Physics 102 Fall 2015

Practice Problems from College Physics by Giambattista Fourth Edition

(All numbers refer to "problems" except where otherwise noted)

Lect. 1: "Electric charge" 16.5

Lect. 2: "Coulomb's law & electric dipoles" 16.19, 16.21, 16.102, 19.7

Lect. 3: "Electric fields" 16.33, 16.35, 16.37, 16.39 ,16.91, 16.93

Lect. 4: "Electric potential energy & work" 16.53, 16.57, 17.7, 17.13, 17.15, 17.45

Lect. 5: "Electric potential" 17.11 (multiple choice), 17.19, 17.20, 17.27, 17.29, 17.33

Lect. 6: "Circuit elements" 17.81, 17.85, 17.103, 18.7, 18.25, 18.129

Lect. 7: "Series & parallel circuits" 18.41, 18.45, 18.47, 18.69, 18.125

Lect. 8: "Circuit analysis & Kirchhoff's rules" 18.57, 18.58, 18.59

Lect. 9: "RC circuits" 18.85, 18.89, 18.92, 18.93, 18.132

Lect. 10: "Magnetic fields & forces" 19.1-4 (multiple choice), 19.12-15, 19.17, 19.19 (challenging), 19.31, 19.43

Lect. 11: "Magnetic dipoles & current loops" 19.91, 19.93, 19.51, 19.53, 19.56-57, 19.61

Lect. 12: "Currents & magnetism" 19.6-9 (multiple choice), 19.65, 19.67, 19.73, 19.81, 19.83, 19.117

Lect. 13: "Motional EMF & induction" 20.1, 20.4, 20.8 (multiple choice), 20.1, 20.3, 20.5

Lect. 14: "Faraday's law" 20.15, 20.16-17, 20.33, 20.69, 20.71 (note: cooling reduces resistance), 20.89

Lect. 15: "EM waves" 22.3, 5, 7 (multiple choice), 22.9, 22.11, 22.15, 22.25, 22.27, 22.55

Lect. 16: "EM wave energy & polarization" 22.33, 22.37, 22.43, 22.47

Lect. 17: "Ray optics" 23.1, 3, 5 (multiple choice), 23.7, 23.13, 23.43, 23.49

Lect. 18: "Spherical mirrors" 23.51, 23.53, 23.75, 23.81

Lect. 19: "Refraction & lenses" 23.27, 23.33, 23.69, 23.71, 23.93

Lect. 20: "The eye & corrective lenses" 24.25, 24.27, 24.31, 24.35

Lect. 21: "Optical instruments" 24.1, 24.5, 24.7 (multiple choice), 24.1, 24.3, 24.5, 24.43, 24.49

Lect. 22: "Interference" 25.1, 25.3 (multiple choice), 25.1, 25.27, 25.31, 25.33, 25.37

Lect. 23: "Diffraction" 25.49, 25.51, 25.55, 25.57 (challenging), 25.67

Lect. 24: "The classical and Bohr atom" 28.5, 28.9, 28.21, 28.37, 28.47, 28.51

Lect. 25: "The quantum mechanical model of light" 27.1, 27.5, 27.35, 27.39, 27.55

Lect. 26: "The quantum numbers and spin" 28.35, 28.37, 28.41, 28.45

Lect. 27: "Nuclear physics" 29.3, 29.7, 29.15 (the textbook uses "atomic mass units". 1 u = 931.494 MeV/c²), 29.33, 29.69, 29.77 (use the table of half-lives in Appendix B)

Lect. 28: "Particle physics and beyond" 30.3, 30.5, 30.7, 30.9 (multiple choice), 30.5, 30.8