Phy 210 Syllabus for Fall 2008

Week Chapter Topics Week of
1 11:4, 16, 17 Elasticity, Fluids, Heat 27 Aug
2 18, 19 Thermal Properties, Kinetic Thy., 1st Law 2 Sep
3 20 2nd Law, Entropy 8 Sep
4 14, 15 Waves, Sound 15 Sep
5 35, 36 Light, Optics 22 Sep
6 37, 38 Interference, Diffraction 29 Sep
7 39 Relativity 6 Oct
8 21, 22 Electric charges and Fields 13 Oct
9 23, 24 Gauss's Law, Potential 20 Oct
10 25, 26 Capacitors, Current 27 Oct
11 27, 28 DC Circuits, Magnetic Fields 3 Nov
12 29, 30 Faraday's Law, Inductance 10 Nov
13 32, 34 AC Circuits, EM Waves 17 Nov
14 40 Photons, Atoms 24 Nov
15     1 Dec

The main text is by Fishbane et al.
Also Spiegel: Vector Analysis

Exams will be the weeks of
Sept 15
Oct 13
Nov 10
And Monday, Dec 15 at 2:00 P.M. (final)

Calculators will not be allowed in the exams.

The homework will count as equivalent to a midterm exam. The final will count as two midterms. This gives you a total of six grades for the semester ( hw, mid, mid, mid, final, final). One of these will be dropped for the final grade.

My office is in the physics building, room 320.
Phone is 284-2323, extension 7. Dialing from on campus it is also 8-7116.

When you send me e-mail, please begin the subject field with 210 .   Junk mail has become such a problem that I can use this to prevent your mail from accidentally being removed.

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