Week 20 (Jan. 8 - 12)

Reading: Temperature (Chap. 19)

Key Topics:
temperature measurement, thermometry, thermal expansion, ideal gasses...see more info for this week.

Week 21 (Jan. 15-19)

Reading: Heat and the First Law (Chap. 20)

Key Topics:
thermal energy, specific heat capacity, latent heat, the first law of thermodynamics, conduction, convection, and radiation of heat,...see more info for this week.

Week 22 (Jan. 22 - 26)

Reading: Heat engines, Entropy, and the second law (Chap. 22)

Key Topics:
the second law of thermodynamics, reversible and irreversible processes, engine efficiency, absolute temperature scale, entropy, disorder,...see more info for this week.

Week 23 (Jan. 29 - Feb. 2)

Reading: Magnetic fields (Chap. 29)

Key Topics:
magnetic poles, earth's magnetic field, magnetic materials, ferromagnetism, paramagnetism, curie temperature, ...see more info for this week.

Week 24 (Feb. 5 - 9)

Reading: Electric fields (Chap. 23)

Key Topics:
Electric charge, triboelectricity, insulators and conductors, coulomb's law, electric fields...see more info for this week.

Week 25 (Feb. 12 - 16)

Reading: Finish electric fields and electric potential. Begin capacitance and dielectrics (Chap. 26)

Key Topics:
capacitance, calculation of capacitance, capacitors in series and parallel, energy stored in a capacitor, capacitors with dielectrics, ...see more info for this week.

Week 26 (Feb. 19 - 23)

Reading: Current and resistance (Chap. 27)

Key Topics:
electric current, resistance, resistivity, ohm's law, joule heating...see more info for this week.

Week 27 (Feb. 26 - Mar. 1)

Reading: Direct current circuits (Chap. 28)

Key Topics:
electromotive force, kirchoff's circuit rules, resistors in parallel and series, ammeters and voltmeters, household wiring...see more info for this week.

Week 28 (Mar. 4 - 8)

Reading: Finish our work on DC circuits.

Key Topics:
DC circuits laboratory, Joule heating, charging and discharging of a capacitor
...see more info for this week.

Week 29 (Mar. 11 -15)

Reading: Faraday's law (Chap. 31)

Key Topics:
Faraday's law of electromagnetic induction, Lenz's law, eddy currents, electric motors...see more info for this week.

Week 30 (Mar. 18 - 22)

Reading: The nature of light and the laws of geometric optics (Chap. 35)

Key Topics:
the speed of light, ray approximation, reflection, refraction, dispersion, total internal reflection, prisms and rainbows

...see more info for this week.

Week 31 (Mar. 25 - 29)

Reading: The nature of light and the laws of geometric optics (Chap. 35)

Key Topics:
the speed of light, ray approximation, reflection, refraction, dispersion, total internal reflection, prisms and rainbows

...see more info for this week.

Week 32 (Apr. 1 - 5)

Reading: Easter break

Key Topics:
Easter Break



...see more info for this week.

Week 33 (Apr. 8 - 12)

Reading: Geometric optics (Chap. 36)

Key Topics:
images formed by flat mirrors, spherical mirrors, lenses, the thin lens equation, the human eye, telescopes...see more info for this week.

Week 34 (Apr. 15 - 19)

Reading: Electromagnetic waves (Chap. 34)

Key Topics:
young's two slit experiment, Maxwell, Hertz, and the discovery of electromagnetic waves, production and detection of electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic spectrum...see more info for this week.

Week 35 (Apr. 22 - 26)

Reading: Interference of light waves (Chap. 37)

Key Topics:
electromagnetic waves, intensity, interference, and polarization...see more info for this week.

Week 36 (Apr. 29 - May 3)

Reading: Radioactivity

Key Topics:
x-rays, cathode rays, JJ Thompson's experiments, Rutherford's experiments, alpha rays, beta rays, gamma rays, radioactive decay,...see more info for this week.

Week 37 (May 6 - 10)

Reading: Radioactivity (still)

Key Topics:
radioactive decay, half life, radiocarbon dating

...see more info for this week.

Week 38 (May 13 - 17)

Reading: Atomic physics (Chap. 42)

Key Topics:
the Balmer series and atomic spectra, the photoelectric effect, early models of the atom and atomic transitions,

...see more info for this week.

Week 39 (May 20 - 24)

Final exam on Friday 11:20 am.

To study: here are some questions I asked on the previous quizzes.

...see more info for this week.
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