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PHY 172 Tentative Syllabus - Fall 2007 -Subject to Changes

Date

Chapter

Sections

Topics

14-Jan-08

Intro / 11

1-4

Transform Energy, Body, Energy and Temperature

16-Jan-08

11

5-9

Heat and 1st Law, Heat Engines and Pumps, Entropy, 2nd Law and Systems

21-Jan-08

 Holiday

MLK Day, No Class

 

23-Jan-08

12

 1-4

Atomic Model, Thermal Expansion, Pressure & Kinetic Theory, Ideal Gas Processes

28-Jan-08

12

5-8

Specific Heat, Phase Changes, Calorimetry, Gas Properties, Heat Transfer

30-Jan-08

13

1-4

Fluids and Density, Measure Pressure, Buoyancy

4-Feb-08

13

5-7

Fluid Motion, Dynamics Viscosity

6-Feb-08

20 / review

1-4

Charges, Forces, Atoms & Molecules, Coulomb's Law, Electric Field

11-Feb-08

 20

 5-7

Electric Field, Conductors, Forces and Torques

13-Feb-08

 

 

Exam 1 -- Chapters 11-13

18-Feb-08

Hol

 

President's Day, No Class, Monday Tuesday Switch Tomorrow

19-Feb-08

21

1-4

Electric Potential

20-Feb-08

21

5-8

Connecting Potential & Field, Capacitors, Dielectrics & Energy Stored

25-Feb-08

22

1-4

Current, Batteries, Resistance

27-Feb-08

22

2-6

Ohm's Law, Energy & Power

3-Mar-08

23 / review

1-4

Circuits, Kirchoff's Laws, Series & Parallel, Measure Voltage & Current

5-Mar-08

 

 

Exam 2 -- Chapters 20-22

10-Mar-08

23

5-9

Household Electricity, Capacitors Series & Parallel, RC Circuits, Nervous System

12-Mar-08

24

1-4

Magnetism, Magnetic Fields, Electric Currents, 

17-Mar-08

BRK

 

Spring Break

19-Mar-08

BRK

 

Spring Break

24-Mar-08

24

5-8

Magnetic Forces Moving Charges and Currents, Torques, Motors, 

26-Mar-08

24 / 25

1-4

Induced Currents, Motional EMF, Magnetic Flux, Lenz's Law

31-Mar-08

25

5-8

Faraday's Law, Induced Fields, Propagation, Waves, E&M Spectrum

2-Apr-08

25

5-8

Faraday's Law, Induced Fields, Propagation, Waves, E&M Spectrum

7-Apr-08

26

1-2

AC Circuits

9-Apr-08

 26

2-5

Alternating Current, Transmission, Capacitors

14-Apr-08

26

4-6

Capacitors, Inductors, Oscillation Circuits
Review for Exam

16-Apr-08

 

 

Exam 3 -- Chapters 23, 24, 25

21-Apr-08

27

1-5

Galilean Relativity, Reference Frames, Einstein Relativity, Events, Simultaneity

23-Apr-08

27

5-10

Time, length, velocity, momentum, energy

28-Apr-08

27 / 18 / 19

27: 9, 10 

TBD

30-Apr-08

review

7-10

 

5-May-08

 

Exam Week

Final Exam -- Chapters 26, 27, 18, comprehensive

Feb 4: Last day to drop without a grade

March 24: Last day to drop with a "W"




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