| Week: | Topics | Reading in Giancoli | Laboratory |
| 1: 1/21 | Ch 16: Electrostatics: Forces |
sections 1-10 |
Coulomb's law |
| 2: 1/28 | Ch 17: Electrostatics: Energy QUIZ | sections 1-9 | Electroscope |
| 3: 2/4 | Ch 18: Current |
sections 1-5 |
Potential Mapping |
| 4: 2/11 | Ch 19: Circuits | sections 1-4 and 6 |
DC circuits |
| 5: 2/18 | Ch 20: Magnetism | sections 1-9 | Mid-term Exam I |
| 6: 2/25 | catch up | B-field of a solenoid | |
| 7: 3/3 | Ch 21: Electromagnetic Induction |
sections 1-6 | Cathode rays |
| 8: 3/10 | Ch 22: EM Waves QUIZ |
sections 1-4 | EM Induction |
| Spring Break - yay! | |||
| 9: 3/31 | Ch 23: Geometrical Optics |
sections 1-8 | Snell's Law |
| 10: 4/7 | Ch 24: Wave Optics | sections 1-6,8,10 | Mid-Term Exam II |
| 11: 4/14 | Ch 26: Special Theory of Relativity | sections 1-9 | Thin lenses |
| 12: 4/21 | Ch 27: Early Quantum | sections 1-8, 10-13 | Interference |
| 13: 4/28 | Ch 28: Real Quantum | sections 1-6 | Hydrogen Spectrum |
| 14: 5/5 | Lasers | Radioactive decay | |
| 5/18 | Final Exam 09:00-12:00. |
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