Phy 210 Syllabus for Spring 2008

Week Chapter Topics Week of
1 11:4, 16, 17 Elasticity, Fluids, Heat 14 Jan
2 18, 19 Thermal Properties, Kinetic Thy., 1st Law 22 Jan
3 20 2nd Law, Entropy 28 Jan
4 14, 15 Waves, Sound 4 Feb
5 35, 36 Light, Optics 11 Feb
6 37, 38 Interference, Diffraction 18 Feb
7 39 Relativity 25 Feb
8 21, 22 Electric charges and Fields 3 Mar
   Spring Vacation 10 Mar
9 23, 24 Gauss's Law, Potential 17 Mar
10 25, 26 Capacitors, Current 24 Mar
11 27, 28 DC Circuits, Magnetic Fields 31 Mar
12 29, 30 Faraday's Law, Inductance 7 Apr
13 32, 34 AC Circuits, EM Waves 14 Apr
14 40 Photons, Atoms 23 Apr

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

Exams will be the weeks of January 28
February 18
March 17
April 7
And Thursday, May 1 at 11:00 A.M. (final)*
*Unless there is an overwhelming wish for Thursday May 1 at 2:00.

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 seven grades for the semester ( hw, mid, 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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