PHY 2054 - Physics II - Fall 2013


Schedule



Date Day Event Material and events
Aug. 22 Thu
Lecture 1 Course organization
Aug. 27 Tue Lecture 2 Chap. 16.1-16.3: Electric charge, coulomb's law
Aug. 29
Thu Lecture 3 Chap. 16.4-16.7: Electric Field, Flux, Gauss' law
Sep. 2
Mon Homework Homework 1 due by 11:00PM
Sept. 3
Tue Lecture 4 Chap. 17.1-17.2: Electric potential
Sep. 5
Thu Lecture 5 Chap. 17.3-17.4: Equipotential surfaces, energy conservation
Sep. 9
Mon Homework Homework 2 due 11:00PM
Sep. 10 Tue Lecture 6 Chap. 17.5-17.6: Capacitance, dielectrics
Sep. 12 Thu Lecture 7 Chap. 17.7: Stored energy in capacitors
Sep. 16 Mon Homework Homework 3 due 11:00PM 
Sep. 17 Tue Lecture 8 Chap. 18.1-18.3: Electric Current, Ohm's Law
Sep 19
Thu
Lecture 9 Chap. 18.4-18.6: Resistance, series and parallel circuits
Sep. 23 Mon Homework Homework 4 due: 11:00PM
Sep. 24 Tue Lecture 10 Chap. 18.7: More complex circuits
Sep. 26 Thu Lecture 11
Exam 1
Review for Exam 1
Chaps. 16.1-18.7 (8:20-10:10 PM)
See the announcements for locations
Sep 30
Mon
No homework 
Oct. 1
Tue Lecture 12 Chap. 18.8-18.10: Power, RC circuits
Oct.  3
Thu Lecture 13 Chap. 19.1-19.3: Magnets, magnetic field, force on moving charge
Oct. 7
Mon Homework
Homework 5, due 11PM.
Oct. 8
Tue Lecture 14
Chap. 19.4-19.7: Motion in a magnetic field, force on current-carrying wire, torque on current loop
Oct. 10
Thu Lecture 15 Chap. 19.8-19.10-: Magnetic field from electric current, Ampere's law, magnetic materials
Oct. 14 Mon Homework Homework 6 due: 11:00PM
Oct. 15 Tue Lecture 16 Chap. 20.1-20.4: Induction, motional EMF, Faraday's law, Lenz's law
Oct. 17 Thu Lecture 17 Chap. 20.5-20.10: Transformers, inductance, LR circuits
Oct. 21 Mon Homework Homework 7 due: 11:00PM
Oct. 22 Tue Lecture 18 Chap. 21.1-21.2: AC circuits and RMS quantities
Oct. 24 Thu Lecture 19 Chap. 22.1-22.4: Maxwell's equations, E&M waves
Oct. 28 Mon Homework Homework 8 due: 11:00PM
Oct. 29
Tue Lecture 20
Chap. 22.5-22.8: Energy carried by E&M waves, polarization, doppler effect
Oct 31
Thu Lecture 21  Review for Exam 2 
Oct 31
Thu Exam 2 Chap. 18.8 - 22.8 (8:20-10:10 PM) See the announcements for locations
Nov 4
Mon
Homework
Homework 9 due: 11:00PM
Nov 5
Tue Lecture 22 Chap. 23.1-23.5: Light, reflection, refraction, total internal reflection
Nov 7
Thu Lecture 23
Chap. 23.6-23.8: Mirrors, reflective images
Nov. 11 Mon Homework Homework 10 due: 11:00PM
Nov. 12 Tue Lecture 24 Chap. 23.9, 24.1:  Thin lenses, Lenses in combination
Nov. 14 Thu Lecture 25 Chap. 24.2-4: Camera , Human eye, simple magnifier.
Nov. 18 Mon  Homework Homework 11 due: 11:00PM
Nov. 19 Tue Lecture 26 Chap. 24.5-6, Microscopes and Telescopes,
Nov 21
Thu
Lecture 27
Chap 25.1-4 Interference and Diffraction I
Nov 25
Mon
Homework
Homework 12 due:  11:00PM
Nov 26
Tue
Lecture 28
Chap. 25.5-25.9 Interference and diffraction II
Nov. 27-30

Thanksgiving Holidays
Dec. 2 Mon Homework Homework 13
Dec. 2 Mon Makeup Exam  Makeup Exam  Chaps. (16-25)
Dec.3 Tue Lecture 29 Review for final.
Dec. 7 Sat Final exam Chaps. 16 - 25  (12:30-2:30PM)