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Physics 204, Spring 2008
Syllabus

 
Week Date Chapter Topic Practice Conceptual Questions
1 1/22 18.1-18.6 Coulomb's Law 5, 6, 8
1/25 18.7-18.9 Electric Fields 12, 14, 17, 18
1/28 18 recitation
2 1/29 19.1-19.4 Electric Potential Energy 1, 3, 4, 5
2/1 19.5-19.7 Electric Potential 7, 10, 13, 17
2/4 19 recitation
3 1/30 20.1-20.4 Electric circuits, Ohm's law 1, 2, 4
2/8 20.5-20.10 Kirchoff's Rules 6, 9, 10
2/11 20.1-20.10 recitation
4 2/12 20.11-20.15 Capacitors 11, 12, 15
2/15 21.1-21.4 Magnetic Forces 2, 3, 5, 7
2/18 20.11-21.4 recitation
5 2/19 21.5-21.7 Magnetic Fields 8, 9, 11, 12
2/22 21.8-21.10 Ampère's Law 14, 19
2/25 21.5-21.10 recitation
6 2/26 Voluntary review session - ch. 18-21
2/27 First Hourly Exam, 9:40-11:00 pm, Chapters: 18-21,
2/29 22.1-22.6 Electromagnetic Induction 1, 3, 6, 7
3/3 22 recitation
7 3/4 23.1-23.4 Alternating Current Circuits 1, 4, 8, 9
3/7 24.1-24.7 Electromagnetic Waves 3, 5, 6
3/10 23, 24 recitation
8 3/11 25.1-25.6 Mirrors 2, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13
3/14 26.1-26.3, 26.6-26.9 Refraction and Lenses 2, 5, 13, 14, 18, 23, 30
3/17 - 3/21 Spring Break
 
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8 3/24 25, 26 recitation
9 3/25 27.1-27.7 Interference, Light Waves 1, 4, 8, 11, 13
3/28 28.1-28.4 Time Dilation, Length Contraction 1, 2, 4, 11, 13
3/31 27.1-28.4 recitation
10 4/1 Voluntary review session - ch. 22-27
4/2 Second Hourly Exam, 9:40-11:00 pm, Chapters: 22-27.
4/4 28.5-28.7 E=mc2, Velocity Addition 5, 6, 8
4/7 28.5-28.7 recitation
11 4/8 29.1-29.4 Particles and Waves, Photons, Early Quantum Effects 1, 4, 5, 7
4/11 29.5-29.7 De Broglie Wavelength, Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle 8,10,11
4/14 29 recitation
12 4/15 30.1-30.3 Nuclear Atom, Bohr Model 1, 3, 4, 5
4/18 30.4-30.7 Schrödinger Equation, Pauli Principle, Periodic Table 8, 9, 10
4/21 30 recitation
13 4/22 31.1-31.4 Nuclei, Radioactivity 1, 3, 6, 7
4/25 31.5-31.8 Neutrinos, Radioactive Dating 8, 9, 11, 13
4/28 31 recitation
14 4/29 32.1-32.5 Nuclear Energy, Fission and Fusion

2, 4, 6, 8, 10

5/2 32.6-32.7 Elementary Particles, Cosmology

2, 4, 6, 8, 10

5/5 32 recitation
5/6 Voluntary review session, 10:30-11:25, 12:15-1:10
5/13 Final Examination:    4:00-7:00 PM.
Livingston Recreation Center

Room assignments for hourly exams: The exams will be split between four different locations. More information will be posted closer to the time of the exams.
 

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