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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 |
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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 |
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Exam
1 -- Chapters 11-13 |
18-Feb-08 |
Hol |
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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 |
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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 |
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Spring
Break |
19-Mar-08 |
BRK |
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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 |
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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 |
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5-May-08 |
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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"

Last edited on: August 10, 2003
Web Author: Barney Taylor, MUH
- taylorbe@miamioh.edu
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