PHY 2061 — Spring 2009 — 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 January 6 Coulomb's law January 8 Electric field
Week 2 26, 27 January 13 E field, dipoles January 15 Gauss's law
Week 3 27, 28 January 20 Gauss's law, conductors January 22 Electric potential, energy
Week 4 29, 30 January 27 Electric materials January 29 Capacitance
Week 5 25–30 February 3 review February 5 Exam 1   Formula Sheet
Week 6 31, 32 February 10 Currents and circuits February 12 Magnetism, B field
Week 7 33 February 17 Biot-Savart law February 19 Ampère's law
Week 8 34 February 24 Faraday's Law February 26 Induction
Week 9 35 March 3 Magnetic dipoles March 5 Magnetic materials
    March 10 Spring Break March 12 Spring Break
Week 10 36, 37 March 17 Inductance March 19 RLC alternating current circuits
Week 11 31–37 March 24 review March 26 Exam 2   Formula Sheet
Week 12 38, 39 March 31 Maxwell's equations April 2 Poynting vector, waves
Week 13 39, 40 April 7 Refraction, Snell's law April 9 Mirrors and lenses
Week 14 41, 42 April 14 Interference April 16 Diffraction
Week 15 25–41 April 21 Overall review   Final Fxam Formula Sheet

Final Exam: Tuesday, April 28, 10am-noon (Exam Group 28A) (Cumulative)


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