Week

Lecture (Tuesday)

Lecture (Thursday)

Lab (Tuesday or Thursday)

1

(1/25)

Charge

 (21.1-21.2)

Coulomb’s law

 (21.3)

1. Scotch tape electricity

2

(2/1)

Electric field of point charges

(21.4-21.5)

Motion of point charge in electric field

(21.6)

2.Electrostatics

3

(2/8)

Continuous charge distributions, Gauss law

(22.1.-22.2)

Application of Gauss law. Electric field of conductors

(22.3-22.5)

Practice exam

4

(2/15)

Electric potential of point charges

(23.1-23.2)

Electric field and potential, continuous charge distribution

(23.3-23.5)

Exam 1 (21,22)

5

(2/22)

 Electric potential energy  (23.6)

Capacitance

(24.1-24.2)

3. Equipotential surfaces

6

(3/1)

 Capacitance in circuits, dielectrics (24.3-24.5)

Currents, Ohm’s law

(25.1-25.3)

4. Capacitance

7

(3/8)

Combination of resistances (25.4)

Kirchhoff rules

(25.5)

Exam 2 (23,24,25.1-25.3)

8

(3/15)

RC circuit (25.6)

Force exerted by magnetic field (26.1)

5. Simple circuits

9

(3/22)

Motion of charge in magnetic field

(26.2)

Torque on current loop

(26.3-26.4)

6. Measurement of e/m

10

(4/5)

Magnetic field of currents

(27.2)

Biot Savart’s law

(27.2)

Exam 3 (25, 26)

11

(4/12)

Ampere’s law

(27.3-27.4)

Magnetism in matter

(27.5)

7. Earth’s magnetic field

12

(4/19)

Magnetic flux, Faraday’s law

(28.1-28.2)

Lenz law, motional emf

(28.3-28.5)

8. Force between currents

13

(4/26)

Inductance, RL circuits

(28.6-28.8)

AC circuits (29.1-29.2)

Exam 4 (27,28)

14

(5/3)

Transformer, RLC circuits

(29.3-29.4)

Driven RLC circuits, 

(29.5-29.6)

9. RC time constant

15

(5/10)

Maxwell equations (30.1-30.2)

EM waves

(30.3-30.4)

10. Decay of electric oscillations

16

(5/17)

Review

Final Exam