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Month Date Day Lecture # Reading Assignment Main Topic Textbook

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January 6 W 1
Orientation, Review of Math

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January 8 F 2
Review of Math

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January 11 M 3 Ch.1 - Ch.18 Review of Mechanics

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January 13 W 4 19.1 - 19.5 charge, conductor/insulator, induced charge Ch. 19

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January 15 F 5 19.6 - 19.7 Coulomb's law, superposition

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January 18 M
MLK No Class

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January 20 W 6 19.8 - 19.12 E-field and electric potential

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January 22 F 7 19.13 - 19.16 potential energy, motion of charge in E-field

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January 25 M 8 20.1 - 20.5 capacitor, field line in capacitor Ch. 20

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January 27 W 9 20.6 - 20.11 current, resistance, Ohm's law, R-network

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January 39 F 10 20.12 - 20.14 power, resistivity

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February 1 M 11 21.1 - 21.3 Kirchoff's rule, circuits  Ch. 21








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February 3 W 12
Problems with electric circuits

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February 5 F 13 21.4 - 21.5 house circuits, safety, lightning

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February 8 M
Ch.19 - Ch.21 Review

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February 10 W

Test I (in class)

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February 12 F 14 22.1 - 22.3 magnet, magnetic force, B-field Ch. 22

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February 15 M 15 22.4 - 22.6 force on currents, motion of charges in B-field

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February 17 W 16 22.6 - 22.9 sources of B-field, torque on I-loop

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February 19 F

Activity (building a simple motor)

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February 22 M 17 23.1 - 23.3 induced EMF, magnetic flux Ch. 23

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February 24 W 18 23.4 - 23.7 Faraday's law, generator

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February 26 F 19 23.8 - 23.12 transformer, motional EMF

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March 1 M 20 24.1 - 24.3 AC current and voltage, resistor Ch. 24

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March 3 W 21 24.4 - 24.7 capacitance and inductance

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March 5 F 22 Activity Activity (building a still simple motor)

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March 8 M
Spring Break No Class

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March 10 W
Spring Break No Class

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March 12 F
Spring Break No Class

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March 15 M 23 25.1 - 25.6 EM wave Ch. 25

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March 17 W 24 25.7 - 25.11 visible light, color

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March 19 F 25 25.12 - 25.16 energy, light intensity, polarization

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March 22 M
Ch.22 - Ch.25 Review

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March 24 W

Test II (in class)

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March 26 F 26 26.1 - 26.4 reflection, mirror Ch. 26

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March 29 M 27 26.5 - 26.8 mirror equation, spherical mirror

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March 31 W 28 26.9 - 26.13 refraction, Snell's law

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April 2 F 29 27.1 - 27.12 lenses and lens equation,vision correction, microscope, telescope Ch. 27

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April 5 M 30 28.1 - 28.3 interference, coherent source, Young's exp. Ch. 28

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April 7 W 31 28.4 - 28.9 diffraction grating, interference in thin film

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April 9 F 32 29.3-29.5 atomic nucleus Ch. 31

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April 12 M 33 31.2-31.10 radioactivity








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April 14 W
Ch.19 - Ch.24 Make-up Test (in class)

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April 16 F 34 special topic special relativity

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April 19 M 35 special topic special relativity

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April 21 W 36 buffer

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April 23 F 37
Review

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April 28 Wed

12:30 - 2:30pm FINAL EXAM in usual classroom