PHYS 212    Spring 2013    Course Schedule

Date Topic Chap Sections Assignments
1-7 Temperature 18-1,2,3,4,5 P:5,6,7
1-9 Thermal expansion & Heat     18-6,7,8 P:21,26,32,36
1-11 Heat, Work, and Heat Transfer 18-9,10,11,12 P:44,51,61,84
1-14 Ideal gas law, Work done 19-1,2,3,4        Pressure P:2,3,7,19
1-16 Molar specific heats 19-5,6,7,8,11 P:33,38,46,55,77,85
1-18 Entropy, Second law of TD 20-1,2,3,4        Entropy P:59,55
1-21 Martin Luther King's Birthday No Class  
1-23 Engines, Refrigerator   AirCond 20-5,6,7    Carnot Cycle P:24,29,66
1-25 Revision for Test #1 Study Guide  
1-28 Test #1    
1-30 Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law 21-1,2,3,4 Q: 10; P: 4,28,49
2-1 Coulomb's Law 21-4,5,6          P:42 P:7,13,33,35,37,42
2-4 Electric Field: Point charges 22-1,2,3,4       P:39 Q2; P:1,2,9,30
2-6 Electric Field: Continuous charges 22-6,7,8,9       P:25 P:33,39,43,62,79
2-8 Electric flux & Gauss' Law 23-1,2,3,4 Q4, P:1,3,4  P357
2-11 Applications of Gauss' Law 23-5,6,7,8,9 P:25,38,39,63
2-13 Electric Potential: Point Charges 24-1,2,3,4,6,7 Q1, P:1,5,17,85,88
2-15 Electric Potential: Continuous Charges 24-9,10,11,12 P:24,30,35,37,36,99
2-18 Revision for Test #2 Study Guide  
2-20 Test #2    
2-22 Capacitance 25-1,2,3,4  P:2,9,11,19
2-25 Capacitance with Dielectrics 25-4,5,6,7,8 P:46,48,49,70 ICP
2-27 Current & Resistance 26-1,2,3,4 Q:4,5; P:1,10,17,22
3-1 Ohm's law & Power 26-5,6,7,8,9 P:41,49,63,75
3-4 DC circuits: Single Loop 27-1,2,3,4,5,6  P:5,27,33,36
3-6 Multiloop and RC circuits 27-7,8,9 P:61,74,76,92
3-8 Problem Solving WileyPlus Simult.Eq2    Simult.Eq3
3-11

SPRING BREAK
3-13
3-15
3-18 Revision for Test #3 Study Guide  
3-20 Test #3    
3-22 Magnetic Fields 28-1,2,3 Q:3; P:1,9,25
3-25 Cross fields & Mag. Force on Current 28-4,6,7,8,9 Q9; P: 39,73,85
3-27 Magnetic fields due to currents 29-1,2,3,4,5  P:1,10,45,64,82  PQ1  PQ2
3-29 Biot-Savart Law and Ampere's law   PQ1
4-1 Induction 30-1,2,3,4 P:1,4,25
4-3 Inductance 30-7,8,9,10,11 P:40,44,55,69
4-5 Alternating Current & Transformers 31-6,11 63,65
4-8 Re-visit Analyzing Circuits 31-8,9  
4-10 Alternating Current Circuits 31-7,8,9,10 Q7; P:28,29,30,40,53,80
4-12 Revision for Test #4 Study Guide  
4-15 Test #4   Grade Calculation
4-17 Maxwell's Equations 32-1,2,3,4,5 MIT Video Lecture    Problems
4-19 Electromagnetic waves 33-1,2,3,7 1,2,3,4,71
4-22 Revision for Final Study Guide  
4-29: 8AM Comprehensive Final Exam      Grade Calculation