Physics 142 - Course Syllabus - SUMMER 2001

The first lab will be on Monday, August 28.
Lecture and discussion will meet for the first time on Tuesday, August 29.

Week Date Lectures/Exams Homework Labs
1 Tu 
Aug 29		 Lecture 1: Introduction
SlidesACTs		 Homework 1
(due Sept 5) 		 Lab 1(begins Mon Aug 28):
Counting Statistics and Uncertainty
Th 
Aug 31		 Lecture 2: Coulomb's Law
SlidesACTs
2 Tu 
Sept 5		 Lecture 3: Electric Fields
SlidesACTs		 Quiz 1 

Homework 2 
(due Sept 12) 

 No lab

PreLab 2 (Due Week 3)
Th 
Sept 7		 Lecture 4: Gauss's Law
SlidesACTs
3 Tu 
Sept 12		 Lecture 5: Electric Potential
SlidesACTs		 Quiz 2 

Homework 3 
(due Sept 19) 

 Lab 2: 
Coulomb's Law: Electrostatic Charges

PreLab 3 (Due Week 4)
Th 
Sept 14		 Lecture 6: Electric Potential
SlidesACTs
4 Tu 
Sept 19		 Lecture 7: Capacitance
SlidesACTs		 Quiz 3 

Homework 4 
(due Sept 26)

 Lab 3: 
Potentials and E fields

PreLab 4 (Due Week 6)
Th 
Sept 21		 Lecture 8: Capacitance
SlidesACTs
5 Tu 
Sept 26		 Lecture 9: Review
See Announcements.
Slides		 No Quiz

Homework 5 
(due Oct 3)

 No Lab
W 
Sept 27

EXAM 1 (7pm)
Th 
Sept 28		 Lecture 10: Simple Circuits
SlidesACTs
6 Tu 
Oct 3		 Lecture 11: RC Circuits
SlidesACTs		 Quiz 4 

Homework 6
(due Oct 10) 

 Lab 4: 
Simple and RC Circuits

PreLab 5 (Due Week 7)
Th 
Oct 5		 Lecture 12: Magnetic Force
SlidesACTs
7 Tu 
Oct 10		 Lecture 13: Forces and Magnetic Dipoles
SlidesACTs		 Quiz 5 

Homework 7
(due Oct 17) 

 Lab 5: 

Magnetic Fields: Bars and field mapping
PreLab 6 (Due Week 8)
Th 
Oct 12		 Lecture 14: The Laws of Biot-Savart and Ampere
SlidesACTs
8 Tu 
Oct 17		 Lecture 15: Magnetic Fields
SlidesACTs		 Quiz 6 

Homework 8
(due Oct 24) 

 Lab 6: 
Magnetic Fields of wires and solenoids

PreLab 7 (Due Week 10)
Th 
Oct 19		 Lecture 16: Faraday's Law
SlidesACTs
9 Tu 
Oct 24		 Lecture 17: Review
Slides		 No Quiz

Homework 9
(due Oct 31) 

 No Lab
W 
Oct 25

EXAM 2 (7 pm)
Th 
Oct 26		 Lecture 18: Self-Inductance
SlidesACTs
10 Tu 
Oct 31		 Lecture 19: Oscillations: LC Circuits
SlidesACTs		 Quiz 7 

Homework 10
(due Nov 7) 

 Lab 7: 
Faraday's Law

PreLab 8 (Due Week 11)
Th 
Nov 2		 Lecture 20: AC Circuits
SlidesACTs
11 Tu 
Nov 7		 Special Lecture: Complex Impedance
Slides		 Quiz 8 

Homework 11
(due Nov 14) 

 Lab 8: 
AC Circuits

PreLab 9 (Due Week 12)
Lecture 21: AC Circuits
SlidesACTs
Th 
Nov 9		 Lecture 22: Electromagnetic Waves
SlidesACTs
12 Tu 
Nov 14		 Lecture 23: Polarization
SlidesACTs		 Quiz 9 

Homework 12
(due Nov 28) 

 Lab 9: 
Tuning and LRC Circuits
Th 
Nov 16		 Lecture 24: Reflection and Refraction
SlidesACTs
13 Mon-Fri 
Nov 20-24		 Thanksgiving Vacation
14 Tu 
Nov 28		 Lecture 25: Review
Slides		 No Quiz

Homework 13
(due Dec 5) 

 No Lab

PreLab10 (Due Week 15)
W 
Nov 29

EXAM 3 (7 pm)
Th 
Nov 30		 Lecture 26: Mirrors and Lenses
SlidesACTs
15 Tu 
Dec 5		 Lecture 27: Optical Instruments
SlidesACTs		 Quiz 10

(no homework)

 Lab 10 
Geometrical Optics
Th 
Dec 7		 Lecture 28: Course Review
Slides
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