Physics
132 Schedule 
Physics
132 Schedule | Class | Class number | Reading Assignments (online with commentary in MP; due 10 PM prev eve.) |
Assignments (Due at beginning of lecture) |
Content | Lab | Recitation |
| Week 1 | Pre Lab -- |
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| 1/25 | 1 | Introduction to the class | ||||
| 1/26 | 2 | Review of Physics 131 | ||||
| Week 2 | Lab 0 -- Using Excel |
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| 1/30 | 3 | Energy and Enthalpy | ||||
| 2/1 | 4 | HW 1, 1MP | Entropy |
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| 2/3 | 5 | Free Energy | ||||
| Week 3 | Lab 1 -- Damped oscillations: 1 |
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| 2/6 | 6 | The Boltzmann Distribution | Quiz 1 | |||
| 2/8 | 7 | HW 2, 2MP | The Boltzmann Distribution | |||
| 2/10 | 8 | Recap: Electric charge,
force, and energy |
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| Week 4 | Lab 2 -- Damped oscillations:2 |
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| 2/13 | 9 | Fields: Examples and some simple models |
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| 2/15 | 10 | HW 3, 3MP | Electrostatic potential |
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| 2/17 | 11 | Simple models
and examples |
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| Week 5 | Lab 3-- Light
refraction: 1 |
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| 2/20 | 12 | Capacitance |
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| 2/22 | 13 | HW 4, 4MP | Electrostatics in fluids: dielectric constant |
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| 2/23 | 14 | Shielding and the Debye length |
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| Week 6 | Lab 4 -- Light
Refraction: 2 |
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| 2/27 | 15 | Moving charge: current |
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| 2/29 | 16 | HW 5, 5MP | Kirchoff's principles |
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| 3/2 | 17 | Complex examples | ||||
| Week 7 | Lab 5-- Double
slit interference: 1 |
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| 3/5 | 18 | Entropic forces: the Nernst equation | Quiz 5 | |||
| 3/7 | 19 | HW 6, 6MP | review |
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| 3/9 | 20 | MIDTERM EXAM 1 |
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| Week 8 | Lab 6 -- Double
slit interference: 2 |
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| 3/12 | 21 | Go over Exam I |
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| 3/14 | 22 | Harmonic oscillation | ||||
| 3/16 | 23 | Oscillation examples |
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| Week 9 | Lab 7 --Ohmic materials: 1 |
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| 3/26 | 24 | Damped and driven oscillator, resonance |
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| 3/28 | 25 | HW 7, 7MP | Wave pulses |
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| 3/28 | Make up exam 1 | |||||
| 3/30 | 26 | Wave speed | ||||
| Week 10 | Lab 8 -- Ohmic
materials: 2 |
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| 4/2 | 27 | Superposition and Sinusoidal waves | Quiz 7 | |||
| 4/4 | 28 | HW 8, 8MP | Standing waves | |||
| 4/6 | 29 | Sound waves | ||||
| Week 11 | Lab 9 -- Magnetic
force: 1 |
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| 4/9 | 30 | Three models of light | Quiz 8 | |||
| 4/11 | 31 | HW 9, 9MP | The ray model | |||
| 4/13 | 32 | Mirrors | ||||
| Week 12 | Lab 10 -- Magnetic
force: 2 |
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| 4/16 | 33 | Lenses | Quiz 9 | |||
| 4/18 | 34 | HW 10, 10MP | Guest lecture: Prof. Carleton, Habitat and the Spectrum | |||
| 4/20 | 35 | MIDTERM EXAM 2 | ||||
| Week 13 | No lab-- |
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| 4/23 | 36 | Go over exam 2 | ||||
| 4/25 | 37 | The wave model | ||||
| 4/27 | 38 | Interference | ||||
| 4/27 | Make up exam 2 | |||||
| Week 14 | Makeup lab |
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| 4/30 | 39 | Diffraction and diffraction grating | Quiz 10 | |||
| 5/2 | 40 | HW 11, 11MP | Spectra and color (Fourier) | |||
| 5/4 | 41 | Photons | ||||
| Week 15 | ||||||
| 5/7 | 42 | |
Quantization of atomic oscillation | Quiz 11 | ||
| 5/9 | 43 | HW12, 12MP | review | |||
| 5/18 | FINAL
EXAM (8:00-12:00) |
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Last revision 30. April, 2012.