Physics 227H: Honors Analytical Physics II
Fall 2020
Slides shown at this fall's lectures
- Tuesday, 1 September:
Electric Charge and Force
- Thursday, 3 September: Induced
Force, Electric Field
- Thursday, 10 September: Electric
Field from Continous Charge Distributions, Shell Theorem,
Intro to Gauss Law
- Tuesday, 15 September: Electric
Flux and Gauss Law, Fields of Symmetrical Charge Distributions
(intro)
- Thursday, 17 September: Fields
of Symmetrical Charge Distributions (intro), Charges and
Fields in Conductors, Particle
motion in uniform electric field
- Tuesday, 22 September Electric
Potential and Electric Field
- Thursday, 24 September Calculating
Electric Potential from a Charge Distribution, Review of
Charges and Fields in Conductors, Intro to Capacitors and
Capacitance
- Tuesday 29 September: Computing
capacitance of parallel plate capacitors and other simple
systems, Energy stored in a capacitor, Energy density of the
electric field, Capacitors in circuits
- Thursday 1 October: Capacitors
in Series and Parallel, Dielectrics
- Tuesday 6 October Current,
steady currents, resistance, Ohm's law, energy loss in the
form of heat and light
- Thursday 8 October Exam
1 Review
- Tuesday 13 October Drift
speed, current density, and resistivity; intro to circuits
- Thursday 15 October Resistors,
capacitors and batteries in single loop and multiloop circuits
- Tuesday 20 October Circuit
problems, voltmeters, ammeters
- Thursday 22 October Time-dependent
circuits, RC circuits
- Tuesday 27 October Intro
to magnetic field and magnetic force
- Thursday 29 October Magnetic
force on a wire, force and torque on current-carrying loop in
uniform field, magnetic field of a long straight current
carrying wire
- Tuesday 3 November Force
between parallel wires, Biot-Savart Law, magnetic fields of
circular arcs and rings, magnetic dipole moment
- Thursday 5 November Magnetic
materials, Ampere's Law
Upcoming lecture topics (each entry will be updated and link
added after this fall's lecture)
- Tuesday 5 November more
on Ampere's Law, intro to Faraday's Law
- Thursday 7 November More
on Faraday's law, ways to change the magnetic flux through a
loop
- Tuesday 12 November Induced
currents and forces with "eddy current" demos, special topics
on magnetic force
- Thursday 14 November Exam 2 Review
- Tuesday 19 November Mutual
inductance and self inductance, introductor to inductors as
circuit element
- Thursday 21 November Time-varying
single loop circuits (RC review, RL, RC, RLC)
- Tuesday 26 November AC
circuits: R, L, C and RLC
- Tuesday 3 December Electromagnetic
waves and the nature of light
- Thursday 5 December Energy
transport and Poynting vector, Radiation pressure, Polarized
light
- Friday 13 December Final
Exam Review
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