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Week Date Checkpoint Lecture Lecture handouts Lab Discussion Homework Exam
1
Monday
1/14/2013
 Checkpoint 1 Lecture 1: Coulomb's Law
16.1-2
pdf ppt		 Handout 1
pdf		        
Tuesday
1/15/2013
         Discussion 0    
Wednesday
1/16/2013
 Checkpoint 2 Lecture 2: Electric Fields
16.3-6
pdf ppt		 Handout 2
pdf		      
Thursday
1/17/2013
            
Friday
1/18/2013
            
2
Monday
1/21/2013
 Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
Tuesday
1/22/2013
         Discussion 1    
Wednesday
1/23/2013
 Checkpoint 3 Lecture 3: Electric Potential
17.1-3
pdf ppt		 Handout 3
pdf		 Lab 1 Homework 1 due  
Thursday
1/24/2013
       Lab 1    
Friday
1/25/2013
       Lab 1    
3
Monday
1/28/2013
 Checkpoint 4 Lecture 4: Capacitance
17.5-6, 18.1-2,6
pdf ppt		 Handout 4
pdf		 Lab 1      
Tuesday
1/29/2013
         Discussion 2 Homework 2 due  
Wednesday
1/30/2013
 Checkpoint 5 Lecture 5: Resistance
18.4, 6, 8
pdf ppt		 Handout 5
pdf		 Lab 2    
Thursday
1/31/2013
       Lab 2    
Friday
2/1/2013
       Lab 2    
4
Monday
2/4/2013
 Checkpoint 6 Lecture 6: Kirchhoff's Rules
18.5, 7
pdf ppt		 Handout 6
pdf		 Lab 2      
Tuesday
2/5/2013
         Discussion 3 Homework 3 due  
Wednesday
2/6/2013
 Checkpoint 7 Lecture 7: RC Circuits
18.10-11
pdf ppt		 Handout 7
pdf		 Lab 3    
Thursday
2/7/2013
       Lab 3    
Friday
2/8/2013
       Lab 3    
5
Monday
2/11/2013
 Checkpoint 8 Lecture 8: Magnetic Fields
19.1-4
pdf ppt		 Handout 8
pdf		 Lab 3      
Tuesday
2/12/2013
         Discussion 4 Homework 4 due  
Wednesday
2/13/2013
 Checkpoint 9 Lecture 9:Currents and Magnetism
19.6-8
pdf ppt		 Handout 9
pdf		      
Thursday
2/14/2013
            
Friday
2/15/2013
            
6
Monday
2/18/2013
 Checkpoint 10 Lecture 10: Induction
20.1, 3-4
pdf ppt		 Handout 10
pdf		       Exam 1
Tuesday
2/19/2013
         Discussion 5    
Wednesday
2/20/2013
 Checkpoint 11 Lecture 11: Generators
and Transformers 20.2, 6
pdf ppt		 Handout 11
pdf		 Lab 4 Homework 5 due  
Thursday
2/21/2013
       Lab 4    
Friday
2/22/2013
       Lab 4    
7
Monday
2/25/2013
 Checkpoint 12 Lecture 12: Inductors & AC Circuits
20.9, 21.1-4
pdf ppt		 Handout 12
pdf		 Lab 4      
Tuesday
2/26/2013
         Discussion 6 Homework 6 due  
Wednesday
2/27/2013
 Checkpoint 13 Lecture 13: RLC Circuits & Resonance
21.5-6
pdf ppt		 Handout 13
pdf		 Lab 5    
Thursday
2/28/2013
       Lab 5    
Friday
3/1/2013
       Lab 5    
8
Monday
3/4/2013
 Checkpoint 14 Lecture 14: EM Waves
22.1-5, 8
pdf ppt		 Handout 14
pdf		 Lab 5      
Tuesday
3/5/2013
         Discussion 7 Homework 7 due  
Wednesday
3/6/2013
 Checkpoint 15 Lecture 15: EM Waves
Energy & Polarization 22.6-7
pdf ppt		 Handout 15
pdf		      
Thursday
3/7/2013
            
Friday
3/8/2013
            
9
Monday
3/11/2013
 Checkpoint 16 Lecture 16: Mirrors
23.1-2, 7-8
pdf ppt		 Handout 16
pdf		       Exam 2
Tuesday
3/12/2013
         Discussion 8    
Wednesday
3/13/2013
 Checkpoint 17 Lecture 17: Spherical Mirrors
and Refraction 23.3, 8
pdf ppt		 Handout 17
pdf		 Lab 6    
Thursday
3/14/2013
       Lab 6    
Friday
3/15/2013
       Lab 6 Homework 8 due  
10
Monday
3/18/2013
 Spring Break
11
Monday
3/25/2013
 Checkpoint 18 Lecture 18: Total Internal
Reflection and Lenses 23.3-5, 9
pdf ppt		 Handout 18
pdf		 Lab 6      
Tuesday
3/26/2013
         Discussion 9    
Wednesday
3/27/2013
 Checkpoint 19 Lecture 19: Eye Correction
23.9, 24.1, 3-4, 6
pdf ppt		 Handout 19
pdf		 Lab 7    
Thursday
3/28/2013
       Lab 7 Homework 9 due  
Friday
3/29/2013
       Lab 7    
12
Monday
4/1/2013
 Checkpoint 20 Lecture 20: Interference
25.1, 3-4
pdf ppt		 Handout 20
pdf		 Lab 7      
Tuesday
4/2/2013
         Discussion 10 Homework 10 due  
Wednesday
4/3/2013
 Checkpoint 21 Lecture 21: Interference & Diffraction
25.3, 5-7,9
pdf ppt		 Handout 21
pdf		 Lab 8    
Thursday
4/4/2013
       Lab 8    
Friday
4/5/2013
       Lab 8    
13
Monday
4/8/2013
 Checkpoint 22 Lecture 22: Resolving Power and
Quantum Mechanics 25.8, 27.2-3
pdf ppt		 Handout 22
pdf		 Lab 8      
Tuesday
4/9/2013
         Discussion 11 Homework 11 due  
Wednesday
4/10/2013
 Checkpoint 23 Lecture 23: Quantum Mechanics
& De Broglie Wavelength
and Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principle 28.1, 27.5, 28.2, 4
pdf ppt		 Handout 23
pdf		      
Thursday
4/11/2013
            
Friday
4/12/2013
            
14
Monday
4/15/2013
 Checkpoint 24 Lecture 24: Heisenberg Uncertainty
& Bohr model 27.6-7, 28.4
pdf ppt		 Handout 24
pdf		       Exam 3
Tuesday
4/16/2013
         Discussion 12    
Wednesday
4/17/2013
 Checkpoint 25 Lecture 25: Bohr Model
and Real Atoms 27.6, 28.7
pdf ppt		 Handout 25
pdf		 Lab 9 Homework 12 due    
Thursday
4/18/2013
       Lab 9      
Friday
4/19/2013
       Lab 9      
15
Monday
4/22/2013
 Checkpoint 26 Lecture 26: X Rays
pdf ppt		 Handout 26
pdf		 Lab 9      
Tuesday
4/23/2013
         Discussion 13 Homework 13 due  
Wednesday
4/24/2013
 Checkpoint 27 Lecture 27: Nuclear Physics
29.1-4
pdf ppt		 Handout 27
pdf		      
Thursday
4/25/2013
            
Friday
4/26/2013
            
16
Monday
4/29/2013
 Checkpoint 28 Lecture 28: Special Relativity
26.1-7
pdf ppt		 Handout 28
pdf		        
Tuesday
4/30/2013
           Optional practice problems  
Wednesday
5/1/2013
   Lecture 29: Review session!
pdf ppt		     Discussion 14  
Thursday
5/2/2013
 Reading Day
Friday
5/3/2013