Syllabus for Physics 1308 Fall 2008
Class	Day	Date	Lecture Topic	Helpful Links	Text Reference (*)
1	Mon	8/25	Introduction, The Electric Field	E-Field Simulator	Chapt. 20
2	Wed	8/27	The Superposition Principle, Distribution of Charges	Link to 3d Vectors Review	20.1, 20.4, Ex. 20.5
3	Fri	8/29	Matter in Electric Fields, Conductors in E-fields	Static Electricity	20.5
	Mon	9/1	LABOR DAY HOLIDAY
4	Tue	9/2	Electric Field and Continuous Charge Distributions		Ex. 20.7
5	Wed	9/3	Continuous Charge Distributions (part deu)		Ex. 20.6, others
6	Fri	9/5	The Electric Potential	Tutorial	Chapt. 22
7	Mon	9/8	Elect. Potential of Arrangement of Charges		22.2
8	Wed	9/10	Equipotentials and Conductors		22.3
9	Fri	9/12	Obtaining the E-field from the potential		22.3
10	Mon	9/15	Electrical Potential Energy and Capacitance	What does C depend on?	Chapt. 23
11	Wed	9/17	Exam I		Chapts. 20 & 22
12	Fri	9/19	Capacitance/Combinations of Capacitors	Capacitors store charge and thus energy	23.2-23.3
13	Mon	9/22	Energy in the Electric Field		23.4
14	Wed	9/24	Electric Currents		Chapt. 24
15	Fri	9/26	The Magnetic Field and the Biot Savart Law	Magnetic Field Due to Line of current	Chapt. 26
16	Mon	9/29	The Lorentz Force, Mag. force on moving charge	Hall Effect	26.1
17	Wed	10/1	Magnetic Dipoles and Magnetic Matter	The Cyclotron Accelerator	26.6-26.7
18	Fri	10/3	Electric Circuits and Resistance		Chapt. 25
19	Mon	10/6	Multiloop Circuits		25.3
20	Wed	10/8	Capacitors in Circuits	RC Circuits Simulation	25.5
21	Fri	10/10	Exam II		Chapts. 23, 25, 26
	Mon	10/13	FALL BREAK
22	Wed	10/15	Electric Flux and Gauss Law	A Simulation for Gauss Law	Chapt. 21
23	Fri	10/17	Applications of Gauss Law		21.4
24	Mon	10/20	Gauss Law and Conductors		21.6
25	Wed	10/22	Ampere's Law	Synopsis	26.8
26	Fri	10/24	Motional EMF and Relativity	Practice Exercise	27.1-27.3
27	Mon	10/27	Faraday's Law and the Lentz Law (Induction)	A moving rod in a B-Field	Chapt. 27
28	Wed	10/29	Induction II	Simulation	27.4
29	Fri	10/31	Conservation of Electric Energy and Faradays Law		27.5
30	Mon	11/3	Exam III		Chapts. 21, 26.8, 27
31	Wed	11/5	Alternating Current Circuits, LC Circutis		Chapt. 28
32	Fri	11/7	RLC Circuits	Series RLC	28.4
33	Mon	11/10	Power in AC Circuits		28.5
34	Wed	11/12	Maxwell's Equations, Fixing Ampere's law	Summary	Chapt. 29
35	Fri	11/14	Electromagnetic Waves	Progating EM Wave	29.4
36	Mon	11/17	Energy and Momentum in Electromagnetic Waves		29.8
37	Wed	11/19	Geometrical Optics, Reflection		Chapt. 30
38	Fri	11/21	Refraction and Snell's law		30.1-30.3
39	Mon	11/24	Exam IV		Chapts. 28, 29, 30
40	Wed	11/26	Thanksgiving Break
41	Fri	11/28
42	Mon	12/1	Images and Optical Instruments	Some basic info on telescopes	Chapt. 31
43	Wed	12/3	Mirrors and lenses
44	Fri	12/5	Interference and Diffraction	More on interference	Chapt. 32
			Final Exam Tues 9 Dec 11:30 am - 2:30 pm		Chapters 20-32
(*) The text references refer to the text "Essential University Physics" by Richard Wolfson.  However, you may elect to use what ever other, Calculus based, college level text you like.