Professors: Mark Adams, 2274 SES, adams@uic.edu
Charles
Rhodes, 2140 SES, rhodes@uic.edu
Text: "University Physics", Volume 2 of 12th Edition, Young & Freedman
Homework:
http://www.masteringphysics.com/ (ID = PHYS142SPRING2010)
Laboratory: Physics 142 Laboratory Instruction CD – provided by physics department
TAs: Jun Jiang
(jjiang22@uic.edu) and Keqin Zhang (kzhang2@uic.edu)
Graders: Patrick Gan (pgan2@uic.edu) and
Edgar Matallana-Sanchez (ematal2@uic.edu)
Course grading: http://physicsweb.phy.uic.edu/142/course_info.htm
Staff hours: http://physicsweb.phy.uic.edu/142/staff_s10.htm
Practice Exam for Midterm 1 available: midterm 1 practice
Note: This schedule may change as the semester progresses.
Always refer to the course web site for the most up-to-date syllabus and course information.
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1 Jan. 11 |
Chapter 21 21.1 to 21.7 |
Electric Charge & Field Electric Charge, Induced Charge Coulomb’s Law Electric Field and Forces Electric Dipole |
Required Intro to MasteringPhysics Online Homework Due: Jan. 19 |
No Lab |
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2 Jan.
18 Jan.
18 is MLK (no lab class) |
Chapter 22 22.1 to 22.5 |
Gauss’s Law Charge and Electric Flux Gauss’s Law Charges on Conductors |
Assignment Online Due: Jan. 26 |
No Lab |
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3 Jan.
25 |
Chapter 23 23.1 to 23.5 |
Electric Potential Electric Potential Energy and Electric Potential Calculating Electric Potential Potential Gradient |
Assignment Online Due: Feb. 2 |
Experiment 1 Electrostatic
Interaction |
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Feb. 1 |
Chapter 24 24.1 to 24.4 |
Capacitance and Dielectrics Capacitors and Capacitance Capacitors in Series and Parallel Dielectrics |
Assignment Online Due: Feb. 9 |
Experiment 2 Charged
Particles in Electric Fields (Part 1) |
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5 Feb. 8 |
Chapter 25 |
Current, Resistance, and Electromotive Force Electric Current Resistance Circuits |
Assignment Online Due: Feb. 16 |
Experiment 2 Charged
Particles in Electric Fields (Part 2) |
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6 Feb. 15 Exam 1 Feb. 17 6-8 PM |
Chapter 26 26.1 to 26.5 |
Direct Current Circuits Resistors in Series and Parallel Kirchhoff’s Rules RC Circuits Exam
1 on Feb. 17 |
Assignment Online Due: Feb. 23 |
No Lab
Scheduled (Make-up labs
may be scheduled) |
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7 Feb. 22 |
Chapter 27 27.1 to 27.8 |
Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces The Magnetic Field Motion of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field Magnetic Force and Torque |
Assignment Online Due: Mar. 2 |
Experiment 3 DC Circuits |
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8 Mar. 1 |
Chapter 28 28.1 to 28.7 |
Sources of Magnetic Field Magnetic Field of a Moving Charge The Biot-Savart Law Ampere’s Law |
Assignment Online Due: Mar. 9 |
Experiment 4 RC Circuits |
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9 Mar. 8 |
Chapter 29 29.1 to 29.7 |
Electromagnetic Induction Induction Faraday’s Law Lenz’s Law Induced Electric Fields Maxwell’s Equations |
Assignment Online Due: Mar. 16 |
Experiment 5 Biot-Savart Law |
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10 Mar. 15 |
Chapter 30 30.1 to 30.6 |
Inductance Mutual Inductance Self-Inductance and Inductors The RL and LC Circuits The LRC Circuit |
Assignment Online Due: Mar. 30 |
Experiment 7 Ampere’s Law |
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11 Mar. 29 Exam 2 6-8 PM |
Chapter 31 31.1 to 31.3 |
Review for Exam 2 on
Mar. 30 Alternating Current Phasors and Alternating Currents Resistance and Reactance The LRC Circuit |
Assignment Online Due: April 6 |
Experiment 8 Induction |
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12 April 5 |
Chapter 31 31.4 to 31.6 Chapter 32 32.1 to 32.4 |
Intro to complex numbers (Pb 31.75) Power Resonance and Transformers Electromagnetic (EM) Waves Plane Electromagnetic Waves The Speed of Light Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Waves EM Energy and Momentum Flow |
Assignment Online Due: April 13 |
Experiment 9 AC Circuits |
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13 April 12 |
Chapter 33 33.1 33.7 33.2 to 33.5 |
The Nature and Propagation of Light The Nature of Light Huygens’ Principle Reflection and Refraction Dispersion Polarization |
Assignment Online Due: April 20 |
Experiment 10 Waves |
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14 April 19 |
Chapter 35 35.1 to 35.5 |
Interference Coherent Sources Two-Source Interference of Light Interference in Thin Films The Michelson Interferometer |
Assignment Online Due: April 27 |
No Lab
Scheduled (Make-up labs
may be scheduled) |
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15 April 26 |
Chapter 36 36.1 to 36.7 |
Diffraction Single Slit Diffraction Intensity The Diffraction Grating X-Ray Diffraction Resolving Power |
Assignment Online Due: April 30 |
Experiment 11 Interference |
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16 May 3 |
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Final Exam Week Final Exam TBA |
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