“in vivo” schedule (black text: projected and tentative; blue text: past;
red text: projected quizzes and tests; green text: fixed final exams)
Note: revisions will be announced in class and subsequently posted online.
Week 1 Jan 03 No
Class.
Jan
05 Class Starts, Introduction
to the Course, Appendices, Units, Preamble,
and
NOTE: 3rd
edition used for HW Problems
(X.X
is 2nd ed, if different, and
* means that it is not in 2nd ed.)
Homework Problems
1.15,
1.16 (1.17),
1.18 (1.19),
1.19 (1.20),
1.21 (1.22),
1.25 (1.26),
1.30
(*), 1.31 (1.29), 1.32 (1.31), 1.33, 1.38 (1.37), 1.42 (1.41),
1.43
(1.42), 1.45 (1.44), 1.47 (1.46 typo), 1.53 (1.54), 1.55 (1.56),
1.58
(1.59 typo)
Jan
07 Ch. 1 continued
Week 2 Jan 10 Finish
Homework Problems
2.11,
2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 2.15, 2.16, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22,
2.25
(2.26), 2.27 (2.28), 2.28 (2.29), 2.31 (2.32), 2.35 (2.36),
2.36
(2.37) , 2.37 (*), 2.38 (2.39), 2.42 (2.43), 2.43
(2.44), 2.46 (2.47)
Jan
12 Review Ch. 1, Email
Questions by 8 am, Ch. 2 continued.
Jan
14
Week 3 Jan 17 No
Class: King Holiday
Jan 19 Review
Ch.1 Test results.
Review
for Quiz 1,
Email Questions about Problems up including
2.6 by 8 am.
Ch.
2 continued.
Jan
21 Ch. 2 continued.
Quiz
1 (material to end of Section 2.1)
Week 4 Jan 24 Ch.
2 continued, Sections 2.2-2.3.
Jan
26 Review, Email Questions by
8 am. Ch. 2 continued, Sections 2.3-2.4.
Jan
28 Quiz 2 (material to end
of Jan 24, focus on Section 2.2)
Ch. 2 continued, Section 2.4-2.5.
Week 5 Jan 31 Finish
Feb
02 Review
No
Office Hours for Meisel: 02-03 Feb.
Feb
04
Week 6 Feb 07 Review
Start
3.1,
3.2, 3.3, {3.4 is special}, 3.7 (3.6), 3.8 (3.7), 3.9 (3.8),
3.10
(3.9), 3.12, 3.13, 3.14, 3.15 (3.16), 3.18 (3.19), 3.19 (3.20),
3.20 (3.21), 3.23 (3.24), 3.25 (3.26).
More
TBA for other sections of
Feb
09 Review, Email Questions by
8 am. Continue
Finish
Sec. 3.1, cover Sec. 3.2, start Sec. 3.3.
Feb
11 Continue
Quiz
3 (material from
Week 7 Feb 14 Continue
Sec. 3.3.
Feb
16 Review, Email Questions by
8 am.
Finish
Sec. 3.3.2. Start Sec. 3.4.
Feb
18 Quiz 4 (material related
to Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, but not 3.3.2)
Homework
Problems
3.33, 3.35, 3.36, 3.39, 3.40, 3.41.
Week 8 Feb 21 Continue
Feb
23 Review, Email Questions by
8 am.
Feb
25
Week 9 Feb 28 Review
Mar
02 Review, Email Questions by
8 am.
Start
4.13,
4.15, 4.18, 4.21, 4.22, 4.28 (4.29), 4.33 (4.36), 4.36 (4.26)
Mar
04 Continue
Week 10 Mar 07,09,11 No Classes,
Spring Break.
Week 11 Mar 14 Prof.
Stewart,
No Office Hours 14 - 16 March.
Mar
16 Prof.
Mar
18 Quiz 5 returned and
reviewed. Ch. 4 finished.
Week 12 Mar 21 Review,
Email Questions by 8 am.
Mar 23
No Office Hours Wed-Fri this week due to
APS Meeting in
Mar 25 Reading Day for Extra-Credit Assignment.
“Nonlinear Dielectric Effects and Me” for 0 or 6 to 10 points.
5 pages maximum, including figures and references.
1
inch margins, 12 pt font, Times New Roman (or similar)
Citations
of the work, which you consulted, must be given.
Wikipedia
is not an acceptable reference.
Grammar,
logic, format will be a part of the grade.
Due March 28 (01:00 am or 01:00 hrs) to Turnitin.com.
(Information
about course number and password given in class
and will not be given by email.)
Week 13 Mar 28 Extra-Credit
Assignment due by 01:00 hrs (1:00 am) to Turnitin.com.
Late
submissions will not be accepted. Submit
only to Turnitin.com.
Review
Ch. 4 Test. Start
Homework Problems Ch. 5: 5.4 (5.3), 5.5
(5.4), 5.6 (5.5), 5.8, 5.9,
5.10,
5.11, 5.15 (5.18), 5.16 (5.19), 5.21 (5.24), 5.22 (5.25),
[5.33
(5.36), you should understand the notation], 5.48 (5.14),
5.56
(5.42), 5.58 (5.50)
Mar
30
Apr
01 Fool the Prof Day?
Week 14 Apr 04 Review,
Email Questions by 8 am.
Apr 06 Quiz
6 (
Course Evaluations.
Apr
08 Start
6.14 (6.13), 6.15 (6.14), 6.23 (6.21).
Deadline for Make-up Participants to
Email Meisel by 8 am.
Week 15 Apr 11 Review, Email Questions by 8 am.
Apr
13
Apr 15
Week 16 Apr 18 Review, Email Questions by 8 am.
Apr
20
Last Day of Classes.
Apr 22 No Class, Reading/Review Break
Final Exam (Group 29A): Friday, April 29, 7:30 to 9:30 AM, all
material covered.
ROOM NPB 1002 (our lecture
room).