PHY 102 Slides and Lecture Notes

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Unit 1

• Week 1

  • Monday (January 8, 2024)

    • Introductions

    • Syllabus and Course Overview

  • Wednesday (January 10, 2024)

    • Introduction to Waves

    • Traveling Waves in One Dimension

    • Traveling Waves In-Class Activity

    • Solutions to In-Class Examples

  • Friday (January 12, 2024)

    • Light and Sound

• Week 2

  • Monday (January 15, 2024)

    • No Class

  • Wednesday (January 17, 2024)

    • Light and Sound (Finish the Doppler Effect)

    • Wave Interference

    • Solutions to In-Class Problems

  • Friday (January 19, 2024)

    • Standing Waves

• Week 3

  • Monday

    • Wave Optics (Part 1)

    • Wave Optics Visualization

  • Wednesday

    • Wave Optics (Part 2)

  • Friday

    • Introduction to Charge and Electric Force

Unit 2

• Week 4

  • Monday

    • Electric Force and Field

  • Wednesday

    • Electric Force and Field (Continued from Monday)

• Week 5

  • Monday

    • Dipole and Electric Field Through Integration

  • Wednesday

    • Gauss's Law and the Charged Sphere

  • Friday

    • Electric Field of Other Large Objects

• Week 6

  • Monday

    • Electric Potential Energy and Electric Potential

  • Wednesday

    • Parallel Plates and Capacitors 

  • Friday

    • Finish: Parallel Plates and Capacitors

    • Particles in Uniform Electric Fields

• Week 7

  • Monday

    • The Final Electric Field Topics

Unit 3

• Week 7

  • Friday

    • Current and Resistance

• Week 8

  • Monday

    • Introduction to Circuits

• Week 9

  • Monday

    • Introduction to Circuits

  • Wednesday

    • No Slides (In Class Problem Solving)

  • Friday

    • Introduction to Circuits (RC Circuits)

• Week 10

  • Monday

    • The Magnetic Field (Magnetic Field of Particles)

  • Wednesday 

    • The Magnetic Field (Magnetic Fields of Wires and Coils) 

  • Friday

    • The Magnetic Field (Magnetic Fields of Solenoids and Ampere's Law)

• Week 11

  • Monday

    • The Magnetic Field (Cyclotron Motion, Parallel Wires)

  • Wednesday

    • Magnetic Flux and Lenz's Law

• Week 12

  • Monday

    • Faraday's Law

Unit 4

• Week 13

  • Monday and Wednesday

    • Optics Part 1: Refraction

    • Optics Simulation

    • Why does light bend through a material? (Video)

  • Friday

    • Optics Part 2: Reflection

• Week 14

  • Friday

    • Introduction to Modern Physics

• Week 15

  • Monday

    • Introduction to Nuclear Physics

  • Wednesday

    • General Physics Day

  • Friday

    • Unit 1 Review

• Week 16

  • Monday

    • Review of Electric Fields

  • Wednesday

    • Review of Magnetism and Magnetic Induction