1. Electric Charges (Historical), Polarization, Electric Force, Coulomb's Law
2. Electric Field, Field Lines, Superposition, Inductive Charging, Dipoles, Induced Dipoles
3. Electric Flux, Gauss's Law, Examples
4. Electrostatic Potential, Electric Energy, eV, Conservative Field, Equipotential Surfaces
5. E = -grad V, More on Equipotential Surfaces, Conductors, Electrostatic Shielding (Faraday Cage)
6. High-Voltage Breakdown, Lightning, Sparks - St Elmo's Fire
7. Capacitance, Field Energy
8. Polarization, Dielectrics, The Van de Graaff, More on Capacitors
9. Currents, Resistivity, Ohm's Law
10. Batteries, EMF, Energy Conservation, Power, Kirchhoff's Rules, Circuits, Kelvin Water Dropper
11. Magnetic Field, Lorentz Force, Torques, Electric Motors (DC), Oscilloscope
12. Review Exam 1
13. Moving Charges in B-fields, Cyclotron, Synchrotron, Mass Spectrometer, Cloud Chamber
14. Biot-Savart Law, Gauss' Law for Magnetic Fields, Revisit the "Leyden Jar", High-Voltage Power Lines
15. Ampere's Law, Solenoids, Revisit the Kelvin Water Dropper, Midterm Evaluation
16. Electromagnetic Induction, Faraday's Law, Lenz Law, Complete Breakdown of Intuition, Non-Conservative Fields
17. Motional EMF, Dynamos, Eddy Currents, Magnetic Braking
18. Displacement Current , Synchronous Motors, Induction Motors
19. Electric Shock Treatment, Electrocardiogram , Superconductivity
20. Inductance, RL Circuits, Magnetic Field Energy
21. Magnetic Materials, Dia-, Para-, and Ferromagnetism
22. Hysteresis, Electromagnets, Bohr Magneton, Maxwell's Equations
23. Review Exam 2
24. Transformers, Car Coils, RC Circuits
25. Driven LRC Circuits, Resonance, Metal Detectors
26. Traveling Waves, Standing Waves, Musical Instruments
27. Resonance, Destructive Resonance, Electromagnetic Waves, Speed of Light, Radio, TV, Distance Determinations using Radar and Lasers
28. Index of Refraction, Poynting Vector, Oscillating Charges, Radiation Pressure, Comet Tails, Polarization (Linear, Elliptical, and Circular)
29. Snell's Law, Refraction, Total Reflection, Dispersion, Prisms, Huygen's Principle, The Illusion of Color, The Weird Benham Top, Land's Famous Demo
30. Polarizers, Malus's Law, Brewster Angle, Polarization by Reflection and Scattering, Why is the sky blue, Why are sunsets red?
31. Fog Bows, Supernumerary Bows, Polarization of the Bows, Haloes around the Sun and Moon, Coronae, Glories, Mock Suns
32. Review Exam 3
33. Double-Slit Interference, Interferometers
34. Gratings, Resolving Power, Single-Slit Diffraction, Angular Resolution, Human Eye - Telescopes
35. Doppler Effect, The Big Bang, Cosmology
36. Farewell Special |