PHY 2049
Unit 1

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Updated: 1/2/2010

If you are interested, here are my comments on preparing for the first day of class.

Please take a moment to go to Blackboard and read the two files in the Course Information folder that contain advice to you from students who completed this class last year.

Week 1

Wed 1/6:  Syllabus handed out and info sheets collected, 'Reality Check'; see how to use LON-CAPA.
Intro to electrostatics, Sections 20.1 and 20.2 (Coulomb's Law).

Rest of week 1:  Electrostatics demos from Section 20.1, Sections 20.2 to 20.4.

Week 2

Section 20.4 and 20.5; Sections 21.1 and 21.2 (Gauss' Law) plus applications in Sections 21.3 to 21.4.

Some Java applets showing fields (E) and equipotentials (V).

• Electric Field Lines and Potentials by B. Surendranath Reddy (Hyderabad, India).
• Electric Field Lines from U of Texas
• Fields, Potentials, and Kinematics from Caltech "Physics 1".
  (awesome, but you must wait for the calculation to be complete)

Week 3

Mon 1/18:  Martin Luther King Jr Holiday

Rest of week 3:  Sections 21.4 thru 21.6; Section 22.1 (potentials) and Section 22.2.

Week 4

Sections 22.2 through 22.4.

Start unit 2 (Section 24.1, resistance, and Sections 24.1 thru 24.4 plus Sections 25.1 and 25.2).

Week 5

Mon 2/1:  Exam 1, sections 20.1 through 22.4 covered by HW-01 thru HW-06.

Contact me if you have any questions.