| Spring 2008 Lecture Notes | Lecture notes are in pdf (portable document format) Download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader: |
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| The reading assignments should be completed before coming to class. |
| Lecture 1 | Ch 20.5, 22.1-22.3 |
Waves & Interference |
Wed 1/23 |
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No Honors Lecture |
Fri 1/25 |
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| Lecture 2 | Ch 22.4-22.6 |
Interference & Diffraction |
Mon 1/28 |
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| Lecture 3 | Ch 23.1-23.3 |
Reflection & Refraction |
Wed 1/30 |
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| Honors Lect | Fri 2/1 |
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| Lecture 4 | Ch 23.4-23.6 |
Image Formation |
Mon 2/4 |
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| Lecture 5 | Ch 25.1-25.4 |
Charges, conductors & insulators |
Wed 2/6 |
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| Honors Lect | Fri 2/8 |
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| Lecture 6 | Ch 25.5-26.2 |
Electric Fields |
Mon 2/11 |
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| Lecture 7 | Ch 26.3-26.7 |
Electric Fields & Charge Motion |
Wed 2/13 |
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| Honors Lect | Fri 2/15 |
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| Lecture 8 | Ch 22-27 |
Review for Exam 1 |
Mon 2/18 |
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| Lecture 9 | Ch 27.1-27.6 |
Electric Flux & Gauss' law |
Wed 2/20 |
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| Honors Lect | Fri 2/22 |
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| Lecture 10 | Ch 29.1-29.7 |
Electric Potential |
Mon 2/25 |
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| Lecture 11 | Ch 30.1-30.7 | Potential and E-Field |
Wed 2/27 |
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| Honors Lect | Fri 2/29 |
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| Lecture 12 | Ch 31.1-31.7 |
Resistors and DC Circuits |
Mon 3/3 |
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| Lecture 13 | Ch 31.8-31.10 |
DC Circuits and RC Circuits |
Wed 3/5 |
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| Honors Lect | Fri 3/7 |
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| Lecture 14 | Ch 32.1-32.3 |
Magnetic Fields and Force |
Mon 3/10 |
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| Lecture 15 | Ch 32.2-5,32.7,32.9 |
Sources of Magnetic Fields |
Wed 3/12 | ||
| Honors Lect | Susan Nossal |
Climate change |
Fri 3/14 |
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| Spr Break | Mon 3/17 |
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Wed 3/19 |
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Fri 3/21 |
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| Lecture 16 | Ch 29-33 |
Review for Exam 2 | Mon 3/24 |
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| Lecture 17 | Ch 32.6,32.8-9 |
Ampere's law |
Wed 3/26 |
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| Honors Lect | Fri 3/28 |
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| Lecture 18 | Ch 33.1-5, 34.1 |
Faraday's law & Lenz' law |
Mon 3/31 |
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| Lecture 19 | Ch 33.2, 33.6, 34.3-6 |
EM Waves |
Wed 4/2 |
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| Honors Lect | Stan Briczinski |
Fri 4/4 |
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| Lecture 20 | Ch 34.6-7, 34.8 |
Waves & Polarization |
Mon 4/7 |
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| Lecture 21 | Ch 34.8, 38.1-3 |
Polarization, Light Quantization |
Wed 4/9 |
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| Honors Lect | Hagar Landsman IceCube |
Fri 4/11 | |||
| Lecture 22 | Ch 38.4, 37.6, 37.8, 38.5-7
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Matter waves & Bohr Atom |
Mon 4/14 |
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| Lecture 23 | 39.1-6 |
Wave function & uncertainty |
Wed 4/16 |
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| Honors Lect | Color Vision |
Fri 4/18 |
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| Lecture 24 | Ch 33-39 |
Review for Exam 3 |
Mon 4/21 |
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| Lecture 25 | Ch 40.4-5,40.10 |
Particle in box, tunneling |
Wed 4/23 |
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| Honors Lect | Fri. 4/25 |
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| Lecture 26 | Ch 41.1-41.4 |
Atomic Physics |
Mon 4/28
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| Lecture 27 | Ch 41.4-41.8 |
Atomic Physics & Lasers |
Wed 4/30 |
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| Honors Lect | Fri. 5/2
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| Lecture 28 | Ch 42.1-42.3 |
Nuclear Structure |
Mon 5/5 |
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| Lecture 29 | Ch 42.5-42.7 |
Radioactive Decay |
Wed 5/7 |