Physics 212
Revised Course Syllabus - Fall 2008

Lecture and discussion will meet for the first time on Tuesday, August 26
The first lab will be on Monday, September 8.
Lectures will be posted after the last lecture.

Week
Date
Lectures/Exams   Preflights      Homework    Labs    Discussion   
1
Tue
Aug 26

Lecture 1: Introduction and Coulomb's Law
* PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 1

Preflight 1

Homework 1
(due Thursday, Sept 4

 

Discussion 1
(begins Aug 26)

No Quiz

Thu
Aug 28
Lecture 2: Electric Fields
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 2

Preflight 2

2
Tue
Sept 2
Lecture 3: Electric Fields and Electric Flux
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 3

Preflight 3

Homework 2 
(due Sept 9) 

PreLab 1
(due Week 3)

Discussion 2

Quiz 1

Thu
Sept 4
Lecture 4: Gauss's Law
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 4

Preflight 4

3
Tue
Sept 9

Lecture 5: Electric Potential
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 5

Preflight 5

Homework 3 
(due Sept 16) 

Lab 1
(begins Sept 8)
Coulomb's Law: Electrostatic Charges

PreLab 2
(due Week 4)

Discussion 3

Quiz 2

Thu
Sept 11
Lecture 6: Electric Potential
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 6

Preflight 6

4
Tue
Sept 16
Lecture 7: Capacitance
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 7

Preflight 7

Homework 4 
(due Sept 23)

Lab 2: 
Potentials and E fields

Discussion 4

Quiz 3

Thu
Sept 18
Lecture 8: Capacitance
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 8

Preflight 8

5
Tue
Sept 23
Lecture 9: Simple Circuits
PDF or PowerPoint
Exam 1 Review (optional)
Lincoln Hall Theater
4:30 - 6:30 PM

PreLecture 9

Preflight 9

Homework 5 
(due Sept 30)

No Lab

PreLab 3
(due Week 6)

Discussion 5

No Quiz

Wed 
Sept 24
EXAM 1 (7 pm)
covers Lectures 1-8
 
Thu
Sept 25
Lecture 10: More on Kirchoff's Laws
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 10

Preflight 10

6
Tue
Sept 30
Lecture 11: RC Circuits
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 11

Preflight 11

Homework 6
(due Oct 7) 

Lab 3: 
Simple and RC Circuits

PreLab 4
(due Week 7)

Discussion 6

Quiz 4

Thu
Oct 2
Lecture 12: Magnetic Force
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 12

Preflight 12

7
Tue
Oct 7

Lecture 13: Forces and Magnetic Dipoles
PDF or PowerPoint
Preflight Coments

PreLecture 13

Preflight 13

Homework 7
(due Oct 14) 

Lab 4:
Magnetic Fields: Bars and field mapping

PreLab 5
(due Week 8)

Discussion 7

Quiz 5

Thu
Oct 9
Lecture 14: The Laws of Biot-Savart
and Ampere
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 14

Preflight 14

8
Tue
Oct 14
Lecture 15: Magnetic Fields
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 15

Preflight 15

Homework 8
(due Oct 21) 

Lab 5: 
Magnetic Fields of wires and solenoids

PreLab 6
(due Week 9)

Discussion 8

Quiz 6

Thu
Oct 16
Lecture 16: Faraday's Law
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 16

Preflight 16

9
Tue
Oct 21
Lecture 17: Self-Inductance
PDF or PowerPoint
PreLecture 17

Preflight 17

Homework 9
(due Oct 28) 

Lab 6: 
Faraday's Law

Discussion 9

Quiz 7

Thu
Oct 23
Lecture 18: Oscillations: LC Circuits
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 18

Preflight 18

10 Sun
Oct 26
Exam 2 Review (optional)
Lincoln Hall Theater
4:30 - 6:30 PM

PreLecture 19

Preflight 19

Homework 10
(due Nov 4) 

No Lab

PreLab 7
(due Week 11)

Discussion 10

No Quiz

Tue
Oct 28
Lecture 19: AC Circuits
PDF or PowerPoint
Wed
Oct 29
EXAM 2 (7 pm)
covers Lectures 9-16
Thu
Oct 30
Lecture 20: AC Power & Resonant Circuits
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 20

Preflight 20

11
Tue
Nov 4
Lecture 21: Maxwell's Displacement Current and Electromagnetic Waves
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 21

Preflight 21

Homework 11
(due Nov 11) 

Lab 7: 
AC Circuits

PreLab 8
(due Week 12)

Discussion 11

Quiz 8

Thu
Nov 6
Lecture 22: Electromagnetic Waves, cont.
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 22

Preflight 22

12
Tue
Nov 11
Lecture 23: Polarization
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 23

Preflight 23

Homework 12
(due Nov 18)* 

Lab 8: 
Tuning and LRC Circuits

PreLab 9
(due Week 13)

Discussion 12

Quiz 9

Thu
Nov 13
Lecture 24: Reflection and Refraction
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 24

Preflight 24

13
Tu 
Nov 18
Lecture 25: Lenses
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 25

Preflight 25

Homework 13
(due Dec 11)** 

 

Lab 9: 
Polarization and Refraction

Discussion 13

Quiz 10

Thu
Nov 20
Lecture 26: Mirrors
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 26

Preflight 26


M-F 
Nov 24-28
Thanksgiving Vacation
14
Tu 
Dec 2
Exam 3 Review during lecture period
PDF or PowerPoint

No Homework

No Lab

Discussion 14

No Quiz

Prelecture Survey

Wed 
Dec 3
EXAM 3 (7 pm)
covers Lectures 16-24
 
Thu
Dec 4

No Lecture 

 
15
Tu
Dec 9
Lecture 27: Optical Instruments
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 27

Preflight 27

     

xx
xx
Final Exam: Combined (time to be determined by November 17)

xx
xx
Final Exam: Conflict (time to be determined by November 17)

* The 90%-credit deadline for HomeworkA 12 is still 8am Dec 2 (even though the homework 13 deadline has been extended to Dec 9 Dec 11).
** Note that there is no 90%-credit period for late (after 8am Dec 9 Dec 11) HomeworkA 13.