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Welcome. What to expect in this class.

Newton's theory of gravity, measuring the mass of a planet

Read 13.1-3

Gravitational potential

orbit of a planet

Read 13.4-6

Gravity tutorial

Gravity tutorial

solution

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4/13-4/16

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Electric charge, Coulomb's law, conservation of charge, triboelectric series

Read 22.1-4

Charge examples

Read 22.5

Field model, electric field, the electric field of multiple charges

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Read 23.1-2

Tutorial: Electric charge (tutorial pp 71-76 - bring your tutorial book)

solution

Apr 16

Lab: Foucault's pendulum (video), video of UW pendulum (by Antion)

Feynman gravitation lecture

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4/20-4/23

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Electric field: example of a dipole

E field examples

Read 23.3-5

The electric field of a continuous charge distribution: line

Read 23.6-7

The electric field of a continuous charge distribution: plane

Feynman lecture: electricity in the atmosphere

Tutorial: E and flux (pp 77-80 - bring your tutorial book)

solution

Tutorial: Gauss's law (pp 81-84 - bring your tutorial book)

solution

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4/27-4/30

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Gauss's law, examples

examples solutions

Read 24.1-5

Electric field in a conductor

Read 24.6

Lab: Electrostatics

Lab Electric field computations

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Electric potential examples

Read 25.5-7

Connecting E and V.

Read 26.1-2

Connecting E and V.

examples

Electric potential of a conductor, sources of electric potential

Read 26.3-4

Capacitance and Capacitors (some extra information)

Read 26.7

May 5

No class (college-wide professional development day)

May 7

Tutorial: Electric potential (pp 85-90 - bring your tutorial book)

solution

Read 25.1-4

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5/11-5/14

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Capacitance and Capacitors

examples

Capacitors in series and parallel

Current, batteries, current density, conductivity table

Read 27.1-3

notes, Eiffel tower (look for Ampère's name)

May 12

Exam 1

chapters 13, and 22 through 24

May 14

Tutorial: Capacitance (pp 91-96 - bring your tutorial book)

solution

Read 26.5-6

Extra credit: show your potential

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5/18-5/21

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Conductivity, resistivity

Read 27.4

examples

Ohm's law

Read 27.5

Kirchhoff's laws

examples

Read 28.1-3

May 19

Tutorial: Circuits 1 (tutorial pp 97-102 - bring your tutorial book), videos of the experiments

solution

May 21

Tutorial: Circuits 2 (tutorial pp 103-106 - bring your tutorial book), videos of the experiments

solution

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5/25-5/28

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energy, power: examples

Read 28.4-8

RC circuits

Read 28.9

May 26

Tutorial: RC circuits (pp 107-112 - bring your tutorial book)
videos of the experiments

solution

Ammeter, voltmeter, resistors in series and in parallel, examples

Circuits tutorial

solution

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Magnetic field created by a current. Biot-Savart law.

Read 29.1-4

Ampere's law, magnetic dipoles

Read 29.5-6

Solenoids

Read 29.7-10

June 2

Exam 2

chapters 25 through 28

June 4

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Force on moving charges

Read 30.1-2

Induced current, motional emf

Read 30.1-2

Faraday's law examples

Read 30.3-6

Tutorial: Magnetic interactions (tutorial pp 119-123 - bring your tutorial book)
videos of the experiments

solution

Tutorial: Lenz's & Faraday's laws (pp 125-128 - bring your tutorial book)

solution

Tutorial: Faraday's law: p 129 (bring your tutorial book)

solution

Read 30.6-7

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Mostly chapters 27-30 (but don't forget 13, 22-26)

Circuits review: circuit practice, solutions

Magnetic interactions and RC circuits review: handout, solution

Some sample exams:

sample 1, sample 2: exam, solution

sample 3

June 16

Exam 3