Week

Lecture

Demonstration

Homework

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Lectures 01-02: Syllabus

Chapter 29-30: Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces

•         Bar magnets

•         Monopole and Dipole

•         Geomagnetism

•         Movie #1: Magnetism

Lectures 03-04: Magnetic Field

•         Source of Magnetic Fields

•         Magnetic Field Lines and Vectors

•         Biot-Savart Law

•         Ampere’s Experiment

•         Magnetic Force

•         Experimental Activity #1: Mapping of magnetic field

Demonstrations:

•         Bar magnets and compasses

•         Levitation

Experimental Activity #1

Movie #1: Magnetism

Homework I

None

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Lectures 05-06: Chapter 28: The Magnetic Field of a Current

Examples: 

•                                             The Magnetic Field of a Long Straight Wire

•                                             The Magnetic Field near a Heater Wire

•                                             The Magnetic Field of a Current Loop

•                                             Matching the Earth’s  Magnetic Field

•         Loops as Magnetic Dipoles

•         The Magnetic Dipole Moment

Example:  The Field of a Magnetic Dipole

•         Movie #2: Magnetic Field

Lectures 07-08: The Magnetic Field of a Current

·         Line Integrals

•      Ampere’s Law

Example:  The Magnetic Field Inside a Current-Carrying Wire

•      Magnetic Field of Solenoids

•      Motion of Charge in an Uniform magnetic filed

•      The Earth’s Van Allen Belt

•      The Hall Effect

•      Experimental Activity #2: Magnetic Field of Solenoids

Movie #2: The Magnetic Field

Experimental Activity #2

Lab: Orientation

Homework II:

Chapter 29.

Problems: 53, 55, 59, 61, 63, 69, 73

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Lectures 09-12: Magnetic Force

•                     Lorentz Force

•                     Magnetic Forces on
Current-Carrying Wires

•                     Torques on Current Loops

•                     An Electric Motor

•         Atomic Magnets

•         The Electron Spin

•         Ferromagnetism

•         Help Session for Test 1

TEST #1. Chapters 29, 30

Help Session for Test #1

Lab #1: Magnetic Force on parallel wires

Homework III:

Chapter 30. Problems: 1, 3, 5, 9, 15,19, 21, 23, 25, 33

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Lectures 13-14: Chapter 31: Electromagnetic Induction

·         Review of the Test #1

•         The History of Induction

•         Faraday’s Discovery

•         Motional EMF

•         Induced Current in a Circuit

Lectures 15-16: Magnetic flux

•         Force and Induction

•         Energy Considerations

•         Eddy Currents

•         Magnetic Flux

•         Lenz’s Law

•         Faraday’s Law in the terms of Flux

•      Electromag. Induction in a Circular Loop

•      Electromagnetic Induction in a Solenoid

•      Movie #3: Electromagnetic Induction

Demonstrations:

·      Induction

·      Eddy Currents

·      Flying ring

Movie #3: E/M Induction

Homework IV:

Chapter 31. Problems: 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23

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Lectures 17-18: Chapter 32: Inductance

•      Potential Across an Inductor

•      Inductors and Sparks

•      Energy in Inductors and Magnetic Fields

•      The LR Circuits

•      Help Session for Test #2

Lectures 19: TEST #2. Chapters 31, 32

Lab #2 : Faraday’s Law

Movie #4: Maxwell’s Equations

Help Session for Test #2

Midterm Grade

Homework V:

Chapter 32. Problems: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19

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Lecture 20. Chapter 34: Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

·         Electromagnetic Fields and Waves

·         Maxwell’s Equations

·         Movie #4: Maxwell’s Equations

Lectures 21-22: Chapter 32, 33: Electromagnetic Waves

·         Energy of Electromagnetic Waves

·         Polarization

·         Experimental Activity #3: Malus’ Law

Butler Research Conference

Demonstrations:

·         Polarizer

Experimental Activity #3: Malus’ Law

Homework VI:

Chapter 34.

Problems: 5, 7, 9, 11, 17, 21, 23, 25

S p r I n g   B r e a k

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Lectures 23-24. Chapters 18, 37: Interference of the Light

·         Theory of Interference

·         Examples

·         Young’s Double Slit Interference

·         Multiple Slits

Lecture 25. Chapter 38: Diffraction of the light

·         Single Slit Diffraction

·         Diffraction from Circular Aperture

·         Diffraction Gratings

·         Resolving Power

·         Help Session for Test #3

Lecture 26: TEST #3. Chapters 37, 38

Board Meeting

Lab 3: Interference

Help session for Test #3

Homework VII:

Chapter 37. Problems: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

Chapter 38. Problems: 1, 3, 5, 7, 11

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Lectures 27-28. Chapters 35: Introduction to Geometric Optics

•         Review of Test#3

•         The Ray Model of Light

•         Reflection

•         Flat Mirror

•         Spherical mirrors

•         Images in Concave Spherical Mirrors

•         Mirror Equation

Lectures 29-30: Refraction of Light

•         Spherical Mirrors (continued)

•         Images in Convex Spherical Mirrors

•         Mirror Convention

•         Index of Refraction

•         Snell’s Law

•         Fiber Optics

•         Experimental Activity #4: Snell’s Law

Demonstrations:

·     Spherical mirrors

Experimental Activity #4: Snell’s Law

Homework VIII

Chapter 35. Problems: 5, 7, 15, 17, 23, 27, 29, 35, 37, 39

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Lectures 31-33. Chapter 36: Refraction of Light

•         Brewster’s Angle

•         Dispersion

•         Lenses

•         Converging

•         Diverging Lenses

•         Lens Equation

•         Multiple Lenses

•         Movie #5: Optics

•         Help session for test #4

Lecture 34: TEST #4. Chapters 35, 36

Help session for test #4

Movie #5: Optics

Lab 4: Lenses

Homework IX:

Chapter 36. Problems: 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 37, 41, 42, 63, 64

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Lectures 35-36. Chapter 39: Special Relativity

·         Review the Test #4

·         Inertial Reference Frame

·         Postulates of Relativity

·         The Relativity of Simultaneity

·         Time Dilation

·         Length Contraction

Lectures 37-38: Review Sessions for Final Exam

Review Sessions for Final Exam

Homework IX:

Chapter 39: 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 17

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