PHY 182, Spring, 2005

Week 12

 

  Main Objectives:
  • Be able to calculate the force on a current due to a magnetic field
  • Be able to find the torque on a current loop in a constant magnetic field
  • Be able to explain how a galvanometer works
  • Be able to use Lenz's and Faraday's laws to find the magnitude and direction of the current induced by a changing magnetic field
  • Be able to define magnetic flux
  • Be able to explain how an electric field induced by a changing magnetic field is different from the electric fields we have studied previously
  • Be able to explain how an AC generator works
  • Be able to explain how transformers work
  • Be able to define inductance and discuss how it is analogous to our definition of capacitance
  • Be able to find current as a function of time in an RL circuit
  • Be able to combine inductors in series and parallel
  • Be able to discuss how energy is stored in an inductor and apply this to understanding oscillations in an LC circuit
Tuesday Examples using magnetic forces on charged particles.  Examples of magnetic forces and torques on currents.

Outside of class:  Read Ch. 33 Sec. 1-5.  Do Ch. 33 workbook exercises 1, 10, 11, 12, and 13.  Complete Ch. 32 homework: 26, 28, 30, 33, 36, 37, and 41.   (Due Thursday) 

Thursday Demonstrations and practice with Lenz's law and Faraday's law.   Discuss motional emf, generators, and induced electric fields.

Outside of class:  Read Ch. 33 Sec. 6-10.  Do Ch. 33 workbook exercises 25, 29, 30 and 32. Complete Ch. 33 homework: 5, 10, 12, 25,  and 44.  (Due Tuesday.)

Friday Begin discussion of inductors in circuits including energy stored in an inductor and circuits containing both inductors and capacitors.

Outside of class:  Read Ch. 34 Sec. 1-5.  (I don't really care if you can follow all the math in this chapter.  It is the ideas that are important.) Complete Ch. 33 homework: 15, 19, 54, 67, 72 and 74.  (Due Tuesday)