This is what we plan to cover during the course. Generally the pace will be to cover two chapters a week. We will try to follow the schedule below but modification will likely be needed as we work our way through the semester. At the end of the course we may need to speed things up and will do so by skipping sections. The schedule posted below is thus subject to change. In the event that changes are made you will be notified in class and documented on the schedule below. It is your responsibility to obtain the information if you happen to miss the class where changes are discussed. Exams are scheduled throughout the semester and we will try to keep those dates consistent as much as we can. However, on occasion a test will need to be moved for a variety of reasons. If you miss an exam because you planned on being elsewhere you will not be given a makeup exam. So DO NOT SCHEDULE TRIPS around the exam schedule. When you signed up for the course the expectation is that you will attend each class from the start to the end of the semester.
| Dates | Monday | Wednesday | Friday | Sunday |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/8-5/12 | Chapter 17 | Chapter 17/18 | Chapter 18 | No HW due |
| 5/15-5/19 | Chapter 19 | Chapter 19/20 | Chapter 20 + Quiz 1 (Chps 17-18) | HW Due 17-18 |
| 5/22-5/26 | Chapter 20 | Chapter 20/21 | Chapter 21 + Quiz 2 (Chps 19-20) | HW Due 19-20 |
| 5/29-6/02 | Memorial Day | Chapter 23 | Chapter 24 + Quiz 3 (Chps 21-23) | HW Due 21-23 |
| 6/05-6/09 | Chapter 24 | Chapter 25 | Chapter 26 + Quiz 4 (Chps 24-25) | HW Due 24-25 |
| 6/12-6/16 | Chapter 26 | Review | Final Exam (Chps 17-26) | HW Due 22(8) & 26 |
- Chapter 17: The electric charge, conductors and insulators, Coulomb’s law and electric fields
- Chapter 18: The electric potential energy, electric potential, and capacitance, capacitors in series and in parallel, energy in electric fields and dielectrics
- Chapter 19: Current, electrical resistance and Ohm’s law, electromotive force and Direct Current (DC) circuits, resisters in series and parallel, Kirchhoff’s rules and electrical measuring instruments
- Chapter 20: Magnetism, magnetic fields and magnetic forces, motion of charged particles in magnetic fields, applications of the interaction of moving charges with magnetic fields
- Chapter 21: Electromagnetic induction, magnetic flux, Faraday and Lenz’s Laws and motional electromotive force
- Chapter 22: Alternating Currents, Phasors, Resistance and Reactance, The Series R-L-C circuit and Power in Alternating-Current Circuits
- Chapter 23: Electromagnetic waves, the speed of electromagnetic waves, the nature of light, reflection and refraction of light and total internal reflection
- Chapter 24: Geometric optics, reflection and refraction at a plane or spherical surface, thin lenses, and graphical methods for mirrors and lenses
- Chapter 25: Optical instruments, the camera, projector, eyes and magnifying devices
- Chapter 26: Interference and coherent sources, two-source and thin film interference of light, diffraction from single and multiple slits, X-ray diffraction and circular aperture and resolving power
- Chapter 28: Photons, Electrons and Atoms, The photoelectric effect, Line spectra and energy levels, The Bohr Model, Lasers, X-Ray production, The wave particle duality