The following schedule is tentative, look for updates through the semester, but the sequence of chapters and topics should be reliable.
Chapter(s) | Tuesday | Topic | Thursday | Topic | |
Week 1 | 25, 26 | August 23 | Coulomb's law | August 25 | Electric field |
Week 2 | 26, 27 | August 30 | E field, dipoles | Sept. 1 | Gauss's law |
Week 3 | 27, 28 | Sept. 6 | Gauss's law, conductors | Sept. 8 | Electric potential, energy |
Week 4 | 29, 30 | Sept. 13 | Electric materials | Sept. 15 | Capacitance |
Week 5 | 25–30 | Sept. 20 | review | Sept. 22 | Exam 1 Formula Sheet |
Week 6 | 31, 32 | Sept. 27 | Currents and circuits | Sept. 29 | Magnetism, B field |
Week 7 | 33 | Oct. 4 | Biot-Savart law | Oct. 6 | Ampère's law |
Week 8 | 34 | Oct. 11 | Faraday's Law | Oct. 13 | Induction |
Week 9 | 35 | Oct. 18 | Magnetic dipoles | Oct. 20 | Magnetic materials |
Week 10 | 36, 37 | Oct. 25 | Inductance | Oct. 27 | RLC alternating current circuits |
Week 11 | 31–37 | Nov. 1 | review | Nov. 3 | Exam 2 Formula Sheet |
Week 12 | 38, 39 | Nov. 8 | Maxwell's equations | Nov. 10 | Poynting vector, waves |
Week 13 | 39, 40 | Nov. 15 | Refraction, Snell's law | Nov. 17 | Mirrors and lenses |
Week 14 | 41, 42 | Nov. 22 | Lightboard Lecture | Nov. 24 | No class - Thanksgiving |
Week 15 | 41,42 | Nov. 29 | Interference | Dec. 1 | Diffraction |
Week 16 | 25-41 | Dec. 6 | Last Day - Overall Review | Final Fxam Formula Sheet |