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 |