Week |
Monday |
Wednesday |
Lab |
Friday |
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| Waves |
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| 1: Jan 15 |
Waves: Definitions and Wave Speed |
Energy and Power, Superposition |
Lab 1: Standing Waves |
Special cases of Superposition:
Resonance, Beats |
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| Ch. 16: 1 - 5 | Ch. 16: 6 - 9 | Ch. 16: 10 - 13 | ||||
| 2: Jan 22 |
Sound Waves and the Speed of Sound |
Sound: Interference, Music Tones |
Lab 2: Beats |
Sound: Beats, Doppler Effect |
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| Ch. 17: 1 - 4 | Ch. 17: 5 - 7 | Ch. 17: 8 - 10 | ||||
| Charge, Fields, and Gauss'
Law |
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| 3: Jan 29 |
How do we know and what do we know
about charge? |
The electric field and field lines |
Lab 3: Coulomb Experiment |
Fields: Examples for some charge
distributions |
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| Ch. 21 | Ch. 22: 1 - 3 | Ch. 22: 4 - 7 | ||||
| 4: Feb 5 |
Fields: Effect on other charges,
flux |
Gauss's Law |
EXAM REVIEW |
Applying Gauss' Law |
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| Ch. 22: 8 - 9; Ch. 23: 1 - 3 | Ch. 23: 4 - 6 | Ch. 23: 7 - 9 | ||||
| Energy and the Electric
Field and Potential |
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| 5: Feb 12 |
Exam 1: Waves, Electric Charge and
Fields |
Electric Potential Energy and the
Electric Potential |
Lab 4: Fields and Potentials |
Potential: Equipotential Surfaces,
Potential from the Field |
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| Ch. 24: 1 - 4 | Ch. 24: 4 - 7 | |||||
| 6: Feb 19 |
Relating the Field and the Potential |
Capacitance |
no lab |
Capacitance: Energy Storage in
an Electric Field |
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| Ch. 24: 8 - 12 | Ch. 25: 1 - 4 | Ch. 25: 5 - 8 | ||||
| Circuits |
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| 7: Feb 26 |
Current and Resistance; |
Circuits: Power, Capacitors in
a Circuit |
Lab 5: Ohm's Law |
Circuits: Work, energy and the
emf |
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| Ch. 26: 1 - 4 | Ch. 26: 5 - 6; Ch. 27: 8-9 | Ch. 26: 7 - 9 | ||||
| 8: Mar 5 |
Circuits: Potential difference,
Loops |
Circuits Wrapup and Exam Review |
no lab |
Exam 2: Gauss' Law, Potential, Capacitance,
and Circuits |
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| Ch. 27: 1 - 4 | Ch. 27: 5 - 7 | |||||
| Mar 12 & Mar 19 |
Spring Break
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| Magnetism, Induction,
and Maxwell's Equations |
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| 9: Mar 26 |
The magnetic fleld |
The Hall effect and magnetic forces
on current-carrying wires |
no lab |
Torque on a current loop, the magnetic
dipole "moment" |
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| Ch. 28:1 - 4 | Ch. 28: 5 - 8 | Ch. 28: 8 - 10 | ||||
| 10: Apr 2 |
Magnetic fields due to currents |
Ampere's Law |
Lab 6: Ampere's Experiment |
Faraday's Law of Induction, Induced
Electric Fields |
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| Ch. 29: 1 - 3 | Ch. 29: 4 - 6 | Ch. 30: 1 - 6 | ||||
| 11: Apr 9 |
Inductance, Energy Storage in a Magnetic Field |
Maxwell's Equations |
Lab 7: The Faraday
Experiment |
The Electromagnetic wave, Polarization |
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| Ch. 30: 7 - 11 | Ch. 32: 1 - 5 | Ch. 33: 1 - 5 | ||||
| Electromagnetic Waves
and Optics |
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| 12: Apr 16 |
Light Waves and Interference |
Thin film interference |
EXAM REVIEW |
Diffraction by a single slit |
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| Ch. 35: 1 - 4 | Ch. 35: 5 - 8 | Ch. 36: 1 - 5 | ||||
| 13: Apr 23 |
Exam 3: Magnetism, Electromagnetic
Waves |
Diffraction gratings and X-ray diffraction |
Lab 8: Wave Optics |
Reflection and Refraction |
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| Ch. 36: 6 - 10 | Ch. 33: 7, 8 | |||||
| 14: Apr 30 |
Total Internal Reflection |
Images from Mirrors (Imaging using Reflection) |
Lab 9: Ray Optics |
Images from Lenses |
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| Ch. 33: 9-10 | Ch. 34: 1 - 5 | Ch. 34: 6 - 8 | ||||
The FINAL EXAM is Tuesday May 8 at 9 a.m.