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Physics 260 - Fall 1999 Course Calendar (Check Often for Changes!)

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Aug 23 Introduction, What is Electricity? 22-1,5,6 .
Aug 25 Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law 22-2,3,4 .
Aug 27 Electric Field due to Point Charges 23-1,2,3,4 HW #1 22-4,6,11,15,18,28,31,34,38,39
Aug 30 E Field due to Charge Distributions 23-5,6 .
Sept 1 E Field due to Charge Distributions 23-6,7 HW#2 23-10,14,16,17,21,28,29,33,36,38
Sept 8 Response of Charge to E Fields 23-8,9 .
Sept 10 Gauss' Law and a Charged, Isolated Conductor 24-1,2,3,4,5,6 HW#3a 23-43,49,52,62
Sept 13 Applying Gauss' Law for Special Geometries 24-7,8,9 HW#3b 24-2,5,7,9,17,21
Sept 15 Test 1 - Chapters 22 + 23 . .
Sept 20 Electric Potential 25-1,2,3 HW#4 24-22,23,25,29,32,34,38,44,47,53
Sept 22 Calculating Electric Potential 25-4,5
Sept 24 Calculating Electric Potential 25-6,8 HW#5 25-2,7,10,11,15,22,28,30,38,42
Sept 27 E Field from Potential 25-9,10 .
Sept 29 Potential Energy 25-11 HW#6 25-49,53,55,63,80
Oct 4 Midterm Review 22;23;24;25 .
Oct 6 Test 2 - Chapters 24 + 25 . .
Oct 11 Capacitance 26-1,2,3 .
Oct 13 Capacitors in Parallel and Series 26-4,5 .
Oct 15 Electric Current and Resistance 27-1,2,3,4 HW#7 26-2,7,10,14,18,19,28,38,39,49
Oct 18 Ohm's Law and Power in Circuits 27-5,6,7 .
Oct 20 Single-Loop Circuits 28-1,2,3,4 HW#8 27-8,15,21,22,26,31,34,51,52,55
Oct 25 Potential Differences and Multi-Loop Circuits 28-5,6 .
Oct 27 Magnetic Fields 29-1,2,3 HW#9 28-5,9,11,13,20,28,30,32,42,47
Oct 29 Magnetic Force on Charged Particles 29-4,5,7 .
Nov 1 Test 3 - Chapters 26, 27, 28 . .
Nov 3 Calculating B Field due to a Current 29-8; 30-1,2 .
Nov 8 Ampere's Law 30-3,4 HW#10 29-3,6,9,11,14,19,23,29,48,51
Nov 10 Faraday's Law of Induction, Lenz's Law 31-1,2,3,4 .
Nov 12 Energy Transfer, Induced Electric Fields 31-5,6,7,8 HW#11 30-12,17,19,29,34,35,44,48,54,61
Nov 15 Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field 31-10,11 .
Nov 17 Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields 32-1,2 HW#12 31-3,11,20,27,38,40,46,53,81,90
Nov 22 Test 4 - Chapters 29, 30, 31 . .
Nov 29 Maxwell's Equations 32-9,10,11 .
Dec 1 .
Dec 3 RC and RL Circuits 28-8;31-9 HW#13 32-2,3,36,37,38,41,42,46,47,50
Dec 6 Alternating Current 33-1,2,3,4,5,6 .
Dec 8 EM waves, Poynting Vector 34-2,3,4 HW#14 28-65,67,71; 31-61,64,67; 33-9,31,73,76
Dec 13 Comprehensive Final Exam 10:30a.m.-12:30p.m. . .