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Week Date Prelecture Checkpoint Lecture Lab Discussion Homework Exam
1
Monday
8/27/2018
      No Lab Discussion 1    
Tuesday
8/28/2018
Prelecture 1 Checkpoint 1 Lecture 1:
Introduction and
Coulomb's Law
pdf ppt
   
Wednesday
8/29/2018
         
Thursday
8/30/2018
Prelecture 2 Checkpoint 2 Lecture 2:
Electric Fields
pdf ppt
   
Friday
8/31/2018
         
2
Monday
9/3/2018
Labor Day Holiday
Tuesday
9/4/2018
Prelecture 3 Checkpoint 3 Lecture 3:
Electric Fields and
Electric Flux
pdf ppt
Lab 1:
Coulomb's Law:
Electrostatic Charges
Discussion 2
Quiz 1
Homework 1 due  
Wednesday
9/5/2018
         
Thursday
9/6/2018
Prelecture 4 Checkpoint 4 Lecture 4:
Gauss's Law
pdf ppt
   
Friday
9/7/2018
         
3
Monday
9/10/2018
       
Tuesday
9/11/2018
Prelecture 5 Checkpoint 5 Lecture 5:
Electric Potential
pdf ppt
No Lab Discussion 3
Quiz 2
Homework 2 due  
Wednesday
9/12/2018
         
Thursday
9/13/2018
Prelecture 6 Checkpoint 6 Lecture 6:
Electric Potential
pdf ppt
   
Friday
9/14/2018
         
4
Monday
9/17/2018
      Lab 2:
Potentials and E fields
   
Tuesday
9/18/2018
Prelecture 7 Checkpoint 7 Lecture 7:
Capacitance
pdf ppt
Discussion 4
Quiz 3
Homework 3 due  
Wednesday
9/19/2018
         
Thursday
9/20/2018
Prelecture 8 Checkpoint 8 Lecture 8:
Capacitance
pdf ppt
   
Friday
9/21/2018
           
5
Monday
9/24/2018
      No Lab    
Tuesday
9/25/2018
Prelecture 9 Checkpoint 9 Lecture 9:
Simple Circuits
pdf ppt
Discussion 5 Homework 4 due  
Wednesday
9/26/2018
       

Exam 1

Units 1-8

Thursday
9/27/2018
Prelecture 10 Checkpoint 10 Lecture 10:
More on Kirchoff's Laws
pdf ppt
   
Friday
9/28/2018
         
6
Monday
10/1/2018
      Lab 3:
Simple and RC Circuits
   
Tuesday
10/2/2018
Prelecture 11 Checkpoint 11 Lecture 11:
RC Circuits
pdf ppt
Discussion 6
Quiz 4
Homework 5 due  
Wednesday
10/3/2018
         
Thursday
10/4/2018
Prelecture 12 Checkpoint 12 Lecture 12:
Magnetic Force
pdf ppt
   
Friday
10/5/2018
           
7
Monday
10/8/2018
      Lab 4:
Magnetic Fields:
Bars and field mapping
   
Tuesday
10/9/2018
Prelecture 13 Checkpoint 13 Lecture 13:
Forces and Magnetic Dipoles
pdf ppt
Discussion 7
Quiz 5
Homework 6 due  
Wednesday
10/10/2018
         
Thursday
10/11/2018
Prelecture 14 Checkpoint 14 Lecture 14:
Biot-Savart Law
pdf ppt
   
Friday
10/12/2018
           
8
Monday
10/15/2018
      Lab 5:
Magnetic Fields of Wires
and Solenoids
   
Tuesday
10/16/2018
Prelecture 15 Checkpoint 15 Lecture 15:
Ampere's Law
pdf ppt
Discussion 8
Quiz 6
Homework 7 due  
Wednesday
10/17/2018
         
Thursday
10/18/2018
Prelecture 16 Checkpoint 16 Lecture 16:
Motional EMF
pdf ppt
   
Friday
10/19/2018
           
9
Monday
10/22/2018
      Lab 6:
Faraday's Law
   
Tuesday
10/23/2018
Prelecture 17 Checkpoint 17 Lecture 17:
Faraday's Law
pdf ppt
Discussion 9
Quiz 7
Homework 8 due  
Wednesday
10/24/2018
         
Thursday
10/25/2018
Prelecture 18 Checkpoint 18 Lecture 18:
Self-Inductance RL Circuits
pdf ppt
   
Friday
10/26/2018
           
10
Monday
10/29/2018
      No Lab    
Tuesday
10/30/2018
Prelecture 19 Checkpoint 19 Lecture 19:
Oscillations: LC Circuits
pdf ppt
Discussion 10 Homework 9 due  
Wednesday
10/31/2018
       

Exam 2

Units 9-17

Thursday
11/1/2018
Prelecture 20 Checkpoint 20 Lecture 20:
AC Circuits
pdf ppt
   
Friday
11/2/2018
         
11
Monday
11/5/2018
      Lab 7:
AC Circuits
   
Tuesday
11/6/2018
Prelecture 21 Checkpoint 21 Lecture 21:
AC Power & Resonant Circuits
pdf ppt
Discussion 11
Quiz 8
Homework 10 due  
Wednesday
11/7/2018
         
Thursday
11/8/2018
Prelecture 22 Checkpoint 22 Lecture 22:
Maxwell's Displacement Current
and Electromagnetic Waves
pdf ppt
   
Friday
11/9/2018
           
12
Monday
11/12/2018
      Lab 8:
Tuning and
LRC Circuits
   
Tuesday
11/13/2018
Prelecture 23 Checkpoint 23 Lecture 23:
Electromagnetic Waves
pdf ppt
Discussion 12
Quiz 9
Homework 11 due  
Wednesday
11/14/2018
         
Thursday
11/15/2018
Prelecture 24 Checkpoint 24 Lecture 24:
Polarization
pdf ppt
   
Friday
11/16/2018
           
13
Monday
11/19/2018
Fall break
14
Monday
11/26/2018
      Lab 9: 
Polarization and
Refraction
Discussion 12
Quiz 9
   
Tuesday
11/27/2018
Prelecture 25 Checkpoint 25 Lecture 25:
Reflection and Refraction
pdf ppt
Discussion 13
Quiz 10
Homework 12 due  
Wednesday
11/28/2018
         
Thursday
11/29/2018
Prelecture 26 Checkpoint 26 Lecture 26:
Lenses
pdf ppt
   
Friday
11/30/2018
           
15
Monday
12/3/2018
      No Lab    
Tuesday
12/4/2018
Prelecture 27 Checkpoint 27 Lecture 27:
Mirrors
pdf ppt
Discussion 14 Homework 13 due  
Wednesday
12/5/2018
       

Exam 3

Units 18-26

Thursday
12/6/2018
Prelecture 28 Checkpoint 28 Lecture 28:
Optical Instruments
pdf ppt
   
Friday
12/7/2018
         
16
Monday
12/10/2018
      No Lab    
Tuesday
12/11/2018
  Course Review
pdf ppt
    Homework 14 due  
Wednesday
12/12/2018
           
Thursday
12/13/2018
Reading Day
Friday
12/14/2018
             

Combined Final Exam Tuesday December 18th 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Conflict Final Exam Thursday December 20th 1:30 PM - 4:30 PM    (The conflict is open to anyone that prefers to take the exam on Thursday at 1:30, but you need to sign up in the gradebook).