Tentative Schedule

  Date Topic Reading and Labs Problems
(do not turn in)		 Exercises
(turn in)
January 6 Mon Recitation.      
  7 Tue Electric Charge. Coulomb’s Law. 1.1-1.4    
  8 Wed Energy of a system of charges. 1.5    
  9 Thu Electric field. Charge distributions. 1.7 - 1.8    
  13 Mon Recitation.      
  14 Tue Flux. Gauss’s law. 1.9-1.10    
  15 Wed Field of various charge distributions. 1.11-1.13    
  16 Thu Energy associated with the electric field. 1.15 1.3, 1.6, 1.9, 1.10

HW #1:

1.36, 1.37, 1.47, 1.48, 1.50, 1.52, 1.55
  20 Mon Holiday.      
  21 Tue Potential difference and the potential function. Gradient. 2.1-2.4    
  22 Wed Potential of a charge distribution. 2.5-2.6    
  23 Thu Dipoles. 2.7
Lab 1		 1.15, 1.20, 1.27, 1.29, 1.31, 1.32

HW #2:

1.56, 1.63, 1.64, 1.69, 1.82
  27 Mon Recitation.      
  28 Tue Divergence. Gauss’s theorem. 2.8-2.10    
  29 Wed Laplace’s equation. 2.11-2.12    
  30 Thu Conductors in the electrostatic field. Image charges. 3.1-3.4
Lab 2		 2.3, 2.6, 2.10, 2.12

HW #3:

2.37, 2.39, 2.40, 2.43, 2.50, 2.55
February 3 Mon Recitation.    
  4 Tue Capacitors. Energy stored at the capacitor. 3.5-3.7    
  5 Wed Electric current and current density. 4.1-4.2    
  6 Thu Review. Lab 2 2.15, 2.16, 2.20, 2.21, 2.23, 2.29

HW #4:

2.61, 2.69, 2.70, 2.71, 2.72, 2.73
  10 Mon Recitation.      
  11 Tue Test 1 (Chapters 1-2).      
  12 Wed Electrical conductivity and Ohm’s law. 4.3    
  13 Thu The physics of electrical conduction. 4.4-4.5
Lab 3		    
  17 Mon Recitation.      
  18 Tue Circuits. 4.7-4.9 3.9, 3.11, 3.12, 3.18(!!), 3.20, 3.22

HW #5:

3.38, 3.39, 3.41, 3.52, 3.53, 3.54, 3.55
  19 Wed Networks with voltage sources. 4.10    
  20 Thu RC circuits. 4.11
Lab 3		 3.26, 3.27,
3.76 (just read the problem)

HW #6:

3.59, 3.60, 3.66, 3.67, 3.70, 3.71(a)
  24 Mon Definition of the magnetic field. 6.1    
  25 Tue The curl of a vector function. Stoke’s theorem. 2.14-2.17
  26 Wed Review.   4.3(!!), 4.4, 4.6, 4.8, 4.10, 4.12, 4.17

HW #7:

4.22, 4.29, 4.30, 4.32, 4.36, 4.37, 4.38, 4.39, 4.47, 4.48
  27 Thu Test 2 (Chapters 3-4). Lab 4    
March 3 Mon Ampere’s law. Vector potential. 6.2-6.3    
  4 Tue Ampere’s law. Vector potential. 6.2-6.3  
  5 Wed Magnetic fields of current-carrying objects. 6.4-6.6    
  6 Thu The field of a current loop. 11.2-11.3
Lab 4		    
  10 Mon Recitation.      
  11 Tue Faraday’s law. 7.1-7.3 6.2, 6.3, 6.10, 6.11, 6.17

HW #8:

6.31, 6.33, 6.36, 6.37, 6.39
  12 Wed Faraday’s law. 7.4-7.5    
  13 Thu Mutual inductance. 7.6-7.7
Lab 5		    
  17 Mon Spring Break      
  18 Tue Spring Break      
  19 Wed Spring Break      
  20 Thu Spring Break    

 
  24 Mon Recitation.      
  25 Tue Self-inductance. RL Circuits. Energy stored in the magnetic field. 7.8-7.10 6.5, 6.18, 6.19, 6.20

HW #9:

6.41, 6.43, 6.45, 6.47, 6.49, 6.50, 6.56, 6.57, 11.12, 11.13, 11.14
  26 Wed Self-inductance. RL Circuits. Energy stored in the magnetic field. 7.8-7.10    
  27 Thu A resonant circuit. 8.1
Lab 5		    
  31 Mon AC current. 8.2  

 
April 1 Tue AC current. 8.2    
  2 Wed Review.   7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.9, 7.11, 7.12, 7.13(!), 7.14, 7.15, 7.16, 7.17

HW #10:

7.26, 7.27, 7.29(do not estimate R), 7.30, 7.33, 7.35, 7.40, 7.41, 7.42
  3 Thu Test 3 (Chapters 6-7) Lab 6    
  7 Mon Recitation.      
  8 Tue  AC current. 8.2    
  9 Wed Admittance and impedance. Power and energy in AC circuits. 8.4-8.6    
  10 Thu The displacement current. 9.1-9.2
Lab 7		    
  14 Mon Recitation.    

 
  15 Tue Maxwell’s equations and electromagnetic wave. 9.3-9.4  

 
  16 Wed Energy transport by electromagnetic waves. 9.6    
  17 Thu Review. Lab 7  8.7, 8.15, 9.6

HW #11:

8.27, 8.38, 9.14, 9.15, 9.18, 9.19
  21 Mon Recitation.      
  22 Tue Review.