Physics 212
Revised Course Syllabus - Spring 2008

Lecture and discussion will meet for the first time on Tuesday, January 15.
The first lab will be on Monday, January 28.
Lectures will be posted after the last lecture.

Week
Date
Lectures/Exams   Preflights      Homework    Labs    Discussion   
1
Tue
Jan 15

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

PreLecture 1

Preflight 1

Homework 1
(due Thursday, Jan 24

 

Discussion 1
(begins Jan 15)

No Quiz

Thu
Jan 17
Lecture 2: Electric Fields
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 2

Preflight 2

2
Tue
Jan 22
Lecture 3: Electric Fields and Electric Flux
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 3

Preflight 3

Homework 2 
(due Jan 29) 

PreLab 1
(due Week 3)

Discussion 2

Quiz 1

Thu
Jan 24
Lecture 4: Gauss's Law
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 4

Preflight 4

3
Tue
Jan 29

Lecture 5: Electric Potential
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 5

Preflight 5

Homework 3 
(due Feb 5) 

Lab 1
(begins Jan 28)
Coulomb's Law: Electrostatic Charges

PreLab 2
(due Week 4)

Discussion 3

Quiz 2

Thu
Jan 31
Lecture 6: Electric Potential
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 6

Preflight 6

4
Tue
Feb 5
Lecture 7: Capacitance
PDF or PowerPoint

  PreLecture 7

Preflight 7

Homework 4 
(due Feb 12)

Lab 2: 
Potentials and E fields

Discussion 4

Quiz 3

Thu
Feb 7
Lecture 8: Capacitance
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 8

Preflight 8

5
Mon
Feb 11
Exam 1 Review (optional)
228 Natural History Building
5-7 PM

 

Homework 5 
(due Feb 19)

No Lab

PreLab 3
(due Week 6)

Discussion 5

No Quiz

Tue
Feb 12
Lecture 9: Simple Circuits
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 9

Preflight 9

Wed 
Feb 13
EXAM 1 (7 pm)
covers Lectures 1-8
 
Thu
Feb 14
Lecture 10: More on Kirchoff's Laws
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 10

Preflight 10

6
Tue
Feb 19
Lecture 11: RC Circuits
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 11

Preflight 11

Homework 6
(due Feb 26) 

Lab 3: 
Simple and RC Circuits

PreLab 4
(due Week 7)

Discussion 6

Quiz 4

Thu
Feb 21
Lecture 12: Magnetic Force
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 12

Preflight 12

7
Tue
Feb 26

Lecture 13: Forces and Magnetic Dipoles
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 13

Preflight 13

Homework 7
(due Mar 4) 

Lab 4:
Magnetic Fields: Bars and field mapping

PreLab 5
(due Week 8)

Discussion 7

Quiz 5

Thu
Feb 28
Lecture 14: The Laws of Biot-Savart
and Ampere
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 14

Preflight 14

8
Tue
Mar 4
Lecture 15: Magnetic Fields
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 15

Preflight 15

Homework 8
(due Mar 11) 

Lab 5: 
Magnetic Fields of wires and solenoids

PreLab 6
(due Week 9)

Discussion 8

Quiz 6

Thu
Mar 6
Lecture 16: Faraday's Law
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 16

Preflight 16

9
Tue
Mar 11
Lecture 17: Self-Inductance
PDF or PowerPoint
 

PreLecture 17

Preflight 17

Homework 9
(due Mar 25) 

Lab 6: 
Faraday's Law

Discussion 9

Quiz 7


Mar 12
Exam 2 now scheduled for
Wednesday, March 26
 
Thu
Mar 13
Lecture 18: Oscillations: LC Circuits
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 18

Preflight 18


M-F 
Mar 17-21
Spring Vacation
10 Mon
Mar 24
Exam 2 Review (optional)
141 Loomis
5-7 PM

PreLecture 19

Preflight 19

Homework 10
(due Apr 1) 

No Lab

PreLab 7
(due Week 11)

Discussion 10

No Quiz

Tue
Mar 25
Lecture 19: AC Circuits
PDF or PowerPoint
Wed
Mar 26
EXAM 2 (7 pm)
covers Lectures 9-16
Thu
Mar 27
Lecture 20: AC Power & Resonant Circuits
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 20

Preflight 20

11
Tue
Apr 1
Lecture 21: Maxwell's Displacement Current and Electromagnetic Waves
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 21

Preflight 21

Homework 11
(due Apr 8) 

Lab 7: 
AC Circuits

PreLab 8
(due Week 12)

Discussion 11

Quiz 8

Thu
Apr 3
Lecture 22: Electromagnetic Waves, cont.
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 22

Preflight 22

12
Tue
Apr 8
Lecture 23: Polarization
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 23

Preflight 23

Homework 12
(due Apr 15)* 

Lab 8: 
Tuning and LRC Circuits

PreLab 9
(due Week 13)

Discussion 12

Quiz 9

Thu
Apr 10
Lecture 24: Reflection and Refraction
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 24

Preflight 24

13
Tu 
Apr 15
Lecture 25: Mirrors
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 25

Preflight 25

Homework 13
(due Apr 22) 

(due Apr 30)** 

Lab 9: 
Polarization and Refraction

Discussion 13

Quiz 10

Thu
Apr 17
Lecture 26: Lenses
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 26

Preflight 26

14
Mon
Apr 21
Exam 3 Review has been
moved to Tuesday's class period
 

No Homework

No Lab

Discussion 14

No Quiz

Tu 
Apr 22
Exam 3 Review
PDF or PowerPoint
Prelecture Survey

Wed 
Apr 23
EXAM 3 (7 pm)
covers Lectures 16-24
 
Thu
Apr 24

No Lecture 

 
15
Tu
Apr 29
Lecture 27: Optical Instruments
PDF or PowerPoint

PreLecture 27

Preflight 27

     

Fri
May 2
Final Exam: Lecture A2 - 8 - 11 AM

Mon
May 5
Final Exam: Lecture A1 - 8 - 11 AM

* The 90%-credit deadline for HomeworkA 12 is still 8am April 22 (even though the homework 13 deadline has been extended to April 30).
** Note that there is no 90%-credit period for late (after 8am April 30) HomeworkA 13.