PHYSICS 231
DAILY SYLLABUS
  Fall 2008
(Last revised: Sept. 19, 2008)
 
DATE DAY CHAPTER TOPIC HOMEWORK DUE
August 20
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21
 Syllabus 
Units, definitions, Coulomb's Law		  2,3,8,14,23 Sept. 2
25
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21
 Electric Fields  27,30,31,34,38
Sept. 2
27
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21
 Electric field calculations, field lines, dipoles  45,47,52,58,60,62,72*,82*,97*
Sept. 3
Sept. 1
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 No Class - Labor Day

 3
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22
 Gauss's Law & its applications  3,5,6,8,16,30,37,39,45
Sept. 8
 8
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 22
 
 
10
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 23 Electric Potential and potential energy  1,7,21,32,63,65  Sept. 26
15
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23
 Calculations for some cases, CRT's  
 
17
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 24
Capacitance, capacitors, series & parallel cases
 
  
22
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24
 Energy storage, dielectrics  
  
24
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25
 Current, resistivity, resistance  
 
 29
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 Quiz 1
Chs. 21-23
 
 
 Oct. 1
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25
 Emf, energy &  power in electric circuits  
  
 6
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 26
DC current circuits		  
 8
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26		 Kirchoff's laws; Circuit analysis  
 
13
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 26
RC circuits
 
 
15
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27 		Magnetic fields & forces
  
 
20
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 27
Force & torque on current loops		  
 22
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 27
DC motors
 
 
 27
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 28
Sources of magnetic fields: moving charges, current elements
 

29
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 28
 

Nov. 3
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 29 Conductors & loops
 
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 Quiz 2 Chs. 24-26  
10
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 29 Ampere's Law  
12
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 30 Induction, Faraday's Law  
17
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 30 Lenz's Law, induced electric fields  
19
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 31 Inductance  
24
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 31 AC currents & power, transformers  
26
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 32 Electromagnetic waves  
Dec. 1
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 32 Maxwell's equations  

Dec. 8
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Quiz 3		 FINAL EXAM  (8-10 a. m.)
Cumulative but concentrating on Chs. 27-32 and most heavily on Chs. 27-29