| Syllabus: | Download the syllabus here. |
| Schedule: | An approximate class/homework schedule can be downloaded here. |
| Instructor: | Jones |
| Email: | mjones@physics.purdue.edu |
| Offering: | Fall, 4 credit hours |
| Room: | Phys 112 |
| Time: | M,W 10:30-11:20 am |
| Prerequisites: | Physics 218 |
| Text: | Etkina, Gentile, and van Heuvelen: College Physics WITH modified MasteringPhysics Access Code, 1st Ed., (Pearson) |
| | ISBN: 9781323064573. This is the same text used for the prerequisite course (Physics 218). |
| | If you do not buy the package above and prefer only an e-text
with a modified MasteringPhysics Access Code, |
| | please make sure to purchase this ISBN: 9780321918444.
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| Aug 24 | Lecture 1 | Introduction |
| Aug 26 | Lecture 2 | Electric charge and Coulomb's law |
| Aug 31 | Lecture 3 | Electric potential energy |
| Sep 2 | Lecture 4 | Electric field |
| Sep 9 | Lecture 5 | Electric potential and equipotential surfaces |
| Sep 14 | Lecture 6 | Capacitance |
| Sep 16 | Lecture 7 | Electric current and resistance |
| Sep 21 | Lecture 8 | Electric circuits |
| Sep 23 | Lecture 9 | Kirchhoff's rules |
| Sep 28 | Lecture 10 | Magnetism |
| Sep 30 | Lecture 11 | Magnetic force |
| Oct 5 | Lecture 12 | Magnetic fields |
| Oct 7 | Lecture 13 | Magnetic induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law |
| Oct 14 | Lecture 14 | Induced EMF |
| Oct 19 | Lecture 15 | Transformers |
| Oct 21 | Lecture 16 | Propagation of light, reflection |
| Oct 26 | Lecture 17 | Refraction, total internal reflection |
| Oct 28 | Lecture 18 | Spherical mirrors |
| Nov 2 | Lecture 19 | Thin lenses |
| Nov 4 | Lecture 20 | Wave optics, diffraction |
| Nov 9 | Lecture 21 | Interference from thin films and diffraction gratings |
| Nov 11 | Lecture 22 | Electromagnetic waves |
| Nov 16 | Lecture 23 | Intensity, energy density, and polarization |
| Nov 18 | Lecture 24 | Quantum optics |
| Nov 23 | Lecture 25 | Bohr atomic model |
| Nov 30 | Lecture 26 | de Broglie waves, atomic quantum numbers |
| Dec 2 | Lecture 27 | Nuclear structure |
| Dec 7 | Lecture 28 | Nuclear decays, fission, fusion |
