Week 1 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 08/17/15 Introduction, 3D vectors Notes

Wednesday 08/19/15 Electric field and electric force, field of a point particle 13.1-13.4

Friday 08/21/15 Field of a point particle, superposition, dipoles 13.4-13.6

Lab 1

Week 2 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 08/24/15 Dipoles 13.6

Wednesday 08/26/15 Interactions of charged objects, tape experiments, polarization 14.1-14.3 Sticky Tape

Friday 08/28/15 Insulators 14.4 Plastics & Metals

Lab 2

Week 3 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 08/31/15 Conductors 14.5 Hanging Sphere

Wednesday 09/02/15 Charging and discharging 14.6-14.8 electroscope

Friday 09/04/15 Field of a charged rod 15.1-15.2

Lab Quiz 1

Lab 3

Week 4 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 09/07/15 School Holiday – No Class

Wednesday 09/09/15 Field of a ring, disk, capacitor 15.3-15.5

Friday 09/11/15 Field of a sphere 15.6-15.9

No Lab This Week

Week 5 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 09/14/15 Potential energy and electric potential 16.1-16.3

Tuesday 09/15/15 Test 1: 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Wednesday 09/16/15 Sign of potential difference 16.4-16.5

Friday 09/18/15 Potential at one location, path independence, round trip potential 16.6-16.7

Lab 4

Van de Graaff & Amber

Pre-Course Evaluation, Introduction to Vpython @home

Vpython Demo

Charged Tape and a Vpython Simulation of an Electric Field

Vpython Demo

Electric Dipoles and Vpython Visualizations

Electric Field of a Charged Rod with Vpython

Week 6 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 09/21/15 Electric field and potential in an insulator 16.8-16.10

Wednesday 09/23/15 17.1-17.3 Loadstone

Friday 09/25/15 Moving charges, electron current and conventional current 17.3-17.5 Circuits & Compass

Lab Quiz 2

Lab 5 Experiments with Potential Differences

Week 7 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 09/28/15 Magnetic field of a wire 17.6-17.7 Current Wire

Wednesday 09/30/15 Magnetic field of a current-carrying loop, magnetic dipoles 17.8-17.9

Friday 10/02/15 Atomic structure of magnets 17.10-17.12

Lab Quiz 3

Lab 6 Magnetic Fields Experiment and Simulation

Week 8 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 10/05/15 Steady state current, node rule 18.1-18.4

Tuesday 10/06/15 Test 2: 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Wednesday 10/07/15 Electric fields and energy in circuits 18.5-18.9 Exploding Resistor

Friday 10/09/15 Macroscopic analysis of circuits 19.1-19.6

Lab 7 Magnetic Dipoles

Week 9 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 10/12/15 School Holiday – No Class

Wednesday 10/14/15 Electric field and potential in capacitor circuits 19.7-19.11

Friday 10/16/15 Magnetic forces on charged particles and current-carrying wires 20.1-20.2 Wire & Magnet

No Lab This Week

Moving charges and magnetic field, Biot-Savart Law

Week 10 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 10/19/15 Electric and magnetic forces, velocity selector 20.3 CRT bulb

Wednesday 10/21/15 The Hall effect 20.4

Friday 10/23/15 20.5

Lab Quiz 4

Lab 8 Circuits I

Week 11 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 10/26/15 Magnetic force and torque 20.6-20.9

Tuesday 10/27/15 Test 3: 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Wednesday 10/28/15 Gauss's Law 21.1-21.3 Shapes & air

Friday 10/30/15 Reasoning with Gauss's Law 21.4-21.5

No Lab This Week

Week 12 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 11/02/15 Ampere's Law 21.6

Wednesday 11/04/15 Reasoning with Ampere's Law, semiconductors 21.7-21.8

Friday 11/06/15 Faraday's law 22.1-22.2 Jumping ring

Lab Quiz 5

Lab 9 Magnetic Force

Week 13 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 11/09/15 22.3-22.4

Wednesday 11/11/15 Solving problems with Faraday's law 22.8, 22.10 Copper tube & magnet

Friday 11/13/15 Inductance 22.6

Lab Quiz 6

Lab 10 Gauss's and Ampere's Law

Motional emf

Faraday's law and Maxwell's Equations

Week 14 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 11/16/15 Circuits revisited, Inductors 22.7 RL & RLC Circuit

Tuesday 11/17/15 Test 4: 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Wednesday 11/18/15 23.1-23.2

Friday 11/20/15 Accelerated charges and radiation 23.3-23.4 Antenna & receiver

Lab 11 Faraday's Law Experiment

Week 15 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 11/23/15 Energy & momentum in radiation, Polarization 23.5-23.6 Cardboard & Radio

Wednesday 11/25/15 School Holiday – No Class

Friday 11/27/15 School Holiday – No Class

No Lab This Week

Week 16 Date Topics Reading Demonstrations

Monday 11/30/15 Sparks in air, Superconductors 20.10, 22.5 Tesla Coils

Wednesday 12/02/15 Review Notes

Friday 12/04/15 Review Notes

Lab 12 Radiation Problems

Week 17 Date Topics Location

Tuesday 12/08/15 Final Exam 8:00pm – 10:50pm TBA

Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic radiation