The course notes were written by John Belcher, Peter Dourmashkin, and Sen-Ben Liao.
The TEAL classroom includes the opportunity for students to use the Personal Response System (PRS). Questions are posed to the class to stimulate discussion and indicate how concepts are going over. Students “vote” on answers electronically and their answers are tallied.
| WEEK # | SES # | TOPICS | COURSE NOTES | PRESENTATIONS | PRS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
Hour 1 Why Physics? Why Studio Physics? (and How?) Vector and Scalar Fields Hour 2 Gravitational Fields Electric Fields |
Chapter 1: Sections 1.1 - 1.6; 1.8 (PDF) Chapter 2 (PDF) |
(PDF) | (PDF) |
| 2 |
Hour 1 Review: Electric Fields Charge Dipoles Hour 2 Continuous Charge Distributions |
Chapter 1: Section 1.6 (PDF) Chapter 2 (PDF) |
(PDF) | (PDF) | |
| 3 | Problem Solving Session 1: Line and Surface Integrals | ||||
| 2 | 4 |
Hour 1 Working In Groups Experiment 1: Visualizations Hour 2 Electric Potential |
Chapter 3: Sections 3.1 - 3.5 (PDF) | (PDF) | (PDF) |
| 5 |
Hour 1 Gauss’ Law Hour 2 Gauss’ Law |
Chapter 4 (PDF) | (PDF) | (PDF) | |
| 6 | Problem Solving Session 2: Electric Field of Continuous Charge Distributions | ||||
| 3 | 7 |
Hour 1 Conductors and Insulators Experiment 2: Electrostatic Force Hour 2 Capacitors |
Chapter 4: Sections 4.3 - 4.4 (PDF) Chapter 5 (PDF - 1.3 MB) |
(PDF) | (PDF) |
| 8 |
Hour 1 Last Time: Conductors Experiment 3: Faraday Ice Pail Hour 2 Capacitors and Dielectrics |
Chapter 4: Sections 4.3 - 4.4 (PDF) Chapter 5 (PDF - 1.3 MB) |
(PDF) | (PDF) | |
| 9 | Problem Solving Session 3: Gauss’ Law | Chapter 4 (PDF) | |||
| 4 | 10 |
Hour 1 DC Circuits Hour 2 Kirchhoff’s Loop Rules |
Chapter 6 (PDF) Chapter 7: Sections 7.1 through 7.4 (PDF) |
(PDF - 1.2 MB) | (PDF) |
| 11 | Problem Solving Session 4: Capacitance | Chapter 5 (PDF - 1.3 MB) | |||
| 5 | 12 |
Hour 1 Working with Circuits Experiment 4: Part I: Measuring V, I, R Hour 2 RC Circuits Experiment 4: Part II: RC Circuits |
Chapter 7 (PDF) | (PDF) | (PDF) |
| 13 |
Hour 1 Concept Review/Overview PRS Questions - Possible Exam Questions Hour 2 Sample Exam |
(PDF) | (PDF) | ||
| 6 | 14 |
Hour 1 Magnetic Fields Experiment 5: Magnetic Fields Hour 2 Charges moving in B Fields Exam Review |
Chapter 8 (PDF) | (PDF) | (PDF) |
| 15 |
Hour 1 Magnetic Force Experiment 6: Magnetic Force Hour 2 Creating B Fields: Biot-Savart |
Chapter 9: Sections 9.1 - 9.2 (PDF - 1.9 MB) | (PDF - 1.1 MB) | (PDF) | |
| 16 | Problem Solving Session 5: Magnetic Torque and Moments |
Chapter 8: Sections 8.3 - 8.4 (PDF) Chapter 9: Sections 9.1 - 9.2 (PDF - 1.9 MB) |
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| 7 | 17 |
Hour 1 Dipoles and Magnetic Fields Hour 2 Experiment 7: Dipoles in B Fields |
Chapter 8: Section 8.4 (PDF) Chapter 9: Sections 9.1 - 9.2, 9.5 (PDF - 1.9 MB) |
(PDF) | (PDF) |
| 18 |
Hour 1 Levitation Experiment 8: Magnetic Forces Hour 2 Ampere’s Law |
Chapter 9 (PDF - 1.9 MB) | (PDF - 1.6 MB) | (PDF) | |
| 19 | Problem Solving Session 6: Ampere’s Law | Chapter 9: Sections 9.3 - 9.4; 9.10.2, 9.11.6, 9.11.7 (PDF - 1.9 MB) | |||
| 8 | 20 |
Hour 1 Faraday’s Law Hour 2 Faraday’s Law: Applications |
Chapter 10 (PDF) | (PDF) | (PDF) |
| 21 |
Hour 1 Experiment 9: Faraday’s Law Hour 2 Faraday’s Law Transformers Magnetic Materials |
Chapter 10 (PDF) Chapter 11: Section 11.1 (PDF - 1.0 MB) |
(PDF) | (PDF) | |
| 22 | Problem Solving Session 7: Faraday’s Law | Chapter 10 (PDF) | |||
| 9 | 23 |
Hour 1 Concept Review/Overview PRS Questions - Possible Exam Questions Hour 2 Sample Exam |
(PDF) | (PDF) | |
| 24 |
Hour 1 Inductance and LR Circuits Hour 2 Energy in Inductors |
Chapter 11: Sections 11.1 - 11.4 (PDF - 1.0 MB) | (PDF) | (PDF - 1.3 MB) | |
| 10 | 25 |
Hour 1 Experiment 10: Part I: Measuring L LC Circuits Hour 2 Experiment 10: Part II: LRC Circuit |
Chapter 11: Sections 11.5 - 11.6 (PDF - 1.0 MB) | (PDF) | (PDF) |
| 26 |
Hour 1 Driven Harmonic Motion (RLC) Hour 2 Experiment 11: Driven RLC Circuit |
Chapter 12 (PDF) | (PDF) | (PDF) | |
| 27 | Problem Solving Session 8: Driven RLC Circuits | Chapter 12 (PDF) | |||
| 11 | 28 |
Hour 1 Displacement Current Maxwell’s Equations Hour 2 Electromagnetic Waves |
Chapter 13 (PDF) | (PDF) | (PDF) |
| 29 | Problem Solving Session 9: Displacement Current, Poynting | Chapter 13 (PDF) | |||
| 12 | 30 |
Hour 1 Traveling and Standing Waves Hour 2 Electromagnetic (EM) Waves |
Chapter 13 (PDF) | (PDF) | (PDF) |
| 31 |
Hour 1 Concept Review/Overview PRS Questions - Possible Exam Questions Hour 2 Sample Exam |
(PDF) | |||
| 13 | 32 |
Hour 1 Generating Electromagnetic Waves Plane EM Waves Electric Dipole EM Waves Hour 2 Experiment 12: Microwaves Review Exam 3 Results |
Chapter 13 (PDF) | (PDF - 2.9 MB) | (PDF) |
| 33 |
Hour 1 Interference Hour 2 Experiment 13: Interference |
Chapter 14 (PDF) | (PDF - 1.4 MB) | (PDF) | |
| 34 | Problem Solving Session 10: Interference | ||||
| 14 | 35 |
Hour 1 The Structure of Space and Time Hour 2 The Structure of Space and Time |
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| 36 |
Hour 1 Concept Review/Overview PRS Questions - Possible Exam Questions Hour 2 Sample Exam |
(PDF) |
