Physics 121 Tentative Schedule ---------------------------------- Lec Date HW Topics Reading ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 8/24 Tue Electric Charge, Coulomb's Law Ch. 19 2 8/26 Thu Electric Force, Multiple Charges Ch. 19 3 8/31 Tue The Electric Field, Capacitors Ch. 19 4 9/2 Thu 1 Conductors, Potential energy Ch. 20 5 9/7 Tue The Electric Potential Ch. 20 6 9/9 Thu 2 Capacitance, (Dielectrics), Current Ch. 21 7 9/14 Tue Ohm's Law, Power. Resistors in Circuits Ch. 21 8 9/16 Thu Kirchoff's Rules, (RC circuits) Ch. 21 9 9/21 Tue 3 Magnetic fields & Forces Ch. 22 9/23 Thu MIDTERM #1 10 9/28 Tue Right Hand Rule, Magnets & Currents Ch. 22 11 9/30 Thu Ampere's Law, Faraday's Law of Induction Ch. 22 12 10/5 Tue 4 Lenz's Law Ch. 23 13 10/7 Thu Electric generators, E-M waves. Ch. 23 14 10/12 Tue Frequency, Wavelength Ch. 25 15 10/14 Thu 5 Doppler Effect, (Polarization) Ch. 25 16 10/19 Tue Reflection, Geometric Optics Ch. 26 17 10/21 Thu Mirror Equation, Magnification Ch. 26 18 10/26 Tue 6 Refraction, Lens equation Ch. 26 10/28 Thu MIDTERM #2 19 11/2 Tue Dispersion, Physical Optics, Superposition Ch. 28 20 11/4 Thu Wave properties of light, Interference: Ch. 28 21 11/9 Tue 7 Constructive & Destructive, Double Slit Ch. 28 22 11/16 Tue Thin films, Diffraction, Relativity Ch. 29 23 11/18 Thu Time Dilation, Velocities, Mass & Energy Ch. 29 ===== Thanksgiving Break: 11/22 - 11/26 ====== 24 11/30 Tue 8 General Relativity, Quantum Physics Ch. 30 25 12/2 Thu Wave/Particle Duality, Uncertainty Princ. Ch. 30 26 12/7 Tue Nuclear Physics: Nuclei, Alpha Decay Ch. 32 27 12/9 Thu 9 Beta, Gamma, Fission Ch. 32 HW # 10 Due SAT. 12/12 Final Exam: Thursday, December 16, 2021