Physics 227H: Honors Analytical Physics II
Fall 2020
Tentative syllabus: will be
updated as the semester progresses
Week Dates
Lecture
Topics and Reading in HRW 10
1 Sep 1
Electric Charge,
Coulomb's Law (21)
Sep 3
Electric fields, dipoles (22)
2 Sep
10 Electric field flux,
Gauss' Law (23)
3
Sep 15
Applications of Gauss'
Law, Conductors in Electrostatics (23)
Sep 17
Electric potential (24)
4
Sep 22 Calculating
potentials (24)
Sep 24
Capacitors and electric field energy (25)
5
Sep 29
Capacitors and dielectrics
(25)
Oct 1 DC
current and resistance (26)exam review in class
6 Oct 6
EMF and
batteries (27)
Oct 8
exam review in class
FIRST HOUR EXAM (Ch. 21-25)
7 Oct 13
combinations of
resistors, Kirchhoff's rules (27)
Oct 15 RC circuits,
electrical instruments (27)
8 Oct 20
magnetic field, magnetic
forces on moving charges (28)
Oct 22 magnetic forces
on currents (28)
9 Oct 27
magnetic fields of
currents, Biot-Savart law (29)
Oct 29 Ampere's law,
magnetic materials (29)
10 Nov 3
electromagnetic
induction, Faraday's law (30)
Nov 5 Motional EMF
(30)
11 Nov 10
catch up
Nov 12 exam review in class
SECOND HOUR EXAM (Ch. 25-29)
13 Nov 17
inductance, magnetic field
energy (31)
Nov 19 RL and LC circuits (31)
12 Nov 24
Maxwell's equations (32)
(Thursday schedule)
Nov 26 NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING
14 Dec 1
AC Circuits,
Reactance, resonance (31)
Dec 3 Electromagnetic
waves (33)
15 Dec 8
energy and momentum in
electromagnetic waves (33)
FINAL EXAM: cumulative, with some extra emphasis on material since
2nd hour exam
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