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College Physics B - PHY2054C |
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College Physics B - PHY2054C |
| Lecture Date | Chapter # | Tentative Topics | Lecture Notes | Homework Assignments due | |
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| Week 1 | 08/26 | Introduction | Electric Charges | Introduction | - |
| 08/28 | Chapter 17 | Coulomb's Law and the Electric Field | Electric Forces | - | |
| 08/30 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 2 | 09/02 | Labor Day. No Classes. | |||
| 09/04 | Chapter 18 | Electric Flux, Gauss' Law & Electric Fields | Electric Field | Assignment 1 | |
| 09/06 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 3 | 09/09 | Chapter 18 | Electric Potential & Equipotential Lines | Electric Potential & Capacitors | Assignment 2 |
| 09/11 | Chapter 19 | Capacitors & Electric Currents | Capacitors | - | |
| 09/13 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 4 | 09/16 | Chapter 19 | Electric Circuits | Electric Circuits | Assignment 3 |
| 09/18 | Mini-Exam 1: Chapters 17-19 | ||||
| 09/20 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 5 | 09/23 | Chapter 20 | Magnetism | Magnetic Fields | Assignment 4 |
| 09/25 | Chapter 20 | Magnetic Forces | Magnetic Forces | - | |
| 09/27 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 6 | 09/30 | Chapter 21 | Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law | Magnetic Induction | Assignment 5 |
| 10/02 | Chapter 22 | Generators & Transformers | Faraday's Law | - | |
| 10/04 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 7 | 10/07 | Chapter 23 | Transformers | Transformers | Assignment 6 |
| 10/09 | Chapter 23 | Eletromagnetic Spectrum & Waves | EM Waves I | - | |
| 10/11 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 8 | 10/14 | Chapter 23 | EM Waves: Polarization & Doppler Effect | EM Waves II | |
| 10/16 | Mini-Exam 2: Chapters 20-23 | Assignment 7 | |||
| 10/18 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 9 | 10/21 | Chapter 24 | Introduction to Optics | Reflection & Refraction | Assignment 8 |
| 10/23 | Chapter 24 | Lenses & Formation of Images | Lenses | - | |
| 10/25 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 10 | 10/28 | Chapter 25 | The Nature of Light: Wave Optics | Thin Films | Assignment 9 |
| 10/30 | Chapter 25 | Diffraction: Double-Slit Experiments | Diffraction | - | |
| 11/01 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 11 | 11/04 | Chapter 26 | Optical Instruments | Telescopes | Assignment 10 |
| 11/06 | Mini-Exam 3: Chapters 24-26 | ||||
| 11/08 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 12 | 11/11 | Veterans' Day Holiday. No Classes. | |||
| 11/13 | Chapter 29 | Quantum Theory of Atoms | Atomic Structure | - | |
| 11/15 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 13 | 11/18 | Chapter 30 | Radioactivity | Nuclear Physics I | Assignment 11 |
| 11/20 | Chapter 30 | Nuclear Physics: Radiation & Half Life | Nuclear Physics II | - | |
| 11/22 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 14 | 11/25 | Chapter 30 | Nuclear Physics: Standard Model & Nuclear Fusion |
Standard Model | Assignment 12 |
| 11/27 - 11/29 | Thanksgiving Holidays. No Classes. | ||||
| Week 15 | 12/02 | Chapter 27 | (Special) Relativity | Special Relativity | - |
| 12/04 | Chapters 17-31 | Final Review | Final Review | Assignment 13 | |
| 12/06 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations: Review | |
| Final Exam Week | 12/09 | Good Luck | FINAL EXAM: UPL 101, 12:30 - 2:30 PM |
