PHYSICS 272 SCHEDULE: Spring 2004


NB: Beware that these dates and the schedule may need to be updated!

  • You are responsible for all material in each chapter as indicated below, whether we covered it in class or not. You need to come to class and read the text.
  • NB Note that due to problems with late text delivery, the due dates for problems in chapters 25, 26 and 27 have been slipped, see last column below. After 2/4 problems are due the next class after they are assigned.
    
    WK DATE        LECTURE TOPIC                                       READ   HOMEWORK         DUE
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     1 1/12  Introduction
       1/14  Charge, Conductors and Insulators, Coulomb's Law         25.1-4 25-E4,5,7,9       1/21
       1/16  Continuous Distributions, Conservation of Charge         25.5-6 25-E15,16,22,26   1/23
    
     2 1/19  MLK Day
       1/21  Electric Field, Point Charges, Continuous Distributions  26.1-4 26-E14,16,22,26   1/26
       1/23  Electric Field Lines, Point Charge and Dipole in E Field 26.5-7 26-E31,39,P3,6,12 1/28
    
     3 1/26  Flux, Electric Flux, Gauss' Law                          27.1-4 27-E4,8,P3        1/30
       1/28  Applications, Conductors, Experimental Tests             27.5-7 27-P6,10,15       2/2
       1/30  go over problems
    
     4 2/2   Electrical Potential Energy, Electric Potential          28.1-4 28-E5,17,30,46,50,P11 2/4
       2/4   Potential due to Point Charges, Continuous Distributions 28.5-10        
       2/6   FIRST MIDTERM (through 28)
    
     5 2/9   go over exam
       2/11  Conductor in Electric Field, Ohmic Materials             29.1-4  29-E5,6,12,25
       2/13  Ohm's Law, Dielectrics, Capacitors, Calculating Cap.     29.5-6  29-P5,8,15
    
     6 2/16  Presidents Day
       2/18  Capacitors, Energy Storage, Dielectrics                  30.1-6  30-E10,19,20,P1,2
       2/20  go over problems                                                 30-P3,7,10,13
                                                              
     7 2/23  Current, EMF, Analysis of Circuits                       31.1-3  31-E3,4,13,19,30,35
       2/25  Resistors, Energy Transfer, RC Circuits                  31.4-7  31-E47,P1,3,12,14
       2/27  go over problems
    
     8 3/1   Magnetism, Force on Moving Charge, Circulating Charges   32.1-3  32-E14,P5,8,10
       3/3   Hall Effect, Force on Wire, Torque on a Current Loop     32.4-6  32-E30,31,P12,14
       3/5   go over problems
    
     9 3/8   Magnetic Field of a Moving Charge, of a Current          33.1-3  33-Q26,E2,13,19,E23
       3/10  Magnetic Field of a Solenoid, Ampere's Law               33.4-5  33-E33,P1,3,6,14
       3/12  Faraday's Law, Lenz' Law, Motional EMF                   34.1-4 
      
    10 3/15  Generators and Motors, Induced E Fields, Magnetic Dipole 34.5-6  34-E8,14,26,32,P12
    
       3/17  go over problems, review
       3/19  SECOND MIDTERM (through Chapter 34)            
    
    11 3/23-25   *******SPRING RECESS********                          read Chapts 35-40
    
    12 3/29  go over exam     
       3/31  Force on a Dipole, Magnetization, Materials, Gauss' Law  35.1-7   35-Q30,33,E1,10,16,P6
       4/2   Inductance, LR Circuits, Energy Storage                  36.1-4   36-E7,9,10,26
                                                               
    13 4/5   Oscillations, Damped & Forced Oscillations, AC Currents  36.5-6   36-E44,P3,8,15
       4/7   go over  problems, intro Chapt. 37                        
       4/9   Holiday... Good Friday                                            37-Q36,E3,10,17,22
    
    14 4/12  Single Loop RLC Circuit, Power, Transformer              37.1-5   37-E28,P5,10,11
       4/14  Maxwell's Equations                                      38.1-3   38-E6,14,18,23
       4/16  Waves, Energy Transport, Radiation Pressure              38.4-7   38-E30,32,P7,16
    
    15 4/19  go over problems
       4/21  EM Spectrum, Speed of Light                              39.1-3   39-Q45,E5,9,10,17,31
       4/23  Reflection and Refraction, Total Internal Reflection     39.4-5   39-E46,P1,3,7,13
    
    16 4/26  go over problems
       4/28  Plane Mirrors, Spherical Mirrors                         40.1-3   40-E1,4,7,12,17
       4/30  Spherical Refracting Surfaces, Thin Lenses               40.4-6   40-E28,37,P9,11,16
    
    17 5/3   go over problems, review
       5/5   Last day, practice questions for exam
       5/7   study days, no classes
    
    18 5/14  0730-0930 Final Examination                              25-40     40 questions
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