Schedule for Fall 2000

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2002: meets at 1100

Final Exam: Wed, Dec 18, 1015

PHY 1161C, Fall 2000, tentative class schedule

Mon, Aug 21 -- Introductions

World Wide Web

TMU 27: Beyond the Mechanical Universe

Wed, Aug 23 -- Ch 17. Electrostatics & Electric Energy

TMU 28: Static Electricity

Fri, Aug 25

TMU 29: The Electric Field

Mon, Aug 28 -- Ch 18. Electric Potential & Capacitance

Wed, Aug 30

TMU 30: Potential and Capacitance

Fri, Sep 1

TMU 31: Voltage, Energy, and Force

Mon, Sep 4 -- no classes -- Labor Day

Wed, Sep 6 -- Ch 19. DC Circuits

TMU # 33: Electric Circuits

Fri, Sep 8

Mon, Sep 11

Wed, Sep 13 -- Hour Exam #1

Ch 17. Electrostatics & Electric Energy (Coulomb's Law)

Electric Field

Ch 18. Electric Potential & Capacitance

Ch 19. DC Circuits

Fri, Sep 15 -- discuss Hour Exam #1

TMU 34: Magnetism

Mon, Sep 18 -- Ch 20. Magnetism

Wed, Sep 20

TMU 35: The Magnetic Field

Fri, Sep 22-- Ch 21. Electromagnetic Induction

Mon, Sep 25

TMU 37: Electromagnetic Induction

Wed, Sep 27 -- Ch 22, Alternating Current

Fri, Sep 29

TMU 38: Alternating Current

Mon, Oct 2 -- Hour Exam #2

Ch 20. Magnetism

Ch 21. Electromagnetic Induction

Ch 22, Alternating Current

Wed, Oct 4 -- discuss Hour Exam #2

Fri, Oct 7 -- Ch 23. Reflection and Refraction of Light

PSSC film on video, "Introduction to Optics"

Mon, Oct 9

TMU 40: Optics

Wed, Oct 1

Fri, Oct 13 -- Ch 24. Mirrors and Lenses

Mon, Oct 16

Wed, Oct 19 -- Ch 25. Wave Optics: Interference & Diffraction

Fri, Oct 20 -- no classes; Fall break

Mon, Oct 23

Wed, Oct 25 -- Ch 26. Optical Instruments

Fri, Oct 27

Mon, Oct 30 -- Hour Exam #3

Ch 23. Reflection and Refraction of Light

Ch 24. Mirrors and Lenses

Ch 25. Wave Optics: Interference & Diffraction

Wed, Nov 1 -- discuss Hour Exam #3

Fri, Nov 3 -- Ch 27. Special Relativity

TMU 41: The Michelson-Morley Experiment

Mon, Nov 6

TMU 42: The Lorentz Transformation

Wed, Nov 8

TMU 43: Velocity and Time

Fri, Nov 10

TMU 44: Mass, Momentum, Energy

 

Mon, Nov 13

Wed, Nov 15 -- Ch 28. Quantum Mechanics

TMU 50: Particles and Waves

Fri, Nov 17

Mon, Nov 20 -- no classes; Thanksgiving Break

Wed, Nov 22   -- no classes; Thanksgiving Break

Fri, Nov 24 -- no classes; Thanksgiving Break

Mon, Nov 27 -- Ch 29. Atomic Physics

Wed, Nov 29

TMU 49: The Atom

Fri, Dec 1 -- Ch 30. Nuclear Physics

TMU 51: From Atoms to Quarks

Mon, Dec 4

TMU 52: The Quantum Mechanical Universe

Wed, Dec 6 -- Hour Exam #4

Ch 27. Special Relativity

Ch 28. Quantum Mechanics

Ch 29. Atomic Physics

Ch 30. Nuclear Physics

Fri, Dec 8 -- discuss Hour Exam #4 -- last class day

Mon, Dec 11 -- Final Exam (1015 -- 1215)

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