Supplementary notes will sometimes be posted to help
you review. You are of course responsible for all assigned reading, etc. in
addition to these notes.
- Lecture notes
- Lecture 1: Orientation, pre-18th cent. history
- Lecture 2: Math Review
- Lecture 3: Mechanics Review 1
See also Mechanical Universe Video
15: Momentum Conseration
- Lecture 4: Mechanics Review 2
See also Mechanical Universe Video
13: Energy Conseration
- Lecture 5: Electric Charge
- Lecture 6: Coulomb's Law
- Lecture 7: Electric fields
- Lecture 8: Electric potential
- Lecture 9: Capacitors
- Lecture 10: Resistors
- Lecture 11: Resistance vs. resistivity, power
- Lecture 12: Resistance and temperature, Kirchoff's
laws
- Lecture 13: Kirchoff's laws practice, household
electricity & safety
- Lecture 14: Magnetism
- Lecture 15: Ampere's law, DC electric motor, solenoids
- Lecture 16: Moving charge in magnetic field
- DC motor activity: history and links to videos
- Ch. 22 practice problems
- Lecture 17: Magnetic induction: Faraday's law
- Lecture 18: Faraday's law practice
- Lecture 19: Motional emf
- Special notes on right hand rule
- Lecture 20: AC generators, transformers
- Lecture 21: RMS vs. peak, self-inductance
- Lecture 22: RC circuit, EM waves intro
- Lecture 23: EM spectrum, intensity
- Lecture 24: polarization, reflection
- Lecture 25:
polarization, mirrors
Lecture 25 (from S16):
polarization, mirrors
- Exam 2 review
- Lecture 26: refraction
- Lecture 27: dispersion
- Lecture 28: lenses
- Lecture 28A:lens formula practice
- Lecture 29: microscopes, corrective lenses
- Lecture 30: interference, two-slit expt.
- Lecture 31: thin films, diffraction grating
- Lecture 32: relativity I
- Lecture 33: relativity II, quantum theory
- Lectures 34-35: Final exam review
- Timeline: when events in physics happened.
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