Tentative Schedule

  Date Topic Reading and Labs Problems
(do not turn in)		 Exercises
(turn in)
August 18 Mon Recitation.      
  19 Tue Electric Charge. Coulomb’s Law. 1.1-1.4    
  20 Wed Energy of a system of charges. 1.5    
  21 Thu Electric field. Charge distributions. 1.7 - 1.8    
  25 Mon Recitation.      
  26 Tue Flux. Gauss’s law. 1.9-1.10    
  27 Wed Field of various charge distributions. 1.11-1.13    
  28 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
September 1 Mon Labor Day.      
  2 Tue Potential difference and the potential function. Gradient. 2.1-2.4    
  3 Wed Potential of a charge distribution. 2.5-2.6    
  4 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
  8 Mon Recitation.      
  9 Tue Divergence. Gauss’s theorem. 2.8-2.10    
  10 Wed Laplace’s equation. 2.11-2.12    
  11 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
  15 Mon Recitation.    
  16 Tue Capacitors. Energy stored at the capacitor. 3.5-3.7    
  17 Wed Electric current and current density. 4.1-4.2    
  18 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
  22 Mon Recitation.      
  23 Tue Test 1 (Chapters 1-2).    
  24 Wed Electrical conductivity and Ohm’s law. 4.3    
  25 Thu The physics of electrical conduction. 4.4-4.5
Lab 3		    
  29 Mon Recitation.      
  30 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
October 1 Wed Networks with voltage sources. 4.10    
  2 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)
  6 Mon Fall Break.      
  7 Tue Fall Break.    
  8 Wed Definition of the magnetic field. 6.1    
  9 Thu The curl of a vector function. Stoke’s theorem. 2.14-2.17
Lab 4
  13 Mon 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
  14 Tue Test 2 (Chapters 3-4).    
  15 Wed Ampere’s law. Vector potential. 6.2-6.3    
  16 Thu Ampere’s law. Vector potential. 6.2-6.3
Lab 4		    
  20 Mon Recitation.      
  21 Tue Magnetic fields of current-carrying objects. 6.4-6.6    
  22 Wed The field of a current loop. 11.2-11.3    
  23 Thu Faraday’s law. 7.1-7.3
Lab 5		 6.2, 6.3, 6.10, 6.11, 6.17

HW #8:

6.31, 6.33, 6.36, 6.37, 6.39
  27 Mon Recitation.      
  28 Tue Faraday’s law. 7.4-7.5    
  29 Wed Mutual inductance. 7.6-7.7    
  30 Thu Self-inductance. RL Circuits. Energy stored in the magnetic field. 7.8-7.10
Lab 5		 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
November 3 Mon Recitation.      
  4 Tue Self-inductance. RL Circuits. Energy stored in the magnetic field. 7.8-7.10    
  5 Wed A resonant circuit. 8.1    
  6 Thu AC current. 8.2
Lab 6		    
  10 Mon 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
  11 Tue Test 3 (Chapters 6-7)    
  12 Wed AC current. 8.2    
  13 Thu Admittance and impedance. Power and energy in AC circuits. 8.4-8.6
Lab 7		    
  17 Mon Recitation.      
  18 Tue The displacement current. 9.1-9.2    
  19 Wed Recitation.      
  20 Thu Maxwell’s equations and electromagnetic wave. 9.3-9.4
Lab 7		    
  24 Mon Energy transport by electromagnetic waves. 9.6  

 
  25 Tue Review. 8.7, 8.15, 9.6

HW #11:

8.27, 8.38, 9.14, 9.15, 9.18, 9.19
  26 Wed Student Recess.      
  27 Thu Thanksgiving Break.    

 
December 1 Mon Recitation.      
  2 Tue Review.