Course Materials and Schedule (preliminary and subject to change)

  Textbook: College Physics - Reasoning and Relationships, Volume 2, Nicholas J. Giordano

	Lecture Date	Chapter #	Tentative Topics	Lecture Notes	Homework Assignments due
Week 1	08/29	Introduction	Electric Charges	Introduction	-
	08/31	Chapter 17	Coulomb's Law and the Electric Field	Electric Field	-
	09/02	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 2	09/05		Labor Day. No Classes.
	09/07	Chapter 18	Electric Potential	Electric Potentials	Assignment 1
	09/09	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 3	09/12	Chapter 18	Electric Potential & Equipotential Lines	-	Assignment 2
	09/14	Chapter 19	Capacitors & Electric Currents	Electric Currents	-
	09/16	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 4	09/19	Chapter 19	Electric Circuits	Electric Circuits	Assignment 3
	09/21		Mini-Exam 1: Chapters 17-19	Announcements
	09/23	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 5	09/26	Chapter 20	Magnetism	Magnetic Fields	Assignment 4
	09/28	Chapter 20	Magnetic Forces	Magnetic Forces	-
	09/30	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 6	10/03	Chapter 21	Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law	Magnetic Induction	Assignment 5
	10/05	Chapter 22	Generators & Transformers	Faraday's Law	-
	10/07	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 7	10/10	Chapter 23	Electromagnetic Waves	EM Waves I	Assignment 6
	10/12	Chapter 23	Eletromagnetic Spectrum	EM Waves II	-
	10/14	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 8	10/17		Mini-Exam 2: Chapters 20-23	Announcements	Assignment 7
	10/19	Chapter 24	Reflection & Refraction	Reflection & Refraction
	10/21	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 9	10/24	Chapter 24	Lenses & Formation of Images	Lenses	Assignment 8
	10/26	Chapter 25	The Nature of Light: Wave Optics	Wave Optics	-
	10/28	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 10	10/31	Chapter 25	Diffraction: Double-Slit Experiments	Diffraction	Assignment 9
	11/02	Chapter 26	Optical Instruments	Telescopes	-
	11/04	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 11	11/07	Chapter 27	Special Relativity	Special Relativity	Assignment 10
	11/09		Mini-Exam 3: Chapters 24-26	Announcements
	11/11		Veterans' Day Holiday. No Classes.
Week 12	11/14	Chapter 27	Relativity	General Relativity	-
	11/16	Chapter 28	Quantum Theory & Wien's Law	Thermal Radiation	-
	11/18	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 13	11/21	Chapter 29	Quantum Theory of Atoms	Atomic Structure	Assignment 11
	11/23 - 11/25		Thanksgiving Holidays. No Classes.
Week 14	11/28	Chapter 30	Nuclear Physics: Standard Model & Nuclear Fusion	Nuclear Physics	-
	11/30	Chapter 30	Radioactivity	Radioactivity	-
	12/02	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 15	12/05	Chapter 30	Nuclear Physics: Radiation & Half-Life	Half Life	Assignment 12
	12/07	Chapters 17-31	Final Review	Final Review	-
	12/09	-	-	-	Friday Recitations: Review
Final Exam Week	12/12	Good Luck	FINAL EXAM: WJB 12:30 - 2:30 PM