| Week 1 | |
| Wed, Jan 24 |
Introductory organizational lecture
Practice HW issued: Getting Started with Expert TA, due Wed, Jan 31 |
| Fri, Jan 26 | Ch. 27 Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces
27.1 Magnetism 24.2 Magnetic Field 27.3 Magnetic Field Lines and Magnetic Flux; Gauss's Law for Magnetism; Electric dipole vs. magnetic dipole; No magnetic monopoles 27.2 Magnetic Forces on Moving Charges; The Lorentz force Lecture Demonstration: J5-35 J5-05 J5-06 K1-14 |
| Week 2 | |
| Mon, Jan 29 | 27.4 Motion of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field
27.5 Applications: Cyclotron, Magnetic bottle, Van Allen belts, Velocity selector Thomson's e/m experiment, Mass spectrometers 27.6 Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor Lecture Demonstration: K1-03 HW 1 issued: Magnetic Forces, due Tue, Feb 6 |
| Wed, Jan 31 |
27.6 Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor
27.7 Force and Torque on a Current Loop; Magnetic Moment 27.8 The Direct-Current Motor Lecture Demonstration: K1-22 K1-23 K4-24 |
| Fri, Feb 2 |
27.7 Potential energy of magnetic moment in magnetic field
27.8 The Direct-Current Motor Ch. 28 Sources of Magnetic Field 28.1 Magnetic Field of a Moving Charge 28.2 Magnetic Field of a Current Element; The Biot-Savart law Lecture Demonstration: K1-22 J5-33 J5-18 |
| Week 3 | |
| Mon, Feb 5t | 28.3 Magnetic Field of a Straight Current-Carrying Conductor
28.4 Force between Parallel Conductors; the definition of Ampere 28.6 Ampere's Law; line integrals Lecture Demonstration: J5-14 HW 2 issued: Sources of Magnetic Field, due Tue, Feb 13 |
| Wed, Feb 7 | 28.6 General form of Ampere's Law
28.7 Applications of Ampere's Law: thick wire 28.5 Magnetic Field of a Circular Current Loop Lecture Demonstration: J5-15 J5-16 |
| Fri, Feb 9 | Example 28.9 Magnetic field of a solenoid
28.8 Magnetic Materials Lecture Demonstration: J5-16 J7-23 |
| Week 4 | |
| Mon, Feb 12 | Ch. 29 Electromagnetic Induction
29.1 Induction Experiments 29.2 Faraday's Law; Electric Generators 29.4 Motional Electromotive Force 27.8 Back EMF Lecture Demonstration: K2-02 K2-04 K4-01 HW 3 issued: Electromagnetic Induction, due Tue Feb 20 |
| Wed, Feb 14 | 29.5 Induced Electric Fields 29.6 Eddy Currents 29.3 Lenz's Law
Lecture Demonstration: K2-02 K2-04 K2-42 K2-43 K2-44 |
| Fri, Feb 16 | 29.8 Superconductivity
Ch. 30 Inductance 30.1 Mutual Inductance 31.6 Transformers 30.2 Self-Inductance and Inductors 30.3 Magnetic-field Energy Lecture Demonstration: I7-21 K2-25 K2-27 K2-11 K7-04 K3-04 K3-06 |
| Week 5 | |
| Mon, Feb 19 | 30.3 Magnetic-field Energy 30.5 The LC Circuit
Lecture Demonstration: K7-03 HW 4 issued: Inductance, due Tue Feb 27 |
| Wed, Feb 21 | 30.4 The LR Circuit 30.6 The L-R-C Series Circuit
Ch. 31 Alternating Current 31.1 Phasors and Alternating Currents 31.2 Resistance and Reactance Lecture Demonstration: K7-01 |
| Fri, Feb 23 | 31.2 Inductive and Capacitive Reactance 31.3 The L-R-C Series Circuit
31.5 Resonance in AC Circuits Lecture Demonstration: K7-27 J4-41 |
| Week 6 | |
| Mon, Feb 26 | 31.4 Power in AC Circuits 31.1 RMS values 31.6 Transformers
Lecture Demonstration: J4-41 K3-06 HW 5 issued: AC Circuits, due Tue Mar 6 |
| Wed, Feb 28 | 29.7 Displacement Current; Generalized Ampere's Law; Induced magnetic field
Ch. 32 Electromagnetic Waves 32.1 Maxwell's Equations Lecture Demonstration: K2-63 K8-01 K8-05 |
| Fri, Mar 2 | Midterm Exam #1 online: Ch. 27, 28, 29, and 30 |
| Week 7 | |
| Mon, Mar 5 | 32.2 Plane Electromagnetic Waves; Speed of Light Measurement
Derivation of the Electromagnetic Wave Equation Lecture Demonstration: K8-01 K8-03 K8-04 K8-05 HW 6 issued: Electromagnetic Waves, due Tue Mar 13 |
| Wed, Mar 7 |
32.3 Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Waves 32.1 The Electromagnetic Spectrum
AM vs. FM radio; "Rabbit-ears" and loop antennas for TV Lecture Demonstration: K8-01 K8-03 K8-04 K8-05 home TV antenna |
| Fri, Mar 9 | 32.4 Energy and Momentum of Electromagnetic Waves; The Poynting Vector
Radiation Pressure; Spherical Waves; Dipolar antenna; Polarization Lecture Demonstration: K8-01 K8-42 |
| Week 8 | |
| Mon, Mar 12 | Solar intensity and solar panels for renewable energy
32.5 Standing Electromagnetic Waves in a Cavity 33.5 Polarization of Electromagnetic Waves: linear, circular, Malus's Law Lecture Demonstration: K8-01 K8-42 M7-03 Polaroid sunglasses HW 7 issued: Propagation of Light, due Tue Mar 27 |
| Wed, March 14 | Ch. 33 The Nature and Propagation of Light
33.5 Polarization of Electromagnetic Waves: linear, circular, by reflection, Malus's Law 32.3 Speed of Light in Matter; Index of Refraction; Reflection from metals; Metamaterials Lecture Demonstration: K8-05 M7-03 Polaroid sunglasses |
| Fri, Mar 16 |
33.1 The Nature of Light; Wave Fronts and Rays 33.7 Huygens' principle
33.2 Reflection and Refraction; Snell's Law Lecture Demonstration: L4-06 |
| Spring Break | |
| Week 9 | |
| Mon, Mar 26 | 33.3 Total Internal Reflection 33.4 Color and Dispersion 33.6 Scattering of Light
Ch. 34 Geometric Optics 34.1 Reflection and Refraction at a Plane Surface; Sign rules HW 8 issued: Geometric Optics, due Tue Apr 3 Lecture Demonstration: L5-01 L5-02 L5-13 |
| Wed, Mar 28 | 34.2 Reflection at a Spherical Surface; Focal length; Concave vs. convex mirrors
Lateral magnification; Erect vs. inverted images; Graphical Methods for Mirrors Lecture Demonstration: L3-31 |
| Fri, Mar 30 | 34.3 Refraction at a Spherical Surface; the limit of flat surface
34.4 Thin Lenses: convergent, divergent; The Lensmaker's Equation; Graphical Methods Lecture Demonstration: L4-04 Optional Reading: 34.5 Cameras 34.6 The Eye 34.7 The Magnifier 34.8 Microscopes and Telescopes |
| Week 10 | |
| Mon, Apr 2 | Lens focusing in terms of wave fronts
Ch. 35 Interference 35.1 Interference and Coherent Sources; Constructive and Destructive Inverference 35.2 Two-Source (Two-Slit) Interference of Light Lecture Demonstration: M1-11 M1-12 HW 9 issued: Interference, due Tue Apr 10 |
| Wed, Apr 4 | Midterm Exam #2 online: Ch. 31, 32, 33, and 34 |
| Fri, Apr 6 | 35.2 Two-Slit Interference of Light; Maximal number of fringes
35.3 Intensity in Interference Patterns Lecture Demonstration: M1-11 M1-12 |
| Week 11 | |
| Mon, Apr 9 |
Directional pattern from two slits with a phase shift
35.4 Interference in Thin Films; Phase shift upon reflection; (Anti)Reflective Coatings HW 10 issued: Diffraction, due Tue Apr 17 |
| Wed, Apr 11 | 35.5 The Michelson Interferometer; The Michelson-Morley Experiment
Detection of gravitational waves by LIGO Ch. 36 Diffraction 36.1 Diffraction vs. Interference; Fresnel vs. Fraunhofer 36.4 Multiple Slits 36.5 The Diffraction Grating Lecture Demonstration: M3-01 |
| Fri, Apr 13 | 36.5 The Diffraction Grating 36.6 X-Ray Diffraction
36.2 Diffraction from a Single Slit and its Intensity 36.3 Lecture Demonstration: M1-22 M1-34 M1-41 M1-02 |
| Week 12 | |
| Mon, Apr 16 | 36.4 Two Slits of Finite Width 36.7 Circular Apertures and Resolving Power
36.8 Holography Ch. 37 Relativity 37.1 Invariance of Physical Laws; Einstein's two postulates Lecture Demonstration: M1-11 M2-01 M6-11 HW 11 issued: Relativity, due Tue May 1 |
| Wed, Apr 18 | 37.1 The Ultimate Speed Limit; The Galilean Coordinate Transformation
37.2 Relativity of Simultaneity 37.3 Relativity of Time Intervals Time Dilation and Proper Time; The Twin Paradox |
| Fri, Apr 20 | Muon lifetime and travel distance through atmosphere
37.4 Relativity of Length; Length contraction parallel the relative motion No length contraction for perpendicular motion 37.5 The Lorentz Transformations of coordinates |
| Week 13 | |
| Mon, Apr 23 | 37.5 The Lorentz Transformations of velocity
37.6 The Doppler Effect for Electromagnetic Waves; Red shift of expanding Universe 37.7 Relativistic Momentum HW 12 issued: Quantum Physics, due Tue May 8 |
| Wed, Apr 25 | 37.7 Relativistic Momentum; Newton's 2nd Law; Motion in electric and magnetic fields
Relativity of electric and magnetic fields 37.8 Relativistic Work and Energy; Kinetic Energy and Rest Energy E=mc2 Transformation of mass into energy in nuclear reactions; Decay of a neutron Energy as a function of momentum; Photon as a particle with zero mass Optional Reading: 37.9 Introduction to General Relativity |
| Fri, Apr 27 | Ch. 38 Photons: Light Waves Behaving as Particles
38.1 Light Absorbed as Photons: The Photoelectric Effect; Einstein's Explanation Solar Cells and Light-Emitting Diodes (LED) Optional Reading: 38.2 Light Emitted as Photons: X-Ray Production Lecture Demonstration: P2-02 K15-12 |
| Week 14 | |
| Mon, April 30 | 38.1 Photon Momentum 38.3 Compton Scattering of Photons; Pair Production
38.4 Wave-Particle Dualism: Probability, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Lecture Demonstration: P2-11 |
| Wed, May 2 | Ch. 39 Particles Behaving as Waves
39.1 Electron Waves (according to de Broglie); Electron diffraction; Electron Microscope 39.2 The Atom; Line Spectra; Rutherford's Model of the Atom 39.3 Energy Levels and Bohr's Model of the Atom Optional Reading: 39.4 The Laser 39.5 Continuous Spectra; Blackbody Radiation Lecture Demonstration: P2-13 N2-06 |
| Fri, May 4
update point |
Ch. 40 Quantum Mechanics in 1D: Wave Functions
40.1 Wave Functions and the time-dependent Schroedinger's Equation Stationary states and the time-independent Schroedinger's Equation Interpretation of the wave function; Probability density Lecture Demonstration: P2-13 |
| Week 15 | |
| Mon, May 7 | 40.2 Particle in a Box; Energy Levels; Probability and Normalization; Time Dependence
40.6 Measurement in Quantum Mechanics 40.1 Wave packets 38.4 Two-wave superposition: momentum-coordinate and energy-time uncertainties 39.6 Two Slits and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Revisited Prof. Yakovenko is away, substituted by Dr. Matt Severson |
| Wed, May 9 | Midterm Exam #3 online: Ch. 35, 36, 37, 38, and 39, Prof. Yakovenko is away |
| Common Final Exam | |
| Tue, May 15 | 6:30-8:30 pm in Room 0204 of Architecture Building (ARC, Bld 145) |
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