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	08/27	Introduction	Electric Charges	Introduction	-
	08/29	Chapter 17	Coulomb's Law and the Electric Field	Electric Field	-
	08/31	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 2	09/03		Labor Day. No Classes.
	09/05	Chapter 18	Electric Potential	Electric Potential	Assignment 1
	09/07	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 3	09/10	Chapter 18	Electric Potential & Equipotential Lines	Electric Potential & Capacitors	Assignment 2
	09/12	Chapter 19	Capacitors & Electric Currents	Capacitors	-
	09/14	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 4	09/17	Chapter 19	Electric Circuits	Electric Circuits	Assignment 3
	09/19		Mini-Exam 1: Chapters 17-19
	09/21	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 5	09/24	Chapter 20	Magnetism	Magnetic Fields	Assignment 4
	09/26	Chapter 20	Magnetic Forces	Magnetic Forces	-
	09/28	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 6	10/01	Chapter 21	Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law	Magnetic Induction	Assignment 5
	10/03	Chapter 22	Generators & Transformers	Faraday's Law	-
	10/05	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 7	10/08	Chapter 23	Transformers & Electromagnetic Waves	EM Waves I	Assignment 6
	10/10	Chapter 23	Eletromagnetic Spectrum & Waves	EM Waves II	-
	10/12	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 8	10/15		Mini-Exam 2: Chapters 20-23		Assignment 7
	10/17	Chapter 24	Reflection & Refraction	Reflection & Refraction
	10/19	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 9	10/22	Chapter 24	Lenses & Formation of Images	Lenses	Assignment 8
	10/24	Chapter 25	The Nature of Light: Wave Optics	Wave Optics	-
	10/26	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 10	10/29	Chapter 25	Diffraction: Double-Slit Experiments	Diffraction	Assignment 9
	10/31	Chapter 26	Optical Instruments	Telescopes	-
	11/02	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 11	11/05	Chapter 27	(Special) Relativity	Special Relativity	Assignment 10
	11/07		Mini-Exam 3: Chapters 24-26
	11/09	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 12	11/12		Veterans' Day Holiday. No Classes.
	11/14	Chapter 27	Relativity	Geneal Relativity	-
	11/16	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 13	11/19	Chapter 29	Quantum Theory of Atoms	Atomic Structure	Assignment 11
	11/21 - 11/23		Thanksgiving Holidays. No Classes.
Week 14	11/26	Chapter 30	Radioactivity	Nuclear Physics	-
	11/28	Chapter 30	Nuclear Physics: Radiation & Half Life	Radioactivity	-
	11/30	-	-	-	Friday Recitations
Week 15	12/03	Chapter 30	Nuclear Physics: Standard Model	Standard Model	-
	12/05	Chapters 17-31	Final Review	Final Review	Assignment 12
	12/07	-	-	-	Friday Recitations: Review
Final Exam Week	12/12	Good Luck	FINAL EXAM: UPL 101, 10:00 - 12:00 noon