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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 | 08/25 | Introduction | Electric Charges | Introduction | - |
| 08/27 | Chapter 19 | Coulomb's Law and the Electric Field | Electric Forces | - | |
| 08/29 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 2 | 09/01 | Labor Day. No Classes. | |||
| 09/03 | Chapter 19 | Electric Flux, Gauss' Law & Electric Fields | Electric Field | Assignment 1 | |
| 09/05 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 3 | 09/08 | Chapter 20 | Electric Potential & Equipotential Lines | Electric Potential & Capacitors | Assignment 2 |
| 09/10 | Chapter 20 | Capacitors & Electric Currents | Capacitors | - | |
| 09/12 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 4 | 09/15 | Chapter 21 | Ohm's Law; Resistors & Simple Electric Circuits | Electric Circuits | Assignment 3 |
| 09/17 | Mini-Exam 1: Chapters 19 - 21 | Announcements | |||
| 09/19 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 5 | 09/22 | Chapter 22 | Magnetism | Magnetic Fields | Assignment 4 |
| 09/24 | Chapter 22 | Magnetic Forces | Magnetic Forces | - | |
| 09/26 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 6 | 09/29 | Chapter 23 | Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law | Magnetic Induction | Assignment 5 |
| 10/01 | Chapter 23 | Generators I | Faraday's Law | - | |
| 10/03 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 7 | 10/06 | Chapter 23 | Generators II | Generators | Assignment 6 |
| 10/08 | Chapter 25 | Transformers & Eletromagnetic Waves | Transformers | - | |
| 10/10 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 8 | 10/13 | Chapter 25 | Eletromagnetic Waves | EM Waves | |
| 10/15 | Mini-Exam 2: Chapters 22, 23 & 25 | Announcements | Assignment 7 | ||
| 10/17 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 9 | 10/20 | Chapter 26 | Introduction to Optics | Reflection & Refraction | Assignment 8 |
| 10/22 | Chapter 26 | Lenses & Formation of Images | Lenses | - | |
| 10/24 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 10 | 10/27 | Chapter 28 | The Nature of Light: Wave Optics | Thin Films | Assignment 9 |
| 10/29 | Chapter 28 | Diffraction: Double-Slit Experiments | Diffraction | - | |
| 10/31 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 11 | 11/03 | Chapter 28, (27) | Diffraction, (Optical Instruments) | Telescopes | - |
| 11/05 | Mini-Exam 3: Chapters 26 & 28 | Announcements | Assignment 10 | ||
| 11/07 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 12 | 11/10 | Chapter 29 | (Special) Relativity | Special Relativity | Assignment 11 |
| 11/12 | Chapter 29 | General Relativity | General Relativity | - | |
| 11/14 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 13 | 11/17 | Chapter 31 | Quantum Theory of Atoms | Atomic Structure | Assignment 12 |
| 11/19 | Chapter 32 | Radioactivity | Nuclear Physics I | - | |
| 11/21 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations | |
| Week 14 | 11/24 | Chapter 32 | Nuclear Physics: Radiation & Half Life | Nuclear Physics II | - |
| 11/26 - 11/28 | Thanksgiving Holidays. No Classes. | ||||
| Week 15 | 12/01 | Chapter 32 | Nuclear Physics: Standard Model & Nuclear Fusion |
Standard Model | Assignment 13 |
| 12/03 | Chapters | Final Review | Final Review | - | |
| 12/05 | - | - | - | Friday Recitations: Review | |
| Final Exam Week | 12/10 | Good Luck | FINAL EXAM: UPL 101, 10:00 AM - 12:00 Noon |
