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Lecture Notes

Make sure you know what to do with the important formulas, the meanings of the symbols, etc!!

Week 1. Ch. 22 -- Electric Charge, Coulomb's Force Law

Week 2. Ch. 23 -- Electric fields <-- point charges

Week 2. Ch. 23 -- Electric fields <-- charge distributions

Week 2. Ch. 23 -- Electric Dipoles; torque and energy

Week 3. Ch. 24 -- Gauss' Law <-- Electric Flux, cylindrical symmetry

Week 3. Ch. 24 -- Gauss' Law, charged isolated conductor

Week 4. Ch. 24 -- Gauss' Law, planar symmetry

Week 4. Ch. 24 -- Gauss' Law, spherical symmetry

Week 4. Ch. 25 -- Electric Potential, potential energy

Exam 1 Equation Sheet.

Exam 1 Solution.

Week 5. Ch. 25 -- Potential, various charge distributions, charged conductors, finding E from V, etc.

Week 5. Ch. 26 -- Storing energy and charge in Capacitors

Week 6. Ch. 27 -- Current and Resistance

Week 6. Ch. 28 -- Electric Circuits, single loops

Week 7. Ch. 28 -- Multi-loop Circuits, Capacitive charging/discharging

Exam 2 Equation Sheet.

Exam 2 Solution.

Week 7. Ch. 29 -- Magnetic fields --> forces on moving charges (Lorentz Force Law)

Week 8. Ch. 29 -- Magnetic fields --> forces and torques on currents

Week 8. Ch. 30 -- Generation of magnetic fields by currents (Biot-Savart Law)

Week 9. Ch. 30 -- Generation of magnetic fields by currents (Ampere's Law)

Week 10. Ch. 31 -- Electromagnetic Induction (Faraday's Law)

Week 10. Ch. 31 -- Inductors, RL circuits, magnetic energy

Exam 3 Equation Sheet.

Exam 3.

Exam 3 Solution.

Week 11. Ch. 32 -- Magnetic Materials, Maxwell's EM Equations

Week 11. Ch. 33 -- Electromagnetic oscillations--LC circuits

Week 12. Ch. 33 -- Alternating Current--RLC circuits

Week 12. Ch. 33 -- AC Resonance, AC Power in circuits

Week 13. Ch. 34 -- Electromagnetic Waves--frequency, wavelength, intensity, polarization

Week 13. Ch. 34 -- EM Waves--Reflection, refraction, chromatic and polarization effects.

Exam 4 Equation Sheet.

Exam 4.

Exam 4 Solution.

Week 14. Ch. 35 -- Image formation by reflection, mirrors, and refraction

Week 14. Ch. 35 -- Spherical refracting surfaces, lenses, optical instruments

Week 15. Ch. 36 -- Wave properties of light--interference

Week 16. Ch. 36 -- Interference from thin films

Week 16. Ch. 37 -- Diffraction of light

Exam 5 Equation Sheet.

Exam 5.

Exam 5 Solution.

Week 17. Ch. 39 -- Quantum physics--photons, matter waves

Sample Final Exam problems.

Sample Final Exam solutions (Hey, work the problems first before looking here.)

Final Exam Equation Sheet.

Final Exam is Friday, Dec. 19, 7:30 -- 9:20 a.m., CW 101.

Final Exam.

Final Exam Solution.

20 points were added to the raw final exam scores to give a median of 143/200.

Studio Quizzes

Sep. 24. Quiz 9 (capacitor with dielectric). Quiz 9 solution

Sep. 26. Quiz 10 (equivalent resistance and simple circuit). Quiz 10 solution

Oct. 1. Quiz 11 (two loop Kirchhoff circuit). Quiz 11 solution

Oct. 3. Quiz 12 (capactive charging/discharging circuit). Quiz 12 solution

Oct. 8. Quiz 13 (torque and energy of a current loop). Quiz 13 solution

Oct. 10. Quiz 14 (Biot-Savart calculation of B for a wire segment). Quiz 14 solution

Oct. 17. Quiz 15 (Ampere's Law and B inside a conductor). Quiz 15 solution

Oct. 22. Quiz 16 (Electromagnetic induction in a moving rod). Quiz 16 solution

Oct. 24. Quiz 17 (An RL circuit and inductor effects). Quiz 17 solution

Oct. 29. Quiz 18 (Nickel Magnetization, Atomic magnetic moment). Quiz 18 solution

Oct. 31. Quiz 19 (LC circuit frequency and energy). Quiz 19 solution

Nov. 5. Quiz 20 (driven RLC circuit). Quiz 20 solution

Nov. 7. Quiz 21 (power in RL light dimmer circuit). Quiz 21 solution

Nov. 12. Quiz 22 (typical EM waves properties). Quiz 22 solution

Nov. 14. Quiz 23 (refraction by a prism). Quiz 23 solution

Nov. 19. Quiz 24 (image formation by a mirror). Quiz 24 solution

Nov. 21. Quiz 25 (image formation by a lens combination). Quiz 25 solution

Dec. 3. Quiz 26 (interference and Young's double slits). Quiz 26 solution

Dec. 5. Quiz 27 (thin film reflection interference). Quiz 27 solution

Dec. 10. Quiz 28 (photoelectric effect). Quiz 28 solution

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