Physics 273 - Fall 2012 - Prof. Hall - M/T/W/H 9:00 to 9:50 am

Week

Date

Lecture Topics

Reading - Pain, 6th Ed.

Homework Due

1

29-Aug

Course introduction

30-Aug

Simple Harmonic Oscillator and Small oscillations

1 - 10

2

3-Sep

Labor Day - no class

4-Sep

Complex exponentials

25 - 29

5-Sep

Complex exponentials

25 - 29

6-Sep

Forced oscillator

57 - 64

1

3

10-Sep

Forced oscillator

57 - 64

11-Sep

Damped Oscillator

37 - 49

12-Sep

Energy, Q factor

37 - 49

13-Sep

Forced oscillator with damping

57 - 64, 74

2

4

17-Sep

Phys 273H section meeting

18-Sep

Forced oscillator with damping

57 - 64, 74

19-Sep

LC and RLC circuit

10 - 12, 54 - 56

20-Sep

LC and RLC circuit

10 - 12, 54 - 56

3

5

24-Sep

Phasors

54 - 56

25-Sep

Phasors

54 - 56

26-Sep

Impedance

54 - 56

27-Sep

Impedance

54 - 56

4

6

1-Oct

exam review

2-Oct

Exam 1a

3-Oct

Exam 1b

4-Oct

Two coupled oscillators

79 - 87

7

8-Oct

Two coupled oscillators

79 - 87

9-Oct

Normal modes and eigenvectors

79 - 87

10-Oct

Initial conditions and Fourier's trick

79 - 87

11-Oct

Loaded string

90 - 95

5

8

15-Oct

Loaded string, Fourier's trick

90 - 95

16-Oct

Wave Equation

95 - 97

17-Oct

Wave Equation and Fourier's Trick

95 - 97

18-Oct

Orthogonal functions

267 - 275

6

9

22-Oct

Phys 273H section meeting

23-Oct

Fourier series

267 - 275

24-Oct

Fourier series

267 - 275

25-Oct

Fourier series

267 - 275

7

10

29-Oct

University closed

30-Oct

University closed

31-Oct

Fourier Transform

285 - 287

1-Nov

Fourier Transform

285 - 287

8

11

5-Nov

Travelling waves

107 - 114

6-Nov

Travelling waves

107 - 114

7-Nov

Mechanical impedance

115 - 117

8-Nov

exam review

9

12

12-Nov

Exam 2a

13-Nov

Exam 2b

14-Nov

Transmission and reflection

117 - 124

15-Nov

Transmission and reflection

117 - 124

13

19-Nov

Phys 273H section meeting

20-Nov

Energy transport

117 - 124

21-Nov

Transmission lines

171 - 182

10

22-Nov

Thanksgiving break

14

26-Nov

Dispersion

128 - 132

27-Nov

Group velocity

128 - 132

28-Nov

Two Beam interference

333 - 339, 357 - 359

29-Nov

Single Slit Diffraction

366 -373

11

15

3-Dec

Maxwell's Eqs. in integral form

4-Dec

EM waves

5-Dec

Differential vector calculus

6-Dec

More EM waves

12

16

10-Dec

Sonic Boom and Cherenkov effect

11-Dec

Last day of classes - exam review

17

17-Dec

Final Exam - 8:00 am - 10:00 am