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| Jan 11 | Introduction, What is Electricity? | 22-1,5,6 | . |
| Jan 13 | Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law | 22-2,3,4 | HW #1 1-6,13,20,32; 14-6,10; 22-25,28,31,39 |
| Jan 15 | Electric Field due to Point Charges | 23-1,2,3,4 | . |
| Jan 18 | * No class on M.L. King, Jr. Day * | . | . |
| Jan 20 | E Field due to Charge Distributions | 23-5,6,7 | HW#2 22-4,6,11,17,18,20 23-10,14,16,17 |
| Jan 25 | Response of Charge to E Fields | 23-8,9 | . |
| Jan 27 | Flux and Gauss's Law | 24-1,2,3,4 | HW#3 23-21,28,29,33,36,38,43,47,52,62 |
| Jan 29 | Gauss' Law and a Charged, Isolated Conductor | 24-5,6 | . |
| Feb 1 | Applying Gauss' Law for Special Geometries | 24-7,8,9 | . |
| Feb 3 | Electric Potential | 25-1,2,3,4,5 | HW#4 24-2,6,9,18,21,22,23,28,34,38 |
| Feb 8 | Test 1 - Chapters 22 + 23 | . | . |
| Feb 10 | Calculating Electric Potential | 25-6,8 | HW#5 24-39,44,47,53,56; 25-2,8,9,10,12 |
| Feb 12 | Calculating Electric Potential | 25- | . |
| Feb 15 | E Field from Potential, Potential Energy | 25-9,10,11 | . |
| Feb 17 | Review of Chs 24 + 25 | 24;25 | HW#6 25-22,26,30,37,38,42,48,53,63,81 |
| Feb 22 | Capacitance | 26-1,2,3 | . |
| Feb 24 | Capacitors in Parallel and Series | 26-4,5 | . |
| Feb 26 | Test 2 - Chapters 24 + 25 | . | . |
| Mar 1 | Electric Current and Resistance | 27-1,2,3,4 | . |
| Mar 3 | Ohm's Law and Power in Circuits | 27-5,6,7 | HW#7 26-2,9,11,16,18,19,24,26,28,45 |
| Mar 8 | Single-Loop Circuits | 28-1,2,3,4 | . |
| Mar 10 | Potential Differences and Multi-Loop Circuits | 28-5,6 | HW#8 27-8,10,15,21,25,30,37,50,53,55 |
| Mar 12 | Magnetic Fields | 29-1,2 | . |
| Mar 22 | Magnetic Force on Charged Particles | 29-3,4,5 | HW#9 28-6,12,23,24,32,46,47,49,66,75 |
| Mar 24 | Test 3 - Chapters 26, 27, 28 | . | . |
| Mar 29 | Torque due to a Magnetic Field | 29-7,8 | . |
| Mar 31 | Calculating B Field due to a Current | 30-1,2 | HW#10 29-4,7,9,18,25,30,48,52,54,59 |
| Apr 2 | Ampere's Law | 30-3,4 | . |
| Apr 5 | Faraday's Law of Induction, Lenz's Law | 31-1,2,3,4 | . |
| Apr 7 | Energy Transfer, Induced Electric Fields | 31-5,6,7,8 | HW#11 30-12,15,18,27,30,34,35,40,47,55 |
| Apr 12 | Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field | 31-10,11 | . |
| Apr 14 | Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields | 32-1,2 | HW#12 31-3,11,17,24,38,40,42,46,54,76 |
| Apr 16 | Maxwell's Equations | 32-9,10,11 | . |
| Apr 19 | Test 4 - Chapters 29, 30, 31 | . | . |
| Apr 21 | RC and RL Circuits | 28-8;31-9 | HW#13 32-2,3,36,37,38,41,42,46,47,50 |
| Apr 26 | Alternating Current | 33-1,2,3,4,5,6 | . |
| Apr 28 | EM waves, Poynting Vector | 34-2,3,4 | HW#14 28-65,67,71; 31-61,64,67; 33-9,31,73,76 |
| May 6 | Comprehensive Final Exam 10:30a.m.-12:30p.m. | . | . |