PHYCS 2220    Physics for Scientists and Engineers II  FALL 2004

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Lecture plan

Please note: The following lecture plan is TENTATIVE. It may be revised during the course of the semester. The exam dates, however, will not be changed.

Week Mon Wed Fri
  Week 1 (23-Aug-2004)
  Introduction, Coulomb's Law
    23.1-3   23.3-5
 Week 2 (30-Aug-2004)
  Charge distributions, Gauss' Law
  23.6   24.1-3  24.4-5
 Week 3 (06-Sep-2004)
  Gauss' Law & Conductors
  Labor Day  24.6  EXAM 1
 Week 4 (13-Sep-2004)
  Electric potential and electrostatic energy
  25.1-3   25.4   26.1-3
 Week 5 (20-Sep-2004)
  Capacitors, electric current and Ohm's Law 
  26.4-7  27.1-2  27.3
 Week 6 (27-Sep-2004)
  Electric circuits
  28.1-3  28.4  EXAM 2
 Week 7 (04-Oct-2004)
  EMF, magnetism
  28.5-7  29.1-3  (Fall break)
 Week 8 (11-Oct-2004)
  Magnetic fields
  29.4-5  30.1-4  30.5-7
 Week 9 (18-Oct-2004)
  Electromagnetic Induction
  31.1-3  31.4-5  EXAM 3
 Week 10 (25-Oct-2004)
  Magnetic energy, alternative currents
  32.1-2  32.3-4   33.1-2
 Week 11 (01-Nov-2004)
  AC circuits, Maxwell's equations
  33.3-4  33.5-6  34.1-4
 Week 12 (08-Nov-2004)
  Electromagnetic waves
  34.5-8  34.9-11  EXAM 4
 Week 13 (15-Nov-2004)
  Reflection and refraction
  35.1-2   35.3-4   35.5-6
 Week 14 (22-Nov-2004)
  Optics
  36.1-3  36.4-5  Thanksgiving
 Week 15 (29-Nov-2004)
  Optics, coherence
  37.1-2  37.3-4  EXAM 5
 Week 16 (06-Dec-2004)
  Interference and diffraction
  37.5  37.6-7  reading day
 Week 17 (13-Dec-2004)
  (Finals week)
  FINAL EXAM: 3:30-5:30pm, Monday, 13-Dec  


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