Physics 272 - Spring 2008 - Prof. Hall - Tuesday/Thursday 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm, Friday 12:00 pm- 12:50 pm
Week	Date	Lecture Topics	Pre-lecture reading	Homework Due
			(Tipler)
1	29-Jan	Syllabus, schedule, pre-test
	31-Jan	Charge, Conductors, Insulators	21.1-2	1
	1-Feb	Coulomb's Law	21.3
2	5-Feb	Electric Field	21.4-5
	7-Feb	Motion of charges	21.6	2
	8-Feb	Continuous charge distributions, Gauss' Law	22.1-2
3	12-Feb	Gauss' Law cont'd	22.3-4
	14-Feb	Charge and field on conductors	22.5-6	3
	15-Feb	Electric Potential	23.1-2
4	19-Feb	Catch-up/Review
	21-Feb	Exam 1 (Ch. 21, 22, & 23.1-2)		4
	22-Feb	Electric field from the potential, continuous charge	23.3-4
5	26-Feb	Equipotentials	23.5
	28-Feb	Electrostatic energy, capacitance	23.6, 24.1	5
	29-Feb	Capacitance and energy	24.2-3
6	4-Mar	Dielectrics	24.4-5
	6-Mar	Currents and Ohm's Law	25.1-2	6
	7-Mar	Circuits	25.3-5
7	11-Mar	RC circuits	25.6
	13-Mar	Magnetic force	26.1	7
	14-Mar	Motions of charge in magnetic field	26.2
8	25-Mar	Current loops & Hall effect	26.3-4
	27-Mar	Biot-Savart Law, Ampere's Law	27.1-3	8
	28-Mar	Ampere's Law, magnetic materials	27.4-5
9	1-Apr	Catch-up/Review
	3-Apr	Exam 2		9
	4-Apr	Magnetic Flux and Faraday's Law	28.1-2
10	8-Apr	Lenz's Law, Motional EMF	28.3-4
	10-Apr	Inductance, magnetic energy	28.5-7	10
	11-Apr	AC circuits	29.1-3
11	15-Apr	LR, LC circuits	28.8, 29.4-5
	17-Apr	Resonance in AC circuits	29.6	11
	18-Apr	Displacement current & Maxwell's Equations	30.1-2
12	22-Apr	EM waves	30.3-4
	24-Apr	Speed of Light, Reflection & Refraction	31.1-3	12
	25-Apr	Catch-up/Review
13	29-Apr	Exam 3
	1-May	Post-test, Polarization	31.4-5	13
	2-May	Mirrors & Lenses	32.1-2
14	6-May	Interference	33.1-3
	8-May	Single slit diffraction	33.4	14
	9-May	Fraunhofer & Fresnel Diffraction	33.6-7
15	13-May	Catch-up/Review
16	20-May	Final Exam