Physics 272 - Spring 2010 - Prof. Hall - Tuesday/Thursday 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm, Friday 12:00 pm- 12:50 pm 
Week Date Lecture Topics Pre-lecture reading Homework Due
(Giancoli)
1 26-Jan Introduction, pre-test
28-Jan Charge, Conductors, Insulators 21.0-4 1
29-Jan Coulomb's Law, Electric Field 21.5-6
2 2-Feb Field Lines, Flux, Dipoles 21.7-9, 22.0-1 2
11-Feb
12-Feb Gauss' Law 22.2
3 16-Feb Using Gauss' Law 22.3
18-Feb Gauss' Law cont'd 22.4 3
19-Feb Electric potential 23.0-23.2
4 23-Feb Motion of charges, Dipoles 21.10-21.11 4
25-Feb Exam 1 (Ch. 21, 22, & 23.0-2)
26-Feb Electric field and potential 23.7
5 2-Mar Electric potential due to charges, Equipotentials 23.3-6 5
4-Mar Electrostatic energy, capacitance 23.8, 24.0-2
5-Mar Capacitors in series and parallel, energy storage 24.3-4
6 9-Mar Dielectrics 24.5-6 6
11-Mar Currents and Ohm's Law 25.0-4
12-Mar Electric power, EMF, Resistors in series and parallel 25.5, 26.0-26.2
7 23-Mar Kirchoff's Laws, RC circuits 26.3-5 7
25-Mar Magnetic force 27.0-1, 27.3-4
26-Mar Magnetic torque 27.5
8 30-Mar Sources of Magnetic Fields, Biot-Savart Law 27.2, 28.0-28.2, 28.6 8
1-Apr Biot-Savart Law, Ampere's Law 31.2, 28.4-5
2-Apr Magnetic materials 28.7, 28.10
9 6-Apr Catch-up/Review 9
8-Apr Exam 2 (23.7-28.10, plus 31.2)
9-Apr Magnetic Flux and Faraday's Law 29.0-29.2
10 13-Apr Lenz's Law, Motional EMF 29.3-4, 29.7 10
15-Apr Eddy currents, Self Inductance 29.5, 30.2 
16-Apr Mutual inductance, AC circuits 30.0-30.1, 25.7, 30.7
11 20-Apr LC circuits, phasors 30.5, 30.8 11
22-Apr Resonance in AC circuits 30.9
23-Apr Displacement current & Maxwell's Equations 31.0-3
12 27-Apr EM waves 31.4-6 12
29-Apr Energy in EM waves, Mirrors & Images 31.8, 32.0-3
30-Apr Index of refraction, Snell's Law 32.4-7
13 4-May Catch-up/Review 13
6-May Exam 3 ( Ch. 29 - 31.6, plus 32.4-7)
7-May Thin Lenses 33.0-33.2
14 11-May Post-test, Interference 34.3-4 14
15 18-May Final Exam - 1:30 - 3:30, Room 1201