Week 1 (Aug. 26 - 30)

Read: Iron, Loadstones, and Terrestrial Magnetism (Chap. 1) and The Life and Death of a Magnet (Chap. 2)

PHY 202 Lecture: Scalars, vectors, and vector algebra...see course materials for this unit.

Week 2 (Sept. 2 - 6)

Labor day on Monday, so no class Monday.

Read: Conservation of electric charge (Chap. 3) and Mueschenbroeck's wonderful bottle (Chap. 4)

PHY 202 Lecture: Vector algebra, dot products, work, cross products, torque, Lorentz force law...see course materials for this unit.

Week 3 (Sep. 9 - 13)

Read: Thunder and Lightning (Chap. 5) and Coulomb's Law (Chap. 6)

PHY 202 Lecture: Vector fields, work, line integrals, potential energy, energy stored in charge distributions...see course materials for this unit.

Week 4 (Sep. 16 - 20)

Read: The Dawn of Electro-magnetism (Chap. 7) and Electric Currents, Magnetic Forces (Chap. 8)

PHY 202 Lecture: Magnetic torque and dipoles, work and energy...see course materials for this unit.

Week 5 (Sep. 23 - 27)

Read: This week I will be lecturing on electronic circuits. In particular, we will explore Ohm's law and Kirchoff's rules, and learn how to build and analyze elementary electronic circuits.

PHY 202 Lecture: Kirchhoff's rules, charging and discharging capacitors...see course materials for this unit.

Week 6 (Sep. 30 - Oct 4)

Read: Induction of Electric Currents (Chap. 25), Arago's mysterious wheel (Chap. 26),

PHY 202 Lecture: Charging and discharging capacitors...see course materials for this unit.

Week 7 (Oct. 7 - 11)

Read: Faraday’s law (Chap. 27). The magnetic field (Chap. 28)

PHY 202 Lecture: Magnetic fields, magnetic flux, surface integrals...see course materials for this unit.

Week 8 (Oct. 14 - 18)

Fall Break; no class Monday and Tuesday

Read: Work and Weight (Chap. 9); Kinetic and Potential Energy (Chap. 10)

PHY 202 Lecture: Electric forces, electric fields and electric potential, ...see course materials for this unit.

Week 9 (Oct. 21 - 25)

Read: Conservation of Energy (Chap. 11) and Geometric Optics (Chap. 12)

PHY 202 Lecture: Geometric optics...see course materials for this unit.

Week 10 (Oct. 28 - Nov. 1)

Read: The Wave Theory of Light (Chap. 13) and Huygens' Principle (Chap. 14)

PHY 202 Lecture: Geometric optics, wave optics, and Fermat's principle...see course materials for this unit.

Week 11 (Nov. 4 - 8)

Read: Reflection of Light Waves (Chap. 15); Opacity, transparency, and Snell's law (Chap. 16);, Atmospheric refraction (Chap. 17),

PHY 202 Lecture: Wave optics...see course materials for this unit.

Week 12 (Nov. 11 - 15)

Read: Measuring light's wavelength (Chap. 20), Films, bubbles and rainbows (Chap. 21).

PHY 202 Lecture: Wave optics...see course materials for this unit.

Week 13 (Nov. 18 - 21)

Read: Producing and detecting polarization (Chap. 22),

PHY 202 Lecture: Maxwell's equations...see course materials for this unit.

Week 14 (Nov. 25 - 29)

Thanksgiving break; no class Thursday or Friday.

Read: Crystal symmetry and light rotation (Chap. 23), Light scattering (Chap. 24)

PHY 202 Lecture: Maxwell's equations...see course materials for this unit.

Week 15 (Dec. 2 - 6)

Read: Action-at-a-distance (Chap. 30), the Michelson-Morley experiment (Chap. 34)

PHY 202 Lecture: Maxwell's equations...see course materials for this unit.

Week 16 Final Exam

There will be a comprehensive final examination on week 16.

...see course materials for this unit.
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