Physics 1120

General Physics 2

Week	Monday	Wednesday	Friday
Week 1	Lectures: Chapter 23, Electric charge, force and field. Reading: Chapter 23, Static charge. Chapter 24, Gauss's Law.
Week 2	Labor Day	Lectures: Chapter 24, Electric flux and using Gauss's Law. Reading: Chapter 25, Electric potential
Week 3	Lectures: Chapter 24, Gauss's Law and conductors and Chapter 25, Electric potential, potential difference. Reading: Chapter 26, Electrostatic energy and capacitors.
Week 4 Exam 1 on Tues. Sept. 19	Lectures: Chapter 26, Electrostatic energy and capacitors. Capacitors are the first electronic device we consider. Reading: Chapter 27, Electric currents.
Week 5	Lectures: Chapter 27, Electric currents and the behavior of metals and resistors. Ohm's Law. Reading: Chapter 28, Electric circuits
Week 6	Lectures: Chapter 28, Electric circuits, especially the behavior of batteries, series and parallel resistors. Reading: Chapter 29, The Magnetic Field		Fall Break
Week 7	Lectures: Chapter 28, Kirchhoff's Laws and circuit analysis. Capacitor and resistor circuits. Then Chapter 29 on the magnetic field Reading: Chapter 30, Sources of magnetic field. Biot-Savart Law.
Week 8 Exam 2 on Tues. Oct. 17	Lectures: Chapter 30 Reading: Chapter 31, Electromagnetic Induction.
Week 9	Lectures: Chapter 31 Reading: Chapter 32, Inductance and Magnetic Energy.
Week 10	Lectures: Chapter 32 Reading: Chapter 33, Alternating-Current Circuits.
Week 11	Lectures: Chapter 33 Reading: Chapter 34, Maxwell's Equations and EM Waves
Week 12 Exam 3 on Tues. Nov. 14	Lectures: Chapter 34 Reading: Chapter 35, Reflection and Refraction.
Week 13	Lectures: Chapter 35 Reading: Chapter 36, Image Formation		Thanksgiving Holiday
Week 14	Lectures: Chapter 36 Reading: Chapter 37, Interference and Diffraction
Week 15	Lectures: Chapter 37 Reading: Review for final exam
Week 16	Lectures: Review of the whole course		NO CLASSES