Schedule PHY 272 Fall 2007 (November 13, 2007)
Date To read Topic HW
Week 1   Tle Electric Field (charges)  
30-Aug Introduction to Fields
31-Aug 21.1-2 Electric Charge
Week 2   The Electric Field  
4-Sep 21.3 Coulomb's Law
6-Sep 21.4-5 Electric Field
7-Sep 21 6-7 Motion of Charges HW 1
Week 3   Continuos Charge Distribution  
11-Sep 22 1-3 Gauss's Law
13-Sep 22 4-5 Charge and Field at Conductor Surfaces
14-Sep 22 6 Gauss from Coulomb HW 2
Week 4   Electric Potential  
18-Sep 23 1-2 Potential Difference
20-Sep synthesis/review
21-Sep First Exam (Ch. 21 and 22) HW 3
Week 5   Electric Potential  
25-Sep 23 3 Electric field from the Potential
27-Sep 23 4 V for continuous charge distribution
28-Sep 23 5 Equipotentials HW 4
Week 6   Electrostatic Energy  
2-Oct 24 1-3 Potential energy and Capacitance
4-Oct 24 4 Circuits
5-Oct 24 5-6 Dielectrics HW 5
Week 7   Electric Currents
9-Oct 25 1-2 Currents and Ohm's Law
11-Oct 25 3-5 Circuits
12-Oct 25 6 RC circuits HW 6
Week 8   Magnetic Field  
16-Oct 26 1 Magnetic Force
18-Oct 26 2 Charge in a magnetic field
19-Oct 26 3 Torques on Currents loops HW 7
Week 9   Magnetic Field  
23-Oct 27 1-2,4 Biot Savart law, Ampere's Law
25-Oct synthesis/review
26-Oct Second Exam (Ch. 23, to 26) HW 8
Week 11   Magnetic Induction  
30-Oct 28 1-2 Magnetic Flux and Faraday Law
1-Nov 28 3-4 Lenz Law, Motional EMF
2-Nov 28 6 Inductance HW 9
Week 12   Circuits  
6-Nov 29 1-3 AC Circuits
8-Nov 28 8, 29 5 LR, LC with generators
9-Nov 29 6 Resonance RLC HW 10
Week 13   Maxwell's Equations  
13-Nov 30-1-2 Displacement current and Maxwell's equations
15-Nov 30 3-4 Electromagnetic Radiation
16-Nov review HW 11
Week 14   Electromagnetic Waves  
20-Nov Third Exam (Ch. 27to 29)
22-Nov Thanksgiving
23-Nov Thanksgiving
Week 15   Optics  
27-Nov 31 7-8 Polarization, Reflection, and Refraction
29-Nov 32 1-2 Mirrors and lenses
30-Nov 32 4 Optical Instruments HW 12
Week 16   Interference and Diffraction  
4-Dec 33 1-3 Coherence and Interference (double slit)
6-Dec 33 4 Diffraction of a single slit
7-Dec 33 6 Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction HW 13
Week 17   Interference and Diffraction  
11-Dec synthesis/review
    FINAL EXAM,  Tuesday, Dec 18 1:30pm-3:30pm