
Lecture 2: Force on current-carrying wire in magnetic field. Torque on a loop. Simple electromotor. Magnetic dipole.

Chapter 30
Lecture 1: B-field of current-carrying wire. B-field of moving point charge (E-field vs. B-field paradox). Biot-Savart law. Using Biot-Savart law for straight and circular wires. Current Unit.
Lecture 2: Ampere's law. Using Ampere's law. Solenoid. Toroid.

Chapter 31
Lecture 1: Emf in a conducting bar moving across constant B-field. Source of energy. Terminal velocity. Moving loop in B-field. Magnetic field flux. Faraday's law. Faraday's law for changing B-field. Eddy currents.
Lecture 2: Lenz's law. Inductance [H] of a solenoid. Inductor. LR-circuit (closing and opening switch). Energy stored in inductor. Energy stored in B-field.

Chapter 32
Lecture 1: B-field of magnets. Diamagnetism. Paramagnetism. Ferromagnetism. Hysterisis.
Lecture 2: Missing term (can changing E-field induce B-field?). Are there magnetic monopoles? Four Maxwell's equations.

Chapter 33
Lecture 1: LC-circuit (oscillations, energy). LCR-circuit (damped oscillations).
Lecture 2: LCR-circuit with external oscillating Emf. Resonance. Resonance quality.

Chapter 34
Lecture 1: Wave. Wave equation. Harmonic wave. Deriving e/m wave from Maxwell's equations. Speed of light. Frequency and wavelength. Various wavelengths.
Lecture 2: Energy flow in e/m wave. Light pressure. Sun's e/m waves.
Lecture 3: Geometric optics: reflection, refraction (Snell's law), total reflection. Fiber-optics and mirages.

Chapter 35
Lecture 1: Image properties. Flat mirror. Deriving equations for concave mirror. Convex mirror. Building image using ruler and pencil.
Lecture 2: Deriving equations for simple converging lens. Diverging lens. Building image using ruler and pencil.
Lecture 3: Magnifying glass. Glasses. Telescope. Microscope.

Chapter 36
Lecture 1: Phase difference. Two-slit interference.
Lecture 2: Light going through different media and phase difference. Change of phase on reflection. Thin-film interference. Newton's rings.

Chapter 37
Lecture 1: Grating. Refraction for large slit. Telescope resolving power.


A. Korytov, January 10, 2001