PHYS112 : Schedule

Monday
Wednesday
Friday
Labs/Homework
19-23 Jan
Simple Harmonic Motion
Ch.16:1-4
Simple Harmonic Motion
Ch.16:5-6
General Wave Phenomena
Ch.17:1-5
No Lab
HW1
26-30 Jan
Superposition and Interference
Ch.17:8-12
Sound Waves, Intensity, Standing Waves
Ch.18:1-7
The Doppler Effect
Ch.18:8-9
Lab 1: Harmonic Oscillations and Waves (SHO.cmbl)
HW2
2-6 Feb
Electric Charge, Conductors, and Insulators
Ch.22:1-6
Coulomb's Law
Ch.22:7-10
Exam 1 : HW1-2 (Ch.16-18)
Lab 2: Sound Waves
9-13 Feb
Electric Fields
Ch.23:1-5,8,10
Electric Field and Coulomb's Law Examples
Electric Potential Energy and Electric Potential
Ch.25:1-7,10,11
Lab 3: Electric Fields and Charge
HW3
16-20 Feb
Relationships Between F, E, U and V
Ch.25:4,9
Current, Resistivity, and Resistance
Ch.26:1-10
Kirchoff's Rules, Equivalent Resistance
Ch.27:1-7
Lab 4: Electric Potential and Field Mapping
HW4
23-27 Feb
Kirchoff Examples
Ch.27:1-7
Kirchoff Examples...
Voltmeters and Ammeters
Ch.27:3,5
Capacitance and Capacitors
Ch.28:1-3
Lab 5: Ohm's Law
HW5
2-6 Mar
Equivalent Capacitance, Dielectrics, Energy
Ch.28:4-7
RC Circuits
Ch.28:9
Exam 2 : HW3-5 (Ch.22-23,25-27)
Lab 6: DC Circuits
9-13 Mar
Spring
...
Vacation
No Lab
16-20 Mar
Magnetic Fields
Ch.29:1-3
Magnetic Force and the Right Hand Rule
Ch.29:4-6
Magnetic Torque
Ch.29:8-9
Lab 7: Capacitance
HW6
23-27 Mar
Magnetic Fields Due to Currents
Ch.30:1-4,6
Magnetic Induction and Inductors
Ch.31:1-6
Transformers
Ch.32:5
Lab 8: Faraday's Law (Faraday.cmbl)
HW7
30 Mar-3 Apr
Inductors and Inductance
Ch.32:1-2
RL Circuits
Ch.32:4
AC Circuits : Reactance, Impedance, and Phase
Ch.33:1-11
Lab 9: Inductance
HW8
6-10 Apr
LRC Power and Resonance
Ch.33:12
LRC Examples
Electromagnetic Waves, Polarization
Ch.34:1-5,6,9
Lab 10: LRC Circuits
HW9
13-17 Apr
Reflection, Refraction, and Dispersion
Ch.35:1-4
Mirrors
Ch.35:6-8
Lenses
The Human Eye
Ch.35:9-10
Lab 11: Geometric Optics
20-24 Apr
Compound Optics
Ch.35:11
CoSA
(no class)
Exam 3 : HW6-9 (Ch.28-33)
No Lab
HW10
27 Apr-1 May
Optics Examples
Wave Optics
Interference
Ch.36:1-6
Thin Films
Ch.36:7
Lab 12: Wave Optics
4-8 May
Diffraction
Ch.37:1-8
HW11
11-15 May
Exam 4 : HW10-11 (Ch.34-37)
9 am - noon, Pfahler Auditorium

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