Main Objectives for Alternating Current Circuits, Special Relativity and Final Exam
 | Be able to discuss how current and voltage vary in an LR circuit and energy is stored |
| Be able to discuss how energy is stored in an inductor and apply this to understanding oscillations in an LC circuit |
| Be able to explain what causes resonance in an LRC circuit and what the effect of resonance is |
| Be able to calculate the resonant frequency in an LRC circuit. |
| Be able to calculate reactance for inductors and capacitors and use it to relate current and voltage |
| Be able to describe the meanings of rms voltage, peak voltage and peak-to-peak voltage and given one find the other two |
| Be able to explain whether current either leads or lags voltage in LR and RC circuits |
| Be able to calculate impedance in simple circuits containing resistors, inductors, and capacitors in series. |
| Understand how a transformer couples electrical power from the primary winding to the secondary winding and the dependence on the number of turns in each. |
| Know about power loss due to I2R in power transmission. |
| Know Einstein's Postulates of Relativity, initerial reference frames and how Special Relativity differs from Galilean Relativity. |
| Understand the consequences of special realtivity on simultaneity, time dilation and length contraction. |
| Be able to apply relativistic momentum, relativistic energy and the equivalence of mass and enery. |
| Understand proper time, proper length, rest mass and total energy |
| Know how to use reflection, refraction, index of refraction |
| Understand the thin lens equation and know how to use it to solve for any of the lengths |
| Understand the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamcs, thermal contact, thermal equilibrium |
| Know an ideal gas obeys the equation PV=nRT |
| Understand work in thermodynamics and the 1st Law of Thermodynamics |
| Understand the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics |
| Understand the connection between entropy and disorder |
| Understand pressure, boyance, fluid flow, continuity equation and Bernoulli's equation |
| Understand Coulomb's Law and electric fields |
| Understand electric potential |
| Understand electronic circuits as well as parallel and series connections of elements |
| Understand magnetic field lines, flux, force on a moving charge in a magnetic field and that magnetic monopoles do not exist |
| Understand Faraday's Law |