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Date |
Chapter Readings |
Topic |
Assignments Due |
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2-11 |
15.4 |
The Simple Pendulum |
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2-13 |
15.1 - 15.5 |
Simple Harmonic Motion |
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2-15 |
16.1 - 16.2 |
Traveling Waves |
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2-18 |
16.3 - 16.4 |
Superposition of Waves (3 hour class) |
HW #1 |
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2-20 |
17.1 - 17.4 |
Sound Waves/Properties of Light (3 hour class) |
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2-22 |
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NO CLASS (Board of Trustees Meeting) |
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2-25 |
34.1 - 34.3, 33.3 |
Reflection, Refraction, and Polarization |
HW #2 |
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2-27 |
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Lab #1: Light |
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2-29 |
34.4 |
Mirrors |
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3-3 |
34.5 |
Lenses |
HW #3 |
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3-5 |
24.6 |
Optical Instruments |
Lab #1 Write-up |
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3-7 |
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More on Optical Instruments |
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3-10 |
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Lab #2: Lenses |
HW #4 |
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3-12 |
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EXAM #1 (Chapters 15 - 17, 33 - 34) |
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3-14 |
35.1 -35.4 |
Interference |
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3-17 |
35.5 - 35.6 |
Diffraction |
Lab #2 Write-up |
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3-19 |
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Lab #3: Diffraction and Interference of Light |
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3-21 |
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Wave Nature of Light |
HW #5 |
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3-24 |
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SPRING BREAK |
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3-26 |
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SPRING BREAK |
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3-28 |
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SPRING BREAK |
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3-31 |
22.1 - 22.5 |
Coulomb's Law |
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4-2 |
23.1 - 23.5 |
The Electric Field |
Lab #3 Write-up |
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4-4 |
24.1 - 24.5 |
Gauss's Law |
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4-7 |
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Lab #4: Electric Field Mapping |
HW #6 |
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4-9 |
25.1 - 25.5 |
Electric Potential |
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4-11 |
26.1 - 26.4 |
Capacitance and Capacitors |
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4-14 |
27.1 - 27.4 |
Resistance and Resistors |
HW #7 |
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4-16 |
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Lab #5: Ohm's Law |
Lab #4 Write-up |
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4-18 |
28.7 |
RC Circuits |
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4-21 |
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Lab #6: RC Circuits |
HW #8 |
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4-23 |
29.1 - 29.2, 30.1, 30.5 |
Magnetic Field and the Hall Effect (3 hour class) |
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4-25 |
28.1 - 28.5, 29.3 - 29.5, 30.1 |
Current Loops/Sources of Magnetic Field |
Lab #5 Write-up |
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4-28 |
29.3 - 29.5, 30.1 31.1 - 31.6 |
Sources of Magnetic Field/Magnetic Induction (3 hour class) |
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4-30 |
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EXAM #2 (Chapters 22 - 28) |
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5-2 |
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NO CLASS (Board of Trustees Meeting) |
Lab #6 Write-up |
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5-5 |
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Lab #7: Magnetic Field Mapping |
HW #9 |
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5-7 |
38.3, 40.1 - 40.2 |
Nulcear Physics - Review of the Atom |
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5-9 |
40.4 - 40.7 |
Radioactivity, Fission, Fusion |
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5-12 |
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Lab #8: Radioactivity |
HW #10 |
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5-14 |
41.1 - 41.6 |
Elementary Particles and Cosmology |
Lab #7 Write-up |
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5-16 |
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RESEARCH DAY |
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5-22 |
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FINAL EXAM (8:30 - 11:30 AM) |
Lab #8 Write-up |