PHYS 212    Spring 2014    Course Schedule

Date Topic Chap Sections Assignments
1-13 Temperature and Thermal Expansion 18-1,2,3,4,5,6 P:5,6,21
1-15 Heat, Specific Heat, Latent Heat     18-7,8 P:26,32,36
1-17  Work, 1st Law of TD, Heat Transfer 18-9,10,11,12 P:44,51,61,84
1-20 Martin Luther King's Birthday No Class  
1-22 Ideal gas law, Work done 19-1,2,3,4        Pressure P:2,3,7,19
1-24 Molar specific heats 19-5,6,7,8,11 P:33,38,46,55,77,85
1-27 Entropy, Second law of TD 20-1,2,3,4        Entropy P:59,55
1-29 Classes Cancelled Due To Snow    
1-31 Engines, Refrigerator   AirCond 20-5,6,7    Carnot Cycle P:24,29,66
2-3 Revision for Test #1 Study Guide  
2-5 Test #1    
2-7 Electric Charge and Coulomb's Law 21-1,2,3,4 Q: 10; P: 4,28,49
2-10 Coulomb's Law and Charging Demo 21-4,5,6          P:42 P:7,13,33,35,37,42
2-12 Snow Day Snow Day Snow Day
2-14 Snow Day Snow Day Snow Day
2-17 Electric Field: Point charges 22-1,2,3,4       P:39 Q2; P:1,2,9,30
2-19 Electric Field: Continuous charges 22-6,7,8,9       P:25 P:33,39,43,62,79
2-21 Electric flux & Gauss' Law 23-1,2,3,4 Q4, P:1,3,4  P357
2-24 Applications of Gauss' Law 23-5,6,7,8,9 P:25,38,39,63
2-26 Electric Potential: Point Charges 24-1,2,3,4,6,7 Q1, P:1,5,17,85,88
2-28 Electric Potential: Continuous Charges 24-9,10,11,12 P:24,30,35,37,36,99
3-3 Revision for Test #2 Study Guide  
3-5 Test #2    
3-7 Capacitance 25-1,2,3,4  P:2,9,11,19   STQ on PPC
3-10 Capacitance with Dielectrics 25-4,5,6,7,8 P:46,48,49,70  STQ on C comb.
3-12 Current & Resistance 26-1,2,3,4 Q:4,5; P:1,10,17,22  STQ on I and J
3-14 Ohm's law & Power 26-5,6,7,8,9 P:41,49,63,75   STQ on R and P
3-17

SPRING BREAK
3-19
3-21
3-24 DC circuits: Single Loop 27-1,2,3,4,5,6  P:5,27,33,36    STQ on ckt
3-26 Multiloop and RC circuits 27-7,8,9 P:61,74,76,92
3-28 Magnetic Fields 28-1,2,3 Q:3; P:1,9,25
3-31 Cross fields & Mag. Force on Current 28-4,6,7,8,9 Q9; P: 39,73,85 
4-2 Mag. Force on Current   STQ on MS
4-4 Revision for Test #3 Study Guide Simult.Eq2    Simult.Eq3
4-7 Test #3    
4-9 Magnetic fields due to currents 29-1,2,3,4,5  P:1,10,45,64,82  PQ1  PQ2
4-11 Biot-Savart Law and Ampere's law   PQ1
4-14 Induction 30-1,2,3,4 P:1,4,25
4-16 Inductance 30-7,8,9,10,11 P:40,44,55,69
4-18 Alternating Current & Transformers 31-6,11 63,65  STQ on ac
4-21 Alternating Current Circuits 31-7,8,9,10 Q7; P:28,29,30,40,53,80
4-23 Maxwell's Equations 32-1,2,3,4,5 MIT Video Lecture    Problems
4-25 Electromagnetic waves 33-1,2,3,7 1,2,3,4,71
4-28 Test #4 Chap 29-33 Study Guide for T4 and Final.
5-6, Tuesday 001- 11:30AM
002- 8AM		 Comprehensive Final Exam      Grade Calculation