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| Aug 20 | Introduction | 23-1,2 | . |
| Aug 22 | Electric Charge, Coulomb's Law | 23-3 | . |
| Aug 24 | Electric Field due to Point Charges | 23-4 | HW0: WebAssign, due 10:00; HW1: Coulomb's law, due 3:30 |
| Aug 27 | E Field due to Charge Distributions | 23-5 | . |
| Aug 29 | Response of Charge to E Fields | 23-6,7 | . |
| Aug 31 | Flux and Gauss's Law | 24-1,2 | HW2: Electric Fields, due 3:30 |
| Sep 3 | *** No class on Labor Day *** | . | *** No class on Labor Day *** |
| Sep 5 | Gauss's Law and a Charged Insulator | 24-3 | . |
| Sep 7 | Applying Gauss' Law | 24-4 | HW3: Flux and Gauss's Law, due 10:00 |
| Sep 10 | Experimental verification | 24-5,6 | HW4: Applying Gauss's Law, due 10:00 |
| Sep 12 | Test 1 - Chapters 23 + 24 | . | . |
| Sep 14 | Electric Potential | 25-1,2 | . |
| Sep 17 | Potential Energy, E Field from Potential | 25-3,4 | . |
| Sep 19 | Calculating Electric Potential | 25-5 | HW5: Electric Potential, due 10:00 |
| Sep 21 | Electric Potential due to charged conductor | 25-6 | . |
| Sep 24 | Capacitance | 26-1,2,3 | HW6: Potential and E Field, due 3:30 |
| Sep 26 | Energy storage, Dielectrics | 26-4,5 | . |
| Sep 28 | Electric Current and Resistance | 27-1,2,3 | HW7: Capacitance, due 3:30 |
| Oct 1 | Electrical Energy, Power | 27-6 | . |
| Oct 3 | Simple Circuits | 28-1,2 | HW8: Ohm's Law, due 3:30 |
| Oct 5 | *** Fall Break - No class *** | . | *** Fall Break - No class *** |
| Oct 8 | Kirchhoff's Rules | 28-3 | . |
| Oct 10 | Multi-Loop Circuits | 28-3,5,6 | HW9: DC circuits, due 3:30 |
| Oct 12 | Mid-Term Review | . | . |
| Oct 15 | Test 2 - Chapters 25, 26, 27, 28 | . | . |
| Oct 17 | Magnetic Fields | 29-1 | . |
| Oct 19 | Concept Survey in Magnetism | . | . |
| Oct 22 | Magnetic Force | 29-2,4,5 | . |
| Oct 24 | Torque due to a Magnetic Field | 29-3 | HW10: Force due to Magnetic Field, due 10:00 |
| Oct 26 | Calculating B Field due to a Current | 30-1,2 | . |
| Oct 29 | Ampere's Law | 30-3,4,7 | HW11: Creating a Magnetic Field, due 10:00 |
| Oct 31 | Gauss's Law in Magnetism | 30-5,6 | . |
| Nov 2 | Magnetism in Matter | 30-8 | HW12: Gauss's Law for Magnetic Fields, due 3:30 |
| Nov 5 | Test 3 - Chapters 29 + 30 | . | . |
| Nov 7 | Faraday's Law of Induction | 31-1,2 | . |
| Nov 9 | Lenz's law, Induced EMF | 31-3,4 | HW13: Electricity and Magnetism, due 3:30 |
| Nov 12 | Self Inductance and RL circuits | 32-1,2 | . |
| Nov 14 | Mutual Inductance | 32-3,4 | . |
| Nov 16 | LC and RLC circuits | 32-5,6 | HW14: Inductance, due 3:30 |
| Nov 19 | Components of AC circuits | 33-1,2,3,4 | . |
| Nov 21 | *** Thanksgiving Break *** | . | *** Thanksgiving Break - No class *** |
| Nov 23 | *** Thanksgiving Break *** | . | *** Thanksgiving Break - No class *** |
| Nov 26 | RLC Circuits | 33-5,6,7 | . |
| Nov 28 | Transformers | 33-8 | . |
| Nov 30 | Maxwell's Equations, EM waves | 31-7; 34-1,2 | HW15: AC Circuits, due 3:30 |
| Dec 3 | Test 4 - Chapters 31, 32, 33 | . | . |
| Dec 5 | Poynting vector | 34-3,4 | . |
| Dec 7 | Propogation of EM waves | 34-6. | HW16: Electromagnetic Radiation, due 3:30 |
| Dec 10 | Comprehensive Final Exam | . | 10:30 am - 12:30 pm |