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Date |
Chapter and Topic |
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Jan 9 |
First lecture: big picture of course using magnetic confinement of fusion plasmas to illustrate key ideas |
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Jan 11 |
Finish fusion discussion, start Chapter 25 on "Electric Charges and Forces" |
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Jan 14 |
Chapter 25 continued |
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Jan 16 |
Finish Chapter 25 |
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Jan 17 |
Lab: Verifying Coulomb's Law |
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Jan 18 |
Start Chapter 26 on "The Electric Field" |
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Jan 21 |
No class: Martin Luther King Jr Day |
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Jan 23 |
Chapter 26 continued |
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Jan 25 |
Finish Chapter 26. |
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Jan 28 |
Start Chapter 27 on "Gauss's Law. |
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Jan 30 |
Chapter 27 continued |
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Feb 1 |
Finish Chapter 27 |
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Feb 4 |
Start Chapter 28 on "The Electric Potential" |
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Feb 6 |
Chapter 28 continue |
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Feb 8 |
Finish Chapter 28 |
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Feb 11 |
Start Chapter 29 on "Potential and Field" |
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Feb 13 |
Chapter 29 continued |
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Feb 15 |
Finish Chapter 29 |
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Feb 18 |
Start Chapter 30 on "Current and Resistance" |
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Feb 20 |
Chapter 30 continued |
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Feb 22 |
Finish Chapter 30 |
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Feb 25 |
Start Chapter 31 on "Fundamentals of Circuits" |
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Feb 27 |
Chapter 31 continued |
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Mar 1 |
Finish Chapter 31 |
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Mar 4 |
Start Chapter 32, "The Magnetic Field |
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Mar 6 |
Midterm exam during recitation, lecture time used to review or discuss material. |
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Mar 8 |
Chapter 32 continued |
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Mar 11 |
No class, spring break |
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Mar 13 |
No class, spring break |
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Mar 15 |
No class, spring break. |
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Mar 18 |
Finish Chapter 32 |
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Mar 20 |
Start Chapter 33 on "Electromagnetic Induction" |
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Mar 22 |
Chapter 33 continued. |
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Mar 25 |
Finish Chapter 33 |
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Mar 27 |
Start Chapter 35 on "AC Circuits" |
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Mar 29 |
Continue Chapter 35 |
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Mar 30 |
Finish Chapter 35 |
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Apr 1 |
Start Chapter 34 on "Electromagnetic Waves Fields and Waves" |
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Apr 3 |
Continue Chapter 34 |
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Apr 5 |
Finish Chapter 34 |
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Apr 8 |
Start Chapter 22 on "Wave Optics" |
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Apr 10 |
Continue Chapter 22 |
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Apr 12 |
Finish Chapter 22 |
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Apr 15 |
Geometric optics? |
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Apr 17 |
One lecture about optics and Fermat's principle of least time |
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Apr 19 |
Feynman's QED book and quantum properties of light |
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Apr 22 |
Quantum properties of light continued |
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Apr 24 |
Final class, finish discussion of quantum effects of light, summarize course. |
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May 1 |
Final exam, 7-10 pm |