Lectures
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Date | Lecture # | Topic |
Intro Video | Course Introduction | |
Aug. 22 | Lecture 1 | Electric Charge; Coulomb's Law; Electric Field; Motion of a Charge |
Aug. 24 | Lecture 2 | Electric Field of a Charge Distribution |
Aug. 29 | Lecture 3 | Electric Field Lines; Electric Dipoles; Electric Flux Gauss's Law |
Aug. 31 | Lecture 4 | Gauss' Law: Conductors in Electric Fields |
Sept. 7 | Lecture 5 | Electric Potential; Electric Potential Energy |
Sept. 12 | Lecture 6 | Electric Potentials of Charge Distributions; Equipotentials; Potential Gradient |
Sept. 14 | Lecture 7 | Capacitance; Capacitors in Series and Parallel |
Sept. 19 | Review I | Exam I from lectures 1-7 |
Sept. 21 | Lecture 8 | Energy stored in Capacitors and Electric Fields; Dielectrics |
Sept. 26 | Lecture 9 | Electric Current; Current Density; Resistance |
Sept. 28 | Lecture 10 | EMF; Electric Power |
Oct. 3 | Lecture 11 | Resistances in Series and Parallel; Kirchhoff's Rules |
Oct. 5 | Special Topic | Electrostatic Applications |
Oct. 10 | Lecture 12 | Electrical Instruments; RC Circuits |
Oct. 12 | Lecture 13 | Magnetic Fields and Flux; Motion of Charged Particle in Magnetic Field; Gauss' Law |
Oct. 17 | Lecture 14 | Magnetic Forces on Currents; Magnetic Torque |
Oct. 19 | Lecture 15 | Magnetic Field of a Current; Biot-Savart Law; Magnetic Field of Wires |
Oct. 24 | Review II | Exam II from lectures 8-14 |
Oct. 26 | Lecture 16 | Magnetic Field of a Current Loop; Ampere's Law; Solenoids; Toroids |
Oct. 31 | Lecture 17 | Faraday's Law; Induction; Lenz's Law; Generators; Motional emf; Maxwell's Law |
Nov. 2 | Lecture 18 | Induced Electric Fields; Motors; Transformers; Maxwell's Law |
Nov. 7 | Lecture 19 | Electromagnetic Waves |
Nov. 9 | Lecture 20 | Light: Reflection, Refraction, and Dispersion |
Nov. 14 | Review III | Exam III from lectures 15-20 |
Nov. 16 | Lecture 21 | Concave and Convex Mirrors |
Nov. 28 | Lecture 22 | Lenses; Optical Instruments |
Nov. 30 | Lecture 23a-b | Double Slit Interference, Single Slit Interference |
Dec. 5 | Lecture 23c-d | Diffraction Gratings, Thin Film Interference |
Dec. 7 | EM Review | End Material Review from lectures 21-23 |