Week 1 (Aug. 26 - 30)

Read: Iron, Loadstones, and Terrestrial Magnetism (Chap. 1) and The Life and Death of a Magnet (Chap. 2)

PHY 202 Lecture: Scalars, vectors, and vector algebra...see course materials for this unit.

Week 2 (Sept. 2 - 6)

Labor day on Monday, so no class Monday.

Read: Conservation of electric charge (Chap. 3) and Mueschenbroeck's wonderful bottle (Chap. 4)

PHY 202 Lecture: Vector algebra, dot products, work, cross products, torque, Lorentz force law...see course materials for this unit.

Week 3 (Sep. 9 - 13)

Read: Thunder and Lightning (Chap. 5) and Coulomb's Law (Chap. 6)

PHY 202 Lecture: Vector fields, work, line integrals, potential energy, energy stored in charge distributions...see course materials for this unit.

Week 4 (Sep. 16 - 20)

Read: The Dawn of Electro-magnetism (Chap. 7) and Electric Currents, Magnetic Forces (Chap. 8)

PHY 202 Lecture: Magnetic torque and dipoles, work and energy...see course materials for this unit.

Week 5 (Sep. 23 - 27)

Read: This week I will be lecturing on electronic circuits. In particular, we will explore Ohm's law, electrical resistance, Kirchoff's rules of circuit analysis, and resistors and capacitors in parallel and series. In lab, we will learn how to build and analyze elementary electronic circuits using a digital multimeter.

PHY 202 Lecture: Drawing time-dependent electronic circuit diagrams, charging and discharging a capacitor, RC time-constant....see course materials for this unit.

Week 6 (Sep. 30 - Oct 4)

Read: Induction of Electric Currents (Chap. 25), Arago's mysterious wheel (Chap. 26),

PHY 202 Lecture: Charging and discharging capacitors...see course materials for this unit.

Week 7 (Oct. 7 - 11)

Read: Faraday’s law (Chap. 27). The magnetic field (Chap. 28)

PHY 202 Lecture: Magnetic fields, magnetic flux, surface integrals...see course materials for this unit.

Week 8 (Oct. 14 - 18)

Fall Break; no class Monday and Tuesday

Read: Work and Weight (Chap. 9); Kinetic and Potential Energy (Chap. 10)

PHY 202 Lecture: Electric forces, electric fields and electric potential, ...see course materials for this unit.

Week 9 (Oct. 21 - 25)

Read: Conservation of Energy (Chap. 11) and Geometric Optics (Chap. 12)

PHY 202 Lecture: Geometric optics...see course materials for this unit.

Week 10 (Oct. 28 - Nov. 1)

Read: The Wave Theory of Light (Chap. 13) and Huygens' Principle (Chap. 14)

PHY 202 Lecture: Geometric optics, wave optics, and Fermat's principle...see course materials for this unit.

Week 11 (Nov. 4 - 8)

Read: Reflection of Light Waves (Chap. 15); Opacity, transparency, and Snell's law (Chap. 16);, Atmospheric refraction (Chap. 17),

PHY 202 Lecture: Wave optics...see course materials for this unit.

Week 12 (Nov. 11 - 15)

Read: Measuring light's wavelength (Chap. 20), Films, bubbles and rainbows (Chap. 21).

PHY 202 Lecture: Wave optics...see course materials for this unit.

Week 13 (Nov. 18 - 21)

Read: Producing and detecting polarization (Chap. 22),

PHY 202 Lecture: Maxwell's equations...see course materials for this unit.

Week 14 (Nov. 25 - 29)

Thanksgiving break; no class Thursday or Friday.

Read: Crystal symmetry and light rotation (Chap. 23), Light scattering (Chap. 24)

PHY 202 Lecture: Maxwell's equations...see course materials for this unit.

Week 15 (Dec. 2 - 6)

Read: Action-at-a-distance (Chap. 30), the Michelson-Morley experiment (Chap. 34)

PHY 202 Lecture: Maxwell's equations...see course materials for this unit.

Week 16 Final Exam

There will be a comprehensive final examination on week 16.

...see course materials for this unit.
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