PHYSICS 2306: FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS I

Fall 2010
Text: University Physics by Young & Freedman

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Week Date Topics Exercise
1 8/23 Introduction, Properties of Mechanical Waves,
Energy in Waves, Wave Interference, Standing
Transverse Waves and Normal Modes
2 8/30 Properties of Sound Waves, Standing Sound Waves
and Normal Modes, Interference, Beats, Doppler
Effect
3 9/6 Electric Charge, Coulomb’s Law, Electric Fields (E), Lab 1: Vibrating String
Fields Due to Charges
4 9/13 Gauss' Law and Applications, Make Up Lab 2: A Look at Sound
Optional Review (50 min.)
Test 1 at 5:30 PM on 9/17
5 9/20 Charges on Conductors, Potential Energy, Electric Lab 3: Electrostatics
Potential, Calculating Potential, Equipotentials,
Capacitance, Capacitors in Series & Parallel
6 9/27 Electric Field Energy; Dielectrics, Electric Current, Lab 4: Mapping Electric
Resistance, Electromotive Force, Circuits Equipotentials
7 10/4 Resistors-Series & Parallel, Kirchhoff’s Rules, Lab 5: DC Circuits 1
Instruments, RC Circuits, Power Dist. Systems
Fall Break on Friday
8 10/11 Make Up Lab 6: DC Circuits 2
Optional Review (50 min.)
Test 2 at 5:30 PM on 10/15
9 10/18 Magnetic Fields (B), Moving Charges in B, Lab 7: Time Dependent Circuits 1
Force & Torque on Current-Carrying Wires,
Magnetic Fields Due to Charges & Currents
10 10/25 Force Between Currents, Ampere's Law, Solenoids & Lab 8: Magnetism 1
Toroids, Magnetic Materials, Faraday's & Lenz's Law,
Induced E
11 11/1 Eddy Currents, Displacement, Maxwell’s Equations, Lab 9: Magnetism 2
Mutual & Self Inductance, Field Energy, R-L, L-C
and L-R-C Circuits, Phasors, AC Circuits, Reactance
12 11/8 Impedance, L-R-C Power & Resonance, Lab 10: Time Dependent Circuits 2
Electromagnetic Waves
Optional Review (50 min.)
Test 3 at 5:30 PM on 11/12
13 11/15 Energy and Momentum in EM Waves, Lab 11: Time Dependent Circuits 3
Electromagnetic Spectrum, Reflection, Refraction,
Dispersion, Polarization, Huygens’ Wavelets, Images
Formed by Reflecting Surfaces
Thanksgiving Holiday
14 11/29 Lenses, Optical Instruments, Interference, Lab makeup week
Two-Slit Interference, Thin-Film Interference,
Single-Slit Diffraction
15 12/6 Two-Slit Diffraction/Interference, Gratings,
Resolution Limits
Final Exam: Thursday, December 16, 2010; 7:45 AM to 9:45 AM Rev. 7/26/2010