Spring 2004 Lecture Schedule for PH213L
(Fundamentals of Physics III)
Text: Halliday, Resnick & Walker Fundamentals of Physics (6th ed.)
Week 1: 3-5 Feb. Tuesday (Ch 22; Ch 23.1-4)
Electric phenomena. Coulomb's law. Electric field E of point charge(s).
Thursday (Ch 23.5-23.8)
E of charge distributions: direct integration. Charges
in E.
Week 2: 10-12 Feb. Tuesday (Ch 25.1-25.7)
Potential V for point charges, distributions. Equipotential surfaces. .
Thursday (Ch 25.8-25.11)
Calculating E from V. Conductors.
Week 3: 17-19 Feb. Tuesday (Ch 24.1-24.9)
Electric flux. Gauss's law in various situations.
Thursday (Ch 26.1-26.5)
Capacitance and capacitors.
Week 4: 24-26 Feb. Tuesday (Ch 26.6-26.8) Dielectrics
Thursday Hourly Exam
Week 5: 2-4 Mar. Tuesday (Ch 27.1-27.5,7)
Current density. Current. Resistivity. Resistance. Ohm's law.
Thursday (Ch 28.8)
RC circuits.
Week 6: 9-11 Mar. Tuesday (Ch 29.1-29.2, 29.7-29.9)
Magnetic field B forces on moving charges and wires.
Thursday (Ch 23.9; Ch 30.1-30.3)
Electric and magnetic dipoles. Biot-Savart law for B.
Week 7: 16-18 Mar. Tuesday (Ch 30.3-30.5)
Ampere's law. Coils and solenoids.
Thursday (Ch 31.1-31.6)
Faraday's law of induction. EMF. The induced E.
Week 8: 30 Mar-1 Apr. Tuesday (Ch 31.7-31.8)
Inductors.
Thursday (Ch 32.1-32.3, 32.5-32.8)
Magnetism in materials.
Week 9: 6-8 Apr. Tuesday Hourly Exam
Thursday (Ch 32.9,11; Ch 34.1-34.2, 34.5-34.8)
Maxwell's equations. Electromagnetic waves.
Week 10: 13-15 Apr. Tuesday (Ch 34.5-34.9)
Polarization. Reflection and transmission (refraction).
Thursday (Ch 35.1-35.4)
Images. Mirrors. Magnification.
Week 11: 20-22 Apr. Tuesday (Ch 35.6-35.7)
Thin lenses. The magnifying glass.
Thursday (Ch 36.1-36.5)
Light as a wave. Huygen's principle. Diffraction. Two-slit interference.
Week 12: 27-29 Apr. Tuesday (Ch 36.6-36.7)
Intensity, quantitatively. Thin-film interference.
Thursday (Ch 37.1-3)
One-slit diffraction.
Week 13: 4-6 May. Tuesday (Ch 37.4-6)
Multiple-slit and other kinds of diffraction.
Thursday Hourly Exam
Week 14: 11-13 May. Tuesday Presentations
Thursday (Ch 37.7-9)
Diffraction gratings.
Final paper based on presentation due at time of final exam TBA