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Physics 152.02 – Spring 2008
Prof. Spagna
Preliminary Course schedule
Updated: 2008 February 1
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Class # |
Date |
Reading |
Topic |
Assignments due |
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1 |
2-11 |
15.4 |
The Simple Pendulum |
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2 |
2-12 |
15.1 - 15.5 |
Simple Harmonic Motion |
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3 |
2-15 |
16.1 – 16.2 |
Traveling Waves |
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4 |
2-18 |
16.3 – 16.4 |
Superposition of waves |
Homework #1 |
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5 |
2-19 |
17.1 – 17.4 |
Sound waves |
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6 |
2-22 |
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Properties of light |
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7 |
2-25 |
34.1 – 34.3, 33.3 |
Reflection, refraction, polarization |
Homework #2 |
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8 |
2-26 |
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Lab #1: Light |
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9 |
2-29 |
33.2, 34.4 |
Mirrors |
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10 |
3-3 |
34.3, 34.5 |
Lenses |
Homework #3 |
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11 |
3-4 |
34.6 |
Optical instruments |
Lab # 1 |
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12 |
3-7 |
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More Optical instruments |
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13 |
3-10 |
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Lab #2: Lenses |
Homework #4 |
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14 |
3-11 |
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Exam #1 (Chapters 15-17, 33-34) |
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15 |
3-14 |
35.1 – 35.4 |
Interference |
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16 |
3-17 |
35.5 – 35.6 |
Diffraction |
Lab #2 |
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17 |
3-18 |
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Lab #3: Diffraction and interference of light |
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18 |
3-21 |
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More on the wave nature of light |
Homework #5 |
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3-24 |
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Spring break! |
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3-25 |
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Spring break! |
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3-28 |
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Spring break! |
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19 |
3-31 |
22.1 – 22.5 |
Coulomb’s “law” |
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20 |
4-1 |
23.1 – 23.5 |
The electric field |
Lab #3 |
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21 |
4-4 |
24.1 – 24.5 |
Gauss’s “law” |
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22 |
4-7 |
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Lab #4: Electric field mapping |
Homework #6 |
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23 |
4-8 |
25.1 – 25.5 |
Electric potential V |
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24 |
4-11 |
26.1 – 26.4 |
Capacitance and capacitors |
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25 |
4-14 |
27.1 – 27.4 |
Resistance and resistors |
Homework #7 |
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26 |
4-15 |
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Lab #5: Ohm’s “law” |
Lab #4 |
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27 |
4-18 |
28.7 |
RC Circuits |
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28 |
4-21 |
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Lab #6: RC Circuits |
Homework #8 |
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29 |
4-22 |
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Exam #2 (Chapters 22-28) |
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30 |
4-25 |
29.1 – 29.2, 30.1, 30.5 |
The magnetic field`; behavior of charged particle in magnetic field and the Hall effect |
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31 |
4-28 |
28.1 – 28.5 |
Current loops |
Lab #5 |
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32 |
4-29 |
29.3 - 29.5, |
Sources of the magnetic field |
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33 |
5-2 |
31.1 – 31.6 |
Magnetic induction |
Lab #6 |
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34 |
5-5 |
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Lab #7: Magnetic field mapping |
Homework #9 |
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35 |
5-6 |
38.3, 40.1 – 40.2 |
Nuclear physics, “review” of the atom |
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36 |
5-9 |
40.4 – 40.7 |
Radioactivity, fission, fusion |
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37 |
5-12 |
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Lab #8: radioactivity |
Homework #10 |
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38 |
5-13 |
41.1 – 41.6 |
“elementary” particles and cosmology |
Lab #7 |
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5-16 |
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Research Day |
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5-21 |
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Final Exam - 2:00 – 5:00 pm |
Lab #8 (counts as part of final exam) |