Physics 272: Honors Physics II
Spring 2017
Tentative syllabus: will be
updated as the semester progresses
Week
Dates
Lecture Topics and Reading in HRW 10
1 Jan 18
Introduction
& Fluids I: 14.1-14.3
2 Jan 23
Fluids II:
14.4-14.7
Jan 25 Fluids
III: 14.4-14.7
3 Jan 30
Waves I:
16.1-16.2; 16.5,16.7
Feb 1
Waves II: 17.1-17.2;17.4-17.8
4 Feb 6
Doppler
Effect & Coulomb’s Law: 21.1-21.3
Feb 8
Electric Field: 22.1-22.6
5 Feb 13
Gauss’s Law I:
23.1-23.2
Feb 15 Gauss's Law
II
6 Feb 20
Electric Potential:
24.1-24.4
Feb 22 Electric
Potential Energy: 24.5-24.8
7 Feb 27
Exam Review in
class
MONDAY FEB 27 9:40PM - 10:40 PM EXAM 1: ARC 103. Chapters 14, 16,
17, 21 and 22
Mar 1
Capacitance: 25.1-25.4
8 Mar 6
Current
and Resistance: 26.1-26.5
Mar 8
Circuits: 27.1-27.2
9 Mar 13
Spring Break - No
Class
Mar 15 Spring Break
- No Class
10 Mar 20
Magnetic Field:
28.1-28.2;28.4-28.7
Mar 22 Biot-Savart
& Ampere Laws: 29.1-29.4
11 Mar 27
Faraday's Law
Mar 29 Inductance:
30.1-30.7
12 Apr 3
Alternating
Current I: 31.5-31.6
April 5 Exam Review
in class
SUNDAY APRIL 9 6:10 PM - 7:10 PM EXAM 2: rooms (on Busch) to be
announced. Chapters 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29
13 Apr 10
Alternating
Current II: 31.5-31.6
Apr 12
Maxwell’s Equations: 32.1-32.4;33.1
14 Apr 17
Electromagnetic Waves: 33.2-33.7
Apr 19
Geometrical Optics: 34.1-34.3
15 Apr 24
Lenses: 34.4;
35.1-35.2
Apr 26
Interference & Diffraction I: 35.4-5
16 May 1
Interference & Diffraction II: 36.2-36.7
FINAL EXAM: cumulative, with emphasis on Chapters 30, 31, 32, 33,
34, 35, 36
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