TEXTBOOK: : Physics 2000 Part 1 and Part 2 by Huggins with CD
MWF Classes meet with PHY151, Tuesday classes cover calculus topics.
Tentative Schedule 2006
Class READ TOPIC LAB
Jan 30 19 Electric Interaction
31 Millikan Oil Drop Experiment
Feb 1 19 and 24 Coulomb, Gauss Electrostatics (5)
3 24 Coulomb, Gauss
6 24 and 25 Field Plots, Potential Electric Field (5)
7 Gauss’s Law
8 25 Field Plots, Potential
10 26 Electric Fields, Conductor
13 26 and 27 Circuits Resistance, Ohm’s Law (10)
14 Gauss’s Law
15 EXAM 1 Chapters 19, 24, 25, 26
17 27 Circuits
20 27 Circuits Capacitors (10)
21 Circuits
22 28 Magnetism
24 28 Magnetism
27 28 and 29 Ampere’s Law Earth’s B Field (5)
28 Ampere’s Law
Mar 1 29 Ampere’s Law, Applications
3 30 Faraday’s Law
6 30 Faraday’s Law Magnetism (5)
7 Faraday and AC Circuits
8 EXAM 2 Chapters 27 - 30
10 31 Induction
13 31 and 32 Maxwell’s Equations Make Up Labs
14 Speed of Light, Maxwell’s Equations
15 32 Maxwell’s Equations
17 33 Light
March 17 is the last day to choose your grade option.
Spring Break March 20 - 24
27 33 Light Interference, Diffraction (5)
28 TBA
29 33 Light
31 34 Photons
Apr 3 34 Photons Computer (5)
4 Blackbody, Photoelectric
5 34 and 35 Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom
7 EXAM 3 Chapters 31, 32, 33, 34
10 35 Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom Computer (5)
11 Hydrogen Atom
12 37 Lasers
14 Easter Break No Class
17 Easter Break No Class Spectra & Lasers (10)
18 Compton Effect, Modern Physics
19 38 Atoms
21 39 Spin
24 40 Quantum Mechanics Computer QM (5)
25 Atoms
26 40 Quantum Mechanics
28 EXAM 4 Chapters 35, 37, 38, 39, 40
May 1 Geometrical Optics Reflection and Refraction (10)
2 Quantum Mechanics Hydrogen Atom
3 Geometrical Optics
5 Geometrical Optics
8 Geometrical Optics and 20 Nucleus Lenses (10)
9 Reflection and Refraction
10 20 Nuclear Matter
12 Half Life
15 Nuclear Energy Nuclear Physics (10)
16 Nucleus
17 Nuclear Energy
19 Nuclear Energy/ Review
Final Exam 8:00 – 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, May 23 Chapters Optics, 20, Half Life, Nuclear Energy
No lab reports will be accepted after 8a.m. on May 23.
NOTE: The above schedule and procedures in this course are subject to change in the event of extenuating
circumstances.