PHY 2061, Section 0829 — Fall 2018 — Class Schedule


The following schedule is tentative, look for updates through the semester, but the sequence of chapters and topics should be reliable.

  Chapter(s) Tuesday Topic Thursday Topic
Week 1 25
August 23 Coulomb's Law
Week 2 26 August 28 Electric Field Aug. 30 E field, dipoles
Week 3 27 Sept. 4 Gauss's law Sept. 6 Gauss' law, conductors
Week 4 28,29 Sept. 11 Electric Potential, energy Sept. 13 Electric Materials
Week 5 test, 30 Sept. 18 Test on Chaps. 25-28 Sept. 20 Capacitance
Week 6 31,32 Sept. 25 Currents and circuits Sept. 27 Magnetism
Week 7 33,34 Oct. 2  B field Oct. 4 Biot-Savart law
Week 8 33,34 Oct. 9 Ampère's law Oct. 11 Faraday's Law
Week 9 34,35 Oct. 16 Induction Oct. 18 Magnetic dipoles
Week 10 29-34 Oct. 23 review Oct. 25 Test on Chaps. 29-34
Week 11 35,36 Oct. 30 Magnetic materials - video"35-36" 35.5-> Nov. 1 Inductance-video
Week 12 37,38 Nov. 6 RLC alternating current circuits Nov. 8 Maxwell's equations
Week 13 39 Nov. 13 Poynting vector, waves Nov. 15 Refraction, Snell's law
Week 14 41 Nov. 20 No class-Chap. 41 Video Nov. 22 No class - Thanksgiving
Week 15 40 Nov. 27 Mirrors and lenses Nov. 29 Mirrors and lenses
Week 16 25-41 Dec. 4 Last Day - Overall Review Dec. 6-7 reading days

Final Exam: Thursday, Dec. 13, 7:30 am-9:30 am (Exam Group 13A) (Cumulative)