PHY 2054 - Physics II - Spring 2012


Schedule



Date Day Event   Material and events
Jan. 10 Tue Lecture 1   Course organization
Jan. 12 Thu Lecture 2 PK Chap. 16.1-16.3: Electric charge, coulomb's law
Jan. 16 Mon Modified   Homework 1 now due 11:00 PM, Saturday, Jan. 21
Jan. 17 Tue Lecture 3 PA Chap. 16.4-16.7: Electric Field, Flux, Gauss' law
Jan. 19 Thu Lecture 4 PA Chap. 17.1-17.2: Electric potential
Jan. 21 Sat Homework   Homework 1 due 11:00 (revised from Mon, Jan. 16)
Jan. 24 Tue Lecture 5 PA Chap. 17.3-17.4: Equipotential surfaces, energy conservation
Jan. 26 Thu Lecture 6 PK Chap. 17.5-17.6: Capacitance, dielectrics
Jan. 28 Sat Modified   Homework 2 due 11:00PM (revised from Mon Jan. 23)
Jan. 31 Tue Lecture 7 PK Chap. 17.7: Stored energy in capacitors
Feb. 2 Thu Modified   Homework 3 due 11:00PM (revised from Mon Jan. 30)
Feb. 2 Thu Lecture 8 PK Chap. 18.1-18.3: Electric Current, Ohm's Law
Feb. 6 Mon Homework   Homework 4 due: 11:00PM
Feb. 7 Tue Lecture 9 PK Chap. 18.4-18.6: Resistance, series and parallel circuits
Feb. 9 Thu Lecture 10 PK Chap. 18.7: More complex circuits
Feb. 13 Mon Homework   Homework 5 due: 11:00PM
Feb. 14 Tue Lecture 11 PA Review for exam 1
Feb. 15 Wed Exam 1   Chaps. 16.1 - 18.7
Feb. 16 Thu Lecture 12 PA Chap. 18.8-18.10: Power, RC circuits
Feb. 20 Mon Homework   Homework 6 due: 11:00PM
Feb. 21 Tue Lecture 13 PA Chap. 19.1-19.3: Magnets, magnetic field, force on moving charge
Feb. 23 Thu Lecture 14 PA Chap. 19.4-19.7: Motion in a magnetic field, force on current-carrying wire, torque on current loop
Feb. 27 Mon Homework   Homework 7 due: 11:00PM
Feb. 28 Tue Lecture 15 PA Chap. 19.8-19.10-: Magnetic field from electric current, Ampere's law, magnetic materials
Mar. 1 Thu Lecture 16 PK Chap. 20.1-20.4: Induction, motional EMF, Faraday's law, Lenz's law
Mar. 6 Tue Holiday   Spring Break!!
Mar. 8 Thu Holiday   Spring Break!!
Mar. 12 Mon     No homework due
Mar. 13 Tue Lecture 17 PK Chap. 20.5-20.10: Transformers, inductance, LR circuits
Mar. 15 Thu Lecture 18 PA Chap. 21.1-21.2: AC circuits and RMS quantities
Mar. 19 Mon Homework   Homework 8 due: 11:00PM
Mar. 20 Tue Lecture 19 PK Review for exam 2
Mar. 21 Wed Exam 2   Chaps. 18.8 - 21.2
Mar. 22 Thu Lecture 20 PK Chap. 22.1-22.4: Maxwell's equations, E&M waves
Mar. 26 Mon Homework   Homework 9 due: 11:00PM
Mar. 27 Tue Lecture 21 PA Chap. 22.5-22.8: Energy carried by E&M waves, polarization, doppler effect
Mar. 29 Thu Lecture 22 PA Chap. 23.1-23.5: Light, reflection, refraction, total internal reflection
Apr. 2 Mon Homework   Homework 10 due: 11:00PM
Apr. 3 Tue Lecture 23 PA Chap. 23.6-23.8: Mirrors, reflective images
Apr. 5 Thu Lecture 24 PA Chap. 23.9, 24.2: Images from thin lenses, camera I
Apr. 9 Mon     No homework due
Apr. 10 Tue Lecture 25 PA Chap. 24.2, 24.4: Camera II, magnifier
Apr. 12 Thu Lecture 26 PA Chap. 24.3: Operation of human eye, corrective lenses
Apr. 16 Mon Homework   Homework 11 due: 11:00PM
Apr. 17 Tue Lecture 27 PK Chap. 24.1, 24.5-25.6: Microscopes, telescopes
Apr. 19 Thu Lecture 28 PK Chap. 25.1-25.4: Interference and diffraction I
Apr. 23 Mon Homework   Homework 12 due: 11:00PM
Apr. 24 Tue Lecture 29 PK Chap. 25.5-25.9: Interference and diffraction II
Apr. 26 Thu (Optional)   Review (no official class)
Apr. 26 Thu Makeup exam   Chaps. 16 - 25
Apr. 28 Sat Final exam   Chaps. 16 - 25