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LEC LECTURE
TOPICS READINGS ASSIGNMENTS
# NOTES

What holds our world together?

Electric Charges (Historical), Chap. 21 through Sect.
1
Polarization, Electric Force, 21-5
Coulomb's Law

Electric Field, Field Lines,

Sect. 21-6 through 21-
2 Superposition, Inductive Charging,
11
Dipoles, Induced Dipoles

Electric Flux, Gauss's Law,

3 All of Chap. 22
Examples

Electrostatic Potential, Electric

Chap. 23 through Sect.
4 Energy, eV, Conservative Field,
23-8
Equipotential Surfaces

E = -grad V, More on Equipotential

Problem Set #1
5 Surfaces, Conductors, Electrostatic Sect. 23-5 & 23-7
(PDF)
Shielding (Faraday Cage)

High-Voltage Breakdown,
P. 591, P. 596, Example
Lightning,
6 23-5, P. 643, Example
Sparks - St Elmo's Fire (Take
25-9
Notes in Lecture)

Chap. 24 through Sect. Lecture Notes

7 Capacitance, Field Energy
24-4 (PDF)

Lecture Supplement
Polarization, Dielectrics,
Lecture Notes Problem Set #2
8 The Van de Graaff, More on
Sect. 24-5 & 24-6 & P. (PDF) (PDF)
Capacitors
1115

Chap. 25 through Sect.

9 Currents, Resistivity, Ohm's Law
25-4

Batteries, EMF, Energy

Sect. 25-5 through 25-
Conservation, Power, Kirchhoff's
10 8, Chap. 26 through
Rules, Circuits, Kelvin Water
Sect. 26-3, Take Notes
Dropper

11 Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force, Chap. 27 through Sect. Lecture Notes Problem Set #3
Torques, Electric Motors (DC), 27-7 (PDF) (PDF)
Oscilloscope
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Hand out Motor Kits

Sect. 23-9

12 Review Exam 1 (Secret Top!)

Exam 1
Covering the first 3 Assignments,
and all material covered in
Reading Assignments and in
Lectures through Lecture #10

Moving Charges in B-fields,

Lecture Notes
13 Cyclotron, Synchrotron, Mass Sect. 27-8 & 27-9
(PDF)
Spectrometer, Cloud Chamber

Biot-Savart Law, Gauss' Law for

Chap. 28 through Sect.
Magnetic Fields, Revisit the
14 28-3, Sect. 28-6, 29-6
"Leyden Jar", High-Voltage Power
& 32-2
Lines

Ampere's Law, Solenoids, Revisit Sect. 28-4, 28-5 & 28-8

Lecture Notes
15 the Kelvin Water Dropper,
(PDF)
Midterm Evaluation Take Notes

Electromagnetic Induction, Chap. 29 through Sect.

Faraday's Law, Lenz Law, 29-4, Sect. 29-7 & 29-8 Lecture Notes Problem Set #4
16
Complete Breakdown of Intuition, (PDF) (PDF)
Non-Conservative Fields Lecture Supplement

Motional EMF, Dynamos, Eddy Sect. 29-3, 29-4, 29-5

17
Currents, Magnetic Braking & 29-8

Displacement Current (Difficult

Concept), Synchronous Motors, Sect. 32-1, Sect. 27-6 &
18
Induction Motors, Secret Top, 31-8
How does it work?

Sect. 25-10 Problem Set #5

19 Vacation Special P. 606 (PDF)
Sect. 25-9
How do magicians levitate P. 694 (apod Dec 3,
women? (with demo) 2001)
Electric Shock Treatment (no
demo)
Electrocardiogram (with demo) -
Pacemakers
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Superconductivity (with demo)-

Levitating Bullet Trains

Aurora Borealis

Lecture Notes
Chap. 30 through Sect. (PDF)
Inductance, RL Circuits, Magnetic
20 30-4, Lecture
Field Energy
Supplement (JB) Lecture
Notes(PDF)

Due Date of Motor! (April 2)

Testing 1-5 PM

Magnetic Materials, Dia-, Para-,

Lecture Notes
21 and Ferromagnetism, Prize Sect. 28-8, 28-9, 28-10
(PDF)
Ceremony of Motor Contest

Hysteresis, Electromagnets, Bohr

Magneton Sect. 28-8 & 28-9, Sect. Lecture Notes Problem Set #6
22
Maxwell's Equations 32-3 & 40-7 (PDF) (PDF)
600 Daffodils

Lecture Notes
23 Review Exam 2
(PDF)

Exam 2
Covering Assignments 4, 5 & 6,
and all material covered in
Reading Assignments and in
Lectures through Lect #20

Transformers, Car Coils, RC

24 Sect. 26-4, 26-5 & 29-6
Circuits

Lecture Notes
(PDF)
Driven LRC Circuits, Resonance, Chap. 31 through Sect. Problem Set #7
25
Metal Detectors (Beach/Airport) 31-6 (PDF)
Lecture Notes
(PDF)

Traveling Waves, Standing Waves

Giancoli (Vol. I) Chap. Lecture Notes
26
15 through Sect. 15-9 (PDF)
Musical Instruments

Resonance, Destructive
Resonance, Electromagnetic
Waves, Speed of Light, Sect. 31-6, Chap. 32 Lecture Notes
27
Radio, TV, Distance through Sect. 32-9 (PDF)
Determinations using Radar and
Lasers
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Index of Refraction, Poynting

Vector, Sect. 32-7 & 32-8,
Problem Set #8
28 Oscillating Charges, Radiation Chap. 33 through Sect.
(PDF)
Pressure, Comet Tails, Polarization 33-2, Sect. 36-11
(Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)

Snell's Law, Refraction, Total

Lecture Notes
Reflection, Dispersion, Prisms,
Sect. 33-5, 33-6 & 33- (PDF)
Huygen's Principle,
29 7, Chap. 35 through
The Illusion of Color, The Weird
Sect. 35-2 Lecture Notes
Benham Top, Land's Famous
(PDF)
Demo

Polarizers, Malus's Law, Brewster

Angle, Polarization by Reflection Handout Optics Kits
and Scattering, Why is the sky
30 blue, Why are sunsets red? Sect. 36-11 & 36-12

The sun will set in the lecture Take Notes

hall!

Rainbows (Take Notes)

A Modest Rainbow will appear

Lecture Notes
in the lecture hall! Bring a friend, this
(PDF)
lecture may also be Problem Set #9
31
Fog Bows, Supernumerary Bows, appreciated by non 8.02 (PDF)
Lecture Notes
Polarization of the Bows, Haloes "experts". Sect. 33-6
(PDF)
around the Sun and Moon,
Coronae, Glories, Mock Suns (Sun
Dogs)

Lecture Notes
32 Review Exam 3
(PDF)

Exam 3
Covering Assignments 7, 8 & 9,
and all material covered in
Reading Assignments and in
Lectures through Lect #29

Double-Slit Interference, Sect. 35-3 through

33
Interferometers Sect. 35-5, Sect. 35-7

Gratings, Resolving Power, Single-

Slit Diffraction, Angular Chap. 36 through Sect. Problem Set #10
34
Resolution, Human Eye - 36-8 (PDF)
Telescopes

Doppler Effect, The Big Bang, Sect. 16.7 (Vol. 1) &

35
Cosmology 37-12. Take Notes!

36 Farewell Special Bring a friend