PHY 2061, Section 0829 — Fall 2017 — Class Schedule


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 22 Coulomb's law August 24 Electric field
Week 2 26, 27 August 29 E field, dipoles Aug. 31 Gauss's law
Week 3 27, 28 Sept. 5 Gauss's law, conductors Sept. 7 Electric potential, energy
Week 4 29 Sept. 12 Electric materials Sept. 14 Test on Chaps. 25-28
Week 5 30,31 Sept. 19 Capacitance Sept. 21 Currents and circuits
Week 6 32,33 Sept. 26 Magnetism, B field Sept. 28 Biot-Savart law
Week 7 33,34 Oct. 3 Ampère's law Oct. 5 Faraday's Law
Week 8 34,35 Oct. 10 Induction Oct. 12 Magnetic dipoles
Week 9 35,36 Oct. 17 Magnetic materials, Inductance Oct. 19 Inductance
Week 10 29-35 Oct. 24 review Oct. 26 Test on Chaps. 29-35
Week 11 37,38 Oct. 31 RLC alternating current circuits Nov. 2 Maxwell's equations
Week 12 39 Nov. 7 Poynting vector, waves Nov. 9 Refraction, Snell's law
Week 13 40 Nov. 14 Mirrors and lenses Nov. 16 Mirrors and lenses
Week 14 41 Nov. 21 No class-Chap. 41 Video Nov. 23 No class - Thanksgiving
Week 15 42 Nov. 28 Diffraction
Nov. 30 Beginning of Review
Week 16 25-42 Dec. 5 Last Day - Overall Review Final Fxam Formula Sheet

Final Exam: Monday, Dec. 11, 7:30 am-9:30 am (Exam Group 11A) (Cumulative)