5/2/12 1 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Department of Physics Physics 8.02 Spring 2012 Class Schedule and Reading Assignments Text: Liao, Dourmashkin, Belcher; Introduction to E & M MIT 8.02 Course Notes. Week One Introduction to Teal, Coulomb’s Law and Electric Fields W01D1 T Feb 7 Special Class W01D2 W/R Feb 8 Introduction to Teal, Fields, Coulomb’s Law, Electric Fields, Discrete Charge Distributions W01D3 F Feb 10 PS01: Coulomb’s Law Reading Course Notes: Chapter 1.1-1.7, 2.1-2.7 Week Two: Gauss’s Law Problem Set 1 Due Tuesday Feb 14 at 9 pm W02D1 M/T Feb 13/14 Electric Dipoles and Continuous Charge Distributions Reading Course Notes: Sections 2.7-2.10, 2.12, 2.13.4-2.13.6 W02D2 W/R Feb 15/16 Gauss’s Law Electric Fields Reading Course Notes: Sections 4.1-4.2, 4.7 W02D3 F Feb 17 PS02: Gauss’s Law Reading Course Notes: Sections 4.1-4.2, 4.7 Week Three: Problem Set 2 Due Tuesday Feb 21 at 9 pm Electric Potential W03D1 T Feb 21 Special Class W03D2 W/R Feb 22/23 Electric Potential, Discrete and Continuous Charges; Configuration Energy Reading Course Notes: Sections 3.1-3.4 W03D3 F Feb 24 PS03: Electric Potential Reading Course Notes: Sections 3.5, 3.7-3.8, 4.8.45/2/12 2 Week Four: Equipotentials and Energy; Exam 1 W04D01 M/T Feb 27/28 Potential and Gauss’s Law; Equipotential Lines and Electric Fields Reading Course Notes: Sections 3.4, 4.3 W04D2 W/R Feb 29/Mar 1 Exam 1 Review Exam 1 Thursday Mar 1 7:30 pm –9:30 pm W04D3 F Mar 2 No Class Week Five Capacitors and Problem Set 4 Due Tuesday Mar 6 at 9 pm Capacitance, Dielectrics W05D1 M/T Mar 5/6 Conductors and Insulators; Capacitance & Capacitors; Energy Stored in Capacitors; Reading Course Notes: Sections 4.3-4.4, 5.1-5.4, 5.9-5.10 W05D2 W/R Mar 7/8 Dielectrics; Conductors as Shields: Expt.1: Faraday Ice Pail. Reading Course Notes: Sections 4.3-4.4, 5.5, 5.9-5.10 W05D3 F Mar 9 Add Date Mar 9 PS04: Friday Problem Solving: Capacitance and Dielectrics Reading Course Notes: Sections 4.3-4.4, 5.5, 5.9-5.10 Week Six Current, Magnetic Problem Set 5 Due Tuesday Mar 13 at 9 pm Fields and Forces W06D1 M/T Mar 12/13 Current, Current Density, and Resistance and Ohm’s Law, Magnetic Fields and Forces Reading Course Notes: Sections 6.1-6.5, 8.1-8.3, 8.5-6, 8.11.5-.5 W06D2 W/R Mar 14/15 Magnetic Force on Current Carrying Wire, Sources of Magnetic Fields: Biot-Savart Law Reading Course Notes: Sections 8.3, 8.11.2-.3, 9.1-9.2, 9.10.1, 9.11.1-.45/2/12 3 W06D3 F Mar 16 PS05: Calculating Magnetic Fields and Magnetic Force Reading Course Notes: Sections 8.8-8.9 Week Seven Magnetic Fields Problem Set 6 Due Tuesday Mar 20 at 9 pm and Exam 2 W07D1 M/T Mar 19/20 Magnetic Dipoles, Torque and Force on a Dipole, Experiment 2: Magnetic Dipole in a Helmholtz Coil Reading Course Notes: Sections 8.4,8.11.6, 9.5 9.9 W07D2 W/R Mar 21/22 Test 2 Review Exam 2 Thursday Mar 22 7:30 pm –9:30 pm W7D3 F Mar 23 No Class Week Eight Spring Break Week Nine Faraday’s Law W09D1 M/T Apr 2/3 Creating Fields: Ampere’s Law Reading Course Notes: Sections 9.3-9.4, 9.6 W09D2 W/R Apr 4/5 Faraday’s Law; Expt.3: Faraday’s Law, Reading Course Notes: Sections 10.1-10.6; Expt.3: Faraday’s Law W09D3 W F Apr 6 PS06: Ampere’s Law and Faraday’s Law Problem Solving Faraday’s Law; Reading Course Notes: Sections 9.10.2, 9.11.4-7; 10.8-9 Week Ten Magnetic Induction Problem Set 7 Due Tuesday April 10 at 9 pm and Energy; DC Circuits W10D1 M/T Apr 9/10 Inductance & Magnetic Energy, Reading Course Notes: Sections 11.1-4 W10D2 W/R Apr 11/12 DC Circuits & Kirchhoff’s Loop Rules; Reading Course Notes: Sections 7.1-7.4 W10D3 F Apr 13 PS07: PhET: Building a Circuit 7.1-7.4,7.8-7.95/2/12 4 Week Eleven Exam 3 Problem Set 8 Due Tuesday April 17 at 9 pm W11D1 M/T Apr 16/17 Patriot’s Day Holiday W11D2 W/R Apr 18/19 Exam 3 Review Exam 3 Thursday April 19 7:30 pm –9:30 pm W11D3 F Apr 20 No Class Week Twelve Undriven RLC Circuits W12D1 M/T Apr 23/24 RC and LR Circuits; Reading Course Notes: Sections 7.5-7.6, 11.1-11.4, W12D2 W/R Apr 25/26 Undriven RLC Circuits; Expt. 4: Undriven RLC Circuits Reading Course Notes: Sections 11.4-11.8 Drop Date Thurs Apr 21 W12D3 F Apr 27 PS09: Undriven RLC Cirucits Reading Course Notes: Sections 11.10-11.11 Week Thirteen EM Waves Problem Set 9 Due Tuesday May 1 at 9 pm W13D1 M/T Apr 30/May1 Maxwell’s Equations and Displacement Current; One Dimensional Wave Equation Reading Course Notes: Sections 13.1-13.7 W13D2 W/R May 2/3 Maxwell’s Equations and One Dimensional Wave Equation Reading Course Notes: Sections 13.1-13.7 W13D3 F May 4 PS10: Maxwell’s Equations; Displacement Current; EM Waves Reading Course Notes: Sections 13.11, 13.12.1-13.12.25/2/12 5 Week Fourteen Interference Problem Set 10 Due Tuesday May 8 at 9 pm and Diffraction W14D1 M/T May 7/8 Polarization Expt 5 MW; Interference Reading Course Notes: Sections 13.8, 14.1-14.3 W14D2 W/R May 9/10 Diffraction; Expt. 6: Interference and Diffraction Reading Course Notes: Sections 14.4-14.9 W14D3 F May 11 PS11 Interference and Diffraction Reading Course Notes: Section 14.4-14.11 Week Fifteen Poynting Vector and Energy Flow; Final Review W15D1 M/T May 14/15 Poynting Vector and Energy Flow Reading Course Notes: Sections.13.6, 13.12.3-13.12.4 W15D2 W/R May 16/17 Final Review Final Exam Monday Morning May 21 from 9 am-12 noon Johnson Athletic Center Track 2nd
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