Physics 2135 Syllabus
Spring 2015
Prof. Allan Pringle
Office: 122 Physics Phone: 341-4031 email: [email protected]
Course Web Site: http://physics.mst.edu/classes/class_24.html
Textbook: Physics, Custom Edition of Young and Freedman, 13th Edition
Physics 24, Spring 2015 Homework Assignments. Last revised: 11:00 am, January 7.
Lecture
Monday, January 19
Martin Luther King Day
Recitation/Exam
1. Tuesday, January 20
Vector review (to be handed out in class)
1. Wednesday, January 21
read 1: 1-4
Electric Charge, Coulomb’s
Law, Electric Field
2. Monday, January 26
read 1: 5
Electric Field of a Charge
Distribution
2. Thursday, January 22
1: 13, 18 (also express the force in unit vector
notation), 28, 87, Special Homework #1
3. Wednesday, January 28
read 1: 6-7; 22: 1-4
Electric Field Lines, Electric
Dipoles, Electric Flux, Gauss’
Law
4. Monday, February 2
read 2: 4-5
Gauss’ Law Calculations,
Conductors and Electric Fields
4. Thursday, January 29
1: 57, 62; 2: 12 (use Gauss’ Law), 34, Special
Homework #2 (reminder: all solutions must begin
with starting equations)
5. Wednesday, February 4
read 3: 1-2
Electric Potential, Electric
Potential Energy
6. Monday, February 9
read 3: 3-5
Potential of Charge
Distribution, Equipotentials,
Potential Gradient
6. Thursday, February 5
3: 4, 10, 14, 21, 61
7. Wednesday, February 11
read 4: 1-2
Capacitance, Capacitors in
Series and Parallel
8. Monday, February 16
Exam 1 Review
8. Thursday, February 12
4: 5, 6, 11, 57, 64 (reminder: all solutions must
begin with starting equations)
9. Wednesday, February 18
read 4: 3-4
Energy Stored in Capacitors
and Electric Fields, Dielectrics
10. Thursday, February 19
4: 24, 35, 44, Special Homework #5
3. Tuesday, January 27
1: 53, 90, 91a, 98 (also express the force in unit
vector notation), 100 (reminder: all solutions must
begin with starting equations)
5. Tuesday, February 3
2: 19 (you only need to derive the expression for
the electric field once), 23, 40, 47, Special
Homework #3 (reminder: all solutions must begin
with starting equations)
7. Tuesday, February 10
3: 29, 31, 39, 86abc, Special Homework #4
(reminder: all solutions must begin with starting
equations)
9. Tuesday, February 17
Test Preparation Homework #1
Exam 1: 5:00 pm, chapters 1.1-4.2
Lab
No Labs
Odd
O1: Coulomb’s
Law
Even
E1: Electrical
Instruments
Odd
O2: Fields and
Potentials
Even
E2: Capacitors
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Physics 2135, Spring 2015, Homework Assignments, page 2.
Lecture
10. Monday, February 23
read 5: 1-3
Electric Current, Current
Density, Resistance
Recitation/Exam
11. Tuesday, February 24
5: 4, 22, 25, 56, 58
11. Wednesday, February 25
read 5: 4-5
EMF, Electric Power
12. Monday, March 2
read 26: 1-2
(last drop day)
Resistors in Series and
Parallel, Kirchoff’s Rules
12. Thursday, February 26
5: 32, 39, 46, 70, 72
13. Wednesday, March 4
read 6: 3-4
Electrical Instruments, RC
Circuits
14. Monday, March 9
read 7: 1-2, 4-6
Magnetic Field, Motion of
Charged Particle in Magnetic
Field, Magnetic Forces on
Currents
14. Thursday, March 5
6: 38, 51, 83, 84, Special Homework #6 (reminder:
all solutions must begin with starting equations)
15. Wednesday, March 11
read 7: 3, 7
Magnetic Flux, Gauss’ Law
for Magnetism, Magnetic
Torque
16. Monday, March 16
Exam 2 Review
17. Wednesday, March 18
read 8: 1-4
Magnetic Field of Current,
Biot-Savart Law, Field of
Wires, Force between
Conductors
13. Tuesday, March 3
6: 6, 13, 22, 59, 65
15. Tuesday, March 10
7: 7, 31, 39 (you may express your answer using
unit vector notation), 61, 74
Lab
Odd
O3: ResistanceMaterials,
Geometry
Even
E3: Ohm’s
Law, Internal
Resistance
No Labs
Thursday, March 12
Spring Recess: no recitation; no homework
16. Tuesday, March 17
Test Preparation Homework #2
Exam 2: 5:00 pm, chapters 4.3-7.7
Odd
O4: Series RC
Circuits
17. Thursday, March 19
8: 8, 16, 67, 74 (reminder: all solutions must begin
with starting equations)
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Physics 2135, Spring 2015, Homework Assignments, page 3.
Lecture
Monday, March 23
Spring Break
Recitation/Exam
Tuesday, March 24
Spring Break
Wednesday, March 25
Spring Break
18. Monday, March 30
read 8: 5-7
Magnetic Field of Current
Loop, Ampere’s Law,
Solenoids
Thursday, March 26
Spring Break
18. Tuesday, March 31
Even
8: 35, 42, 46, 49, Special Homework #7 (reminder: E4: Current
all solutions must begin with starting equations)
Balance
19. Wednesday, April 1
read 9: 1-4
Induction, Faraday’s Law,
Generators, Lenz’s Law,
Motional emf
19. Thursday, April 2
9: 24, 25, 27, 56, Special Homework #8 (reminder:
all solutions must begin with starting equations)
20. Monday, April 6
read 9: 5-7
Induced Electric Field, Eddy
Currents, Displacement
Current
20. Tuesday, April 7
9: 13, 37, 41, 53 (why does the case a→0 differ
from the result for a conducting bar?), 65 (three
problems are a review of material from the
previous lecture)
21. Wednesday, April 8
read 10: 1-4
Electromagnetic Waves
21. Thursday, April 9
10: 13, 20 (in part b, do not calculate the rms value
of the electric field; instead, calculate the
amplitudes of the electric and magnetic fields in
the beam), 22, 23, 54
22. Tuesday, April 14
11: 1, 10, 48, 51, Special Homework #9
22. Monday, April 13
read 11: 1-4
Light: Reflection, Refraction,
Dispersion
23. Wednesday, April 15
read 12: 1-2
Concave and Convex Mirrors
Lab
No Labs
Odd
O5: Generator
Even
E5: Snell’s Law
23. Thursday, April 16
12: 6, 10 (the outside bottom of the bowl is facing
you; draw a ray diagram), 68, 69, 72 (draw a ray
diagram)
24. Monday, April 20
Exam 3 Review
Last withdraw day is Friday, April 17.
24. Tuesday, April 21
Test Preparation Homework #3
Exam 3: 5:00 pm, chapters 8, 9, 10
25. Wednesday, April 22
read 12: 3-8
Lenses, Optical Instruments
25. Thursday, April 23
12: 26, 29 (draw a ray diagram), 30, 86 (hint: R=∞
for a flat surface), Special Homework #10
Odd
O6: Lenses
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Physics 2135, Spring 2015, Homework Assignments, page 4.
Lecture
26. Monday, April 27
read 13: 1-3
Double Slit Interference
Recitation/Exam
26. Tuesday, April 28
13: 14, 17, 18, 24, 43
27. Wednesday, April 29
read 13: 4
Thin Film Interference
28. Monday, May 4
read 14: 1-5
Diffraction
27. Thursday, April 30
13: 26, 27, 31, 33, 54
29. Wednesday, May 6
Final Exam Review
29. Thursday, May 7
Final Exam Preparation Homework
Friday, May 15
28. Tuesday, May 5
14: 4, 15, 38, 55, 65
Lab
Even
E6: Dispersion
No Labs
No makeup
labs will be
given!
No Labs
End-Material Test and Comprehensive
Final Exam, 7:30-9:30 AM
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