Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

January 18-22
Lab: Coulomb’s Law

ch16§1-3 Electric charges, insulators and conductors

ch16§4-7 Coulomb’s law and electric fields (H)

ch16§8-9 Field lines and conductors

January 25-29
Lab: Electroscope

ch16§10 Gauss’s law! (H)

ch17§1-2 Electric potential energy and potential difference

ch17§3-4 Equipotential lines and E-field lines (H) (Q)

February 1-5
Lab: Potential mapping

ch17§5-6 Point charges and dipoles

ch17§7,9 Capacitors and energy storage (H)

ch18§1-3 Batteries and electric currents

February 8-12
Lab: Circuits

ch18§3-4 Ohm’s law (H)

ch18§3-5 Ohm’s law and electrical power

ch19§1-2 Parallel and series circuits (H)

February 15-19
No lab

Ch19§3 Kirchoff’s rules

Exam
7-9pm

Ch20§1 magnets and magnetic fields

Ch20§3-4 Magnetic force (H)

February 22-26
Lab: B-field;solenoid

Ch20§2,5 currents produce magnetic fields

Ch20§8 Ampere’s law (H)

Ch20§9-10 torque on a current loop and applications

March 1-5
Lab: Cathode rays

Ch21§1 Demonstrations of EM induction (H)

Ch21§2 Faraday’s law and lenz’s law

Ch21§3 Generators and motional EMF (H)

March 8-12
Lab: EM induction

Ch22§1 Changing E Þ B and Maxwell’s equations

Ch22§2 Electromagnetic (EM) waves and EM spectrum (H)

Ch22§3,5 Producing EM waves and polarization (Q)

March 15-26

Yay – spring break!!!

March 29-April 2
Lab: Snell’s law

Ch23§1,2,4 Light rays; laws of reflection and refraction

Ch23§3 Image formation by mirrors (H)

Ch23§5-6 Total internal reflection and intro to lenses

April 5-9
No lab

Ch23§7 Image formation by lenses; ray tracing (H)

Ch23§8 Thin lens equation

Exam
7-9pm

Ch24§1 Wave or particle?! Huygen’s principle

April 12-16
Lab: Thin lenses

Ch24§3,6 Interference –2-slit and multi-slit experiments (H)

Ch24§4 Single slit diffraction and Poisson’s spot

Ch24§8 Thin film interference (H)

April 19-23
Lab: Interference

Ch26§1 Galilean relativity

Ch26§2-3 Einstein’s postulates and simultaneity (H)

Ch26§4-5 Time dilation and length contraction

April 26-30
Lab: H-atom spectrum

Ch27§1-3 Photoelectric effect (H)

Ch27§4-5 Compton effect

Ch27§7-8 Particle waves (H)

May 3-7
Lab: Radioactivity

Ch27§12 Bohr Model of hydrogen atom

Ch28§1-2 Wavefunctions and quantum mechanics (H)

Ch28§3-6 Uncertainty and the quantum atom