Lecture schedule and course notes

Date Topics Sections Lab
7-6 Charge / Coulomb's law 16.1 - 16.6
7-7 Electric field 16.7 - 16.10
7-8 Electric potential 17.1 - 17.5 (A + B) - E-Fields and Potentials
7-9 Capacitors / Batteries 17.7 - 18.1
7-12 Current and resistance 18.2 - 19.2
7-13 Multiloop circuits 19.3 - 19.7 (A) Resistance and Ohm's law
7-14 Magnetic fields 20.1 - 20.5
7-15 Magnetic forces 20.3 - 20.6 (B) Resistance and Ohm's law
7-16 Catch up/ Review
7-19 Midterm 1 (chapters 16 - 19)
7-20 Magnetic materials 20.9 - 20.15 (A) Charge to mass ratio
7-21 Induced EMF 21.1 - 21.4
7-22 Generators / Inductance 21.5 - 21.10 (B) Charge to mass ratio
7-23 AC Circuits 21.12 - 21.14
7-26 EM Waves 22.1 - 22.8
7-27 Reflection and refraction 23.1 - 23.5 (A) Coils and Magnets
7-28 Lenses 23.6 - 23.10
7-29 Interference 24.1 - 24.4 (B) Coils and Magnets
7-30 Catch up / Review
8-2 Midterm 2 (chapters 20 - 23)
8-3 Diffraction / Thin films 24.5 - 24.8 (A) Geometrical optics
8-4 Polarization / Human eye 24.10 - 25.2
8-5 Optical instruments 25.3 - 25.9 (B) Interference and diffraction
8-6 Quantum theory 27.1 - 27.4
8-9 The Bohr model 27.5 - 27.11
8-10 Quantum mechanics 28.1 - 28.9 (A) Interference and diffraction
(B) Geometrical optics
8-11 Radioactivity 30.1 - 30.11
8-12 Review
8-13 Final exam (chapters 16 - 30) 9:00 - 11:00 am

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