Week 1
Read: Iron, Loadstones, and Terrestrial Magnetism (Chap. 1) and The Life and Death of a Magnet (Chap. 2)...see course materials for this unit.
Week 2
Labor day on Monday, so no class Monday.
Read: Conservation of electric charge (Chap. 3) and Mueschenbroeck's wonderful bottle (Chap. 4)...see course materials for this unit.
Read: Conservation of electric charge (Chap. 3) and Mueschenbroeck's wonderful bottle (Chap. 4)...see course materials for this unit.
Week 3
Read: Thunder and Lightning (Chap. 5) and Coulomb's Law (Chap. 6)...see course materials for this unit.
Week 4
Read: The Dawn of Electro-magnetism (Chap. 7) and Electric Currents, Magnetic Forces (Chap. 8)...see course materials for this unit.
Week 5
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....see course materials for this unit.
Week 6
Read: Induction of Electric Currents (Chap. 25), Arago's mysterious wheel (Chap. 26), ...see course materials for this unit.
Week 7
Read: Faraday’s law (Chap. 27). The magnetic field (Chap. 28) ...see course materials for this unit.
Week 8
Fall Break; no class Monday and Tuesday
Read: Work and Weight (Chap. 9); Kinetic and Potential Energy (Chap. 10)...see course materials for this unit.
Read: Work and Weight (Chap. 9); Kinetic and Potential Energy (Chap. 10)...see course materials for this unit.
Week 9
Read: Conservation of Energy (Chap. 11) and Geometric Optics (Chap. 12)...see course materials for this unit.
Week 10
Read: The Wave Theory of Light (Chap. 13) and Huygens' Principle (Chap. 14)...see course materials for this unit.
Week 11
Read: Reflection of Light Waves (Chap. 15); Opacity, transparency, and Snell's law (Chap. 16);, Atmospheric refraction (Chap. 17), ...see course materials for this unit.
Week 12
Read: Measuring light's wavelength (Chap. 20), Films, bubbles and rainbows (Chap. 21). Unfortunately, in the interest of time, we will need to skip over reading Chapters 18 and 19. In these chapters, Newton describers his particle theory of light and his ideas on polarization. You should watch the chapter 18 videos—to get a sense of what we are skipping—but no need to read the text....see course materials for this unit.
Week 13
Thanksgiving break; no class Thursday or Friday.
Read: Producing and detecting polarization (Chap. 22), ...see course materials for this unit.
Read: Producing and detecting polarization (Chap. 22), ...see course materials for this unit.
Week 14
Read: Crystal symmetry and light rotation (Chap. 23), Light scattering (Chap. 24)...see course materials for this unit.
Week 15
Read: Action-at-a-distance (Chap. 30), the Michelson-Morley experiment (Chap. 34)...see course materials for this unit.